Awesome opensource ASIC resources
Digital focussed tools
- OpenLane - end to end ASIC flow
- OpenROAD - provides many of the tools in OpenLane
- Silicon Compiler - end to end ASIC flow
- Coriolis 2 - end to end ASIC flow
- OSS Cad Suite - lots of open source tools useful for digital design
- VHDL support - with GHDL
- Awesome list of verification tools
- Awesome list of HDL tools / libraries / cores ...
High level synthesis (HLS)
Analogue focussed tools
- Magic - old school, layout drawing tool; still a requirement in the modern flows
- Klayout - modern style layout drawing tool.
- Xschem - schematic capture
- Ngspice - simulation
Generators
- OpenRAM - SRAM generator
- DFFRAM - Memory Compiler using FF/Latch cells
- OpenFASoC - Analogue IP generator (LDO, temperature sense etc)
PDK
- Sky130
- Watch this space!
Community
Videos
- Zero to ASIC course videos, interviews, news https://www.youtube.com/zerotoasic
- Asianometry - the promise of open source EDA tools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmEbzRp_NGg
How to get started with the Google sponsored shuttle
- Quickstart guide
- Then join the community slack #shuttle & #caravel channels.
- Check the FAQ
- See the projects submitted here: https://platform.efabless.com/projects/public
Conferences
- The open source digital design conference
- OpenTapeout https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyynFETmdQDQdLCIu_HJBFNY17AAFp5W7
- FOSSi events: https://www.fossi-foundation.org/events
- Free silicon conference: https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2022
Courses
Articles
- https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/03/open_chip_hardware/
- http://olofkindgren.blogspot.com/2019/12/2019-year-of-risc-v-and-open-source.html
- https://zerotoasiccourse.com/post/
Mailing lists / newsletters
- El correo libre: https://medium.com/librecores/el-correo-libre-issue-46-11028b1d0e63#ead0
- https://zerotoasiccourse.com/newsletter/
Interest groups
- FOSSi - FOSSi Foundation is a non-profit foundation with the mission to promote and assist free and open digital hardware designs and their related ecosystems.
- Chips Alliance - CHIPS (Common Hardware for Interfaces, Processors and Systems) Alliance harnesses the energy of open source collaboration to accelerate hardware development
- WOSET - The WOSET workshop aims to galvanize the open-source EDA movement.
Companies
- Chipflow - Helping product companies to make their own chips with open source tools
- Efabless - simplifying chip creation
- LibreSilicon - open source manufacturing process standard
- LowRISC - open source silicon designs and tools
- Skywater Technology - foundry that first published open source PDK
- YosysHQ - open source EDA & Formal Verification
- ZeroASIC - makers of silicon compiler ASIC tool flow