FSiC2024

Free Silicon Conference 2024
Genre	Free software and free hardware development conference
Location(s)	Paris, Sorbonne Université
Country	France
Website	wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2024

The 2024 Free Silicon Conference (FSiC) will take place in Paris (Sorbonne) on June 19, 20, 21 2024 (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. After the daily talks, the discussion will continue until late in an informal and relaxed atmosphere.

News

January 15: submissions are open.

Submission

For proposing a talk, please submit a title and a short summary at fsic2024 'at' f-si.org by May 1st. Topics are not restricted to the tentative program.

Participation

Participation to the conference is free of charge but the attendance must be reserved per email at fsic2024 'at' f-si.org. Details will be announced on this page and over the mastodon channel.

Tentative program

High-level design and logic-synthesis

• Alessandro Tempia Calvino (EPFL), The EPFL Logic Synthesis Libraries: open-source tools for classical and emerging technologies
• Tristan Gingold (GHDL), How to debug a simulation (tentative)
• Charles Papon (SpinalHDL), Moving toward VexiiRiscv
• Martijn Bastiaan and Lucas (Qbaylogic), It's nice to have a choice: using Haskell for circuit design
• Rajit Manohar (Yale), The ACT EDA flow for asynchronous logic

Foundries and PDKs

• Rene Scholz, Sergei Andreev, Krzysztof Herman (IHP Microelectronics), Update on IHP open source PDK initiative & how to submit free open source designs in IHP technology
• Sergei Andreev, T. Zecha, Krzysztof Herman (IHP Microelectronics), IHP open source PDK: KLayout Pycell Development status
• Joaquin Matres Abril (Google), Revolutionize your chip design with GDSFactory and Open Source PDKs

On-going FOS silicon projects

• Xianjun Jiao (IMEC, OpenWiFi project), An opensource Wi-Fi chip, What, Why and How?
• Matthew Venn (YosysHQ, ChipFlow), To be announced
• Tim Edwards (Efabless, Open Circuit Design), Caravel Panamax: The Next Generation

Hardware security

• Dorian Bachelot (Degate), Degate: The stakes and challenges of silicon reverse engineering

Analog flow, transistor modelling and circuit simulation

• Leo Moser and Tim Edwards (Efabless), CACE: Defining an open-source analog and mixed-signal design flow
• Felix Salfelder (Gnucap MixedSignals), Verilog-AMS in Gnucap
• Arpad Buermen (University of Ljubljana), VACASK: a Verilog-A Circuit Analysis Kernel
• Pepijn de Vos (CedarEDA), CedarEDA for open source silicon

Policy, EU projects and funding opportunities

• Korbinian Schreiber and Tina Tauchnitz (VDI/VDE-IT), title to be announced
• Luca Pezzarossa (DTU), From Theory to Tape-Out: Chip Design Education with Edu4Chip

Standards

• Philippe Morey-Chaisemartin (Xyalis/OASIS), Beyond tape-out: open the dark side

Back-end design tools

• Andrew Kahng (OpenROAD Initiative), The OpenROAD Initiative (tentative)
• Christophe Alexandre (Naja), naja_edit, an open Source tool built on top of Naja (tentative)
• Juhani Kataja (CSC), Simulating electromagnetics with ElmerFEM
• Mohamed Gaber (Fault), Fault, Open-Source EDA's Missing DFT Toolchain
• Gabriel Gouvine (LIP6), Quaigh: open source test pattern generation
• Andreas Krinke (TU Dresden), Generating DRC Runsets for IHP's OpenPDK - Lessons Learned
• Dario Quintero (PIEL), Integrating Mixed-Signal Microelectronics and Photonics: A Co-Design Approach with Piel

Sustainability

This session is organized independently by Sorbonne Université. The program and the submission instructions are available here.

Local hosting committee

The event is hosted by Sorbonne Université (SU) and members of the LIP6 laboratory including Cécile Braunstein, Roselyne Chotin, Marie-Minerve Louerat and Franck Wajsbürt.

Practical information

• Venue, map, hotels
• Guidelines for speakers

Donations

We are looking for sponsors to cover extra services at the conference, such as food and beverages. In case of interest, please write at fsic2024 'at' f-si.org.

Academic sponsors

Organizing committee

Luca Alloatti

Libre hardware promoter

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1245-4179

‟Technology is political. I stand for defending free access to technology and the right for transparency.”

Gaëtan Cassiers

Hardware security researcher

https://perso.cassiersg.be

‟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

https://www.klayout.org

‟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

https://libreda.org

‟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

https://www.imm.dtu.dk/~masca/

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Acknowledgements

This conference is funded by the EU HORIZON Coordination and Support Action GoIT project with ID number 101070669.