News in 2019
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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/ .
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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
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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!