Open-Source EDA Birds-of-a-Feather Session at DAC 2023
July 12, 2023 6:00pm-9:30pm, Moscone West, Room 3001
The “Advancing Open-Source EDA Innovation and Applications” Birds-of-a-Feather session is the fourth in a series that began with the DAC 2018, 2019 and 2022 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 2023 serves as an informal meeting point for anyone who would like to hear or share ideas or latest updates on the following topics:
- The ecosystem of open-source EDA tools and industry partners.
- The use of open-source EDA tools in industrial applications and EWD (Education and Workforce Development).
- Advancing open-source EDA to drive innovation and leverage ML and Generative AI.
- Goals, current landscape, key updates, and potential next steps / actions 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)
Some speakers are still being finalized, and may not appear in the agenda quite yet.
Welcome and Introduction 6:00pm
- Intro slides with Ethan Mahintorabi (Google)
Industrial Adoption of Open Source ~6:05pm
- Tom Spyrou, Andrew B. Kahng, UC San Diego and Precision Innovations ~6:05pm
- “State and Directions for OS EDA + OpenROAD initiative transition from DARPA”
- Slides
- Karan Singh, Umar Shah, Amazon Web Services ~6:15pm
- AWS - OpenEDA on the Cloud
- Slides
- Mehdi Saligane, University of Michigan ~6:25pm
- Building Confidence in Open IC Design using OpenFASOC
- Slides
- Michael Gielda, Antmicro ~6:35pm
- Leveraging Open Source in Industry
- Slides
- Andrew Wright, Efabless ~6:40pm
- Taping Out Open Source Silicon in Practice
- Slides
- Late-Breaking News and Discussion (what next, what is needed, who can contribute …) ~6:50pm
Updates and New Directions in Open Source (Section A) ~7:00PM
- Alain Dargelas, RapidSilicon ~7:00pm
- System Verilog Parsing in Practice (Surelog)
- Slides
- Vijay Janapa Reddi, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, (Harvard, Google) ~7:10pm
- Architecture 2.0: Challenges and Opportunities with ML-Aided Design
- Slides
- Rongjian Liang, Nvidia ~7:20pm
- CircuitOps and AutoDMP (GenAI and Macro Placement)
- Slides
- Andreas Olofsson, Zero ASIC ~7:30pm
- Silicon Compiler Update
- Slides
- Late-Breaking News and Discussion (what next, what is needed, who can contribute …) ~7:40pm
Education & Workforce Development ~7:50pm
- Jim Burnham, Silicon Valley CTE High School ~7:50pm
- VLSI Design in High School Classrooms
- Slides / TBD
- Late-Breaking News and Discussion (what next, what is needed, who can contribute …) ~8:00pm
Updates and New Directions in Open Source (Section B) ~8:10
- Matthew Guthaus, University of California, Santa Cruz ~8:10pm
- OpenRAM Open-Silicon: Current Results and Future Plans.
- Slides
- Sameer Shende, University Oregon ~8:20pm
- E4S: A Platform for EDA on Commercial Cloud Platforms
- Slides
- Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ~8:30pm
- SODA a High Level Synthesizer
- Slides / TDB
- Mircea R. Stan, University of Virginia ~8:40pm
- Thermal Modeling, NSF POSE
- Slides
- Late-Breaking News and Discussion (what next, what is needed, who can contribute …) ~8:50pm
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
This year’s session is being organized by Ethan Mahintorabi (ethanmoon@google.com) from Google, Tom Spyrou (aspyrou@eng.ucsd.edu) from Precision Innovations and The OpenROAD Project, and Andrew Kahng (abk@ucsd.edu) from UC San Diego.