AI for Fully-Automated Chip Design

The Times They Are a-Changin'

June 21-25, 2025, Tokyo, Japan

Co-Located with ISCA 2025

About

Welcome to the workshop on AI for Fully-Automated Chip Design, to be located with ISCA 2025. This year has marked a transformative leap in AI technology, particularly in the domain of reasoning tasks, where AI has surpassed average human performance in areas such as mathematical problem-solving and competitive programming. Impressively, AlphaProof won a silver medal at the IMO, OpenAI O3 has achieved a programming level comparable to the top 200 competitors worldwide on Codeforces, and DeepSeek R1 has demonstrated the self-emergence of reasoning in LLMs. Chip design, which represents the apex of logical computation — a fundamental reasoning task — has seen its potential for fully automated design greatly enhanced by the rapid advancements in AI-driven methodologies and computational intelligence. We are eager to explore whether the revolutionary advancements in AI are truly sufficient to solve this Holy Grail problem in computing, ushering in a new era.

Therefore, we aim to organize this workshop to bring together more architectural designers to discuss how to apply the cutting-edge AI techniques to boost automated architectural design, and necessitate collaboration among researchers with expertise in machine learning, programming languages, compilers, computer architecture, and electronic design automation (EDA).

Topics

This workshop will focus on but not limited to the following topics:
  • Benchmarks, Datasets, and Tool-suits for AI-driven Automated Chip Design.
  • Foundation Models (LLMs and Multimodal Models), Agents, and Frameworks for Automated Circuit and Chip Design.
  • Architecture Design Language or Software Stack for AI-driven Automated Chip Design.
  • AI Techniques for Power/Performance/Area (PPA) Prediction and Optimization.
  • Verification and Testing Flows for AI-driven Automated Chip Design.
  • AI Techniques for Verification and Testing.
  • Automated Design Space Exploration.
  • Emerging Methods for Automated Chip Generation.

Organization and Program Format

This workshop will consist of talks given by invited experts from both industry and academia. We plan to organize a half-day workshop, along with a poster session.

Poster Submission Guideline

Submissions are now open! We invite contributions for the workshop.

Please submit your work via our official HotCRP portal:

https://ai4facd2025.hotcrp.com/

  • This workshop welcomes submissions of short papers, limited to 2 pages (excluding references), formatted in a double-column layout.
  • Authors are encouraged to use the provided LaTeX template.
  • Submissions must clearly define the research problem, its motivation, and technical contributions, written in English and submitted as a single PDF file.
  • Papers may include works in progress, exploratory or preliminary studies, or previously published research.
  • Submissions will be evaluated based on novelty, technical quality, potential impact, community interest, clarity, relevance to the workshop, and reproducibility.
  • Reviews will be non-blind; authors must include their names and affiliations in the PDF without anonymization.
  • Accepted papers will not appear in formal proceedings but will be published on the workshop website, allowing authors to further develop and submit their work elsewhere.
  • At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and present their work.
  • Submission Deadline: May 16th
  • Notification Deadline: May 25th
Download LaTeX template

Location

Tokyo, Japan, at the Waseda University

Organizing Committee