[saidinesh5]

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many of the tools involved in the Tiny Tapeout project are available open source?

Especially in the project roadmap section..

The licences for proprietary EDA tools are very expensive it seems and most EDA people i talked to didn't really care for any open source tools - as their companies paid for the licenses.

[caisley]

You're right that most professional designers historically haven't cared about open source tooling. But this is starting to change, largely because of the recent existence of open PDKs and the creation of better open tools like OpenROAD. I am a PhD student working in chip design, and about 90% of my work is done using open tools. You can see an image of one chip here, for example.

https://github.com/kcaisley/frida

[random_duck]

You can do the entire project roadmap with entirely open source tools and all the tiny tapeout tools are open source.