Tutorial Program (tentative)
Program
The tutorial was hosted in the afternoon session on Saturday, October 1, 2022.
All times are listed in CDT.
Demo: the presenter demonstrates and the attendees follow along.
Exercise: attendees run experiments or solve problems. Organizers will
circulate to help and answer questions.
Presentation slides are available here.
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00 PM | Welcome, Introduction, and Tool Setup | Tutu |
| 1:15 PM | Introduction to Implementation with OpenROAD (Demo 1) | Tutu |
| 1:55 PM | Break | |
| 2:00 PM | Navigating OpenROAD-flow-scripts | Austin |
| 2:05 PM | Debugging Common Design Problems | Austin |
| 2:15 PM | Debugging Designs (Exercise 1 & Exercise 2) | Austin |
| 2:30 PM | Analyzing Your Design Using OpenROAD (Demo 2) | Austin |
| 2:45 PM | Power, Performance, and Area Tradeoffs (Exercise 3) | Austin |
| 3:00 PM | Break | |
| 3:30 PM | Technology Scaling (Exercise 4) | Austin |
| 3:40 PM | Building Complex Designs (Demo 3) | Austin |
| 3:55 PM | Setting Up Your Own design with OpenROAD-flow-scripts (Exercise 5) | Austin |
| 4:10 PM | Hands-on Debugging Support / Q&A (bring your own design!) | |
| 4:40 PM | Limitations and Future Directions of OpenROAD | Austin |
| 4:50 PM | Using OpenLane for the Free Skywater 130nm Open MPW Shuttle (Demo 4) | Austin |
| 5:00 PM | End of tutorial |
Location
This tutorial is hosted at the 55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2022) at The Westin Chicago River North Hotel in Chicago, IL, USA. Room: Washington Park.
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