Jane Street released an ASIC reverse engineering puzzle in August 2026. They taped out a chip on the SkyWater 130 nm open PDK and published the final GDS, plus …
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Building a Macro Placer for the HRT Global Placement Challenge
hardware
global placement
asic
openroad
The HRT global placement challenge (partcleda/macro-place-challenge-2026) scores submissions on a proxy cost of WL + 0.5*Density + 0.5*Congestion across the 17 …
placement algo
algorithms
machine learning
DFT Scan Insertion on a NoC Router: Working Around OpenLane 2's Missing DFT Support
rtl-design
physical-design
asic
OpenLane 2’s Classic flow has no DFT steps. Not reduced DFT support, not a partially working implementation: none. Running Step.factory.list() against the …
DFT
scan insertion
OpenLane 2
The multiply-accumulate operation $$ Y \leftarrow Y + (A \times B) $$is the computational primitive at the center of digital filters, CNN inference, matrix …
ASIC design
FPGA design
MAC unit