Presentations & Slide Deck Library

A. B. Kahng, "A Mixed Open-Source and Proprietary EDA Commons for Education and Prototyping", Proc. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2022, to appear. (Invited Paper) - -

C. Chidambaram, A. B. Kahng, M. Kim, G. Nallapati, S.C. Song and M. Woo, "A Novel Framework for DTCO: Fast and Automatic Routability Assessment with Machine Learning for Sub-3nm Technology Options", Proc. IEEE Symposi...

A. B. Kahng, "Advancing Placement", Proc. ACM/IEEE Intl. Symp. on Physical Design, 2021, pp. 15-22. (Invited Paper) - -

C.-K. Cheng, A. B. Kahng, I. Kang, M. Kim, D. Lee, B. Lin, D. Park and M. Woo, "CoRe-ECO: Concurrent Refinement of Detailed Place-and-Route for an Efficient ECO Automation", Proc. ACM/IEEE International Conference on ...

J. Chen, I. H.-R. Jiang, J. Jung, A. B. Kahng, V. N. Kravets, Y.-L. Li, S.-T. Lin and M. Woo, "DATC RDF-2019: Towards a Complete Academic Reference Design Flow", Proc. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aid...

J. Chen, I. H.-R. Jiang, J. Jung, A. B. Kahng, V. N. Kravets, Y.-L. Li, S.-T. Lin and M. Woo, "DATC RDF-2020: Strengthening the Foundation for Academic Research in IC Physical Design", Proc. ACM/IEEE International Con...

J. Chen, I. H.-R. Jiang, J. Jung, A. B. Kahng, S. Kim, V. N. Kravets, Y.-L. Li, R. Varadarajan and M. Woo, "DATC RDF-2021: Design Flow and Beyond", Proc. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 202...

J. Jung, A. B. Kahng, R. Varadarajan and Z. Wang, "IEEE CEDA DATC: Expanding Research Foundations for IC Physical Design and ML-Enabled EDA", Proc. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2022, to ...

A. B. Kahng, "Leveling Up: A Trajectory of OpenROAD, TILOS and Beyond", Proc. ACM/IEEE Intl. Symp. on Physical Design, 2022, to appear. - -

A. B. Kahng, "Looking Into the Mirror of Open Source", Proc. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2019, pp. 1-8. (Invited Paper) -

J. Jung, A. B. Kahng, S. Kim and R. Varadarajan, "METRICS2.1 and Flow Tuning in the IEEE CEDA Robust Design Flow and OpenROAD", Proc. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2021, pp. 1-9. (Invited...

A. B. Kahng, "Open-Source EDA: If We Build It, Who Will Come?", Proc. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, 2020, pp. 1-6. (Invited Paper) -

H. Esmaeilzadeh, S. Ghodrati, A. B. Kahng, J. K. Kim, S. Kinzer, S. Kundu, R. Mahapatra, S. D. Manasi, S. S. Sapatnekar, Z. Wang and Z. Zeng, "Physically Accurate Learning-based Performance Prediction of Hardware-acce...

I. Bustany, A. B. Kahng, Y. Koutis, B. Pramanik and Z. Wang, "SpecPart: A Supervised Spectral Framework for Hypergraph Partitioning Solution Improvement", Proc. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Desi...

T. Ajayi, V. A. Chhabria, M. Fogaca, S. Hashemi, A. Hosny, A. B. Kahng, M. Kim, J. Lee, U. Mallappa, M. Neseem, G. Pradipta, S. Reda, M. Saligane, S. S. Sapatnekar, C. Sechen, M. Shalan, W. Swartz, L. Wang, Z. Wang, M...

H. Esmaeilzadeh, S. Ghodrati, J. Gu, S. Guo, A. B. Kahng, J. K. Kim, S. Kinzer, R. Mahapatra, S. D. Manasi, E. Mascarenhas, S. S. Sapatnekar, R. Varadarajan, Z. Wang, H. Xu, B. R. Yatham and Z. Zeng, "VeriGOOD-ML: An ...

Prof. Kahng presented "A University Research Perspective and Update on AI-Enhanced Co-Design of Microelectronics" at the Sandia National Laboratories 2022 Workshop on AI-Enhanced Co-Design for Next-Generation Microele...

Prof. Kahng gave the opening talk, "Challenges and Opportunities for AI in Electronic Design Automation", at the 2022 BrainLink X-Lab Day meeting (Global Technology Networking for System Semiconductor Innovation).

Prof. Kahng's opening position statement at the DAC-2019 technical panel (Session 75), "EDA open sourcing: Dawn of a golden age or pipe dream?" ( )

Bangqi Xu presented slides on the results of the ICCAD-2019 LEF/DEF Based Global Routing Contest at ICCAD-2019. Congratulations to the winning teams, and thanks to Mentor Graphics and Cadence Academic Network for thei...

Complete integrated version of Tutorial #1: "IEEE CEDA DATC RDF and METRICS2.1: Toward a Standard Platform for ML-Enabled EDA and IC Design" presented by Prof. Kahng, Jinwook Jung (IBM Research), Seungwon Kim and Ravi...

Part 1 of Tutorial #1: "IEEE CEDA DATC RDF and METRICS2.1: Toward a Standard Platform for ML-Enabled EDA and IC Design" presented by Prof. Kahng, Jinwook Jung (IBM Research), Seungwon Kim and Ravi Varadarajan at ASP-D...

Part 2 of Tutorial #1: "IEEE CEDA DATC RDF and METRICS2.1: Toward a Standard Platform for ML-Enabled EDA and IC Design" presented by Prof. Kahng, Jinwook Jung (IBM Research), Seungwon Kim and Ravi Varadarajan at ASP-D...

Part 3 of Tutorial #1: "IEEE CEDA DATC RDF and METRICS2.1: Toward a Standard Platform for ML-Enabled EDA and IC Design" presented by Prof. Kahng, Jinwook Jung (IBM Research), Seungwon Kim and Ravi Varadarajan at ASP-D...

Part 4 of Tutorial #1: "IEEE CEDA DATC RDF and METRICS2.1: Toward a Standard Platform for ML-Enabled EDA and IC Design" presented by Prof. Kahng, Jinwook Jung (IBM Research), Seungwon Kim and Ravi Varadarajan at ASP-D...

Part 5 of Tutorial #1: "IEEE CEDA DATC RDF and METRICS2.1: Toward a Standard Platform for ML-Enabled EDA and IC Design" presented by Prof. Kahng, Jinwook Jung (IBM Research), Seungwon Kim and Ravi Varadarajan at ASP-D...

Part 6 of Tutorial #1: "IEEE CEDA DATC RDF and METRICS2.1: Toward a Standard Platform for ML-Enabled EDA and IC Design" presented by Prof. Kahng, Jinwook Jung (IBM Research), Seungwon Kim and Ravi Varadarajan at ASP-D...

Part 7 of Tutorial #1: "IEEE CEDA DATC RDF and METRICS2.1: Toward a Standard Platform for ML-Enabled EDA and IC Design" presented by Prof. Kahng, Jinwook Jung (IBM Research), Seungwon Kim and Ravi Varadarajan at ASP-D...

A. B. Kahng, "Leveling Up: A Trajectory of OpenROAD, TILOS and Beyond", Proc. ACM/IEEE Intl. Symp. on Physical Design, 2022.

Prof. Kahng presented slides in the talk of "Looking Into the Mirror of Open Source" at ICCAD-2019 .

Prof. Kahng's presentation exploring the potential and challenges of machine learning applications in electronic design automation, examining whether current enthusiasm represents genuine breakthrough or premature hype.

Prof. Kahng's keynote presentation from FSiC-2024 discussing OpenROAD and the OpenROAD Initiative as foundations for open innovation in chip design and EDA.

Presentation slides that accompanied the OpenROAD demonstration at the DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) Summit 2019.

Professor Andrew Kahng shares his vision about OpenROAD and key directions for the open-source EDA community at OSDA-2023, the 3rd Workshop on Open-Source Design Automation in Antwerp. How will we move ahead faster to...

OpenROAD has come a long way since its inception in 2019 and is now driving critical innovation and a roadmap for Chip Design in the Semiconductor Industry and Education and Workforce development. Prof. Kahng presents...

Prof. Kahng presented slides announcing the IEEE CEDA DATC Robust Design Flow (RDF-2019) at ICCAD-2019.

Prof. Kahng gave a talk, "Some Thoughts on the DTCO Enablement Gap", for an audience at Samsung Semiconductor R&D, discussing design-technology co-optimization challenges.

Prof. Kahng gave a talk, "The OpenROAD Project", at the "Your Research Enabled by Arm - SoC Labs" workshop at the Arm Research Summit.

Prof. Kahng presented on the subject of the OpenROAD project and EDA open source at the Emerging Technologies for EDA workshop in Hsinchu.

Prof. Kahng presented "The OpenROAD Project: A Foundation for Research and Education in EDA and IC Design" at CICC-2022 Educational Session 3 on System Design with Open Source Tools.

Prof. Kahng presented "The OpenROAD Project: An open-source platform for IC design innovation" at Circuits Workshop 2 (The Emerging Ecosystem of Open-Source Chip Design) of the 2022 VLSI Symposium.

Prof. Kahng gave a talk, "The OpenROAD Project: Today and Beyond", at the UCLA ECE Department colloquium.

Prof. Kahng gave a talk, "AI/ML, Optimization and EDA in TILOS, an NSF National AI Research Institute," today at a Synopsys APUP Special Session. Exciting to see 500+ folks on the Zoom!

A. Rovinski, T. Ajayi, M. Kim, G. Wang and M. Saligane, "Bridging Academic Open-Source EDA to Real-World Usability", Proc. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2020, pp. 1-7. (Invited Paper)

M. Fogaca, E. Monteiro, M. Danigno, I. Oliveira, P. F. Butzen and R. Reis, "Contributions to OpenROAD from Abroad: Experiences and Learnings", ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2020, pp. 1-8....

Prof. Kahng presented these slides at the "Exchanging EDA Data for AI/ML Using Standard API" panel session in the Design, IP and Embedded Systems Track at DAC-2021.

Professor Andrew Kahng shares his vision about OpenROAD and key directions for the open-source EDA community, at OSDA-2023, the 3rd Workshop on Open-Source Design Automation in Antwerp. How will we move ahead faster t...