[Workshop] Democratizing IC Design, April 7th, 2021

Solid-State Circuits Directions Workshop: Democratizing IC Design

Wednesday, April 7th, 2021 at 7:00 AM PT / 10:00 AM ET This event is free and open to all

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EVENT DESCRIPTION Solid-State Circuits Directions (SSCD) is a new technical committee within the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (related article). Its charter is to promote forward-looking topics, build new communities and stimulate interaction with others. Following SSCD’s inaugural event on hardware security, the upcoming workshop will look at the new movement toward an open-source ecosystem for integrated circuit design. Over the past several decades, society has strongly benefited from free and open-source software. More recently, the open-source spirit has expanded to hardware and has energized a new maker community that tinkers with embedded systems at the printed circuit board level. Groundbreaking developments have now also opened the door toward democratizing integrated circuit design. Last year, Google, SkyWater and efabless have partnered to launch a shuttle program based on SkyWater’s SKY130 open-source process (130 nm CMOS). This technology is offered to the open community along with a complete design flow to enable designers to implement their ideas. This workshop will provide an overview of this program and highlight upcoming opportunities to benefit from it. Finally, it will showcase specific design work delivered by the community members and articulate a call to action for volunteers to design, teach and mentor. AGENDA 7:00 AM PT- Welcome & Introductions (Boris Murmann, Stanford University) 7:05 AM PT- Fully open source manufacturable PDK for a 130nm process (Tim Ansell, Google) 7:35 AM PT- 45 Chips in 30 Days: Open Source ASIC at its best! (Mohamed Kassem, efabless) 7:55 AM PT- Design 1: Open Source eFPGA implementation in SKY130 (Xifan Tang, University of Utah) 8:25 AM PT- Design 2: Amateur Radio Satellite Transceiver (Thomas Parry, SystematIC Design) 8:55 AM PT- Call to Action: Need volunteers to design, teach and mentor 9:00 AM PT- Adjourn

[FOSSi] OpenLANE: Open Source 130nm PDK

Join Mohamed Shalan for the 2nd talk in the Free and Open Source Silicon (FOSSi) Foundation Dial-Up series is on Tuesday 28th July, he will talk about OpenLANE on the first-in-the-industry Open Source Manufacturable SkyWater 130nm PDK

Mohamed Shalan - OpenROAD on SkyWater 130nm

Unlike the wider software world, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) open-source landscape has been fragmented for a long time, requiring significant effort and knowledge in a variety of disciplines to assemble a working ASIC flow. This has changed with projects such as Qflow and OpenROAD that aim at developing open-source toolchain for digital layout generation from RTL. OpenLane is an automated RTL to GDSII flow based on available opensource EDA tools configured/tuned for the SkyWater 130nm PDK. OpenLane main objective is to generate a clean layout from RTL designs in less than 24-hours with zero human interventions. OpenLane has been used, successfully, to tape-out a family of test chips (striVe).

Join live on YouTube on Tuesday July 28 at 16:00GMT https://lnkd.in/gCyMuPp