Democratizing Chip Design
OpenROAD™ is an open source autonomous toolchain for chip design. Go from RTL to GDSII in 24 hours with no human in the loop!
The Problem
Modern digital chip design relies heavily on advanced EDA tools, but complete RTL-to-GDSII design flows remain expensive, complex, and opaque. As a result:
- Startups and new users face prohibitive barriers to entry including costs, complexity, and uncertainty.
- Researchers cannot easily inspect, modify, or extend real design flows.
- Educators struggle to teach complete, realistic chip design for a wide spectrum of learners using closed tools.
The OpenROAD Approach
A Digital Chip Design Toolchain
Fully automated RTL-to-GDSII flow enabling reproducible, scalable chip design with no human in the loop.
Open and Research-Driven
Developed in the open, grounded in academic research, and designed to push the state of the art in digital design automation.
A Technical Hub
Integrates multiple tools, reference flows, and benchmarks into a coherent, extensible system.
Impact
Expanding Access and lowering costs of Chip Design
1000+ runs and completed chip designs have used OpenROAD-based flows across a range of technology nodes from 180nm down to 12nm.
Research & Innovation
500+ peer-reviewed research publications and conference papers have referenced or used OpenROAD. It’s advancing AI and LLM-based design methodologies, and creating datasets useful for benchmarking..
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