OpenROAD

Category

FPGA / HDL / VLSI / PCB

Provider

The OpenROAD Project

Type

repo

Level

contributor

Topic

FPGA / HDL / VLSI / PCB

Track

FPGA / HDL / VLSI / PCB

Section

n/a

Format

n/a

Status

publishable

Commercial

unknown

Featured

no

Fast start

no

Sequence

n/a

Priority

n/a

Primary source

learning_paths

Sources

learning_paths, website_existing

ID

7f857047068b0592

Yosys Open SYnthesis Suite

YosysHQ

Open-source synthesis to learn HDL flows and digital design toolchains.

gprMax

gprMax (GitHub)

FDTD EM simulation for RF/microwave wave propagation and antenna-style problems.

Verilator

Verilator

High-performance Verilog/SystemVerilog simulator for fast testing and CI.

Qucs-S (Quite Universal Circuit Simulator)

Qucs-S

Open circuit simulation tooling; complements ngspice + PySpice workflows.

openEMS (Electromagnetic Field Solver)

openEMS

Open EM simulation stack for antennas, microwave structures, and RF engineering.

ngspice Documentation

ngspice

SPICE simulation fundamentals for circuits, analog design, and verification.

KiCad Documentation

curated

Open-source EDA for schematics and PCB layout.

FOSSi Foundation

FOSSi

Open-source silicon + open EDA ecosystem; learn the tooling and community landscape.

CircuitVerse (Interactive circuits)

CircuitVerse

Practice digital logic and circuit intuition with an interactive simulator.

OpenROAD

OpenROAD Project

Critical open path into physical design and full RTL-to-GDS workflows.

OpenAirInterface 5G

OpenAirInterface (GitHub)

Open-source RAN stack for advanced comms experimentation (protocol + DSP systems).

llama.cpp Build Guide

ggml

Build instructions for local compilation, hardware backends, and the project toolchain.