EDA Open Sourcing: Dawn vs. Pipe Dream (at DAC-2019)
Prof. Kahng’s opening position statement _slides_ at the DAC-2019 technical panel (Session 75), “EDA open sourcing: Dawn of a golden age or pipe dream?” ( http://www2.dac.com/events/eventdetails.aspx?id=267-75 )
Open-Source Academic EDA Software – Continued (at DAC-2019)
The DAC-2019 Birds-of-a-Feather meeting on “Open-Source Academic EDA Software – Continued” was held today. Meeting outcomes, including the opening talk slides from Tom Spyrou, are available at the wiki page: _link_. Hope to see you at WOSET-2019 (at ICCAD-2019) and at DAC-2020! Please join our contact list via _this Google Form_.
The OpenROAD project at the Emerging Technologies for EDA workshop in Hsinchu
Prof. Kahng presented _these slides_ on the subject of the OpenROAD project and EDA open source, at the Emerging Technologies for EDA workshop in Hsinchu.
Thank you! — UTD-BoxRouter
*** Professor Bill Swartz has released UTD-BoxRouter with an Apache-2.0 license! Many thanks to Professor Swartz for this great boost to the academic research and EDA community! https://github.com/billswartz7/UTD-BoxRouter
Thank You! — BoxRouter
*** Professor David Pan has released BoxRouter with an Apache-2.0 license! Many thanks to Professor Pan for this great boost to the academic research and EDA community! https://github.com/krzhu/BoxRouter
OpenROAD Flow Initial Information for Users
We are pleased to provide these initial notes on the OpenROAD flow for prospective users of OpenROAD tools. [OpenROAD_Flow_and_Notes_Nov2018-v1p0]
TritonCTS open-sourcing
We are happy to announce that the TritonCTS repository on github is now public as part of the DARPA OpenROAD project. Kudos to Kwangsoo Han, Dr. Jiajia Li and Mateus Fogaça for all their hard work on this!
Thank You! — FastRoute
*** Professor Chris Chu has re-released FastRoute with a BSD3 license! Many thanks to Professor Chu for this great boost to the academic research and EDA community! http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~cnchu/FastRoute.html
RePlAce v1.1 Timing-Driven
We are happy to announce that the RePlAce global placement tool repository on GitHub is now updated with the first timing-driven version (v1.1) of RePlAce. Kudos to Mingyu Woo for all his hard work on this.
OpenROAD on CentOS 6!
(IMPORTANT!) ATTENTION: Contributors to and users of open-source (standalone) OpenROAD tools, please note the following. OpenROAD developers guarantee that each tool package (RePlAce, TritonSizer, TritonCTS, etc.) builds on a clean CentOS 6 virtual machine. Each tool owner will ensure that packages come with their own required .so (shared library) files under their own release, and/or […]
