2025-09-12 Group Meeting Report: Recent Progress And Summary

Group meeting report for September 12, 2025, covering RoRD-Layout-Recognation improvements, Geo-Layout-Transformer, Siemens EDA Forum, and server automation scripts.

Siemens EDA Forum Report: Yield Improvement With SONR And SDPAL

Siemens EDA Forum report focusing on AI/ML practices for yield improvement with Tessent DDYA, Calibre SONR, and Calibre SDPAL.

RoRD Layout Adaptation Report: Model Adjustments for IC Template Recognition

An opening report on AI-based IC layout recognition, focusing on RoRD adaptation, loss-function design, and initial experiments for IC layout analysis.

RoRD Initial Report: An AI Path for Layout Template Recognition

An initial report on AI-based IC layout template recognition, focusing on RoRD's rotation robustness and zero-shot matching potential.