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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. 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 — 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! 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.
See the video of Christian’s ORConf 2024 talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozd_yXoExLo !
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:...
“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. 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, 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 “: A new paper by IHP in Europe that describes an open-source based design ecosystem. https://buff.ly/4f3kbIj
Refer to Prof. Kahng’s keynote from FSiC-2024 here:, “ OpenROAD and the OpenROAD Initiative: Foundations for Open Innovation “
https://open-source-eda-birds-of-a-feather.github.io/
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.
Learn more about Basilisk and Iguana tapeouts on the open-PDK IHP : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.03523
We welcome the candidates and look forward to their contributions through the summer!
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 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: Project outreach, new application capabilities, support for Education and Workforce programs and more!