Open-Source EDA Birds-of-a-Feather Session at DAC 2024

Tuesday, June 25, 2024 6:30pm-9:30pm, Moscone West, Room 3001

The “Open-Source EDA, Data and Collaboration Summit” Birds-of-a-Feather session is the fifth in a series that began with the DAC 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023 Open-Source Academic EDA Software Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. These sessions include a number of participants who also attend the WOSET workshop. This session at DAC 2024 serves as an informal meeting point for anyone who would like to hear or share ideas or latest updates on the following topics:

1. The global ecosystem and landscape of open-source EDA tools and industrial usage
2. The use of open-source EDA tools for Education and Workforce Development
3. Applications and Data for AI/ML-boosted EDA and design
4. Benchmarks, benchmarking and research practices as enabled by open source
5. 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 / Ethan Mahintorabi, Google
  • Slides

II. Open-Source EDA: High-Level Updates [6:40 PM - 7:15 PM]

• Update on OpenROAD and the OpenROAD Initiative
  • Tom Spyrou, Precision Innovations Inc.
  • Slides
• iEDA: An open-source EDA infrastructure and toolchain
  • Prof. Xingquan Li, Peng Cheng Laboratory, China
  • Slides
• ChipFlow: Introduction and Progress Update
  • Michel Laudes, ChipFlow, UK
  • Slides
• Open-source EDA efforts in Germany: AI HW-SW Co-design and Other Projects
  • Prof. Mehdi Tahoori, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Slides
• Building OS ecosystem from brilliant ideas to production products: “Walking to Running”
  • Andrew Wright, Efabless
  • Slides

Q&A Session [7:15 PM - 7:30 PM]

III. Open-Source EDA: Additional Updates [7:30 PM - 8:00 PM]

• Federated Learning Framework for Privacy-Preserving ML-EDA
  • Prof. Seokhyeong Kang, Pohang Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
  • Slides
• GPU-acceleration in OpenROAD: An Update
  • Dr. Zhiang Wang, UCSD
  • Slides
• Open-Source Thermal Modeling Tools
  • Prof. Ayse Coskun, Boston University
  • Prof. Sherief Reda, Brown University
  • Slides
• Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technologies (WOSET) - Open-Source for Community and Reproducibility
  • Prof. Matthew Guthaus
  • Link
• Clean up your EDA flows with tclint
  • Noah Moroze, zeroRISC
  • Slides

Q&A Session [8:00 PM - 8:15PM]

IV. Machine Learning, Data [8:15 PM - 8:40 PM]

• CircuitNet Dataset for ML in EDA: Where are We and Where to Go
  • Prof. Yibo Lin (Peking University, China)
  • Slides
• EDA-Learn: A Framework and Open Dataset for ML in Design
  • Prof. Ioannis Savidis, Drexel Univ.
  • Slides
• The SLICE Initiative: Towards a Shared Infrastructure for ML EDA
  • Prof. Vidya A. Chhabria (Bing-Yue Wu), Arizona State University
  • Slides
• Laying the Foundations for LLMs in Open-source EDA
  • Prof. Vidya A. Chhabria (Bing-Yue Wu), Arizona State University
  • Slides

V. Community Goals, Open Discussion [8:40 PM - 9:30 PM]

• Need for openness in semiconductor / chip design / EDA, education, and AI
  • Rob Mains, CHIPS Alliance
  • Slides
• Discussion: Community Goals
  • EDA Targets (Gaps in Open-Source)
  • Data/Benchmarks and Proxies
  • Calibrations
• Discussion: Collaboration

VI. Post-Meeting Refreshments (outside of meeting room, provided by CHIPS Alliance)

VII. Additional Contributions (late-breaking, with presenters also unable to attend)

• Agnostic HDL and Compiler
  • Antoine Sirianni, Paris
  • Slides
• Skill India: A Key to Self-Reliance
  • Prof. Gaurav Trivedi, IIT Guwahati
  • Slides, Video

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.

Organization

It takes a village! The volunteer co-organizers this year include Mohamed Kassem (Efabless), Ethan Mahintorabi (Google), Tom Spyrou (Precision Innovations) and Tsung-Wei Huang (U. Wisconsin). 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.

Previous Open-Source EDA Birds-of-a-Feather meetings

• DAC-2023
• DAC-2022
• DAC-2019 (wiki with slides, attendees, atlas of open-source EDA projects)
• DAC-2018 (slides)