DARPA ERI Summit 2019: OpenROAD presentation video posted
DARPA has posted videos of July 16, 2019 talks at the ERI Summit 2019 in Detroit. The OpenROAD presentation video is here [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJubnAN3VKw[/embedyt]
OpenROAD Alpha tools in the IEEE CEDA DATC’s RDF-2019 flow!
OpenROAD alpha release tools are now in the RDF-2019 version of the IEEE CEDA DATC Robust Design Flow! The ICCAD-2019 invited paper describing this is <here>. We are really happy to join RDF and contribute to bringing the academic research and industry design contexts closer together. (Come see our talk at ICCAD Session 2D on […]
Congratulations to UFRGS undergraduates – first OpenROAD OSCCA award
Congratulations to Vitor Bandeira, Eder Monteiro and Isadora Oliveira on receiving OpenROAD’s first Open-Source Community Contribution Award! The award was made for the FastRoute4-lefdef project, which they created while still undergrads at UFRGS in Brazil. Thanks to Dr. Paul Penzes and the award committee for making this first OSCCA award selection.
Thank you! — FastRoute4-lefdef
We are very happy to announce that a version of FastRoute4.1 on Rsyn — taking LEF/DEF input and producing ISPD18/19 route guides — is now released as part of the OpenROAD tool chain: https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/FastRoute4-lefdef . Kudos to Vitor Bandeira, Eder Monteiro and Isadora Oliveira of UFRGS for developing FastRoute4-lefdef.
OpenROAD presentation at the ERI Summit 2019
Here are the PowerPoint _slides_ and the _video_ that presented OpenROAD at the DARPA ERI Summit.
OpenROAD welcomes Tom Spyrou as chief architect and technical project manager
We are very happy to announce that Tom Spyrou has joined the OpenROAD project full-time as chief architect and technical project manager. Tom is a well-known EDA system architect who led the first OpenAccess database, PrimeTime, and numerous other landmark development projects in the industry. He was most recently a Senior Principal Engineer in Intel’s […]
TritonRoute open-sourcing
We are happy to announce that the TritonRoute detailed router is now open-sourced and public on GitHub: https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/TritonRoute/ Kudos to Lutong Wang and Bangqi Xu for all their incredibly hard work in developing this first-ever academic detailed router with capability of DRC-clean output in foundry (65nm) enablement.
OpenROAD announces new Open-Source Community Contribution Awards.
The OpenROAD project is pleased to announce the establishment of its Open-Source Community Contribution Awards. NEW open-source contributions in the realm of physical implementation and validation for IC, package or board design can be nominated for an Award using the below Form. Awards in the range of US $250 to US $2000 will be made […]
Thank you! — ioPlacer
An ioPlacer pin/IO placement functionality has been open-sourced: https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/ioPlacer/ Kudos to Vitor Bandeira, Mateus Fogaça, Eder Monteiro and Isadora Oliveira of UFRGS for developing ioPlacer, and to Dr. Jiajia Li of Qualcomm for his guidance!
Thank you! — OpenDP
The OpenDP placement legalizer has been updated and now replaces NTUPlace* binaries in OpenROAD’s placement and legalization subflows. Kudos to SangGi Do and Prof. Seokhyeong Kang of POSTECH, and to Mingyu Woo, for making this happen! https://github.com/sanggido/OpenDP
