Research and Open-Source EDA Tools

Abstract: This presentation describes the IC design flow when performing research with open-source, non-academic EDA tools. The tools maintained and develop by Tim are used as examples (e.g., magic, netgen, capiche, open_pdks, and others), but he will discuss other commercial and organizational open-source tools, such as OpenROAD, LibreLane, and others. Tim’s talk is outlined below:

(1) History of open-source EDA tools

(2) Magic’s cutting edge (at the time) DRC and parasitic extraction

(3) The Dark Ages of Open-Source EDA

(4) The first open PDK development: Efabless, Google, and SkyWater

(5) Circuit design and synthesis examples: MultiGiG to Raven to today

(6) Magic’s extraction revisited: FasterCap and Capiche

(7) Hierarchical R-C extraction with analytical capacitor models

Speaker(s): Tim,

Room: 3142, Bldg: EIT, ECE Department, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G4