Reference & Resources

Tutorial Resources

• Tutorial repository (contains everything needed for this tutorial)
• Tutorial presentation slides

Tool Repositories

• OpenROAD-flow-scripts (flow)
• OpenLane (tapeout flow for Sky130 PDK)
• OpenROAD (place and route tool)
• KLayout (GDS merge, DRC, & LVS tool)
• Yosys (synthesis tool)

Project Homepages

• Yosys
• OpenROAD
• KLayout
• Efabless Open MPW Shuttle

Other Useful Open-Source EDA Tools

• SemiWiki
• Andreas’ list of awesome hardware tools

Academic Reading

• OpenROAD: Toward a Self-Driving, Open-Source Digital Layout Implementation Tool Chain
• Toward an Open-Source Digital Flow: First Learnings from the OpenROAD Project
• Bridging Academic Open-Source EDA to Real-World Usability
• Open-Source EDA: If We Build It, Who Will Come?
• The OpenROAD Project: Unleashing Hardware Innovation
• Leveling Up: A Trajectory of OpenROAD, TILOS and Beyond