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!
Matt Liberty has joined the OpenROAD project!
We are very happy to announce that Matt Liberty has joined the OpenROAD project. Matt brings a deep background that spans technologies including timing, place-and-route, database, and software engineering. Matt was most recently a Principal Engineer in Intel’s Programmable Solutions business unit. He has also held senior technical positions as a Principal Engineer at Coverity, […]
Congratulations to the winners of the ICCAD-2019 LEF/DEF Based Global Routing Contest!
The OpenROAD project is glad to have provided support and open-sourcing bonus prizes to the 2019 edition of the CAD contest at ICCAD, a research and development competition focusing on advanced, real-world problems in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA). The CAD contest at ICCAD is open to multi-person teams world-wide. The 2019 winners are: First […]
NEW: OpenROAD “Safe Names” Conventions, v1.0
We are pleased to provide _this document_ outlining OpenROAD project guidance regarding “safe names” for open-source EDA tool APIs (Tcl, Python). The document is intended to help OpenROAD developers as well as the broader open-source EDA community remain clear of copyright infringement claims, particularly as they relate to “EDA tool APIs”. The document is open for comments […]
OpenROAD has joined CHIPS Alliance !
The OpenROAD project recently joined the CHIPS Alliance — see https://chipsalliance.org/about/members/ ! We look forward to many positive and fruitful interactions with the CHIPS Alliance community and ecosystem.
