Open source chip design: for fun and for profit (Andreas Olofsson) @FOSSiFoundation

Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Open source EDA has come a long way since I first "saw the light" while founding the parallel processor company Adapteva in 2008. In this talk I will present my journey as a user and contributor to open source EDA and point out some of the technology gaps that still remain. I will then explain how Zero ASIC leverages open source tools successfully in our day to day business model. Finally, I will present some of our existing projects (SiliconCompiler, Switchboard, Logik, Lambdalib, LambdaPDK, UMI) and disclose a brand new open source project.

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