Recap on HiPEAC 2026 workshop
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.
The workshop was well attended and had a great mix of partners in the projects and interested people outside the projects. The invited talk by Cecilia González-Álvarez (Chips JU) started with a brief overview of the JU's ambition, and then focused on the discussion of challenges for Open Source EDA in Europe. It was a very vivid and open discussion that demonstrated the progress this topic has seen over the last decade.
Slides and other presentations:
- Cecilia González-Álvarez (Chips JU), “The European Design Platform — Challenges and Opportunities for Open Source” slides
- Christian Pilato (Politecnico di Milano), “Democratizing Digital SoC Design: Open Flows for SME Adoption and Upskilling”
- Teresa Cervero (BSC), “Using AI for developing novel methodologies for hardware design and verification” slides
- Stefan Wallentowitz and Frans Skarman (both HM and FOSSi Foundation), “Collaborate, Customize, Innovate: Open Source EDA unlocks Productivity” slides
- Frank K. Gurkaynak (ETH Zurich), “Five cases to show why open-source hardware is essential for modern SoC Design in Europe” slides
- Rene Scholz (IHP), “IHP openPDK and open-silicon MPW: Pushing Open-Source EDA tools to productive digital and analog chip design” slides
- David Martin and Eros Camacho (CSIC), “Open-Source Approach to Lowering Barriers in IC and PIC Manufacturing within EuroCDP” slides
While the first three projects ODE4EC-AMS, ODE4EC-DIG and ODE4EC-PIV have not started yet, this was an excellent opportunity to meet and discuss. We are looking forward to report on the projects and their success in future events!
