The OpenROAD project is pleased to announce the establishment of its Open-Source Community Contribution Awards. NEW open-source contributions in the...

An ioPlacer pin/IO placement functionality has been open-sourced:  https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/ioPlacer/ Kudos to Vitor Bandeira, Mateus Fogaça, Eder Monteiro and Isadora Oliveira of...

The OpenDP placement legalizer has been updated and now replaces NTUPlace* binaries in OpenROAD's placement and legalization subflows. Kudos to...

Prof. Kahng's opening position statement _slides_ at the DAC-2019 technical panel (Session 75), "EDA open sourcing: Dawn of a golden...

The DAC-2019 Birds-of-a-Feather meeting on "Open-Source Academic EDA Software - Continued" was held today. Meeting outcomes, including the opening talk...

Prof. Kahng presented _these slides_ on the subject of the OpenROAD project and EDA open source, at the Emerging Technologies...

*** Professor Bill Swartz has released UTD-BoxRouter with an Apache-2.0 license! Many thanks to Professor Swartz for this great boost...

*** Professor David Pan has released BoxRouter with an Apache-2.0 license! Many thanks to Professor Pan for this great boost...