February 17, 2010:
OAGear was an academic community project on the Si2 OpenEDATools.org site from 2005 through 2009.
The OpenEDATools.org site has
been discontinued. The OAGear project is currently suspended and unsupported - however the latest release and
the forum discussions may be of educational use to many. Si2 has decided to offer OAGear here as an unsupported project.
OpenAccess Gear
OAGear Open Discussion Forum Archive 2005-2009
OAGear Help Forum Archive 2005-2009
OpenAccess Gear (OA Gear) is a toolkit for extending the utility of
OpenAccess, a powerful database
for EDA tools.
OA Gear is targeted towards academic researchers who wish to use
OpenAccess and are looking for software components to integrate into their
own research. However, industry professionals are also welcome to use
OA Gear. To this end, OA Gear is released under an
open source license.
The file COPYING is packaged in release downloads and contains the open source license.
Components
OA Gear currently consists of the following tools:
- Static timing engine (OA Gear Timer)
- Extensible graphic user interface (OA Gear Bazaar)
- Placement interface (OA Gear CapoWrapper)
- Functional/logical representation package (OA Gear Func)
- And-inverter graph package (OA Gear Ai)
- Benchmarks
Project Page
External News, Publications and Presentations
2008-01-04 Third IEEE Programming
Challenge at the International Workshop on Logic and Sythesis (IWLS) announced.
2006-12-20 Second IEEE Programming
Challenge at the International Workshop on Logic and Sythesis (IWLS) announced.
2006-11-10 Fast Simulation and Equivalence Checking Using OpenAccess,
Igor Markov, David Papa et al, 9th OpenAccess+ Conference.
(Slides)
2006-07-01 First IEEE Programming Challenge at IWLS,
CEDA Newsletter July 2006.
2006-06-08 Synthesis
contest winners offer new algorithms, Richard Goering, EE Times.
2006-01-26 Utility of the OpenAccess Database in Academic Research,
David Papa, Igor Markov, and Philip Chong, ASPDAC 2006.
(Slides)
2005-12-20 First IEEE Programming
Challenge at the International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS) announced.
2005-11-10 OpenAccess Gear Functionality: A Platform for Functional
Representation, Synthesis and Verification,
Aaron Hurst, OA Conference 2005.
(Slides)
2005-06-14 New
Benchmarks in OpenAccess released at the International Workshop on
Logic Synthesis
(IWLS).
2005-04-18 EDA
TOOLS: Frameworks renew life for OpenAccess, Richard Goering, EE Times.
2005-04-04 Early
Research Experience With OpenAccess Gear: An Open
Source Development Environment For Physical Design.
(Slides),
Zhong Xiu, David A. Papa, Philip Chong, Christoph Albrecht, Andreas Kuehlmann,
Rob A. Rutenbar, and Igor L. Markov, ISPD 2005.
2005-01-17 Open-source
project looks to ignite EDA research, Richard Goering, EE Times.
2004-11-14 Collaboration Beyond The Database: OpenAccess Gear,
Philip Chong, OA Developer's Forum 2004.
(Slides)
2004-09-16 OpenAccess Gear, David Papa, GSRC Symposium.
(Slides,
Poster)
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