Speeding Up OpenROAD For Fast Design Feedback

The OpenROAD project provides an open source ASIC toolchain that reduces the entry barriers to the field of hardware development and allows fast-turnaround feedback about designs, helping to increase the productivity of silicon teams. As such, it’s a great supporting tool, increasingly used in state-of-the-art industrial projects alongside other open source tools like Verilator. Antmicro has been helping early adopters of OpenROAD-based flows in projects such as SkyWater Shuttle , OpenTitan or more recently, Google’s XLS .