CSE students Liu Fangzhou, Tang Wuqian, and Wang Ruijie, guided by Professor Yu Bei and Professor Wang Chun-Yao, won the “Qilin Cup” (top-1 from all 400+ teams) for excelling in the challenge “Intelligent Synthesis Recipe Search in Logic Synthesis” at the 2023 Integrated Circuit EDA Elite Challenge.

The team, “TcT’’, tackled the challenge towards combinational logic optimization and technology mapping by utilizing the domestic EDA open-source tool, “imap.” The challenge entailed devising an algorithmic solution aimed at efficiently navigating the design space for synthesis recipes—specifically, optimization sequences—while adhering to constraints on runtime and targeting quality of results (QoR). Team “TcT” stood out in the technical review and group defense among 27 competing teams, and then went on to receive unanimous praise from the judges in the culminating showcase round.

The 5th Integrated Circuit EDA Elite Challenge were held in Nanjing on 22-24 December 2023, closely aligned with the development needs of EDA design industry. Challenges were jointly crafted by corporate technical experts and university professors with expertise in pertinent research areas, encompassing a comprehensive set of nine EDA topics such as logic synthesis, placement and routing, static timing analysis, layout generation, and constraint solving, to name a few.