OpenAccess Gear
OpenAccess Gear (OA Gear) is a toolkit for extending the utility of OpenAccess, a powerful database for EDA tools.
OA Gear is targeted towards academic researchers who wish to use OpenAccess and are looking for software components to integrate into their own research. However, industry professionals are also welcome to use OA Gear. To this end, OA Gear is released under an open source license.
Components
OA Gear currently consists of the following tools:
- Static timing engine (OA Gear Timer)
- Extensible graphic user interface (OA Gear Bazaar)
- Placement interface (OA Gear CapoWrapper)
- Functional/logical representation package (OA Gear Func)
- And-inverter graph package (OA Gear Ai)
- Benchmarks
Project Page
Downloads, discussion forums and more are available from the OA Gear project page.
External News, Publications and Presentations
2008-01-04 Third IEEE Programming Challenge at the International Workshop on Logic and Sythesis (IWLS) announced.
2006-12-20 Second IEEE Programming Challenge at the International Workshop on Logic and Sythesis (IWLS) announced.
2006-11-10 Fast Simulation and Equivalence Checking Using OpenAccess, Igor Markov, David Papa et al, 9th OpenAccess+ Conference. (Slides)
2006-07-01 First IEEE Programming Challenge at IWLS, CEDA Newsletter July 2006.
2006-06-08 Synthesis contest winners offer new algorithms, Richard Goering, EE Times.
2006-01-26 Utility of the OpenAccess Database in Academic Research, David Papa, Igor Markov, and Philip Chong, ASPDAC 2006. (Slides)
2005-12-20 First IEEE Programming Challenge at the International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS) announced.
2005-11-10 OpenAccess Gear Functionality: A Platform for Functional Representation, Synthesis and Verification, Aaron Hurst, OA Conference 2005. (Slides)
2005-06-14 New Benchmarks in OpenAccess released at the International Workshop on Logic Synthesis (IWLS).
2005-04-18 EDA TOOLS: Frameworks renew life for OpenAccess, Richard Goering, EE Times.
2005-04-04 Early Research Experience With OpenAccess Gear: An Open Source Development Environment For Physical Design. (Slides), Zhong Xiu, David A. Papa, Philip Chong, Christoph Albrecht, Andreas Kuehlmann, Rob A. Rutenbar, and Igor L. Markov, ISPD 2005.
2005-01-17 Open-source project looks to ignite EDA research, Richard Goering, EE Times.
2004-11-14 Collaboration Beyond The Database: OpenAccess Gear, Philip Chong, OA Developer's Forum 2004. (Slides)
2004-09-16 OpenAccess Gear, David Papa, GSRC Symposium. (Slides, Poster)
Contributions Welcome
As the intent of the OA Gear project is to provide shared infrastructure for the EDA community as a whole, we encourage researchers and developers to contribute suitable code for inclusion in the OA Gear distribution. If you are interested in making your code available as part of OA Gear, please contact a project admin for details on how to do this. The list of project admins can be found on the OA Gear project page, under "Developer Info".
Links
How To Obtain OA For Academic Use
