FIST: A Feature-Importance Sampling and Tree-Based Method for Automatic Design Flow Parameter Tuning

Design flow parameters are of utmost importance to chip design quality and require a painfully long time to evaluate their effects. In reality, flow parameter tuning is usually performed manually based on designers' experience in an ad hoc manner. In this work, we introduce a machine learning-b...

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Vydáno v:Proceedings of the ASP-DAC ... Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference s. 19 - 25
Hlavní autoři: Xie, Zhiyao, Fang, Guan-Qi, Huang, Yu-Hung, Ren, Haoxing, Zhang, Yanqing, Khailany, Brucek, Fang, Shao-Yun, Hu, Jiang, Chen, Yiran, Barboza, Erick Carvajal
Médium: Konferenční příspěvek
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: IEEE 01.01.2020
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Integrated circuit modeling
Kernel
Random forests
Semisupervised learning
Task analysis
Tuning
Vegetation
ISSN:2153-697X
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Shrnutí:Design flow parameters are of utmost importance to chip design quality and require a painfully long time to evaluate their effects. In reality, flow parameter tuning is usually performed manually based on designers' experience in an ad hoc manner. In this work, we introduce a machine learning-based automatic parameter tuning methodology that aims to find the best design quality with a limited number of trials. Instead of merely plugging in machine learning engines, we develop clustering and approximate sampling techniques for improving tuning efficiency. The feature extraction in this method can reuse knowledge from prior designs. Furthermore, we leverage a state-of-the-art XGBoost model and propose a novel dynamic tree technique to overcome overfitting. Experimental results on benchmark circuits show that our approach achieves 25% improvement in design quality or 37% reduction in sampling cost compared to random forest method, which is the kernel of a highly cited previous work. Our approach is further validated on two industrial designs. By sampling less than 0.02% of possible parameter sets, it reduces area by 1.83% and 1.43% compared to the best solutions hand-tuned by experienced designers.
ISSN:2153-697X
DOI:10.1109/ASP-DAC47756.2020.9045201