News – The OpenROAD Project

Intel highlights how GenAI, using open-source tools like OpenROAD, is driving efficient chip design and advancing SOTA EDA methodologies.

ucriyaz — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 17:03:50 +0000

Intel showcases the use of GenAI is playing a major role in driving intelligent and efficient chip design by leveraging the power and transparency of open-source tools like OpenROAD in enabling the next generation, SOTA EDA methodologies. Check this interesting post for details

IHP is now offering a based shuttle services for fab-ready ready designs using OpenROAD

ucriyaz — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 17:07:19 +0000

IHP is now offering a based shuttle services for fab-ready ready designs using OpenROAD. Check out this post for details

Don’t forget to register

FOSSi foundation has released a final document as part of driving a roadmap for Open EDA tools and ecosystem for Europe — OpenROAD is a key part of that vision

ucriyaz — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 17:05:40 +0000

FOSSi foundation has released a final document as part of driving a roadmap for Open EDA tools and ecosystem for Europe — OpenROAD is a key part of that vision. Learn more about the importance of open EDA for major world economies and innovation for chip design: https://fossi-foundation.org/resources/eu-roadmap

Chip design has never been easier and so accessible!

ucriyaz — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:21:59 +0000

Chip design has never been easier and so accessible! Join us for a workshop on the popular TinyTapeout program by Matt Venn on Nov 7, Mariott La Jolla, San Diego. Register soon since seats are filling up!” See details in the attached flyer.

OpenROAD: A successful journey from fostering hardware innovation to enabling education and workforce development for semiconductor chip design

ucriyaz — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 03:59:28 +0000

OpenROAD: A successful journey from fostering hardware innovation to enabling education and workforce development for semiconductor chip design.

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/open-source-semiconductor-chip-design-tool-celebrates-success

Kudos to Christian Wittke (IHP) and Thorsten Knoll (HSRM) on their development of a Digital EDA Course using IHP-SG13G2 and OpenROAD!

ucriyaz — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:48:45 +0000

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!

ucriyaz — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:35:00 +0000

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!

ucriyaz — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 14:10:43 +0000

“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.

ucriyaz — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 05:06:45 +0000

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) *

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://woset-workshop.github.io/__;!!Mih3wA!EjspXUR1VY5bNOYdd6mTWx8xmGiLlIRa15ngPde7xz3Byx6wkyMua3Fnl7r5VjSqj1HwPz9c$

Virtual! No registration fee!

The WOSET workshop aims to galvanize the open-source EDA movement. The
workshop will (virtually) bring together EDA researchers who are committed to
open-source principles to share their experiences and coordinate
efforts towards developing a reliable, fully open-source EDA flow. The
workshop will feature presentations that overview existing
or under-development open-source tools, designs and technology
libraries. Break-out rooms will be utilized for discussion of works-in-progress.
The workshop will feature a panel on the present status and
future challenges in open-source EDA, and how to coordinate efforts
and ensure quality and interoperability across open-source tools.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Overview of an existing or under-development open-source EDA tool.
Overview of support infrastructure (e.g. EDA databases and design benchmarks).
Open-source cloud-based EDA tools
Open-source hardware designs
Position statements (e.g. critical gaps, blockers/obstacles)

Submission Information

All submissions must include links to open-source repositories with
all source code and an open-source license (BSD, GPL, Apache, etc.)
Please reference your open-source repository!
Review is single blind (anonymous reviewers).
Videos will be put on the WOSET site if accepted.
Virtual presentation for regular papers (in addition to archival video)
Regular Paper Submissions (4 pages + 1 page references + 15 min video + virtual presentation)
Work in Progress Submissions (2 page abstract + 1 page references + 10 min video + virtual zoom room)

Submission site:

https://openreview.net/group?id=WOSET-Workshop.github.io*2024;Lw!!Mih3wA!EjspXUR1VY5bNOYdd6mTWx8xmGiLlIRa15ngPde7xz3Byx6wkyMua3Fnl7r5VjSqj4MLEPuQ$

Important dates:

Sept 23 2024 (end of day, anywhere in the world): submission due date.
Oct 18 2024: notification date.
Nov 8 2024: video due (if accepted)
Nov 18 2024: workshop

Co-Chairs:
Matthew Guthaus, UC Santa Cruz
Jose Renau, UC Santa Cruz

Program Chair:
Dustin Richmond, UC Santa Cruz

Proceedings Chair:
Dan Petrisko, University of Washington

Zoom Czar:
Seeking volunteers to help run the virtual meeting

Program Committee

Jonathan Balkind, UC Santa Barbara
Tim Edwards, efabless
Steve Hoover, Redwood EDA
Lucas Klemmer, JKU Linz
Dirk Koch, University of Manchester
Christian Krieg, TU Wien
Rajit Manohar, Yale University
Guillem Lopez Paradis, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Frans Skarman, Linköping University
Matt Venn, eFabless and TinyTapeout

Dr. Mehdi Saligane will be a new assistant professor in the engineering school at Brown University.

ucriyaz — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 04:53:11 +0000

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