OpenROAD made great strides in 2024, expanding product capabilities, global deployment across the industry and EWD programs.
We are excited to share highlights and grateful to our users and partners for their ongoing support!
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Curated highlights across releases, events, and partnerships. Browse the full news archive for more.
Intel highlights how GenAI, using open-source tools like OpenROAD, is driving efficient chip design and advancing SOTA EDA methodologies.
Intel showcases the use of GenAI is playing a major role in driving intelligent and efficient chip design by leveraging the power and transparency of open-source tools like OpenROAD in enabling the next generation, SOTA...
IHP is now offering a based shuttle services for fab-ready ready designs using OpenROAD
IHP is now offering a based shuttle services for fab-ready ready designs using OpenROAD. Check out this post for details
FOSSi foundation has released a final document as part of driving a roadmap for Open EDA tools and ecosystem for Europe
FOSSi foundation has released a final document as part of driving a roadmap for Open EDA tools and ecosystem for Europe — OpenROAD is a key part of that vision. Learn more about the importance of open EDA for major...
Chip design has never been easier and so accessible!
Chip design has never been easier and so accessible! Join us for a workshop on the popular TinyTapeout program by Matt Venn on Nov 7, Mariott La Jolla, San Diego. Register soon since seats are filling up!” See details...
OpenROAD: A successful journey from fostering hardware innovation to enabling education and workforce development for semiconductor chip design
OpenROAD: A successful journey from fostering hardware innovation to enabling education and workforce development for semiconductor chip design.
Kudos to Christian Wittke (IHP) and Thorsten Knoll (HSRM) on their development of a Digital EDA Course using IHP-SG13G2 and OpenROAD!
See the video of Christian’s ORConf 2024 talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozd_yXoExLo !
SNUCell1.0 is open-sourced in The OpenROAD Project!
We are very happy to announce that source code of the automatic cell layout generator SNUCell1.0 — based on ASAP7 design rules — is now released as part of the OpenROAD tool chain:...
OpenROAD for design-silicon MPW shuttles, the open EDA way!
“IHP-Open-Design-Lab is a newly launched program from Germany using open-source tools like OpenROAD for design-silicon MPW shuttles. Another great way to learn chip design, the open EDA way! Learn more :...
The call for papers for WOSET-2024 is now out.
The call for papers for WOSET-2024 is now out. WOSET was founded by OpenROAD project members in 2018, and we’re very glad to see that the workshop continues to flourish with all the efforts of Professors Guthaus and...
Dr. Mehdi Saligane will be a new assistant professor in the engineering school at Brown University.
Dr. Mehdi Saligane will be a new assistant professor in the engineering school at Brown University, where he will be a colleague of Prof. Sherief Reda. Both are members of the original OpenROAD team, and it’s great to...
“Anybody can design a chip”
“ Anybody can design a chip “: A new paper by IHP in Europe that describes an open-source based design ecosystem. https://buff.ly/4f3kbIj
Kudos to Prof. Chris Torng of USC and team for now supporting OpenROAD in the mflowgen agile flow tool!
Refer to Prof. Kahng’s keynote from FSiC-2024 here:, “ OpenROAD and the OpenROAD Initiative: Foundations for Open Innovation “
We are glad to host Birds-of-a-Feather session fostering open-source chip design and ecosystems at DAC 2024.
https://open-source-eda-birds-of-a-feather.github.io/
Our youngest developer, Shreyas Thumathy, just finalized his second conference publication.
A. B. Kahng, S. Kundu and S. Thumathy, “Scalable Flip-Flop Clustering Using Divide and Conquer For Capacitated K-Means”, to appear in Proc. Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, June 2024.
OpenROAD enables competitive performance for a Linux-capable RISC-V SoC.
Learn more about Basilisk and Iguana tapeouts on the open-PDK IHP : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.03523
A total of 4 OpenROAD projects were selected for GSoC 2024!
We welcome the candidates and look forward to their contributions through the summer!
OpenROAD projects for GSoC 2024 are announced and ready for applications!
OpenROAD projects for GSoC 2024 are announced and ready for applications! Please share with colleagues and friends who may be interested in these exciting opportunities for a summer internship. Refer to the link here...
Prof. Andrew Kahng’s keynote address at OpenROAD workshop organized by IITG
Prof. Andrew Kahng delivers the keynote on a week long OpenROAD workshop organized by IITG for Rapid Innovation and Skill development https://vlsicad.ucsd.edu/
2023 has been a year of Rapid expansion and innovation for the OpenROAD project
2023 has been a year of Rapid expansion and innovation for the OpenROAD project: Project outreach, new application capabilities, support for Education and Workforce programs and more!
OpenROAD: The Journey So Far, and the Roadmap
OpenROAD has come a long way since its inception in 2019 and is now driving critical innovation and a roadmap for Chip Design in the Semiconductor Industry and Education and Workforce development. Here are the latest...
Precision Innovations Inc and Abacus Semiconductor Corporation partner to foster open-source SoC design using OpenROAD across the semiconductor user community
Precision Innovations is partnering with Abacus Semiconductor Corporation to expand the use of open-source based SoC design software as part of its FOSS and Security ecosystem. Precision’s OpenROAD based SoC design...
AWS deploys OpenROAD for open-source EDA through a low-cost and easy-access cloud solution
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/open-source-chip-design-on-aws/
Join us at DAC-2023 for an exciting Birds-of-a-Feather session on open-source EDA, on Wed, July 12 at 6:00pm, in SF Moscone Center West, Room 3001.
Admission is Free, Register today! https://lnkd.in/gD95Qujh
Check out our new video resources section here
We will continue to add useful videos about the OpenROAD flow and features here so stay tuned!
OpenROAD and key directions for the open-source EDA community
Professor Andrew Kahng shares his vision about OpenROAD and key directions for the open-source EDA community, at OSDA-2023 , the 3rd Workshop on Open-Source Design Automation in Antwerp. How will we move ahead faster...
The OpenROAD 7nm Design Contest Results are announced!
The OpenROAD 7nm Design contest broke many barriers– engaging a diverse global community to participate, learn and compete to solve challenging design problems using popular RISC-V base cores and an advanced technology...
An ML-based ICCAD contest for Static IR Drop Estimation
Static IR drop is critical at advanced node design closure. We invite you to participate in this interesting and challenging OpenROAD-based ML contest by Steel Perlot and ASU announced at ICCAD 2023 :...
We are excited to announce our first Design Contest!–The OpenROAD 7nm Physical Design contest- Breaking Barriers with open-source VLSI.
The OpenROAD 7nm Physical Design contest- Breaking Barriers with open-source VLSI. OpenROAD ( https://lnkd.in/g5f_Dk2Z ) breaks down cost , skills and access barriers to ASIC design to enable users to rapidly innovate...
Ascenium adopts OpenROAD for Design Exploration and Power Estimation for Energy Efficient Architectures
Energy Efficient Design Starts with the Architecture.
Check out the important achievements of OpenROAD in 2022 and what’s ahead
OpenROAD has had a stellar year in 2022 with key milestones in several areas.
AE-AV1 Encoder implementation: Using OpenROAD to achieve Real-time Throughput
OpenROAD is increasingly being used as the leading Open Source EDA solution by a large number of users in industry and academia who are starting to explore and build ASIC designs for a range of mainstream applications...
An open transparent baseline implementation of Google Brain’s Circuit Training method
Prof. Kahng posted this second update to the June 6 “For the Record” Google Doc. There has been substantial progress along directions of methodology, baselines, and ablation studies in our efforts to provide an open,...
Some Thoughts on the DTCO Enablement Gap
Prof. Kahng gave a talk, “Some Thoughts on the DTCO Enablement Gap”, today for an audience at Samsung Semiconductor R&D.
Challenges and Opportunities for AI in Electronic Design Automation
Prof. Kahng gave the opening talk, “Challenges and Opportunities for AI in Electronic Design Automation”, at the 2022 BrainLink X-Lab Day meeting (Global Technology Networking for System Semiconductor Innovation) in...
Check out and register for this key course offered by UCSC extension- starts Oct 5
Check out and register for this key course offered by UCSC extension – starts Oct 5. Learn key concepts on timing analysis, optimization, and closure. OpenROAD and Open STA are included – course material and labs:...
OpenROAD Partners with UCSC Extension on New VLSI Design Courses
The OpenROAD Project, Precision Innovations Inc. and UCSC Extension have partnered to bring the leading open source Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools from OpenROAD to UCSC’s popular extension programs. This...
OpenROAD tools to be featured in VLSI Design courses at the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension
The OpenROAD Project and UCSC Extension are working together to bring the leading open source Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools from OpenROAD to UCSC’s popular extension program. This program offers extensive...
Check out the OpenROAD flow tutorial for the latest updates!
Check out the OpenROAD flow tutorial for the latest updates! https://openroad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/FlowTutorial.html Complete RTL-GDS digital flow, Enhanced GUI features, the use of Open DB for better...
Machine Learning for Electronic Design Automation: Irrational Exuberance or the Dawn of a Golden Age
Prof. Kahng was in today’s “Machine Learning for Electronic Design Automation: Irrational Exuberance or the Dawn of a Golden Age” panel at the 59th Design Automation Conference.
The DAC-2022 panel on What is the Future for Open-Source EDA?
The DAC-2022 panel on “What is the Future for Open-Source EDA?” had a great discussion this morning. The moderator was Andreas Olofsson, with panelists Chuck Alpert, Mamta Bansal, Peter Gadfort, Bill Leszinske and Noel...
The OpenROAD Project: An open-source platform for IC design innovation
Prof. Kahng presented “The OpenROAD Project: An open-source platform for IC design innovation” at today’s Circuits Workshop 2 (The Emerging Ecosystem of Open-Source Chip Design) of the 2022 VLSI Symposium.
The OpenROAD Project: A Foundation for Research and Education in EDA and IC Design
Prof. Kahng presented “The OpenROAD Project: A Foundation for Research and Education in EDA and IC Design” at today’s CICC-2022 Educational Session 3 on System Design with Open Source Tools.
A University Research Perspective and Update on AI-Enhanced Co-Design of Microelectronics
Prof. Kahng presented “A University Research Perspective and Update on AI-Enhanced Co-Design of Microelectronics” at the Sandia National Laboratories 2022 Workshop on AI-Enhanced Co-Design for Next-Generation...
Leveling Up: A Trajectory of OpenROAD, TILOS and Beyond
A. B. Kahng, “Leveling Up: A Trajectory of OpenROAD, TILOS and Beyond”, (.pdf) , (.pptx) , (.mp4) , Proc. ACM/IEEE Intl. Symp. on Physical Design , 2022. [backup .mp4 ]
OpenROAD Projects are Available as GSoC Summer Internships!
Check out exciting OpenROAD paid internship opportunities at GSoC here:
The OpenROAD Project: Today and Beyond
Prof. Kahng gave a talk, “The OpenROAD Project: Today and Beyond”, today at the UCLA ECE Department colloquium.Presentation part ( PPT ).
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.
DPO = Detailed Placement Optimizer now merged!
A big thank you to Prof. Andrew Kennings of the University of Waterloo for contributing dpo = a new Detailed Placement Optimizer . It was merged to master today!
OpenROAD presents the latest updates at the OpenTapeout Conference
OpenROAD presents the latest updates at the OpenTapeout – Click Here
Thanks
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...
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 !
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...
Thanks
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
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...
Congratulations to the winners of the ICCAD-2019 LEF/DEF Based Global Routing Contest!
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...
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.
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 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
“Looking Into the Mirror of Open Source” Talk at ICCAD 2019
Prof. Kahng presented _these_ slides in the talk of “Looking Into the Mirror of Open Source” at _ICCAD-2019_ .
RDF-2019 Talk at ICCAD 2019
Prof. Kahng presented _these_ slides in the announcement of RDF-2019 at _ICCAD-2019_ .
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...
Opening Keynote of VSDOpen Conference 2019
Professor Kahng presented _these_ slides in his opening keynote of VSDOpen Conference 2019, https://www. vlsisystemdesign.com/2019-2/ .
Thanks
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...
OpenROAD All-Hands meeting at UCSD
“The OpenROAD Project” talk at the Arm Research Summit
Prof. Kahng gave a talk, “The OpenROAD Project”, at today’s “Your Research Enabled by Arm – SoC Labs” workshop at the Arm Research Summit. The slides are _here_ .
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
OpenROAD Alpha tools in the IEEE CEDA DATC’s RDF-2019 flow!
Congratulations to UFRGS undergraduates
Thank you!
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/...
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,...
TritonRoute open-sourcing
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...
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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...
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
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_ ....
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.
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*** 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!
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*** 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!
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!
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*** 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.)...
WOSET 2018
This one-day workshop aims to galvanize the open-source EDA movement. The workshop will bring together EDA researchers who are committed to open-source principles to share their experiences and coordinate efforts...
The First Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology
The first Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology was successfully held at ICCAD-2018. Presentations from the OpenROAD team included this talk on analog open-source EDA status, this talk on digital open-source EDA...
TritonSizer open-sourcing
We are happy to announce that the TritonSizer repository on github is now public as part of the DARPA OpenROAD project. Kudos to Hyein Lee, Dr. Jiajia Li and Minsoo Kim for all their hard work on this!
OpenSTA open-sourcing
We are happy to announce that the OpenSTA repository on github is now public as part of the DARPA OpenROAD project. The software is open source, licensed under GPLv3. Kudos to James Cherry for all his effort to make...
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RePlAce open-sourcing
We are happy to announce that the RePlAce global placement tool repository on github is now public. Kudos to Lutong Wang, Dr. Ilgweon Kang and Mingyu Woo for all their hard work on this.
UC San Diego Selected to Lead Development of Open-Source Tools for Hardware Design Automation
The University of California San Diego has been awarded $11.3 million over four years from DARPA to lead a multi-institution project which aims to develop electronic design automation tools for 24-hour,...
Michigan chips will be first to test next-generation hardware design tools
To fuel innovation among small teams and startups and allow them to design and produce complex chips with ease, University of Michigan researchers will participate in a national program that aims to build free,...
Background on DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a huge expansion of its Electronics Resurgence Initiative , boosting the program to US $1.5 billion over five years. And while some of the research efforts...
DARPA’s DAC-2018 SKY Talk
UCSD was mentioned in the DAC-2018 SKY talk “DARPA is building a silicon compiler”, by Andreas Olofsson, program manager at DARPA. Andreas’s presentation slides are here .