Publications

2026

DAC '26
COOL: A Cooling-Aware Point Transformer Framework for Thermal Prediction in Advanced 3D/3.5D IC Packaging

Yao Lu, Zhicheng Guo, Qijun Zhang, Ziyan Guo, Shang Liu, Wenji Fang, Wenkai Li, Zhiyao Xie

DAC '26
DAC '26
RTL-Sequencer: Towards Scalable RTL Timing Prediction with the Sequence-based Paradigm

Ziyan Guo, Wenji Fang, Wenkai Li, Yuchao Wu, Shang Liu, Zhiyao Xie

TCAD '26
A Self-Supervised and Cross-Design Netlist Power Model for Time-Based Layout Power Analysis

Wenkai Li, Yao Lu, Wenji Fang, Yugao Zhu, Ziyan Guo, Jing Wang, Mengming Li, Qijun Zhang, Zhiyao Xie

TCAD '26
MFSPart: A Generalized Partitioning Framework for Multi-FPGA Systems and Its Ensemble-Based Extension

Yugao Zhu, Wenji Fang, Yao Lu, Shang Liu, Yanzhen Zhu, Qijun Zhang, Zhiyao Xie

2025

Under Review
A Survey of Circuit Foundation Model: Foundation AI Models for VLSI Circuit Design and EDA

Wenji Fang, Jing Wang, Yao Lu, Shang Liu, Yuchao Wu, Yuzhe Ma, Zhiyao Xie

ISCA '25
Profile-Guided Temporal Prefetching

Mengming Li, Qijun Zhang, Yichuan Gao, Wenji Fang, Yao Lu, Yongqing Ren, Zhiyao Xie

ASP-DAC '25
AssertLLM: Generating Hardware Verification Assertions from Design Specifications via Multi-LLMs

Zhiyuan Yan*, Wenji Fang*, Mengming Li, Min Li, Shang Liu, Zhiyao Xie, Hongce Zhang

ASP-DAC '25
TCAD '25
RTLCoder: Fully Open-Source and Efficient LLM-Assisted RTL Code Generation Technique

Shang Liu, Wenji Fang, Yao Lu, Jing Wang, Qijun Zhang, Hongce Zhang, Zhiyao Xie

TCAD '25
Transferable Pre-Synthesis PPA Estimation for RTL Designs With Data Augmentation Techniques

Wenji Fang, Yao Lu, Shang Liu, Qijun Zhang, Ceyu Xu, Lisa Wu Wills, Hongce Zhang, Zhiyao Xie

2024

SCIS '24
Large circuit models: opportunities and challenges

Lei Chen, Yiqi Chen, Zhufei Chu, Wenji Fang, Tsung-Yi Ho, Ru Huang, Sadaf Khan, Min Li, Xingquan Li, Yu Li, Yun Liang, Jinwei Liu, Yi Liu, Yibo Lin, Guojie Luo, Hongyang Pan, Zhengyuan Shi, Guangyu Sun, Dimitrios Tsaras, Runsheng Wang, Ziyi Wang, Xinming Wei, Zhiyao Xie, Qiang Xu, Chenhao Xue, Junchi Yan, Jun Yang, Bei Yu, Mingxuan Yuan, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Xuan Zeng, Haoyi Zhang, Zuodong Zhang, Yuxiang Zhao, Hui-Ling Zhen, Ziyang Zheng, Binwu Zhu, Keren Zhu, Sunan Zou

ICCAD '24
OpenLLM-RTL: Open Dataset and Benchmark for LLM-Aided Design RTL Generation (Invited)

Shang Liu*, Yao Lu*, Wenji Fang*, Mengming Li, Zhiyao Xie

2023

ICCAD '23
MasterRTL: A Pre-Synthesis PPA Estimation Framework for Any RTL Design

Wenji Fang, Yao Lu, Shang Liu, Qijun Zhang, Ceyu Xu, Lisa Wu Wills, Hongce Zhang, Zhiyao Xie

PhotoniX '23
An Integrated Single-Shot Spectrometer With Large Bandwidth-Resolution Ratio and Wide Operation Temperature Range

Ang Li, Chang Wang, Feixia Bao, Wenji Fang, Yuxin Liang, Rui Cheng, Shilong Pan