edalize VS openlane

Compare edalize vs openlane and see what are their differences.

openlane

OpenLane is an automated RTL to GDSII flow based on several components including OpenROAD, Yosys, Magic, Netgen and custom methodology scripts for design exploration and optimization. (by efabless)
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edalize openlane
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590 1,174
- 4.8%
7.3 8.6
7 days ago 7 days ago
Python Python
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License Apache License 2.0
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edalize

Posts with mentions or reviews of edalize. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-06.
  • Dropping EDA-GUI's 101
    1 project | /r/FPGA | 17 Feb 2023
    Check out FuseSoC: https://github.com/olofk/fusesoc which can handle Vivado builds for you (utilizing edalize: https://github.com/olofk/edalize) along with some nice package management. It can run against multiple tools so you can also get it to build simulations using Verilator or a commercial EDA tool if you have access to them.
  • Introduction to FPGAs
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Feb 2023
    Check out https://github.com/olofk/fusesoc. It gives you a command line build flow that can drive Vivado (along with many other eda tools via edalize https://github.com/olofk/edalize) without having to touch the GUI (though you might want it for programming the board, though FuseSoC can do that too).
  • Compiling Code into Silicon
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2021
    This reminds me very much of edalize[1], which does something very similar.

    [1]: https://github.com/olofk/edalize

  • Olof Kindgren on LinkedIn: We have a new world record! 6000 RISC-V cores in a single chip!
    3 projects | /r/RISCV | 24 Sep 2021

openlane

Posts with mentions or reviews of openlane. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-15.
  • [D][P] Represent Analog Circuits as Graphs
    3 projects | /r/MachineLearning | 15 Apr 2023
    I would suggest Verilog-to-routing as the best open source tool ive used that deals with abstract circuit representations on an FPGA or similar architecture. but tools like Align and Magical both accept circuit inputs as netlists and have to represent them internally for generating layout so might be easier to understand their approach depending on your familiarity with analog circuits. One more option is to look up OpenLane flow, its more an amalgamation of lots of tools but definitely also represents circuits as a graph for manipulation later on.
  • how small team survive from cadence cost
    1 project | /r/chipdesign | 15 Jan 2023
    There are open source alternatives. https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenLane
  • VLSI Tools
    6 projects | /r/chipdesign | 14 Dec 2022
    OpenLane
  • Compiling Code into Silicon
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2021
  • Kickstarting IC design
    2 projects | /r/chipdesign | 3 Dec 2021
    And, there is a project called 'The OpenROAD Project' which has created an open-source framework for digital back-end design/physical design. https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenLane
  • How are modern processors and their architecture designed?
    4 projects | /r/ECE | 28 Sep 2021
    For "how the architecture is brought to silicon": Look at OpenLane. It's a complete Verilog to GDS flow, all open source and already used for some tape-outs. https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenLane
  • Project Ideas for Uni
    2 projects | /r/FPGA | 23 Aug 2021
    Maybe you can do something that can also go to an ASIC. Take a look at openlane flow, you don't need to do the backend since it is mostly script based and you can even send it to next Skywater submission. The major problem is that you currently don't have sram access so you need to create rams from logic if you need to.
  • ASIC design post layout for padding.
    1 project | /r/chipdesign | 15 Aug 2021
    I am not sure if you can do padding with this but dropping this down in case you haven't heard it: https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenLane
  • Resources for a physical design engineer
    1 project | /r/chipdesign | 20 Jul 2021
    Specifically openlane (https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenLane is a great way to start, although it's very painful trying to do complex designs. However, they're pretty helpful answering questions on Gitter
  • Intro into chip design
    1 project | /r/chipdesign | 7 May 2021
    https://github.com/efabless/openlane The README is very helpful

What are some alternatives?

When comparing edalize and openlane you can also consider the following projects:

fusesoc - Package manager and build abstraction tool for FPGA/ASIC development

skywater-pdk - Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Technology Foundry's 130nm node.

picorv32 - PicoRV32 - A Size-Optimized RISC-V CPU

apio - :seedling: Open source ecosystem for open FPGA boards

freepdk-45nm - ASIC Design Kit for FreePDK45 + Nangate for use with mflowgen

rocket-chip - Rocket Chip Generator

icestudio - :snowflake: Visual editor for open FPGA boards

NTHU-ICLAB - 清華大學 | 積體電路設計實驗 (IC LAB) | 110上

rggen - Code generation tool for control and status registers

riscv - RISC-V CPU Core (RV32IM)