IC Design

From design to your own chip. IC design covers the logic and circuit design techniques and the tools that create integrated circuits, the chips inside every electronic device.

What we work on

• Circuits for FPGAs and ASICs
• Methods and tools for chip design, including open ones
• Verifying that a design is correct and secure

Machine learning for circuit design

Whether an SRAM memory cell works stably has to be simulated at great cost for every manufacturing technology. We study how machine learning can predict this stability, even across technologies:

• Machine Learning for SRAM Stability Analysis (ISCAS 2024)
• Cross Technology Prediction for SRAM Stability Analysis (ISCAS 2025)
• When Simpler Models Win: The Limits of Parameter Sharing Neural Networks in Cross Technology SRAM Analysis (PRIME 2025)
• In Simplicity There Is Strength: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of XGBoost for Generalizable SRAM Stability Prediction (ISCAS 2026)

For design we use industrial tools through the Cadence Academic Network. The group is led by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mladen Berekovic.