arXiv cs.AI· Yichen Long, Keren Zhu·· 13 小时前AI 评分31
AnalogScout：用 LLM 智能体实现仿真高效的 PVT 感知模拟电路尺寸设计
AnalogScout: Simulation-Efficient PVT-Aware Analog Sizing with LLM Agents
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AnalogScout 是一个由 LLM 智能体驱动的 PVT 感知模拟电路尺寸设计框架，结合精英设计复用、解析 gm/Id 局部尺寸与全角验证下的全局精修。在三个复杂度递增的 SKY130 OTA 上、同等 16k 次仿真预算下，其功耗比 CMA-ES 低 43.3%，并仅用 7.0% 的预算即达到 CMA-ES 最终功耗。
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Abstract:Analog device sizing must satisfy all specifications across process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) corners to ensure tape-out success, but simulating every candidate at all corners dominates the sizing time and slows design iteration. Conventional surrogate-based optimizers search the sizing space directly, while recent large language model (LLM) agents add circuit knowledge to designs but still delegate the sizes to global optimizers. Both learn the circuit response from repeated multi-corner SPICE simulations and optimize on top of it, which becomes expensive under a limited simulation budget. Providing an agent with reusable verified designs and sizing sub-blocks analytically could save most of this budget. We propose AnalogScout, a simulation-efficient PVT-aware sizing framework driven by an LLM agent. Combining elite-design reuse, analytic gm/Id local sizing and global refinement under full-corner verification, AnalogScout reduces power by 43.3% relative to the evolution strategy CMA-ES at an equal budget of 16k simulations on three SKY130 OTAs of increasing complexity, and reaches the final CMA-ES power after 7.0% of that budget. It also attains lower power than Bayesian optimization on all three OTAs and than two re-implemented LLM-driven flows on the two OTAs where they were tested.
| Comments: | 5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Submitted to IEEE ISCAS 2027 |
| Subjects: | Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2610.37319 [cs.AR] |
| (or arXiv:2610.37319v1 [cs.AR] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.37319 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
Submission history
From: Yichen Long [view email]
[v1]
Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:33:02 UTC (119 KB)
来源：arXiv cs.AI · arxiv.org