[video] Interviews from FSiC, Paris, 2023

Interviews from the Free Silicon Conference, Paris, 2023

The 2023 Free Silicon Conference (FSiC) took place in Paris (Sorbonne Université, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris) on July 10 - 12 2023 (Monday to Wednesday). The conference brought together experts and enthusiasts who want to build a complete Free and Open Source CAD ecosystem for designing analog and digital integrated circuits. The conference covered the full spectrum of the design process, from system architecture, to layout and verification.

Interviews with selected Free Silicon Conference Participation by Matt Venn are available online:

00:00 FSiC 2023 Intro, Matt Venn

00:23 Luca Alloatti, FSiC Organizing Committee

01:59 Thomas Benz, ETH Zurich

06:05 Jørgen Kragh Jakobsen, IC Works - Open Source Chip Design

08:57 Thomas Parry, SPHERICAL

11:05 Rene Scholz, IHP Microelectronics

14:06 Dan Fritchman, UC Berkeley
18:41 Harald Pretl, Johannes Kepler University Linz

All the conference proceedings (slide presentations and prerecorded talks) are also available at the FSiC website.

[C4P] FSiC 2023

The 2023 Free Silicon Conference (FSiC)

will take place in Paris (Sorbonne)

on July 10-12, 2023 (Monday to Wednesday)

This event will build on top of the past FSiC2019 and FSiC2022 editions. The conference will connect experts and enthusiasts who want to build a complete Free and Open Source CAD ecosystem for designing analog and digital integrated circuits. The conference will cover the full spectrum of the design process, from system architecture, to layout and verification. After the daily talks, the discussion will continue until late in an informal and relaxed atmosphere.

Participation to the conference is free of charge, but the attendance must be reserved per email at fsic2023 'at' f-si.org. Details will be announced on this page and over the mastodon channel. The slides and the video recordings of the talks will be published on our website.

Discussion topics of the 2023 Free Silicon Conference (FSiC) 

• High-level design
• Hardware security
• On-going FOSS silicon projects
• Memories
• Foundries and free PDKs
• Transistor Compact/SPICE/Verlog-A modeling
• Place-and-route tools
• Parasitic extraction
• Design rule checking
• Schematic editors
• Photonics
• Sustainability

Submission: For proposing a talk, please submit a title and a short summary at
fsic2023 'at' f-si.org.

FSiC Organizing Committee