The First Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology
The first Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology was successfully held at ICCAD-2018. Presentations from the OpenROAD team included this talk on analog open-source EDA status, this talk on digital open-source EDA status, this poster on open-source RTL-to-GDSII tool status, and this extended abstract and this talk on “METRICS 2.0”.
WOSET 2018
Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology This one-day workshop aims to galvanize the open-source EDA movement. The workshop will 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 open-source tools, along […]
TritonSizer open-sourcing
We are happy to announce that the TritonSizer repository on github is now public as part of the DARPA OpenROAD project. Kudos to Hyein Lee, Dr. Jiajia Li and Minsoo Kim for all their hard work on this!
OpenSTA open-sourcing
We are happy to announce that the OpenSTA repository on github is now public as part of the DARPA OpenROAD project. The software is open source, licensed under GPLv3. Kudos to James Cherry for all his effort to make this happen, and for his willingness to provide this timer to the world!
Los Angeles Times – UC San Diego nets $11.3M grant to cut costs, risks of designing cutting edge chips
The University of California San Diego has been awarded an $11.3 million grant from a government defense agency to develop tools aimed at making it less risky and more affordable to design advanced semiconductors. Read full article at: https://www.latimes.com/sd-fi-ucsd-kahng-20180801-story.html
RePlAce open-sourcing
We are happy to announce that the RePlAce global placement tool repository on github is now public. Kudos to Lutong Wang, Dr. Ilgweon Kang and Mingyu Woo for all their hard work on this.
UC San Diego Selected to Lead Development of Open-Source Tools for Hardware Design Automation
The University of California San Diego has been awarded $11.3 million over four years from DARPA to lead a multi-institution project which aims to develop electronic design automation tools for 24-hour, no-human-in-the-loop hardware layout generation. Read full article: https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/uc_san_diego_selected_to_lead_development_of_open_source_tools_for_hardware_design_automation
Michigan chips will be first to test next-generation hardware design tools
To fuel innovation among small teams and startups and allow them to design and produce complex chips with ease, University of Michigan researchers will participate in a national program that aims to build free, open-source electronic design automation tools. Read the article at: http://eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2018/darpa-eri-sylvester.html
Background on DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative
IEEE Spectrum – DARPA Plans to Remake U.S. Electronics: The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a huge expansion of its Electronics Resurgence Initiative, boosting the program to US $1.5 billion over five years. And while some of the research efforts will be just what you’ve come to expect from the agency that brought […]
DARPA’s DAC-2018 SKY Talk
UCSD was mentioned in the DAC-2018 SKY talk “DARPA is building a silicon compiler”, by Andreas Olofsson, program manager at DARPA. Andreas’s presentation slides are here. An EE Times article about the SKY talk is here
