INVITED: Toward an open-source digital flow: First learnings from the OpenROAD project

Tutu Ajayi; Vidya A. Chhabria; Mateus Fogaça; Soheil Hashemi; Abdelrahman Hosny; Andrew B. Kahng; Minsoo Kim; Jeongsup Lee; Uday Mallappa; Marina Neseem; Geraldo Pradipta; Sherief Reda; Mehdi Saligane; Sachin S. Sapatnekar; Carl Sechen; Mohamed Shalan; William Swartz; Lutong Wang; Zhehong Wang; Mingyu Woo; Bangqi Xu

doi:10.1145/3316781.3326334

INVITED: Toward an open-source digital flow: First learnings from the OpenROAD project

Tutu Ajayi, Vidya A. Chhabria, Mateus Fogaça, Soheil Hashemi, Abdelrahman Hosny, Andrew B. Kahng, Minsoo Kim, Jeongsup Lee, Uday Mallappa, Marina Neseem, Geraldo Pradipta, Sherief Reda, Mehdi Saligane, Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Carl Sechen, Mohamed Shalan, William Swartz, Lutong Wang, Zhehong Wang, Mingyu WooBangqi Xu

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

We describe the planned Alpha release of OpenROAD, an opensource end-to-end silicon compiler. OpenROAD will help realize the goal of "democratization of hardware design", by reducing cost, expertise, schedule and risk barriers that confront system designers today. The development of open-source, self-driving design tools is in and of itself a "moon shot" with numerous technical and cultural challenges. The open-source flowincorporates a compatible open-source set of tools that span logic synthesis, floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis, global routing and detailed routing. The flow also incorporates analysis and support tools for static timing analysis, parasitic extraction, power integrity analysis, and cloud deployment. We also note several observed challenges, or "lessons learned", with respect to development of open-source EDA tools and flows.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation Conference 2019, DAC 2019
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450367257
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3316781.3326334
State	Published - Jun 2 2019
Event	56th Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC 2019 - Las Vegas, United States Duration: Jun 2 2019 → Jun 6 2019

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Name	Proceedings - Design Automation Conference
ISSN (Print)	0738-100X

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Conference	56th Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas
Period	6/2/19 → 6/6/19

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Funding Information:
We thank Andreas Olofsson of DARPA for providing guidance. We also thank Colin Holehouse, Matteo Coltella and David Urquhart of ARM, and project PIs and participants at Qualcomm, UC San Diego and the University of Michigan. The OpenROAD project is supported by DARPA (HR0011-18-2-0032). Mr. Fogaça’s studies are financed by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001.

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Ajayi, T., Chhabria, V. A., Fogaça, M., Hashemi, S., Hosny, A., Kahng, A. B., Kim, M., Lee, J., Mallappa, U., Neseem, M., Pradipta, G., Reda, S., Saligane, M., Sapatnekar, S. S., Sechen, C., Shalan, M., Swartz, W., Wang, L., Wang, Z., ... Xu, B. (2019). INVITED: Toward an open-source digital flow: First learnings from the OpenROAD project. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation Conference 2019, DAC 2019 [a76] (Proceedings - Design Automation Conference). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/3316781.3326334

INVITED : Toward an open-source digital flow: First learnings from the OpenROAD project. / Ajayi, Tutu; Chhabria, Vidya A.; Fogaça, Mateus; Hashemi, Soheil; Hosny, Abdelrahman; Kahng, Andrew B.; Kim, Minsoo; Lee, Jeongsup; Mallappa, Uday; Neseem, Marina; Pradipta, Geraldo; Reda, Sherief; Saligane, Mehdi; Sapatnekar, Sachin S.; Sechen, Carl; Shalan, Mohamed; Swartz, William; Wang, Lutong; Wang, Zhehong; Woo, Mingyu; Xu, Bangqi.

Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation Conference 2019, DAC 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. a76 (Proceedings - Design Automation Conference).

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Ajayi, T, Chhabria, VA, Fogaça, M, Hashemi, S, Hosny, A, Kahng, AB, Kim, M, Lee, J, Mallappa, U, Neseem, M, Pradipta, G, Reda, S, Saligane, M, Sapatnekar, SS, Sechen, C, Shalan, M, Swartz, W, Wang, L, Wang, Z, Woo, M & Xu, B 2019, INVITED: Toward an open-source digital flow: First learnings from the OpenROAD project. in Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation Conference 2019, DAC 2019., a76, Proceedings - Design Automation Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 56th Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC 2019, Las Vegas, United States, 6/2/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3316781.3326334

Ajayi T, Chhabria VA, Fogaça M, Hashemi S, Hosny A, Kahng AB et al. INVITED: Toward an open-source digital flow: First learnings from the OpenROAD project. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation Conference 2019, DAC 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2019. a76. (Proceedings - Design Automation Conference). https://doi.org/10.1145/3316781.3326334

Ajayi, Tutu ; Chhabria, Vidya A. ; Fogaça, Mateus ; Hashemi, Soheil ; Hosny, Abdelrahman ; Kahng, Andrew B. ; Kim, Minsoo ; Lee, Jeongsup ; Mallappa, Uday ; Neseem, Marina ; Pradipta, Geraldo ; Reda, Sherief ; Saligane, Mehdi ; Sapatnekar, Sachin S. ; Sechen, Carl ; Shalan, Mohamed ; Swartz, William ; Wang, Lutong ; Wang, Zhehong ; Woo, Mingyu ; Xu, Bangqi. / INVITED : Toward an open-source digital flow: First learnings from the OpenROAD project. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation Conference 2019, DAC 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. (Proceedings - Design Automation Conference).

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