Crafting open source standard cell libraries with James Stine
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English - October 07, 2022 08:26 - 35 minutes - 81.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
00:00 Intro
03:05 Teo's work on optimising adders
04:35 Proppy's work with Jupyter notebooks
05:32 Open source is the key to innovation
07:51 GF180
08:10 When teaching the design of standard cell libraries, what do students struggle most with?
10:15 What does he think engineers least understand, but should, about standard cells?
12:14 What is your tool flow?
16:00 How many cells do you need in a library?
19:24 Why do we need another cell library for GF180?
20:40 How far are we in terms of opensource tools from commercial tools?
22:20 Liberate
25:20 Does he think automated layout of standard cells will be competitive with hand layout in nanometer processes?
29:21 Are there any circuit families from the past that deserve new attention with Moore's Law slowing down?
33:10 Any theories on why nVidia would make a 7.5T standard cell library?
Contact James here: [email protected] or on twitter: https://twitter.com/JamesStineJr