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Flash-CNNCap: CNN model accelerates capacitance extraction

Researchers have developed Flash-CNNCap, a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model designed for efficient capacitance extraction in electronic design. This method reformulates the task from predicting scalar values to an image-to-image regression problem, significantly reducing the computational passes required for full-matrix capacitance prediction. A U-Net architecture within the Flash-CNNCap framework demonstrated competitive accuracy with existing methods while offering a substantial speedup in processing time. AI

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Flash-CNNCap: CNN model accelerates capacitance extraction

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Hector R. Rodriguez, Jiechen Huang, Wenjian Yu ·

    Flash-CNNCap: Capacitance Extraction via Image Mapping

    arXiv:2607.23877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Flash-CNNCap, a CNN-based capacitance extractor that reformulates full-matrix capacitance prediction as image-to-image regression over spatial contribution maps. Prior scalar CNN-based extractors require $O(n^2)$ forward …