Is OpenRoad and QFlow are different?
# general
j
Is OpenRoad and QFlow are different?
r
Yes, qflow is part of Tim Edwards' http://opencircuitdesign.com/ ecosystem which will go from Verilog RTL to gdsii but primarily for scmos tech nodes. OpenRoad is the DARPA funded (https://theopenroadproject.org/) ASIC flow that has some higher level goals, but mostly to make ASIC design accessible to more people. OpenLane is efabless' Verilog to gdsii flow that leverages pieces of OpenRoad. There's a lot more subtlety to all of this, but that's the extremely high-level answer
OpenLane uses pieces from qflow and OpenRoad. Basically all three are part of the growing and maturing Free and Open Source Software ASIC EDA tooling ecosystem
j
Thanks Russell for your quick response