Energy Efficient Design Starts with the Architecture
Developed with funding from DARPA MTO’s Intelligent Design of Electronic Assets (IDEA) program, OpenROAD™ provides Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and System on Chip (SoC) design teams with an open source, no-human-in-loop, 24-hour chip place-and-route solution. OpenROAD’s value proposition is that it brings down the barriers of cost, expertise and unpredictability of proprietary solutions which […]
OpenROAD 2022: Year End Review
2022 has been a very exciting and productive year for the OpenROAD™ project. We made good progress across main project areas including core technologies, tool quality, PPA outcomes and targeted outreach programs. This has led to a wider usage of our tools in various applications and an exponential growth in our user community. Our core […]
Implementation of RISCduino core using a Hierarchical Design Flow
Dinesh Annaya is an ardent Open-Source EDA enthusiast and an expert user of OpenROAD™ and OpenLane. He developed a baseline RISCduino SoC, a single, 32 bit RISC-V based controller compatible with the Arduino platform . He has submitted over 15 designs on Open MPW shuttles on sky130- https://github.com/dineshannayya/riscduino. During the course of his design journey, […]
AE-AV1 Encoder implementation: Using OpenROAD to achieve Real-time Throughput
Tulio Pereira Bitencourt OpenROAD™ is increasingly being used as the leading Open Source EDA solution by a large number of users in industry and academia who are starting to explore and build ASIC designs for a range of mainstream applications of today. Video-on-demand (VoD) is a rapidly growing market dominating >80% of current internet traffic. […]
Effective Design Productivity and Performance Management using GitHub Notifications
OpenROAD™ aims to continually improve the quality of the application and results i.e PPA for designs. One of the ways to do this is to track CI both internally within the project tools and design repository and enable users to manage their design and CI environment. OpenROAD uses METRICS2.1 to log design data and track […]
