Designing Billions of Circuits with Code

Re:Designing Billions of Circuits with Code by bsder on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @07:13PM (#31843103)

> My conclusion is that the whole digital circuit design industry is ripe for disruption by open source, and I'm rather surprised it hasn't happened yet.

Just build a modern design rule checking (DRC) engine with parasitic extractor. That's all you have to do. I eagerly await your release on github.

I agree with you that open source really is the only valid path forward. However, you have to convince some very smart people to join your cause and they expect to be paid up front.

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Re:Designing Billions of Circuits with Code by madengr on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:17PM (#31844446)

Yep, the domain knowledge is too narrow to develop free or open source tools like that. Someone with that knowledge needs to work full time to gain it, thus needs to make a living at it. The few open source tools come from universities were labor is cheap, and suffer from bit rot. I’m specifically thinking of MAGIC.

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