TinyEDA

TinyEDA is building high performance, easy to use EDA tools to speed up chip design.

Why?

Most EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools were built decades ago (~1980s).
Therefore a lot of these tools were built under assumptions of computing very different to how modern day computing works.
All of these tools have an arcane look/user-experience and require a lot of gluing and scripting together different pieces of the workflow to get things done.
This is ultimately good for EDA tool vendors since they will happily charge you for setting things up and provide you with an environment that 'just works' for the most part.
We are changing this by building performant, user-friendly tools, with user-friendly interfaces (graphical and non-graphical) so you don't have to spend time writing tcl/python scripts orchestrating different workflows and can spend time actually working on your product's design.

How?

We are creating faster / simpler tools using the following methods:-

• Developing faster algorithms (classic/ML) (for macro placement, place and route, static timing analysis, etc.)
• GPU accelerating parallelizable workloads; Using SIMD/Vector compute for parallelisable CPU workloads.
• Creating well-designed APIs that eliminate the need for glue scripting code between tools.