ECOS Studio is an integrated, one-stop silicon design solution that democratizes access to custom silicon. It vertically integrates open-source IP libraries, a robust EDA toolchain, and accessible PDKs into a unified framework, providing an "FPGA-like" experience for ASIC design.
Our goal is to lower the barrier of chip design for researchers, engineers, and students, bridging the gap from RTL design to physical realization.
This repository is organized into four main components:
Desktop application providing an integrated development environment for chip design.
- Visual Workspace Management - Create and manage chip design projects
- Automated RTL-to-GDS Flow - One-click execution from Verilog to layout
- Integrated Tools - Yosys (synthesis), ECC-Tools (placement & routing), KLayout (visualization)
- See ecos/README.md for usage guide
- See ECOS Studio User Guide for detailed documentation
Pre-verified infrastructure for composable design, including configurable SoC templates and common peripherals.
ECOS Chip Compiler (ECC): An open-source chip design automation solution that integrates EDA tools (Yosys, ECC-Tools, KLayout) to achieve complete RTL-to-GDS design flow.
Enabling mainstream manufacturing processes.
Note: This is the initial release of ECOS Studio components. We are starting by providing these foundational open-source tools to the community. More subprojects and advanced features will be added in the future. Please stay tuned for updates!
AppImage is a portable Linux application format — download a single file, make it executable, and run it without installation. ECOS Studio is a GUI application and requires a desktop environment (X11 or Wayland) to run — it cannot be launched from a headless environment. For Linux Desktop x86_64 users, you can download the latest ECOS Studio AppImage from the releases page.
# Download and run ECOS Studio on Linux x86_64
wget https://github.com/openecos-projects/ecos-studio/releases/latest/download/<latest-release-file>.AppImage
chmod +x <latest-release-file>.AppImage
./<latest-release-file>.AppImageServer development and release builds currently require Linux x86_64 with glibc
2.34 or newer because the server uv environment uses pinned
manylinux_2_34_x86_64 wheels for ecc-dreamplace and ecc-tools.
# Setup (init submodules, PDK, and ECC environment)
make setup
# Development
make dev
# Release build (locked release wheels + bundle + AppImage)
make build
# Launch GUI
make guimake demo-gcd # GCD example
make demo-retrosoc # retroSoC exampleFor development setup, release wheel usage, and release build details, see ecos/README.md.
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