Week 1: Greetings, The Flow, Floorplannning, and Power Delivery #

• Lecture slides from ETH Zurich’s VLSI2

  • This is a great extended recap of VLSI implementation topics (à la ECE 260B)
  • The Croc SoC described in this lecture series will be the basis for our Final Project.

• Paper: “OpenROAD: Toward a Self-Driving, Open-Source Digital Layout Implementation Tool Chain”

  • OpenROAD’s original paper (DAC 2019)

• Paper: “Open-source EDA: If we build it, who will come?”

• About OpenROAD and OpenROAD’s mission

  • Similar to the paper but with more information about the application and flow. Part of the OpenROAD documentation.

• OpenROAD’s Documentation and OpenROAD-Flow-Scripts Documentation

• Textbook: VLSI Physical Design: From Graph Partitioning to Timing Closure

  • Chapter 1 Introduction + slides
  • Chapter 3 Chip Planning + slides
  • Textbook website
  • Springer online edition of the full textbook (needs UCSD network/VPN)

• Prof Austin Rovinski’s Intro to Physical Design Databases course on YouTube