The OpenROAD project seeks to develop an open-source RTL-to-GDS tool that generates manufacturable layout from a given hardware description in 24 hours, with no human in the loop. By reducing cost, expertise and schedule barriers to hardware design, OpenROAD enables greater access to ASIC implementation and accelerates system innovation in hardware. This talk will give an update on OpenROAD’s status and near-term outlook. The OpenROAD tool is integrated around an open-source, commercial-quality database and timing engine. A SkyWater 130nm tapeout was made by efabless.com in May, and DRC-clean layout generation in GLOBALFOUNDRIES 12nm was achieved in July. Efabless will describe the “OpenLANE” flow that integrates much of OpenROAD’s tooling, and the striVe family of SoCs being taped out on SKY130.
