| --- |
| license: bsd-3-clause |
| task_categories: |
| - image-text-to-text |
| - visual-question-answering |
| tags: |
| - eda |
| - vlsi |
| - design-rule-checking |
| - drc |
| - asap7 |
| - layout |
| - vlm |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
| --- |
| |
| # VLMDRC — ASAP7 DRC-Understanding Evaluation Dataset |
|
|
| Evaluation crops for **Vision-Language Model design-rule-checking (DRC)** at an |
| advanced (7nm, ASAP7) node. Each sample is a rendered layout crop labeled with |
| the **Calibre-signoff DRC violations** it contains (rule name + exact geometry), |
| for benchmarking whether a VLM can identify *which* design rule is violated, |
| *where*, and *why*. |
|
|
| Companion code (rendering, eval, metrics, reasoning-trace collection): |
| **https://github.com/glzhou97/VLM_DRC_ASAP7** |
|
|
| ## Source & provenance |
| - **Layouts:** OpenROAD-flow-scripts **GCD** benchmark routed on the open |
| **ASAP7** PDK (`asap7sc7p5t`), plus model-augmented variants. |
| - **Labels:** Mentor **Calibre** DRC (ASAP7 rule deck) — exact violation |
| geometry (edges for spacing, polygons for enclosure/width). |
| - **Scope:** local interconnect — **M1, M2, V1** (paper representation). |
| - **License:** ASAP7 is BSD-3-Clause; all layouts are open benchmarks (no |
| proprietary foundry data). |
|
|
| ## Splits |
| | Folder | N | Description | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `table2_set/` | 100 | Benchmark: single-violation crops, 10 rules, + `via_count`, `via_centers_um`, measured `geometry_text` | |
| | `table2_set_dim/` | 100 | Same crops with **measurements drawn on the image** (via sizes, spacing dimension lines) | |
| | `eval_large/` | 250 | Larger single-violation set (verified Calibre geometry: `edges_um`, `polygon_um`, `region_um`) | |
| | `eval_large_loc/` | 250 | Same, with the **exact Calibre violation region** marked (localization oracle; no rule name) | |
| | `real_annotated/` `synthetic_annotated/` | 100 each | Violation-region overlay + layer legend + rule list (human-inspectable) | |
| | `real/` `synthetic/` | 100 each | Clean crops (real OpenROAD DRVs / model-augmented DRVs) | |
|
|
| ## Format |
| Each split has `images/*.png` + `eval_manifest.json` (list of samples): |
| ```json |
| { |
| "sample_id": "t2_000", "image": "images/t2_000.png", |
| "source_gds": "6_final.gds", "crop_origin_um": [x, y], "crop_size_um": 0.256, |
| "via_count": 1, "via_centers_um": [[x, y]], |
| "violated_rules": ["M1.S.2"], |
| "violations": [{"rule": "M1.S.2", "type": "edge", |
| "edges_um": [[x1,y1,x2,y2], ...], "region_um": [x0,y0,x1,y1]}] |
| } |
| ``` |
| Rules covered (M1/M2/V1): `M1.S.2/4/5/6` (spacing), `V1.W.1` (width), |
| `V1.S.1` (via spacing), `V1.M1.EN.1` / `V1.M2.EN.2` (enclosure), |
| `V1.AUX.1` / `V1.M2.AUX.2` (auxiliary enclosure). |
|
|
| Coordinates are micrometers; images have µm axes with a fine grid for reading |
| geometry. `group` / `group-conditioned-spacing` rule categories from the source |
| paper are **N/A** for ASAP7 (no group-via rules). |
|
|
| ## Baseline results (100-sample benchmark, k=1, rule-ID F1) |
| | Model | F1 | VIA Loc | Spacing F1 | |
| |---|---|---|---| |
| | Qwen3-VL-8B (base) | 16.3 | 57.5 | 0% | |
| | GPT-5.2 | 11.7 | 88.9 | 0% | |
| | Gemini-3.1-Pro | 13.5 | 66.7 | 0% | |
|
|
| No baseline detects spacing violations from the raw crop — the gap domain |
| adaptation is meant to close. |
|
|
