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Innovating chip design
To accelerate innovation and advance open source IC design solutions
A key industrial developer of IC design tools and services for OpenROAD

What Problem Are We Solving?

The Semiconductor Design Crisis

  • Cost of designing a new chip on the latest manufacturing node has increased more than 19x
  • Commercial EDA tools are very labor intensive, expensive and complicated and not feasible for many applications
IC Design Cost IBS

Solution​

OpenROAD™ breaks down the barriers of cost, expertise and unpredictability that currently block chip creators and innovators.

  • Schedule Barrier: RTL-to-GDS in 24 hours
  • Expertise Barrier: No-Human-In-the-Loop
  • Cost Barrier: Open source and, runs in 24 hours
  • Enables tool customization to system, application needs

We build silicon-ready tools and flows using OpenROAD for industry and academia

Mission

To accelerate semiconductor innovation by advancing open-source chip design

Fostering Innovation at Scale

Accelerating Innovation and Expertise for IC Design

Complete, low cost IC Design Solutions tools, flows and PDKs

  • RTL to GDS solutions down to 12nm
  • Foundry support Intel, Global Foundries, TSMC, SkyWater
  • Barrier free Licensing OpenROAD™ licensed under BSD 3
  • Non differentiated open-source base plus closed-source extensions that leverage ML and other advanced technologies for the semiconductor industry

Support for commercial and ecosystem partners to enrich the IC design ecosystem

Unique Value Proposition

  • Differentiated products combined with opensource innovation that save time, costs and are easy-to-use
  • Bridge the tools and business gap for mid-range technology node where PPA is not dominant
  • Support full spectrum of users and applications - from early design startups to ASIC/SoC providers

Testimonials

“By leveraging OpenROAD as we explore architectures, get rapid feedback to make important and reliable hardware and software trade offs early in the design cycle before we commit to physical implementation at a fraction of the cost from using commercial tools."
Øyvind Harboe
Øyvind HarboeVP of Engineering at Ascenium
“I highly appreciate the time and effort taken by the OpenROAD team in developing a VLSI design flow based on open-source concepts. Each of these stages needs specialized expertise --I am highly impressed by the OpenROAD team. Their response to users on problem fixes and feature requests is better than a commercial tool vendor support team."
Dinesh Annayya
Dinesh AnnayaExpert, SoC Designer
“OpenROAD was essential for the class I taught. The flow was easy to set up and the ramp-up was very fast. Students were able to learn and gain practical experience with EDA tools: analyze reports, debug errors, optimize the design, and have a free and safe environment for experimentation and exploration. OpenROAD is, without a doubt, democratizing VLSI education and spurring research opportunities–it gave me the chance to teach a class I couldn’t afford.
Prof Erick Carvajal
Prof Erick CarvajalUniversity of Costa Rica

Unlock the Power of Advanced Technologies

Precision Innovations is democratising the hardware design landscape by tackling the obstacles of cost, expertise and uncertainty (i.e., risk) that have prevented successful designs in advanced technologies. Through this endeavour, we are democratising the hardware design process, making it accessible to a much wider range of individuals and organisations.

We are a team of experienced EDA and semiconductor tool, flow and business experts with a passion to innovate and deliver enhanced design productivity and know-how through Open-source EDA solutions.

 The key industrial developer and support provider for OpenROAD™ 

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Osama Hammad

Osama Hammad is a dedicated Software Developer at Precision Innovations Inc., contributing to the OpenROAD project. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the American University in Cairo, graduating with highest honors.

Osama specializes in maintaining the Detailed Routing Module for OpenROAD, where he has implemented distributed routing solutions, integrated new platforms, and developed essential database management tools. His background includes roles in embedded engineering, digital design, teaching, and project management.

Cho Moon brings over 25 years of experience in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). He has led advanced technology node development for industry-leading tools such as PrimeTime, Fusion Compiler, and First Encounter at Synopsys, Blaze DFM, Cadence, and other prominent EDA and semiconductor companies.

He is proficient in static timing analysis, pre-route and post-route optimization, Engineering Change Order (ECO), logic synthesis, and formal verification. Cho excels at collaborating across functional teams to deliver innovative solutions.

He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cho-moon/

Eder Monteiro is a Software Engineer at Precision Innovations and is involved in the OpenROAD project. He has worked on the OpenROAD project since 2019, and in these years, he has developed or supported several tools.
 
With seven years of experience in EDA, Eder has expertise in databases, pin placement, routing, and software architecture. Eder has a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
Tom-Spyrou

Tom Spyrou is the CEO of Precision Innovations Inc and is the chief architect and technical program manager for the OpenROAD™ system. Tom is a well-known EDA system architect. He was most recently a Senior Principal Engineer in Intel’s Programmable Solutions business unit working on the Quartus FPGA compiler.

Tom has worked for over 30 years as an EDA Technologist and has gained extensive experience in areas including Static Timing Analysis, Logic Synthesis, Power Grid Analysis, Database Technology and Floor-planning.

He has led the development of leading-edge commercial engines and products such as PrimeTime, Voltage Storm, First Encounter, and the Open Access Database.

Tom has been driving EDA algorithms to utilize parallel programming approaches with both multi-process and multi-threaded techniques. He has a BS from Carnegie Mellon University in ECE and an MS from Santa Clara University.

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