CLDRoute: Conditional Latent Diffusion for Routability Map Generation in Physical Design2607.16674AuthorsKiran Thorat,Nicole Meng,Caiwen Ding,Yingjie Lao,Zhijie Jerry ShiAbstractAccurate routability estimation during physical design is important for reducing costly post-routing iterations. Prior learning-based methods treat this task as deterministic prediction, mapping placement-stage features to a single congestion or DRC outcome. We instead formulate routability estimation as a conditional generation problem, where both routing congestion and DRC violations are modeled as spatially structured routability fields. Our framework, Conditional Latent Diffusion for Routeability estimation (CLDRoute), uses physics-aware conditioning and task-specific latent modeling to handle the different characteristics of congestion and DRC maps. This allows our method to supports sample-based inference, producing both a mean prediction and a spatial uncertainty estimate for the same input design. On CircuitNet 2.0 (N28), our method achieves, for DRC violation generation, an SSIM of 0.9678, an MAE of 0.0028, and a TopK@1% of 0.3494; for congestion generation, it achieves an SSIM of 0.9031, an MAE of 0.0286, and an NZ-Pearson of 0.3692. Overall, our framework provides a more practical view of routability at placement by generating both the expected outcome and its uncertainty.ResourcesView on Hugging FaceRead PDFArXiv
CLDRoute: Conditional Latent Diffusion for Routability Map Generation in Physical Design
Accurate routability estimation during physical design is important for reducing costly post-routing iterations. Prior learning-based methods treat this task...
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