Bridging Academic Open-Source EDA to Real-World Usability

Austin Rovinski; Tutu Ajayi; Minsoo Kim; Guanru Wang; Mehdi Saligane

doi:10.1145/3400302.3415734

Bridging Academic Open-Source EDA to Real-World Usability

Austin Rovinski, Tutu Ajayi, Minsoo Kim, Guanru Wang, Mehdi Saligane

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

Several academic EDA tools have been released; however, few are used in real tapeouts, even by other academics. Robust open-source tools require feedback and direction from users. To this end, Open-ROAD employs end-users as internal design advisors who bring with them the experience of multiple tapeouts and EDA tool flow development. This paper discusses the OpenROAD design advisors' ongoing work to bring OpenROAD from a collection of tools to an end-to-end autonomous design flow. We discuss our work to fill in the gaps for a full RTL-to-GDS design flow, assemble a full-flow test suite reflective of real tapeouts, debug flow-level issues between tools, and bridge the gap between OpenROAD developers and others in the open-source community. Lastly, we discuss OpenROAD's long-term goal to become fully autonomous, and what that means from a user's perspective.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	9256694
Journal	IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, ICCAD
Volume	2020-November
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3400302.3415734
State	Published - Nov 2 2020
Event	39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD 2020 - Virtual, San Diego, United States Duration: Nov 2 2020 → Nov 5 2020

Keywords

OpenROAD
RTL-to-GDS
open-source

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Computer Science Applications
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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