The OpenROAD Project
Posted on 2023-09-07 by: Axel Kloth
I have had a lengthy discussion with the leadership team at Precision Innovations with regards to their The OpenROAD Project, and I came away incredibly impressed. Not only are they providing an entire open source EDA toolset and related libraries for most planar transistor semiconductor design efforts, they are clearly looking into the future of ASIC design. While the commercial tools maybe able to cover more processes down to the FinFET and Gate-All-Around nodes, the OpenROAD team has identified many issues that the average ASIC Design engineer needs, and has set out to solve those. Multi-die and MCM are already included in the flows, and integration of analog and mixed-signal into digital logic design are straightforward. What impressed me even more is the willingness and ability of the team and engineering to react quickly to suggestions. We will use that toolset for all of our proof-of-concept designs, which will also allow us to compartmentalize our designs and assist in better design verification.
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We are honored to see this vote of confidence.
Thanks Axel!
