arXiv:2511.03697cs.LGcs.AI2025-11中稿 · 2025 International…被引 14

用AI代理协作自动优化模拟电路设计,又快又可解释。

AnaFlow: Agentic LLM-based Workflow for Reasoning-Driven Explainable and Sample-Efficient Analog Circuit Sizing

  • 多智能体协同,基于LLM理解电路和目标
  • 自适应仿真策略,减少90%以上仿真次数
  • 结果可解释,适合电路工程师快速验证

模拟/混合信号电路是连接电子设备与物理世界的关键。然而其设计仍高度依赖人工,周期长且易出错。尽管近年来强化学习与生成式AI为自动化设计带来新方法,但大量耗时的仿真仍是主要瓶颈,且结果缺乏可解释性,限制了工具的广泛应用。为此,本文提出AnaFlow框架,一种基于代理的AI系统,实现高效、可解释的模拟电路尺寸优化。该框架采用多智能体工作流,由专用的大型语言模型(LLM)代理协作解析电路拓扑、理解设计目标,并迭代优化设计参数,同时提供人类可读的推理过程。通过自适应仿真策略,系统实现高样本效率。在两个不同复杂度的电路上验证,能完全自动完成设计任务,优于纯贝叶斯优化或强化学习方法。系统还能从历史优化中学习,避免重复错误并加速收敛。其内在可解释性使其成为模拟设计空间探索的强大工具,标志着模拟EDA的新范式——AI代理作为透明的设计助手。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Analog/mixed-signal circuits are key for interfacing electronics with the physical world. Their design, however, remains a largely handcrafted process, resulting in long and error-prone design cycles. While the recent rise of AI-based reinforcement learning and generative AI has created new techniques to automate this task, the need for many time-consuming simulations is a critical bottleneck hindering the overall efficiency. Furthermore, the lack of explainability of the resulting design solutions hampers widespread adoption of the tools. To address these issues, a novel agentic AI framework for sample-efficient and explainable analog circuit sizing is presented. It employs a multi-agent workflow where specialized Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents collaborate to interpret the circuit topology, to understand the design goals, and to iteratively refine the circuit's design parameters towards the target goals with human-interpretable reasoning. The adaptive simulation strategy creates an intelligent control that yields a high sample efficiency. The AnaFlow framework is demonstrated for two circuits of varying complexity and is able to complete the sizing task fully automatically, differently from pure Bayesian optimization and reinforcement learning approaches. The system learns from its optimization history to avoid past mistakes and to accelerate convergence. The inherent explainability makes this a powerful tool for analog design space exploration and a new paradigm in analog EDA, where AI agents serve as transparent design assistants.

电路设计AI代理可解释性自动化

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