Dec 07, 2022
UpdateOpenROAD 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...
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Nov 27, 2022
UpdateProf. 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,...
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Nov 22, 2022
EventProf. Kahng gave a talk, “Some Thoughts on the DTCO Enablement Gap”, today for an audience at Samsung Semiconductor R&D.
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Nov 14, 2022
WorkshopProf. 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...
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Oct 04, 2022
WorkshopCheck 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:...
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Sep 29, 2022
UpdateThe 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...
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Sep 28, 2022
UpdateThe 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...
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Sep 21, 2022
UpdateCheck 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...
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Jul 13, 2022
EventProf. 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.
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Jul 12, 2022
EventThe 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...
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Jun 16, 2022
WorkshopProf. 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.
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Apr 24, 2022
WorkshopProf. 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.
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Apr 05, 2022
WorkshopProf. 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...
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Mar 29, 2022
UpdateA. 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 ]
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Mar 16, 2022
WorkshopCheck out exciting OpenROAD paid internship opportunities at GSoC here:
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Feb 14, 2022
EventProf. Kahng gave a talk, “The OpenROAD Project: Today and Beyond”, today at the UCLA ECE Department colloquium.Presentation part ( PPT ).
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Jan 17, 2022
WorkshopProf. 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.
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