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OpenPDK, OpenTooling and Open Source Design – An Initiative to Push Development

About Workshop

The workshop is organised by IHP and FMD (Research Fab Microelectronics Germany) within the framework of the BMBF-funded FMD-QNC project.

Within the project FMD-QNC analog circuit design with open source software shall be enabled. For this purpose, both the open source design tools and a process design kit of the semiconductor technology used must support the entire design flow with sufficient quality. IHP provides its 130 nm BiCMOS technology SG13G2 for open source design. This technology is particularly suited for high frequency and mixed signal design applications. While basic tool support already exists for digital circuit design, it is still very rudimentary for analog designs and especially for high frequency designs. A considerable effort has to be put into the development of the design tools as well as into the creation of the technology specific Process Design Kit (PDK).

The 2-day workshop is intended to promote exchange and networking between tool developers, the PDK developers at IHP and designers. Tool developers are to present the capabilities of the tools as well as planned enhancements. Designers are to present ideas that can be used for training chip designers. Requirements for open source design tools for digital design, mixed signal design, and high frequency design are to be highlighted.

Discussions will identify and prioritize gaps for a complete design flow in the open source tools and PDK.  The workshop will thus help to concrete the planning for the Open Design Platform and to create a roadmap for future work.

Agenda

Presentation

Presenter/Institution

Timeline

Day 1

Welcome by coordinator FMD-QNC

Andreas Brüning

Research Fab Microelectronics Germany

9:00-9:10

Introduction: Bekanntmachung

DE:Sign

Dr. Tina Tauchnitz

Dr. Korbinian Schreiber

VDI/VDE

9:10-9:15

Introduction FMD-QNC project status and IHP OpenPDK Roadmap

Dr. René Scholz

IHP

9:15-9:35

Status OpenPDK and Open Tooling for SG13G2 BiCMOS technology

Sergei Andreev

IHP

9:35-10:00

An Ultra-Low-Power High-Density Wireless Biomedical Sensing System

 

Prof. Harald Pretl

Johannes Kepler University Linz

10:00-10:25

Teaching digital design by using open-source EDA tools

Prof. Steffen Reith

Thorsten Knoll

RheinMain University of Applied Sciences

10:25-10:50

Coffee break

10:50-11:30

Towards an Open Source Design of a 24-GHz Low Noise Amplifier in a 130-nm BiCMOS Technology for Educational Purposes

Martin Sander

Ulm University

11:30-11:55

 

Design-flow approaches for mmWave and sub-THz integrated transceiver circuits for radar and communication

Manuel Koch

FAU Erlangen

 

11:55-12:20

Lunch break 

12:20-13:20

Iguana: An End-to-End Open-Source Linux-capable RISC-V SoC in 130nm CMOS

Jannis Schönleber

Thomas Benz

ETH Zurich

13:20-13:45

Teaching Circuit Design at KIT

Joachim Hebeler

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

13:45-14:10

CMOS Rail-to-Rail Operational Amplifier for HPGe Radiation Detector

Prof. Herman Jalli Ng

Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences

14:10-14:35

Coffee break

14:35-15:05

LibMan - an easy way to manage your open source design flow

Dr. Anton Datsuk

IHP

15:05-15:30

Panel discussion on the roadmap – open source tools for IC design

Topics:

  • Digital design flow
  • Analog design flow
  • Challenges in RF design

Dr. Norbert Herfurth  IHP, Matthew Venn

Panelists: Prof. Harald Pretl, Prof. Steffen Reith, Matthias Köfferlein, Markus Müller, Dr. Korbinian Schreiber

15:30-17:00

Get together (Barbecue)

 

17:00-…

Day 2

ngspice - status and future developments

Prof. Holger Vogt

No Affiliation

9:00-9:25

DMT - Python Toolkit for Device Modeling

Mario Krattenmacher

SemiMod

9:25-9:50

OpenVAF - Next Generation Verilog-A Compiler with ngspice integration

Markus Müller

SemiMod

9:50-10:15

Coffee break

10:15-10:55

Best practices for implementing and optimizing KLayout DRC and LVS decks

Matthias Köfferlein

No Affiliation

10:55-11:20

Generating DRC and LVS Runsets for KLayout

Dr. Andreas Krinke

TU Dresden

11:20-11:45

OpenEMS in open source EDA talk

Jan Taro Svejda

University of Duisburg-Essen

11:45-12:10

Lunch break

12:10-12:55

The European Project GoIT: Fostering Open Source EDA for Open Source Hardware

Dr. Marie-Minerve Louerat

Sorbonne University

12:55-13:00

PDKMaster and Standard cell generator for the open source IHP PDK

Staf Verhaegen

ChipFlow

13:00-13:25

Presentation on Revolution EDA

Dr. Murat Eskiyerli

Revolution EDA

13:25-13:50

Wrap-up

13:50-14:10

Cleanroom Window Tour

On request

14:30-15:00

Date & Venue

Date

Networking Workshop FMD-QNC will take place on 27-28 June 2023

Location

IHP

Im Technologiepark 25

15236 Frankfurt (Oder)

Germany

Accommodation

City Park Hotel

Lindenstraße 12, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)

Tel.: +49 335 5532 0

info(at)citypark-hotel.de

www.citypark-hotel.de

Special Rate: 86,50 € (Single room per night, including breakfast)

Please make your reservation with Promocode “Workshop OpenPDK” till 09.06.2023 to get the special rate.

How to find us

Contact

Sergei Andreev

Phone: +49 335 5625  523

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Christine Richter

Phone: +49 335 5625  220

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