Closing The Synthesis Gap — Is Open Source Logic Synthesis About To Beat The Industry?

Speaker Info

• Speaker: Benjamin Barzen
• Email: bbarzen@berkeley.edu

Downloads

• 10 Minute Video introducing the talk (made originally for another conference)
• A. Mishchenko, R. Brayton, and M. Fujita, "Mapping and retiming revisited", Submitted to Proc. IWLS'23
• B.L.C. Barzen, A. Reais-Parsi, E. Hung, M. Kang, A. Mishchenko, J. W. Greene, and J. Wawrzynek, "Narrowing the synthesis gap: Academic FPGA synthesis is catching up with the industry", Proc. DATE'23

Summary

This talk will explore recent advancements made in open source logic synthesis and technology mapping, and more specifically, Yosys and ABC. It is based on the two papers referenced above.

Software

• Repository: https://github.com/growly/date23_narrowing_the_gap
• Benchmark results: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1H6vDHZZXjnNIXiYPbvzaZFCulgLiR5sa?usp=drive_link