VLS i CAD Lab.

Notice: 

• 대학원 진학에 관심있는 4학년 학부 연구생을 모집합니다. 학술대회 논문 발표를 목표로 연구하고 있으니 관심있는 학부생들의 연락 바랍니다. (djhyun@sejong.ac.kr)

News: 

• A journal paper, whose titile is "CTRL-B: back-end-of-line configuration optimization using cross-domain transferable reinforcement learning" is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (Daijoon Hyun, 2025.09.15).

• Our project proposal, "Super-fast and high-precision thermal and IR-drop prediction models for 3D IC design," is selected for 우수신진연구(씨앗연구), supported by NRF (Daijoon Hyun and Taeyoung Kim, 2025.08.27).

• An oral presentation at Summer Annual Conference of ISE, titled "다양한 테이블 크기를 활용한 빠른 타이밍 라이브러리 생성 방법," is selected to receive the Best Paper Award (우수논문상) (Geonho Kim, Minji Jeong, and Daijoon Hyun, 2025.07.15).

• A conference paper, whose title is "Leakage optimization using mixed-Vth cells: Vth swapping and cell relocation" is accepted to Int'l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)  (Younggwang Jung and Daijoon Hyun, 2025.01.21).

• A journal paper, whose title is "Decap insertion with cell relocation minimizing IR-drop violations and routing DRVs" is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI) (Daijoon Hyun, 2024.01.31).

• A conference paper, whose title is "Fast IR-Drop Prediction of Analog Circuits Using Recurrent Synchronized GCN and Y-Net Model" is accepted to Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) (Daijoon Hyun, 2023.11.08).

• VLSi CAD laboratory moves to Sejong University on Sep. 1, 2023.

• Graduate students won 한국반도체산업협회장상 in 24th 반도체설계대전 (Jungsik Song, Jinil An, Jiwoo Nam, 2023.08.30).

• Graduate students won 우수상(정보통신산업진흥원상) in 10th Korea software convergence hackathon (Jungsik Song and Jinil An, 2023.08.27).

• A journal paper, whose title is "Accurate interpolation of library timing parameters through recurrent convolutional neural network", is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (Daijoon Hyun, 2023.08.25).

• A conference paper, whose title is "Power distribution network optimization using HLA-GCN for routability enhancement", is accepted to Int'l Conference on Computer-Aided Design (Daijoon Hyun, 2023.07.21).

• An oral presentation at KCS, titled "전력분배망 최적화를 위한 고속 전압 강하 분석," is selected to receive Corporate Award (Samsung Award) (Jungsik Song, 2023.05.30).

• A conference paper, whose title is "Interconnect Stack Parameter Optimization Using Genetic Algorithm", is accepted to Int'l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (Jiwoo Nam and Daijoon Hyun, 2023.01.21).

• A journal paper, whose title is "Integrated power distribution network synthesis for mixed macro-blocks and standard cells", is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems II: Express Briefs (Daijoon Hyun, 2023.01.08).

• A journal paper, whose title is "Routability optimization of extreme aspect ratio design through non-uniform placement utilization and selective flip-flop stacking", is accepted to ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (Daijoon Hyun, 2022.11.13).

• Graduate students won the grand prize in 9th Korea software convergence hackathon (Jiwoo Nam and Kyeongchang Kim, 2022.09.18).

• A conference paper, whose title is "Decoupling Capacitor Insertion Minimizing IR-Drop Violations and Routing DRVs", is accepted to Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) (Daijoon Hyun, 2022.09.13). 

• A journal paper, whose title is "Airgap Insertion and Layer Reassignment under Setup and Hold Constraints", is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (Daijoon Hyun, 2022.6.25).

• The "Human Resource Training For Smart energy new industry cluster" project is selected in KETEP Regional Energy Cluster Talent Cultivation Project Contest (2022.04.01).

• The "Fostering Expert for Future Car Technology" project is selected in KIAT Industry Innovation Talent Development Project Contest (2022.03.01).

• Daijoon Hyun is appointed as PD of Major of Electronic Engineering (2022.01.14).

• Three conference papers are accepted in the 29th Korean Conference Semiconductors (Kyeongchang Kim, Jiwoo Nam, and Jeyoung Oh, 2021.12.29).

• A journal paper, whose title is "Double Thresholding with Sine Entropy for Thermal Image Segmentation", is accepted to Traitement du Signal (Manikanta Prahlad Manda, 2021.12.27).

• The "Artificial Intelligence Semiconductor Design SW Development" project is selected in IITP SW computing Industry Technology Development Project Contest (2021.04.01).

• The "Next-Generation System Semiconductor Design Engineer Development Program" project is selected in KIAT Industry Innovation Talent Development Project Contest (2021.03.01).