2024 was a big year for OpenROAD with continued focus on improving tool quality, robustness, educational outreach, and enabling customers to gain significant advantages with OpenROAD in early stages of chip design.
Intel showcases how GenAI, using open-source tools like OpenROAD, is driving efficient chip design and advancing state-of-the-art EDA methodologies.
IHP is now offering shuttle services for fab-ready designs using OpenROAD, providing a new pathway from design to silicon.
The FOSSi Foundation released a roadmap document for open EDA tools and ecosystem in Europe, with OpenROAD as a key component of that vision.
OpenROAD has journeyed from fostering hardware innovation to enabling education and workforce development for semiconductor chip design.
A hands-on TinyTapeout workshop by Matt Venn was held on November 7, 2024 at the Marriott La Jolla in San Diego, showcasing how accessible chip design has become.
IHP-Open-Design-Lab is a newly launched program from Germany using open-source tools like OpenROAD for design-silicon MPW shuttles.
Prof. Chris Torng of USC and team have added OpenROAD support to the mflowgen agile flow tool, expanding the ecosystem of tools that integrate with OpenROAD.
Precision Innovations hosted a Birds-of-a-Feather session on fostering open-source chip design and ecosystems at DAC 2024.
OpenROAD enables competitive performance for Basilisk and Iguana, Linux-capable RISC-V SoC tapeouts on the open-PDK IHP process.
Four OpenROAD projects were selected for Google Summer of Code 2024. We welcome the candidates and look forward to their contributions.
The VE-HEP is an ambitious research project that aims to build an open-source based hardware ecosystem for trustworthy electronics and a strong, resilient supply chain as part of the HEP-alliance.
Precision Innovations mentors and empowers the OpenROAD community through the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program.
Precision Innovations achieved key milestones in 2023, from tapeouts in silicon and customer deployments to significant tool updates, advancing OpenROAD toward industry readiness.
Prof. Andrew Kahng presents a comprehensive keynote at ORConf 2023 covering OpenROAD's history from DARPA inception to 600+ tapeouts, its roadmap for ML-driven chip design, and the transition to community-sustained development.
Abacus Semiconductor Corporation expands its commitment to open-source tools, recognizing OpenROAD as part of its FOSS ecosystem strategy.
Precision Innovations partners with Abacus Semiconductor Corporation to expand the use of open-source SoC design software using OpenROAD across the semiconductor community.
AWS has deployed OpenROAD for open-source EDA through a low-cost and easy-access cloud solution, making chip design tools more accessible than ever.
Precision Innovations hosted a Birds-of-a-Feather session on open-source EDA at DAC 2023, bringing together professionals to discuss the future of open-source chip design tools.
Precision Innovations now offers pre-built binary releases for the OpenROAD flow, significantly reducing installation complexity and enabling users to get started quickly.
We launched a dedicated video resources page featuring educational content about the OpenROAD flow and its capabilities, with new videos added regularly.
The OpenROAD 7nm Design Contest engaged a diverse global community of participants who used RISC-V cores and the ASAP7 technology node to showcase their IC design skills.
The OpenROAD Project and VLSI System Design announced the inaugural OpenROAD 7nm Physical Design Contest, aimed at democratizing chip design through open-source tools.
OpenROAD enables early-stage PPA estimation using open predictive technology models and public PDKs, empowering architects to make informed tradeoff decisions before detailed design phases.
Ascenium has adopted OpenROAD for architectural exploration and power estimation, enabling early-stage hardware-software tradeoff analysis for their energy-efficient processor designs.
The OpenROAD Project, Precision Innovations, and UCSC Extension collaborate to integrate open-source EDA tools into extension programs, equipping students and professionals with semiconductor design skills.