Designing Linux-capable systems-on-chip using open-source EDA tools

For the past few years, open source hardware has gained momentum and open source hardware IPs, mainly based on RTL descriptions have found widespread use not only in academia, but in industry as well. With the advent of openly available process design kits (PDKs), and improved productivity of open source EDA tools, it is now possible to design not only simple designs, but much complex systems-on-chip (SoCs) using an end-to-end open design flow as well as publish the physical design and implementation scripts. In this session, you will learn how to design a digital chip step by step using only open-source software. You will be guided through the entire process of designing a small microcontroller on your own PC. We also present our larger Linux-capable SoC, outlining design challenges at this scale and how we solved them. Finally, we discuss which additional improvements will be needed for open-source EDA tools to tackle even larger designs.

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Philippe Sauter

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