Publications

Zizheng Guo, Yanqing Zhang, Runsheng Wang, Yibo Lin, Haoxing Ren (2025). GEM: GPU-Accelerated Emulator-Inspired RTL Simulation. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025.

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Yi-Chen Lu, Zizheng Guo, Kishor Kunal, Rongjian Liang, Haoxing Ren (2025). INSTA: An Ultra-Fast, Differentiable, Statistical Static Timing Analysis Engine for Industrial Physical Design Applications. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025.

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Xun Jiang, Haoran Lu, Yuxuan Zhao, Jiarui Wang, Zizheng Guo, Heng Wu, Bei Yu, Sung Kyu Lim, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang, Yibo Lin (2025). A Systematic Approach for Multi-Objective Double-Side Clock Tree Synthesis. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Design Automation Conference 2025.

Yufan Du, Zizheng Guo, Yang Hsu, Zhili Xiong, Seunggeun Kim, David Z. Pan, Runsheng Wang, Yibo Lin (2025). Addressing Continuity and Expressivity Limitations in Differentiable Physical Optimization: A Case Study in Gate Sizing. IEEE/ACM International Symposium of EDA (ISEDA) 2025.

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Xizhe Shi, Zizheng Guo, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang (2025). Handling Latch Loops in Timing Analysis with Improved Complexity and Divergent Loop Detection. 2025 IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE).

Che Chang, Boyang Zhang, Cheng-Hsiang Chiu, Dian-Lun Lin, Yi-Hua Chung, Wan Luan Lee, Zizheng Guo, Yibo Lin, Tsung-Wei Huang (2025). PathGen: An Efficient Parallel Critical Path Generation Algorithm. IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) 2025.

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Boyang Zhang, Che Chang, Cheng-Hsiang Chiu, Dian-Lun Lin, Yang Sui, Chih-Chun Chang, Yi-Hua Chung, Wan Luan Lee, Zizheng Guo, Yibo Lin, Tsung-Wei Huang (2025). iTAP: An Incremental Task Graph Partitioner for Task-parallel Static Timing Analysis. IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) 2025.

Zizheng Guo, Zuodong Zhang, Wuxi Li, Tsung-Wei Huang, Xizhe Shi, Yufan Du, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang (2024). HeteroExcept: A CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Algorithm to Accelerate Exception-aware Static Timing Analysis. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2024.

Chunyuan Zhao, Zizheng Guo, Rui Wang, Zaiwen Wen, Yun Liang, Yibo Lin (2024). HeLEM-GR: Heterogeneous Global Routing with Linearized Exponential Multiplier Method. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2024.

Yufan Du, Zizheng Guo, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang (2024). Fusion of Global Placement and Gate Sizing with Differentiable Optimization. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2024.

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Yufan Du, Zizheng Guo, Xun Jiang, Zhuomin Chai, Yuxiang Zhao, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang (2024). PowPrediCT: Cross-Stage Power Prediction with Circuit-Transformation-Aware Learning. 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2024.

Zizheng Guo, Tsung-Wei Huang, Zhou Jin, Cheng Zhuo, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang (2024). Heterogeneous Static Timing Analysis with Advanced Delay Calculator. 2024 IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE).

Yufei Chen, Zizheng Guo, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang, Yibo Lin, Cheng Zhuo (2024). Dynamic Supply Noise Aware Timing Analysis with JIT Machine Learning Integration. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

Zizheng Guo, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang (2024). Analyzing Timing in Shorter Time: A Journey Through Heterogeneous Parallelism for Static Timing Analysis. 2024 IEEE 17th International Conference on Solid-State & Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT).

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Cheng-Hsiang Chiu, Zhicheng Xiong, Zizheng Guo, Tsung-Wei Huang, Yibo Lin (2024). An Efficient Task-Parallel Pipeline Programming Framework. 2024 International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPCAsia).

Xun Jiang, Zizheng Guo, Zhuomin Chai, Yuxiang Zhao, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang (2023). Accelerating Routability and Timing Optimization with Open-Source AI4EDA Dataset CircuitNet and Heterogeneous Platforms. 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD).

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Zizheng Guo, Zuodong Zhang, Xun Jiang, Wuxi Li, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang (2023). General-Purpose Gate-Level Simulation with Partition-Agnostic Parallelism. 60th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2023.

Zizheng Guo, Tsung-Wei Huang, Yibo Lin (2023). Accelerating Static Timing Analysis using CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Parallelism. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

Guannan Guo, Tsung-Wei Huang, Yibo Lin, Zizheng Guo, Sushma Yellapragada, Martin DF Wong (2023). A GPU-accelerated Framework for Path-based Timing Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

Peiyu Liao, Dawei Guo, Zizheng Guo, Siting Liu, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu (2023). DREAMPlace 4.0: Timing-driven Placement with Momentum-based Net Weighting and Lagrangian-based Refinement. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

Yibo Lin, Zizheng Guo, Jing Mai (2023). Deep Learning Framework for Placement. Machine Learning Applications in Electronic Design Automation.

Zuodong Zhang, Zizheng Guo, Yibo Lin, Meng Li, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang (2023). AVATAR: An Aging-and Variation-Aware Dynamic Timing Analyzer for Error-Efficient Computing. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

Zizheng Guo, Feng Gu, Yibo Lin (2022). GPU-Accelerated Rectilinear Steiner Tree Generation. 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD).

Zuodong Zhang, Zizheng Guo, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang (2022). EventTimer: Fast and Accurate Event-Based Dynamic Timing Analysis. 2022 IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE).

Kexing Zhou, Zizheng Guo, Tsung-Wei Huang, Yibo Lin (2022). Efficient Critical Paths Search Algorithm using Mergeable Heap. 27th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) 2022.

Zizheng Guo, Yibo Lin (2022). Differentiable-Timing-Driven Global Placement. 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2022.

Zuodong Zhang, Zizheng Guo, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang (2022). AVATAR: An Aging- and Variation-Aware Dynamic Timing Analyzer for Application-based DVAFS. 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2022.

Zizheng Guo, Mingjie Liu, Jiaqi Gu, Shuhan Zhang, David Z. Pan, Yibo Lin (2022). A Timing Engine Inspired Graph Neural Network Model for Pre-Routing Slack Prediction. 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2022.

Ruihai Wu, Yan Zhao, Kaichun Mo, Zizheng Guo, Yian Wang, Tianhao Wu, Qingnan Fan, Xuelin Chen, Leonidas Guibas, Hao Dong (2021). VAT-Mart: Learning Visual Action Trajectory Proposals for Manipulating 3D ARTiculated Objects. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2022.

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Zizheng Guo, Jing Mai, Yibo Lin (2021). Ultrafast CPU/GPU Kernels for Density Accumulation in Placement. 58th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2021.

Zizheng Guo, Tsung-Wei Huang, Yibo Lin (2021). HeteroCPPR: Accelerating Common Path Pessimism Removal with Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Parallelism. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2021.

Zizheng Guo, Mingwei Yang, Tsung-Wei Huang, Yibo Lin (2021). A Provably Good and Practically Efficient Algorithm for Common Path Pessimism Removal in Large Designs. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD).

Zizheng Guo, Tsung-Wei Huang, Yibo Lin (2021). A Provably Good and Practically Efficient Algorithm for Common Path Pessimism Removal in Large Designs. 58th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2021.

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Zizheng Guo, Tsung-Wei Huang, Yibo Lin (2020). GPU-Accelerated Static Timing Analysis. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2020.

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