MaskOpt or It Didn’t Happen: Teaching AI to See Chips Like Lithography Engineers
MaskOpt or It Didn’t Happen: Teaching AI to See Chips Like Lithography Engineers Cells repeat. That is the comforting part of chip design. A NAND gate appears thousands of times. A buffer shows up again and again. Standard-cell libraries exist because repetition is economically useful: design once, place many times, avoid reinventing geometry until everyone loses the will to live. ...