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)
edalize
An abstraction library for interfacing EDA tools (by olofk)
| openlane | edalize | |
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| 12 | 4 | |
| 1,179 | 592 | |
| 2.6% | - | |
| 8.4 | 7.2 | |
| 7 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| Apache License 2.0 | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
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[D][P] Represent Analog Circuits as Graphs
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.
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how small team survive from cadence cost
There are open source alternatives. https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenLane
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VLSI Tools
OpenLane
- Compiling Code into Silicon
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Kickstarting IC design
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
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How are modern processors and their architecture designed?
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
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Project Ideas for Uni
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.
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ASIC design post layout for padding.
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
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Resources for a physical design engineer
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
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Intro into chip design
https://github.com/efabless/openlane The README is very helpful
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.
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Dropping EDA-GUI's 101
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.
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Introduction to FPGAs
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).
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Compiling Code into Silicon
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!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing openlane and edalize you can also consider the following projects:
skywater-pdk - Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Technology Foundry's 130nm node.
fusesoc - Package manager and build abstraction tool for FPGA/ASIC development
picorv32 - PicoRV32 - A Size-Optimized RISC-V CPU
freepdk-45nm - ASIC Design Kit for FreePDK45 + Nangate for use with mflowgen
rocket-chip - Rocket Chip Generator
apio - :seedling: Open source ecosystem for open FPGA boards
NTHU-ICLAB - 清華大學 | 積體電路設計實驗 (IC LAB) | 110上
icestudio - :snowflake: Visual editor for open FPGA boards
riscv - RISC-V CPU Core (RV32IM)
rggen - Code generation tool for control and status registers