A Physics-Guided Transformer Framework for Electromigration Analysis in Multi-Segment Interconnects

arXiv:2610.06464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As technology scales to smaller nodes, increasing current densities make electromigration (EM) one of the dominant reliability challenges in on-chip interconnects. Accurate transient stress analysis is needed to identify wires susceptible to EM degradation, but applying physics-based solvers across many interconnects remains computationally expensive. This paper proposes a physics-guided transformer framework for fast EM stress prediction in multi-segment interconnect lines. The framework converts each line into geometry- and DC-aware segment tokens and uses transformer attention to capture line-level context. A lightweight query decoder then predicts stress at selected locations and time instants. The model is trained with an objective that combines normalized supervised regression, linewise relative-L_2 loss, and physics-guided continuity and terminal-flux terms. Experiments on IBM power grid benchmarks show that the proposed model achieves relative-L_2 error below 8% and reaches up to 2459.68imes speedup compared with the matrix exponential~solver.

Source: arXiv cs.LG | 2026-10-06