Essential Building Blocks for Creating an Open-source EDA Project

Tsung-Wei Huang; Chun-Xun Lin; Guannan Guo; Martin D.F. Wong

doi:10.1145/3316781.3323477

Essential Building Blocks for Creating an Open-source EDA Project

Tsung-Wei Huang
, Chun-Xun Lin
, Guannan Guo
, Martin D.F. Wong

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Abstract

Open source has started energizing both industrial and academic research and development in electronic design automation (EDA) systems. By moving to open source, we can speed up our effort and work with others who are working toward the same goals, while reducing costs and improving end products. However, building an open-source project is much more than placing the codebase on the web. In this paper, we will talk about essential building blocks to create an impactful open-source project, including source repository, project landing page, documentation, and continuous integration. We will also cover the use of web-based frameworks to design a showcase project to bring community's attention. We will then share our experience in developing an open-source timing analyzer (OpenTimer) and a parallel task programming library (Cpp-Taskflow), both of which are being used in many industrial and academic EDA research projects.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	56th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference - Proceedings 2019
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1-4
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450367257
ISBN (Print)	9781728124261
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3316781.3323477
Publication status	Published - 6 Jun 2019
Event	56th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference - Las Vegas, United States Duration: 2 Jun 2019 → 6 Jun 2019 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8791231/proceeding (Link to conference proceedings) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3316781 (Link to conference proceedings)

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Name	ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)	0738-100X

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Conference	56th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Abbreviated title	DAC 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas
Period	2/06/19 → 6/06/19
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8791231/proceeding (Link to conference proceedings) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3316781 (Link to conference proceedings)

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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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Open source software
electronic design automation

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Huang, T-W, Lin, C-X, Guo, G & Wong, MDF 2019, Essential Building Blocks for Creating an Open-source EDA Project. in 56th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference - Proceedings 2019. ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1-4, 56th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 2/06/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3316781.3323477

Essential Building Blocks for Creating an Open-source EDA Project. / Huang, Tsung-Wei; Lin, Chun-Xun; Guo, Guannan et al.
56th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference - Proceedings 2019. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019. p. 1-4 (ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference - Proceedings).

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