2025

34th International Workshop
on Logic & Synthesis

June 12–13, 2025

University of Verona, Verona, Italy

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Thursday June 12
9:00–9:10: Welcome coffee  
9:10–9:20: Opening session Opening
9:20–10:20: Keynote Keynote 1 (Chair: Tiziano Villa)
  Tsetlin Machines: Towards Energy-Efficient and Explainable AI via Logic and Expediency in Learning Alex Yakovlev (Newcastle University)
10:20–11:00: Paper session Session 1: Approximate Logic Synthesis (Chair: Petr Fišer)
7 QUADOL: A Quality-Driven Approximate Logic Synthesis Method Exploiting Dual-Output LUTs for Modern FPGAs. Best student paper candidate Jian Shi, Xuan Wang, Chang Meng and Weikang Qian
23 Simulation-Guided Approximate Logic Synthesis Under the Maximum Error Constraint Chang Meng, Weikang Qian and Giovanni De Micheli
11:00–11:30: Coffee Break  
11:30–12:50: Paper session Session 2: Core Logic Optimization Techniques (Chair: Zhufei Chu)
27 Ashenhurst-Curtis Decomposition Using Don't Cares Benjamin Hien, Marcel Walter, Alessandro Tempia Calvino, Alan Mishchenko and Robert Wille
9 Scalable Framework for Redundancy Analysis and Logic Optimization Yukio Miyasaka, Alan Mishchenko and John Wawrzynek
18 Versatile Rewiring and Concurrent Resynthesis for High-Quality
Customized Optimization
Jiun-Hao Chen, Jie-Hong Roland Jiang and Alan Mishchenko
22 Search-Space Exploration Guided by Functional AIG Classification Benjamin Ihme, Siang-Yun Lee and Heinz Riener
12:50–14:00: Lunch  
14:00–15:00: Keynote Keynote 2 (Chair: Anna Bernasconi)
  High-Level Synthesis: Transforming the Design of Heterogeneous System-on-Chips Marcello Dusini, Gianluca Rigano, and David Vincenzoni (STMicroelectronics)
15:00–15:40: Paper session Session 3: Synthesis and Verification for Logic-in-Memory (Chair: Cunxi Yu)
28 veriSiM: Formal Verification of Spice Netlists for MAGIC-Based Logic-in-Memory Chandan Kumar Jha, Simranjeet Singh, Khushboo Qayyum, Ankit Bende, Muhammad Hassan, Vikas Rana, Farhad Merchant and Rolf Drechsler
10 High-Quality Iterative Logic Compiler for In-Memory SIMD Computation with Tight Coupling of Synthesis and Scheduling. Best student paper candidate Xingyue Qian, Chenyang Lv, Zhezhi He and Weikang Qian
15:40–16:10: Poster & coffee Posters 5, 15, 37, and 38
5 CCubes: a quasi-polynomial, exact Boolean minimizer Adrian Dusa and Paul Irofti
15 A Design of Compressor Trees for LLM Module Tsutomu Sasao and Alan Mishchenko
37 A Didactic Diagnosis Tool to Catalog Errors in Sum-Of-Products Leonardo Droves Silveira, Renato Peralta, Jordi Cortadella and Andre Reis
38 Minecraft and Roblox as tools to teach Digital Circuit Design: an analysis of the state of the art Marcelo Almeida da Silva, Renato Peralta, Alcides Costa and Andre Reis
16:10–17:30: Paper session Session 4: Advanced Logic Synthesis Methods (Chair: Winston Haaswijk)
4 Promise: Property Mining for Sequential Synthesis Jiahui Xu, Jordi Cortadella and Lana Josipovic
6 GradMap: A Gradient-Descent Approach to Load-Dependent Technology Mapping Hsin-Ying Tsai, Chung-Kai Wu, Chih-Cheng Hsu and Jie-Hong Roland Jiang
24 Molecular Dynamics In Mapped Networks For Placement-Aware Resynthesis Andrea Costamagna, Chang Meng and Giovanni De Micheli
21 Boolean Reasoning Guided Ungrouping Giulia Meuli, Eleonora Testa, Elena Teica, Alan Vaz, Vishal F. Aralikatti, Abhishek Kumar, Brian Lockyear and Luca Amaru
  Dinner at Ristorante Torcolo (Via Carlo Cattaneo, 11, Verona)
We meet up at the restaurant between 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm; the dinner starts at 8:00 pm
     
Friday June 13
9:00–9:10: Welcome coffee  
9:10–10:10: Keynote Keynote 3 (Chair: Valentina Ciriani)
  Stronger Together: Bridging Logic Synthesis and Side-Channel Analysis Elena Dubrova (Royal Institute of Technology KTH)
10:10–10:50: Paper session Session 5: Design of Advanced Multipliers (Chair: Jie-Hong Roland Jiang)
16 HiPeR-SM: High Performance Reconfigurable Scalar Multiplier over NIST-P256 and CURVE25519 Rushikesh Kawale, Sonali Shukla, Makoto Ikeda, Masahiro Fujita and Virendra Singh
26 Explicit Sign-Magnitude Encoders Enable Power-Efficient Multipliers Felix Arnold, Maxence Bouvier, Ryan Amaudruz, Renzo Andri and Lukas Cavigelli
10:50–11:20: Coffee Break  
11:20–12:40: Paper session Session 6: Machine Learning for Logic Synthesis and Verification (Chair: Chandan Kumar Jha)
19 Circuit Learning for Multi-Output Boolean Functions. Best student paper candidate Jiun-Hao Chen and Jie-Hong Roland Jiang
25 ReVEAL: Reverse Engineering of Multiplier Architectures via Graph Learning for Computer Algebra Verification Chen Chen, Daniela Kaufmann, Chenhui Deng, Hongce Zhang and Cunxi Yu
30 ML-Inspired Logic Synthesis: Improving Multiplier Circuits Yukio Miyasaka, Walter Lau Neto, Eleonora Testa, Anika Prasad, Michael Shuster, Reto Zimmermann, Patrick Vuillod, Alan Mishchenko, John Wawrzynek and Luca Amaru
33 GNN-NPN: Efficient NPN Classification for Large Functions using Graph Neural Network Chengdi Cao, Hanyu Wang, Wan-Hsuan Lin and Jason Cong
12:40–12:55: Benchmark session EPFL Benchmark Results Update  
12:55–14:00: Lunch  
14:00–14:40: Paper session Session 7: Analysis and Synthesis for FPGA (Chair: Chang Meng)
14 Statistical Method to Estimate the Number of LUTs to Realize Sparse Logic Functions Tsutomu Sasao
28 FPGA Synthesis of ABM and EFORK Methods to Emulate Frational Order Chaotic Oscillators Ramon Ulises Almada Prieto, Gilberto Enrico Vazquez Alcaraz, Opeyemi Micheal Afolabi and Jose Cruz Nunez Perez
14:40–15:10: Contest session Programming Contest Award (Alan Mishchenko)
15:10–15:40: Poster & coffee Posters 12, 17, 29, 36, and 39
12 Approximate Maximum Common Subgraph Search in Large Digital Circuits via Smart Heuristic Paolo Bernardi, Lorenzo Cardone and Stefano Quer
17 Faster and Better: AIG Depth Reduction for Timing Optimization Siang-Yun Lee and Heinz Riener
29 Efficient Timing Optimization for Logic Synthesis Felipe Marranghello, Walter Lau Neto, Patrick Vuillod and Luca Amaru
36 Neuralis: Verilog design analysis and correction using LLMs Alcides Costa, Leonardo Droves Silveira, Renato Peralta and Andre Reis
39 Revisiting a Classic Algorithm for Automatic Generation of Standard Cells Andrews Rodrigues, Paulo Butzen, Felipe Bortolon and Andre Reis
15:40–17:00: Paper session Session 8: Logic Synthesis and Analysis for Specialized Targets (Chair: Giulia Meuli)
20 Application of Logic Synthesis to Accelerate SAT-solving Jan Kimr and Petr Fišer
35 A Comprehensive Multibit Optimization Algorithm Xuchu Hu, Reto Zimmermann, Sandeep Kumar and Luca Gaetano Amaru
13 Scalable Constant Division: Truth Table Compression Approach Danila Gorodecky
31 XOR Identification in And-Inverter Graphs Using Functional Analysis Yu-Hao Ko, Jie-Hong Roland Jiang and Thomas Li
17:00–17:30: Closing session Closing Session & Best Paper Award
Saturday June 14
  Visit to the exhibition on the works of Fra Giovanni da Verona, Via Cantarane, 24 - Verona at 10 am.