VSDOpen 2019 Invited Talks by Industry Expertise CHIPS Alliance
Biodata:Zvonimir Z. Bandić,Chairman of CHIPS Alliance, Chair of OpenCAPI org, and Board of Directors member of RISC-V standards organisation. Zvonimir Z. Bandić is the Research […]
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VSDOpen 2019 Keynote 3: Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry
Biodata: Daniel has worked in Silicon Valley for the past 35 years with semiconductor manufacturers, electronic design automation software, and semiconductor intellectual property companies. Daniel […]
VSDOpen 2019 Keynote 2 : Growing Momentum and Opportunity of RISC-V Open Architecture
Biodata: Calista Redmond is the CEO of the RISC-V Foundation with a mission to expand and engage RISC-V stakeholders, compel industry adoption, and increase visibility […]
Want to know history and future of semi-conductors? Attend VSDOpen2019..
Hear it from an expert – Daniel Nenni, founder of SemiWiki.com Daniel Nenni needs no introduction and we all know he runs a very successful […]
MAGIC Layout FAQ’s – Extract to SPICE
“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought” – Let’s prove this by end of this […]
MAGIC Layout FAQ – Where are colors in VLSI layout coming from?
Hey There, This is rather a very curious query I had, when I was learning Magic VLSI Layout tool, and I am very sure, every […]
MAGIC Layout FAQ – psubstratecontact and nsubstratecontact
Hey There, Now that it’s clear, that we can tapeout using open-source EDA tools (referring to recent RavenSoC tapeout by Efabless Corp. Pvt. Ltd. using […]
Probable errors while installing ‘vsdflow’ and its solutions
Hey There, Last week, I consulted around 20 colleges to install ‘vsdflow’ on their Linux Ubuntu and CentOS machines. There were many successful installations and […]
‘vsdflow’ on CentOS is ready
to build the shell script for ‘vsdflow’ on CentOS, and finally I have the first cut ready. You just need to follow steps given in below link for CentOS, and all opensource EDA tools (PNR, STA, Layout, LVS) will be installed on your system. There are 2 testcases (picorv32 and spi_slave) inside the below link to test whether all tools have been installed or not. After running the shell script in below link, you need run the testcase
How about benchmarking Opensource openSTA against ——?
So, I took up two STA tools, OpenSTA from openroad project and “——-” from “——-“, to explain, to some extent, what “bench-marking” means to me. I would also encourage everyone reading this blog to come up with their definitions of “bench-marks” for other tools and we can model that. You can fill-up “——” with one of your favorite industry grade EDA tools. The concept of benchmark won’t change
