Guest Editors’ Introduction: Special Issue on Machine Learning for CAD/EDA

Moore’s Law is still alive and well, as far as increasing the complexity of integrated circuits (ICs) is concerned. Logic ICs with about 20 billion transistors or even more are being manufactured today. Their design is a daunting task. While complexity keeps increasing relentlessly, novel technical challenges (e.g., mask patterning challenges and increasing manufacturing variations) appear as we are moving ever closer to the limits of technology scaling.