Kudos to Christian Wittke (IHP) and Thorsten Knoll (HSRM) on their development of a Digital EDA Course using IHP-SG13G2 and OpenROAD!
See the video of Christian’s ORConf 2024 talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozd_yXoExLo !
SNUCell1.0 is open-sourced in The OpenROAD Project!
We are very happy to announce that source code of the automatic cell layout generator SNUCell1.0 — based on ASAP7 design rules — is now released as part of the OpenROAD tool chain: https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/AutoCellGen. Kudos to Dr. Kyeonghyeon Baek, Dr. Sehyeon Chung, Handong Cho, and Hyunbae Seo of SNU for developing SNUCell1.0 !
OpenROAD for design-silicon MPW shuttles, the open EDA way!
“IHP-Open-Design-Lab is a newly launched program from Germany using open-source tools like OpenROAD for design-silicon MPW shuttles. Another great way to learn chip design, the open EDA way! Learn more : https://ihp-open-ip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/”
The call for papers for WOSET-2024 is now out.
The call for papers for WOSET-2024 is now out. WOSET was founded by OpenROAD project members in 2018, and we’re very glad to see that the workshop continues to flourish with all the efforts of Professors Guthaus and Renau at UC Santa Cruz! Call for Papers *** Workshop on Open Source EDA Technologies (WOSET) *** […]
Dr. Mehdi Saligane will be a new assistant professor in the engineering school at Brown University.
Dr. Mehdi Saligane will be a new assistant professor in the engineering school at Brown University, where he will be a colleague of Prof. Sherief Reda. Both are members of the original OpenROAD team, and it’s great to see alumni doing so well ! The announcement from Brown University: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mehdi-saligane_new-faculty-hires-zhou-saligane-zeng-kozachkov-activity-7217027059536080898-axpC?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
“Anybody can design a chip”
“Anybody can design a chip“: A new paper by IHP in Europe that describes an open-source based design ecosystem. https://buff.ly/4f3kbIj
Kudos to Prof. Chris Torng of USC and team for now supporting OpenROAD in the mflowgen agile flow tool!
Refer to Prof. Kahng’s keynote from FSiC-2024 here:, “OpenROAD and the OpenROAD Initiative: Foundations for Open Innovation“
We are glad to host Birds-of-a-Feather session fostering open-source chip design and ecosystems at DAC 2024.
Watch this space for details! https://open-source-eda-birds-of-a-feather.github.io/
Our youngest developer, Shreyas Thumathy, just finalized his second conference publication.
A. B. Kahng, S. Kundu and S. Thumathy, “Scalable Flip-Flop Clustering Using Divide and Conquer For Capacitated K-Means”, to appear in Proc. Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, June 2024. And, Shreyas will be attending UC Berkeley in the fall ! Congratulations, Shreyas !
OpenROAD enables competitive performance for a Linux-capable RISC-V SoC.
Learn more about Basilisk and Iguana tapeouts on the open-PDK IHP : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.03523
