A few days ago, the 2nd CCF Academic Conference on Integrated Circuit Design and Automation (CCF DAC 2021) was successfully held in Wuhan. Nanjing Integrated Circuit Design Service Industry Innovation Center Co., Ltd. (EDA Innovation Center or E-Creation for short) was invited by the conference to attend and give a speech on the latest progress of the OpenEDA^® open source platform, among which the OpenEDI open source data foundation The components attracted wide attention from the attendees. At the same time, E-Chuang also shared technology with the School of Microelectronics of Fudan University, which cited OpenEDI in its open source project, and demonstrated the OpenEDA^® open source platform to support the integrated circuit EDA elite challenge at the conference site The progress and achievements of industry-university integration such as the EDA competition.

The full name of CCF DAC 2021 is the 2nd CCF Integrated Circuit Design and Automation Conference. Academic Annual Meeting. The conference brings together experts, scholars, researchers and industry professionals who are engaged in research and technology development related to integrated circuit design in the fields of computer and microelectronics to conduct academic exchanges and display technical achievements. It is an integrated circuit design and electronic design automation (EDA). Annual academic event in the field.   This CCF DAC 2021 conference invited well-known scholars from Duke University, Peking University, Fudan University and other related institutions at home and abroad to introduce the latest research progress and development trends in the field of integrated circuit design and automation, and invited industries such as E-creation The main R&D personnel of emerging companies in the world share their technology development experience and cooperation needs. In addition, the conference set up a number of links such as specially invited reports, special discussions, technical forums, paper group meetings, and corporate exhibitions to further promote exchanges and cooperation between industry, academia and research.   E Creation is an enterprise dedicated to EDA commonality and cutting-edge technology research. It is an honor to be invited to participate in CCF DAC 2021 and publish about OpenEDA^®The keynote speech on the open source platform, and the latest research results were introduced with relevant institutions that conduct open source EDA research and development on the platform.

      EDA is the most important software tool in chip design. The design is constantly pursuing high energy efficiency, which also puts forward the open source demand for EDA. my country's EDA industry started late, and there are problems such as weak and scattered overall R&D strength and relatively insufficient professional talents. Through open source, more R&D resources at home and abroad can be gathered, and more EDA enterprises at home and abroad can be gathered to develop the EDA industry through open source platforms. application. OpenEDA initiated by E^®The open source platform aims at the common technologies urgently needed by the EDA industry to promote the rapid development of the domestic EDA industry.   In terms of talent training, the integration of industry and academia based on open source EDA is also an important way to cultivate talents in integrated circuits. At present, more and more universities and domestic enterprises are cooperating with E-Creation, based on OpenEDA The ^® platform conducts the development and application research of the whole-process EDA experimental platform on the basis of open source.   Tan Xiaohui, Technical Director of E-Chuang, in her titled "OpenEDA^®Promote the development of EDA common technology", pointed out: OpenEDI open source data basic components is the first EDA underlying common technology platform in China, and is committed to supporting EDA full process tools.

        One of the main business. To this end, the OpenEDA open source platform launched and established by Echuang in the second half of last year was officially launched to help build a domestic EDA open ecosystem. The open source EDA data base component OpenEDI, as the first project of the platform, was also officially released in the same period, aiming to break through the existing data barriers in the EDA market and promote the development of China's IC design industry chain.   E-Chuang technical director Tan Xiaohui said that OpenEDI open source components focus on common and common components (databases, parsers, general algorithms, general computing architecture), through OpenEDI users can access completely open source, rich interfaces, unified and efficient databases and algorithms Libraries and computing architectures that utilize efficient memory and symbol table management for hierarchical and incremental design.  
        At the same time, some open source EDA projects based on this platform have achieved preliminary results, which have been demonstrated at this CCF DAC 2021.   At the CCF DAC 2021 "openDACS v1.0 mainline version open source forum" special forum, Professor Yang Fan of Fudan University and technical director of E-Creation Tan Xiaohui made a presentation entitled "Physical Design & Modeling Verification SIG - OpenEDI Open Source Data Basic Components and Verilog Parser" report sharing. Fudan University is responsible for the openDACS physical design modeling and physical verification SIG, released Verilog Parser on the forum, and jointly introduced the OpenEDI open source data basic component framework and the functions and technical principles of Verilog Parser to support the community's scalable development of tools.   At the conference site, E-Chuang also set up a corporate exhibition booth. Looking forward to the future, in order to accelerate the development of EDA and personnel training, and help the innovation of the integrated circuit industry, we are willing to join hands with industry partners for common development!

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