FlowTuner: A Multi-Stage EDA Flow Tuner Exploiting Parameter Knowledge Transfer

EDA tools provide a large spectrum of parameters to help designers achieve the maximized PPA of designs. The corresponding enormous solution space, however, hinders designers from navigating towards optimal solutions. In this paper, we propose a multi-stage automatic flow tuning tool, named FlowTuner, for efficient and effective parameter tuning of VLSI design flow. It utilizes both exploitation u...