arxivcs.AIcs.RO2026-07-20
MAGE: Human-Like Macro Placement via Agentic Multimodal Reasoning
Andrew B. Kahng, Sayak Kundu, Bodhisatta Pramanik
Macro placement still requires substantial manual refinement in industrial physical design flows. We present MAGE (Macro Placement Agentic Engine), a multimodal multi-agent framework for macro placement refinement. MAGE decomposes the macro placement task into a six-phase workflo…