New: OpenROAD RTL-to-GDS v1.0 Expectations

We are pleased to provide _this document_ with expectations regarding the OpenROAD RTL-to-GDS v1.0 flow for prospective users.  The document is open for comments _here_ .

Thanks — Dr. CU Open-Sourcing !

Dr. CU 2.0 has been open-sourced with permissive license! Kudos to Gengjie Chen, Chak-Wa Pui, Haocheng Li, Jingsong Chen, Bentian Jiang, and Prof. Evangeline F. Y. Young for developing and open-sourcing Dr. CU 2.0!

BreakfastBytes post on OpenROAD

Paul McLellan’s blog post regarding the OpenROAD project and the recent VSDOpen 2019 conference keynote talk, __”OpenROAD: Open-Source EDA from RTL to GDSII”__

ICCAD 2019 LEF/DEF Based Global Routing Contest

Bangqi Xu presented _these_ slides on the results of the ICCAD-2019 LEF/DEF Based Global Routing Contest, today at _ICCAD-2019_. Congratulations to the winning teams, and thanks to Mentor Graphics and Cadence Academic Network for their support of the contest!

Thanks — OpenDB Open-Sourcing !

We are very happy to announce that OpenDB is now released as part of the OpenROAD project:  https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenDB. Kudos and heartfelt thanks to Dimitris Fotakis for this milestone contribution to open-source EDA and our project.