IEEE CEDA DATC RDF and METRICS2.1: Toward a Standard Platform for ML-Enabled EDA and IC Design

Prof. Kahng, Jinwook Jung (IBM Research), Seungwon Kim and Ravi Varadarajan gave Tutorial #1, “IEEE CEDA DATC RDF and METRICS2.1: Toward a Standard Platform for ML-Enabled EDA and IC Design”, today at ASP-DAC 2022. Presentation part1 (.pptx) (.mp4) Presentation part 2 (.pptx) (.mp4) Presentation part 3 (.pptx) (.mp4)                         Presentation part 4 (.pptx) (.mp4) Presentation part […]

Thanks — DREAMPlace 3.0 Open-Sourcing !

DREAMPlace 3.0 has been open-sourced with permissive license! Kudos to Jiaqi Gu, Zixuan Jiang, Prof. Yibo Lin and Prof. David Z. Pan for developing and open-sourcing DREAMPlace 3.0.  The tool is available at https://github.com/limbo018/DREAMPlace.

OpenROAD at GOMACTech-2021

Today was the live Q&A for “The OpenROAD Project: Unleashing Hardware Innovation” at GOMACTech-2021. The paper and video are under our Publications page.

OpenROAD at CHIPS Alliance Workshop

Andrew Kahng and Tom Spyrou presented “An Introduction to The OpenROAD Project” at today’s CHIPS Alliance Workshop.  The talk starts at 2:24:28 in the workshop video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLfBFpACh2s&t=8665s

OpenROAD releases ASAP7 7nm Predictive PDK on GitHub !

We are happy to announce that the ASAP7 7nm Predictive PDK has been released under BSD-3 license on GitHub. The GitHub repository is available at  https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/asap7 The ASAP 7nm Predictive PDK has been developed at ASU in collaboration with ARM Research. Kudos to Prof. Larry Clark, Dr. Vinay Vashishtha and the ASU team for their great […]

A post-route timing evaluation flow with OpenRCX is available !

We are happy to announce that a post-route timing evaluation with the OpenROAD parasitic extraction tool (OpenRCX) is now available. The following links give post-routing timing evaluation examples with OpenRCX+OpenSTA using four post-route designs from the IEEE CEDA DATC’s RDF-2020 calibration testcases. An example calibration flow for Skywater130 technology with OpenRCX is in the Script […]

Thanks — TritonRoute-WXL Open-Sourcing !

TritonRoute-WXL has been open-sourced with permissive license! Kudos to Dr. Lutong Wang and Bangqi Xu for developing and open-sourcing TritonRoute-WXL.  The tool is available at  https://git.io/JkTaO

Thank you to Paripath.com

Thank you to Paripath.com for the open sourcing of the Characterization Description Format on GitHub. https://github.com/paripath/cdf!