OSADC 2026

Open source and agile methods for a changing chip design landscape.

In the era of intelligence, AI applications, especially large language models and agents, create computing demands that are increasingly complex, diverse, and fragmented. This creates a growing need for customized chips tailored to specific scenarios. Traditional chip design, however, is expensive and slow, and cannot keep pace with these changing demands.

Open-source ecosystems and agile development have transformed software engineering. Inspired by that success, the hardware community is developing open and agile approaches that lower the cost of chip design while enabling rapid iteration, performance exploration, and industrial adoption.

OSADC invites experts from academia and industry to share experience and vision for open-source and agile development for chips.