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

• June 18: On the day before FSiC, in the same room, there will be a workshop on open-source silicon and open-source EDA. Feel free to register.
• May 14: Webinar on one-source silicon and open-source EDA introducing the workshop on June 18. The webinar will take place on BigBlueButton. The event is open to everybody but registration is required.
• May 1: Submissions are closed.
• January 15: Submissions are open.

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

Before FSiC: Workshop on open-source silicon and open-source EDA

On the day before the conference, on June 18, and in the same room, there will be a workshop on open-source silicon and open-source EDA. The discussion will lead to the creation of Working Groups and to the drafting of a Roadmap for the European Commission. Attendance is free, but registration is required.

June 19, Wednesday (day 1)

• 8:00-9:30, Registration and coffee
• 9:30, Welcome and introductory announcements

High-level design and logic-synthesis

• 10:00, Alessandro Tempia Calvino (EPFL), The EPFL Logic Synthesis Libraries: open-source tools for classical and emerging technologies
• 10:30, Tristan Gingold (GHDL), How to debug a simulation (tentative)
• 11:00, Charles Papon (SpinalHDL), Moving toward VexiiRiscv
• 11:30, Martijn Bastiaan and Lucas (Qbaylogic), It's nice to have a choice: using Haskell for circuit design
• 12:00-13:30, lunch break
• 13:30, Rajit Manohar (Yale), The ACT EDA flow for asynchronous logic

Foundries and PDKs

• 14:00, 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
• 14:30, Sergei Andreev, T. Zecha, Krzysztof Herman (IHP Microelectronics), IHP open source PDK: KLayout Pycell Development status
• 15:00, Joaquin Matres Abril (Google), Revolutionize your chip design with GDSFactory and Open Source PDKs

On-going FOS silicon projects (part 1)

• 15:30, Xianjun Jiao (IMEC, OpenWiFi project), An opensource Wi-Fi chip, What, Why and How?
• 16:00-17:00, Afternoon break. Coffee is served on-campus
• 17:00, Matthew Venn (YosysHQ, ChipFlow), To be announced
• 17:30, Tim Edwards (Efabless, Open Circuit Design), Caravel Panamax: The Next Generation

Workshop

• 18:00-19:00, technical discussion

June 20, Thursday (day 2)

• 8:00-9:00, Early bird coffee and tea

On-going FOS silicon projects (part 2)

• 9:00, Philippe Sauter and Thomas Benz (ETH Zurich), Achieving Competitive Performance with Open EDA Tools on a 2MGE Open-Source Linux-Capable RISC-V SoC
• 9:30, Jorge Marin (AC3E - Chile), Unlocking the power: energy management open-source analog building blocks from concept to silicon-proven IP

Hardware security

• 10:00, Dorian Bachelot (Degate), Degate: The stakes and challenges of silicon reverse engineering

Analog flow, transistor modelling and circuit simulation

• 10:30, Leo Moser and Tim Edwards (Efabless), CACE: Defining an open-source analog and mixed-signal design flow
• 11:00, Arpad Buermen (University of Ljubljana), VACASK: a Verilog-A Circuit Analysis Kernel
• 11:30, Felix Salfelder (Gnucap MixedSignals), Verilog-AMS in Gnucap
• 12:00-13:30, lunch break
• 13:30, Arpad Buermen (University of Ljubljana), PyOpus - a Python library for design automation
• 14:00, Deni Alves (Federal University of Santa Catarina - Brasil), ACM2 – A design-oriented model for open-source tools

Policy, EU projects and funding opportunities

• 14:30, Korbinian Schreiber and Tina Tauchnitz (VDI/VDE-IT), title to be announced
• 15:00, Luca Pezzarossa (DTU), From Theory to Tape-Out: Chip Design Education with Edu4Chip

Standards

• 15:30, Philippe Morey-Chaisemartin (Xyalis/OASIS), Beyond tape-out: open the dark side
• 16:00-17:00, Afternoon break. Coffee is served on-campus
• 17:00, Pieter Hijma (Open Toolchain Foundation), Open Documentation Standards and Open Toolchains

Back-end design tools (part 1)

• 17:30, Ali Oudrhiri, Circuit design with Open EDA tools: a case study
• 17:45, Mazher Iqbal, Accessibility and availability of Open EDA tools: the nightmare of distributions’ dependencies

Workshop

• 18:00-19:00, technical discussion

June 21, Friday (day 3)

• 8:00-9:00, Early bird coffee and tea

Back-end design tools (part 2)

• 9:00, Andrew Kahng (OpenROAD Initiative), The OpenROAD Initiative (tentative)
• 9:30, Juhani Kataja (CSC), Simulating electromagnetics with ElmerFEM
• 10:00, Mohamed Gaber (Fault), Fault, Open-Source EDA's Missing DFT Toolchain
• 10:30, Gabriel Gouvine (LIP6), Quaigh: open source test pattern generation
• 11:30, Andreas Krinke (TU Dresden), Generating DRC Runsets for IHP's OpenPDK - Lessons Learned
• 12:00-13:30, lunch break
• 13:30, Christophe Alexandre (Naja), naja_edit, an open Source tool built on top of Naja (tentative)
• 14:00, Dario Quintero (PIEL), Integrating Mixed-Signal Microelectronics and Photonics: A Co-Design Approach with Piel
• 14:30, Tobias Senti (student at ETH Zurich), Liberty74: An Open-Source Verilog-to-PCB Flow

Sustainability

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

Practical information

• Venue, map, hotels
• Guidelines for speakers

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/

‟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”

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.

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

Acknowledgements

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