HiPEAC 2026

At HiPEAC 2026 the initiative organized a workshop Open Design Environment for European Chips. While the three first projects have not yet started, the goal was to bring together the community and discuss challenges and opportunities of open source chip design tools.

Find a report on the event here.

Talks

Invited Talk

• Cecilia González-Álvarez (Chips JU), “The European Design Platform — Challenges and Opportunities for Open Source”

Session 1 - Open-Source EDA Enablement: Design Flow, Design Productivity, and AI Acceleration

• Christian Pilato (Politecnico di Milano), “Democratizing Digital SoC Design: Open Flows for SME Adoption and Upskilling”
• Stefan Wallentowitz and Frans Skarman (both HM and FOSSi Foundation), “Collaborate, Customize, Innovate: Open Source EDA unlocks Productivity”
• Teresa Cervero (BSC), “Using AI for developing novel methodologies for hardware design and verification”

Sesion 2 - Open Infrastructure for European Silicon: PDKs, MPWs, and Manufacturing Access

• Frank K. Gurkaynak (ETH Zurich), “Five cases to show why open-source hardware is essential for modern SoC Design in Europe”
• Rene Scholz (IHP), “IHP openPDK and open-silicon MPW: Pushing Open-Source EDA tools to productive digital and analog chip design”
• David Martin and Eros Camacho (CSIC), “Open-Source Approach to Lowering Barriers in IC and PIC Manufacturing within EuroCDP”

Panel Discussion

Making Open EDA Work at Scale: Ecosystem Challenges from Tools to Adoption

Moderator: Stefan Wallentowitz (HM and FOSSi Foundation)

Panelists:

• Luis Miguel Pinho (INESCTEC)
• Frank K. Gurkayna (ETH Zurich)
• Rene Scholz (IHP)