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The OpenROAD ASIC design toolchain consists of a number of tools and modules, dedicated for various stages in a typical RTL to GDS flow, such as floorplanning, placement, or routing. It also includes utility modules that can...
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Reducing power usage is a major aspect of chip design, important especially for energy-efficient systems and battery-powered devices. A significant amount of the power used by a typical chip is consumed by gate switching, and...
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Power consumption is a major aspect of chip design, and the ability to reliably and efficiently predict it can save a lot of engineering cycles. While it is difficult to predict the exact consumption upfront without delving...
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The growing complexity of the hardware Antmicro helps its customers build and deploy software workloads on requires continuous benchmarking and optimization to track, understand and fix performance bottlenecks. In our work...
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Debugging and extending ASIC and FPGA tools such as RTL simulators often means digging through vast codebases of not only the tooling itself but the designs they take as input. This can be cumbersome, especially in the context...
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The complexity of the multi-stage ASIC design process is reflected in the structure of the most popular open source project in this space called OpenROAD which offers a collection of ASIC design tools that can be put together...
