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Due to both physical and economic constraints, Moore's law is approaching to its end. Meanwhile, new applications (e.g., IoT, artificial intelligence, big data, etc.) are emerging rapidly. The gap between technology and demand continues to grow, creating a grand sustainability challenge for the information industry. Combining photonics with electronics has been widely recognized as an effective "More-than-Moore" solution to resolve this challenge. The convergence of photonics and electronics is now still in its single-transistor stage, and most research so far has been focused on device and integration technology. Over the last few years, integrated photonic devices gradually grow mature. We are now ready to move into the circuit stage. Nevertheless, the Electronic-Photonic Heterogeneously-converging Integrated Circuits (EPHIC) faces many new challenges in terms of stability, energy efficiency, chip area, and so on. We aim to resolve these challenges by leveraging our rich experiences..