Quickly Estimating the Size of Digital Designs

Experienced developers have some intuition how a hardware description maps to circuits, enabling them to optimize code for circuit area or speed instinctively. But like most of the time, checking is better than (educated) guessing. ...

April 22, 2025 · 9 min · Johannes Pfau

Getting Started with OSS EDA for ASIC Development

Open source EDA tools and open source PDKs for various technologies have recently matured a lot. Here’s a simple and quick way to set up the development environment for those and get started with development. ...

April 21, 2025 · 5 min · Johannes Pfau