OpenROAD and key directions for the open-source EDA community

Professor Andrew Kahng shares his vision about OpenROAD and key directions for the open-source EDA community, at OSDA-2023, the 3rd Workshop on Open-Source Design Automation in Antwerp. How will we move ahead faster together? : Raising bars, breaking down barriers, building infrastructure and better proxies.

The OpenROAD 7nm Design Contest Results are announced!

The OpenROAD 7nm Design contest broke many barriers– engaging a diverse global community to participate, learn and compete to solve challenging design problems using popular RISC-V base cores and an advanced technology node using asap7. Participants had the opportunity to learn IC design skills and apply the OpenROAD native flow -OpenROAD-flow-scripts through custom training videos […]

An ML-based ICCAD contest for Static IR Drop Estimation

Static IR drop is critical at advanced node design closure. We invite you to participate in this interesting and challenging OpenROAD-based ML contest by Steel Perlot and ASU announced at ICCAD 2023 : https://lnkd.in/g-uMNjSU. Problem C: https://lnkd.in/guMGRD4E . Stay tuned for more updates!

We are excited to announce our first Design Contest!–The OpenROAD 7nm Physical Design contest- Breaking Barriers with open-source VLSI.

The OpenROAD 7nm Physical Design contest- Breaking Barriers with open-source VLSI. OpenROAD (https://lnkd.in/g5f_Dk2Z) breaks down cost , skills and access barriers to ASIC design to enable users to rapidly innovate and implement their designs. Discover the potential of open-source design. Join the contest, hosted by The OpenROAD Project and VLSI System Design. Find details here: […]

AE-AV1 Encoder implementation: Using OpenROAD to achieve Real-time Throughput

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. Video streaming applications […]

An open transparent baseline implementation of Google Brain’s Circuit Training method

Prof. Kahng posted this second update to the June 6 “For the Record” Google Doc. There has been substantial progress along directions of methodology, baselines, and ablation studies in our efforts to provide an open, transparent baseline implementation of Google Brain’s Circuit Training method. Kudos and thanks to all who have engaged in this effort! […]

Some Thoughts on the DTCO Enablement Gap

Prof. Kahng gave a talk, “Some Thoughts on the DTCO Enablement Gap”, today for an audience at Samsung Semiconductor R&D.  His slides are Here (.pptx source with speaker notes).