AI for Fully-Automated Chip Design: Gimmick or Trend?

About

Welcome to the workshop on AI for Fully-Automated Chip Design, to be located with ISCA 2024. Over the past decades, numerous researchers and engineers have made significant contributions to the design of high-performance computers. The pursuit of automated processor design has been a long-standing goal. As artificial intelligence (AI) demonstrates its potential to outperform humans in specific areas — such as playing Go, optimizing code, and predicting protein structures — architecture researchers are increasingly interested in exploring the use of AI techniques to enable automated processor design. Some recent advancements in this field have made some progress in AI-based architecture optimization. However, these initiatives lag significantly behind the goal of achieving autonomous processor design and self-evolution, a concept envisioned by Von Neumann in 1956 as "Self-Reproducing Automata". Clearly, processor design is fundamentally different from traditional AI tasks: The precision necessary for CPU design is extraordinarily high (>99.99999999999%), vastly surpassing the levels typically associated with prediction and generation tasks in the field of AI. CPU design is the ultimate product of logical computation, an area in which current data-driven AI technologies fall short, presenting a formidable challenge to the proficiency of modern AI.

Therefore, we aim to organize this workshop to bring together more architectural designers to discuss how to apply AI techniques to boost automated architectural design, and where are the boundaries of AI techniques in automated design.

Topics

• High-performance automated design for domain-specific accelerators.
• Development of Architecture Design Language (ADL) tailored for automated processor design.
• Utilization of Large Language Models (LLMs) in automated circuit design.
• Design Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO) methodologies.
• Verification and testing strategies for automated processor design.
• Design space definition and exploration to improve automated design quality.
• Emerging methods for automated processor generation.

Submission

There will be a mix of invited talks and presentations selected from the submissions to the call for participation available here. We will have a panel “AI for Fully-Automated Chip Design: Gimmick or Trend?” after the talks.

• Submissions should be up to 4 pages in length(excluding references), and must be in PDF format.
• Please ensure your submission follows the ISCA'24 LaTeX Template, which guarantees consistency and readability for all submissions.
• Abstract submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=51stiscaworkshoponai"
• Abstract submissions deadline: April 30, 2024
• Author notification: May 15, 2024

Program

Location

Organizing Committee

• Xing Hu, ICT, Chinse Academy of Sciences
• Guangyu Sun, Peking University
• Yuan Xie, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
• Di Huang, ICT, Chinse Academy of Sciences