CircuitGTL: An Intelligent Circuit Design Methodology Across Electromagnetic Topologies With Graph Transfer Learning

Xin Jian, Junyi Zhang, Yaoyao Li, Tianyu Yang, Amr Tolba, Osama Alfarraj, Keping Yu, Mohsen Guizani

Abstract: Existing deep learning-based circuit design methods mostly focused on the primary matching of the model itself or circuit data, lacking generalizability and ignoring deep representation of electromagnetic coupling effects in coupled circuits. Therefore, it exhibits difficulties to further improve the accuracy in circuit performance prediction and requires large training datasets. To address these challenges, this article proposes an intelligent circuit design methodology with graph transfer learning (CircuitGTL). Specifically, it achieves the weighted graph modeling of complex electromagnetic environment circuits, where nodes represent components, edges represent the electromagnetic coupling effect between components, and edge weights signify the differential strength of electromagnetic coupling. Hereby, a fused graph representation model, integrating graph isomorphic network and electromagnetic coupling effect-based graph attention network, is proposed to achieve deep representation learning of graphic circuit data. Then, a model- and data-driven graph transfer learning mechanism considering joint optimizing of circuit’s performance matrix and nonperformance indicators is proposed. This is to achieve lightweight cross-electromagnetic topologies parameters optimization. Taking Terahertz (THz) resonant filters as an example to verify the effectiveness of CircuitGTL, numerical results on the MITCircuitGNN experimental dataset show that: compared with state-of-the-art algorithm CircuitGNN, CircuitGTL achieves 9.2% improvement in cross-electromagnetic topologies performance prediction accuracy, 90.9% reduction in model convergence time and 33.6% reduction in the total coverage area of components with only 20% of data requirement; additionally, the design of CircuitGTL has lower-insertion loss, steeper skirts, and higher-passband intersection-over-union. These results provide valuable insights for lightweight, and high-precision design of coupled electromagnetic structures.