Manual parameter selection remains industrial practice despite being excessively laborious and limited by expert experience. To address this issue, we present CROP, the first large language model (LLM ...

Week 1: Introduction: modern VLSI design flow; CAD paradigms; Algorithms 101 (correctness, performance, complexity). Week 2-3: Partitioning: hypergraph vs. graph modeling; Kernighan-Lin Heuristic; ...