Crafting open source standard cell libraries with James Stine

00:00 Intro 03:05 Teo's work on optimising adders 04:35 Proppy's work with Jupyter notebooks 05:32 Open source is the key to innovation 07:51 GF180 08:10 When teaching the design of standard cell libraries, what do students struggle most with? 10:15 What does he think engineers least understand, but should, about standard cells? 12:14 What is your tool flow? 16:00 How many cells do you need in a library? 19:24 Why do we need another cell library for GF180? 20:40 How far are we in terms of opensource tools from commercial tools? 22:20 Liberate 25:20 Does he think automated layout of standard cells will be competitive with hand layout in nanometer processes? 29:21 Are there any circuit families from the past that deserve new attention with Moore's Law slowing down? 33:10 Any theories on why nVidia would make a 7.5T standard cell library? Contact James here: [email protected] or on twitter: https://twitter.com/JamesStineJr