Awesome open source ASIC resources

Terminology

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
• OSFPGA - end to end FPGA flow with open source tools such as Yosys, VTR and VPR
• VHDL support - with GHDL
• Awesome list of verification tools
• Awesome list of HDL tools / libraries / cores ...
• SemiWiki's list of open EDA tools
• Andreas' list of awesome hardware tools

High level synthesis (HLS)

• Amaranth
• XLS
• Spinal

Analogue focussed tools

• Magic - old school, layout drawing tool; still a requirement in the modern flows. Cheatsheet.
• Klayout - modern style layout drawing tool.
• Xschem - old school, schematic capture
• Mosaic - schematic capture (experimental)
• Ngspice - simulation
• Xyce - simulation
• gdsfactory - EDA tool to Layout and simulate Integrated Circuits.

Generators

• OpenRAM - SRAM generator
• DFFRAM - Memory Compiler using FF/Latch cells
• OpenFASoC - Analogue IP generator (LDO, temperature sense etc)
• MOSAIC_BAG2 - Analogue IP generator framework (w/minimum working example)
• RgGen - CSR generator (SystemVerilog/Verilog/VHDL RTL, UVM reg model etc)

PDK

• Sky130
• Watch this space!

Community

• Skywater PDK Slack
• Twitter list

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

• Zero To ASIC course
• VSD VLSI courses on Udemy

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
• OpenHW Group - open-source cores, verification, software and standards
• YosysHQ - open source EDA & Formal Verification
• ZeroASIC - makers of silicon compiler ASIC tool flow

Work in progress

• Luna PnR