arxivcs.LG2026-07-18
CLDRoute: Conditional Latent Diffusion for Routability Map Generation in Physical Design
Kiran Thorat, Nicole Meng, Caiwen Ding, Yingjie Lao, Zhijie Jerry Shi
Accurate routability estimation during physical design is important for reducing costly post-routing iterations. Prior learning-based methods treat this task as deterministic prediction, mapping placement-stage features to a single congestion or DRC outcome. We instead formulate…