FSiC2025

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Free Silicon Conference 2025
GenreFree software and free hardware development conference
Location(s)IHP Microelectronics, Frankfurt an der Oder
CountryGermany
Websitewiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2025


The 2025 Free Silicon Conference (FSiC) will take place at IHP Microelectronics (Frankfurt an der Oder) on July 2, 3, 4 2025 (Wednesday to Friday). This event will build on top of the past FSiC editions. The conference will connect experts and enthusiasts who want to build a complete Free and Open Source CAD ecosystem for designing analog and digital integrated circuits. The conference will cover the full spectrum of the design process, from system architecture, to layout and verification.

Submission

Submissions ended on May 1st.

Participation

To participate to the conference, both as speaker and as attendee, it is necessary to register. As of May 19, however, we have reached the maximum number of participants and registrations are closed.

Tentative program

July 2, Wednesday (day 1)

  • 8:00, registration
  • 8:30-9:00, early bird coffee and tea

Welcome

Digital design and logic-synthesis

Foundries, PDKs and standard-cell libraries

July 3, Thursday (day 2)

  • 8:30-9:00, early bird coffee and tea

On-going FOS silicon projects

Analog flow, transistor modelling and circuit simulation

Hardware security

Economic sustainability and hardware licences

July 4, Friday (day 3)

  • 8:30-9:00, early bird coffee and tea

Policy, EU projects and funding opportunities

Back-end design tools

Teaching and education

Standards

Practical information

  • Conference address:
IHP GmbH
Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics/Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik
Im Technologiepark 25, 
15236 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany 

Organizing committee

Panos Alevropoulos
Lawyer and FSF volunteer
‟For democracy to thrive, technology must empower, not control.”
Luca Alloatti
Libre hardware promoter
‟Technology is political. I stand for defending free access to technology and the right for transparency.”
Gaëtan Cassiers
Hardware security researcher
‟Free and transparent technology empowers people and protects fundamental freedoms.”
Constantin Gierczak-Galle
Student and enthousiast
‟Technology can be both Mankind's development and demise. Promoting the former while hindering the latter can only happen through decentralization, democratization and open collaboration.”
Matthias Köfferlein
FOSS EDA author
‟I am passionate about helping people with my technical skills. Coding EDA is like gardening to me: may it grow and feed people.”
Thomas Kramer
Skeptical technology enthusiast
‟I like to understand technology, to adapt and enhance it. Technology should not be mythical or owned by experts only, it needs to be comprehensible.”
Martin Schoeberl
Professor at DTU
‟Open-source tools and technology gives freedom to students to explore chip design on their own and on their computers, not limiting them to the walled garden of a dedicated lab at the University.”
René Scholz
Group Leader at IHP
‟Our goal is to make open source EDA tools and design flows easily accessible and usable for anyone who wants to get into ASIC chip design, test new design ideas and develop them to a manufacturable level.”

Local hosting committee

The event is supported by members of IHP Microelectronics including Kerstin Kaslack, Jonas Linzert, Henriette Mohles, Anna Sojka-Piotrowska and Inesa Posypai.

Donations

We are looking for sponsors to cover extra services at the conference. In case of interest, please see the registration tab here.

Sponsors

Acknowledgements

This conference is co-funded by European Union through the Coordination and Support Action GoIT project with ID number 101070669. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or of the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them.

This conference also received funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) under the NGI0 Commons Fund project. The NGI0 Commons Fund has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101135429.

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