Open-Source EDA Birds-of-a-Feather Session at DAC 2025
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 6:30pm-9:30pm, Moscone West, Room 3001
This “Open-Source EDA, Data and Collaboration” Birds-of-a-Feather session is the sixth in a series that began with the DAC 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024 Open-Source Academic EDA Software Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. These sessions include a number of participants who also attend the WOSET and OSDA workshops. This session at DAC 2025 serves as an informal meeting point for anyone who would like to hear or share ideas or latest updates on the following topics:
- The global ecosystem and landscape of open-source EDA tools and industrial usage
- The use of open-source EDA tools for Education and Workforce Development
- Applications and Data for AI/ML-boosted EDA and design
- Benchmarks, benchmarking and research practices as enabled by open source
- Community goals, principles and practices for the worldwide open-source EDA community.
Potential contributors, developers, advisors, users … Everyone is Welcome and Admission is Free for All !!! (Please send email to abk@ucsd.edu with any questions.)
AGENDA (tentative)
I. Opening [6:30PM - 6:40PM]
- Welcome and Introduction
- Andrew B. Kahng, UCSD
II. Open-Source EDA: Worldwide Efforts [6:40 PM - 7:10 PM]
- Recent Open Source Activities in Germany / Europe
- Ulf Schlichtmann, Technical University of Munich
- AiEDA: An Open-Source AI-Aided Design Library for Design-to-Vector
- Xingquan Li, Pengcheng Laboratory
- Update on OpenROAD and The OpenROAD Initiative
- Tom Spyrou, Precision Innovations
III. Machine Learning and Data [7:10 PM - 7:30 PM]
- Standardizing Data Formats for Open-Source Model Sharing and Benchmarking
- Ioannis Savidis, Drexel University
- Review of Open Source and Data Developments: Infrastructure and LLMs
- Vidya Chhabria, ASU
IV. Advanced Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration [7:30 PM - 8:00 PM]
- Open Tools for Advanced Packaging STCO
- Puneet Gupta, UCLA
- Open3DBench: Open-Source 3D-IC Backend Implementation and Benchmark Built upon OpenROAD
- Yunqi Shi, Nanjing University
- Revolutionize 3D Chip Design with Open3DFlow, An Open-source AI-enhanced Solution
- Lei Ren, Tsinghua University
Break [8:00 PM - 8:15 PM]
V. Updates from Community [8:15 PM - 8:45 PM]
- Recent Updates in and around Verilator for Architectural Exploration, Testing, Verification and Coverage Reporting
- Michael Gielda, Antmicro
- Lessons Learned Implementing an FPGA in 12nm using OpenROAD
- Peter Gadfort, Zero ASIC
- GPU Accelerated, Open-source Timer and Logic Simulation Efforts
- Yi-Chen Lu and Yanqing Zhang, NVIDIA
VI. Education and Workforce Development [8:45 PM - 9:15 PM]
- Open Source Hardware at ETH Zurich Supporting Education and Research
- Marco Bertuletti, ETH Zürich
- Recent Experiences with OpenROAD- and IHP130/Croc-based Courses
- Davit Markarian, UCSD
- Optimize RISC-V Processors with iEDA in “One Student One Chip” Initiative
- Zihao Yu, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
VII. Lightning Round (Late Contributions) and Discussions [9:15 PM - 9:30 PM]
- SODA and DeCoDe
- Antonino Tumeo, PNNL
- Vaporview - an open source waveform Viewer for VScode
- Lloyd Ramseyer, Cognichip
- Yosys-slang
- Akash Levy, Silimate
Close / Hallway Discussions “Open-Source EDA, Data and Collaboration”
(Note: As in previous years, we will try to find a restaurant/lounge for further conversations and sustenance after the meeting!)
Registration
There is no registration fee. However, please fill in this Google Form to indicate your interests and whether you would like to share something with other attendees. Also, an important note: This year, attendees MUST have some kind of DAC-2025 badge (the “I Love DAC” badge is free, but you must obtain it in advance!) in order to reach the meeting room. Please make sure that you obtain a badge so that you can attend!
Organization
It takes a village! If you would like to help with co-organization or support for this meeting (A/V, food, other logistics :-)) please contact Andrew Kahng (UCSD) at abk@ucsd.edu.