[FOSSi Dial-Up] Mohamed Shalan - OpenLane, A Digital ASIC Flow for SkyWater 130nm Open PDK

Unlike the wider software world, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) open-source landscape has been fragmented for a long time, requiring significant effort and knowledge in a variety of disciplines to assemble a working ASIC flow. This has changed with projects such as Qflow and OpenROAD that aim at developing open-source toolchain for digital layout generation from RTL. OpenLane is an automated RTL to GDSII flow based on available opensource EDA tools configured/tuned for the SkyWater 130nm PDK. OpenLane main objective is to generate a clean layout from RTL designs in less than 24-hours with zero human interventions. OpenLane has been used, successfully, to tape-out a family of test chips (striVe). This is the second episode of FOSSi Dial-Up. FOSSi Dial-Up is an online event series by the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation. Head over to https://fossi-foundation.org/dial-up/ for a list of talks.

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[FOSSi Dial-Up] Mohamed Kassem - The striVe RISC-V SoC Family on SkyWater 130nm
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[FOSSi Dial-Up] Mohamed Kassem - The striVe RISC-V SoC Family on SkyWater 130nm

[FOSSi Dial-Up] Philipp Wagner - The long path to a sustainable cocotb community
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[FOSSi Dial-Up] Philipp Wagner - The long path to a sustainable cocotb community

Overview of Static Timing Analysis in OpenSTA - Akash Levy
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Overview of Static Timing Analysis in OpenSTA - Akash Levy

"OpenROAD - Turning Designs into Optimized Silicon" - Matt Liberty (Latch-Up 2023)
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"OpenROAD - Turning Designs into Optimized Silicon" - Matt Liberty (Latch-Up 2023)

Mr. Scrub: An Open-Source, Internal Scrubber for UltraScale FPGAs (Graeme Smecher)
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Mr. Scrub: An Open-Source, Internal Scrubber for UltraScale FPGAs (Graeme Smecher)

Five years of Spade - A modern Hardware description language (Frans Skarman)
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Five years of Spade - A modern Hardware description language (Frans Skarman)

OpenROAD and the Era of Agents (Andrew Kahng)
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OpenROAD and the Era of Agents (Andrew Kahng)

[FOSSi Dial-Up] Tim Ansell - Skywater PDK: Fully open source manufacturable PDK for a 130nm process
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[FOSSi Dial-Up] Tim Ansell - Skywater PDK: Fully open source manufacturable PDK for a 130nm process

Running an Open Source LLM on Open Source Hardware (Ethan Sifferman)
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Running an Open Source LLM on Open Source Hardware (Ethan Sifferman)

Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found
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Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found

Exclusive Interview With Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (Full Special)
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Exclusive Interview With Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (Full Special)

Data Modeling for Power BI [Full Course] 📊
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Data Modeling for Power BI [Full Course] 📊

Open-Source FPGAs: Tools, Flows, and Visualization (Alex Singer)
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Open-Source FPGAs: Tools, Flows, and Visualization (Alex Singer)

Latch-Up 2026 Lightning Talks
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Latch-Up 2026 Lightning Talks

Next big step for Verilator: towards four-state logic and UVM compatibility (Krzysztof Bieganski)
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Next big step for Verilator: towards four-state logic and UVM compatibility (Krzysztof Bieganski)

How Nvidia GPUs Compare To Google’s And Amazon’s AI Chips
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How Nvidia GPUs Compare To Google’s And Amazon’s AI Chips

Remoticon 2020 // Zero to ASIC: Silicon Design with Skywater-PDK
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Remoticon 2020 // Zero to ASIC: Silicon Design with Skywater-PDK

RISC-V in Space (The Canadian version) (Mike Thompson)
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RISC-V in Space (The Canadian version) (Mike Thompson)

SRAM Design with OpenRAM in SkyWater 130nm -- Matthew Guthaus at OSDA 2023
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SRAM Design with OpenRAM in SkyWater 130nm -- Matthew Guthaus at OSDA 2023

Create the Chip YOU Want: Fast, Tailored ASIC Design with Efabless IP Blocks & Verified Modules
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Create the Chip YOU Want: Fast, Tailored ASIC Design with Efabless IP Blocks & Verified Modules