Hi!

I am Mohamed "Donn" Gaber, a computer engineering graduate and graduate student at the American University in Cairo and a member of the FOSSi Foundation. I am currently also a part-time CAD Tool Engineering Contractor with Silimate, Inc.

I am the primary maintainer of LibreLane, which is the successor to the OpenLane 2 project I started and maintained at Efabless Corporation, among other related projects.

Highlights

• LibreLane — Infrastructure for high-quality, modular and repeatable ASIC flows, that implements a flow that is backwards-compatible with OpenLane. Started at Efabless as OpenLane 2.0.
• OpenLane — The premier open-source RTL-to-GDSII flow by Efabless Corporation, used for countless designs on the Google OpenMPW and Efabless chipIgnite shuttles, based on Yosys, OpenROAD, Magic, KLayout and other tools.
• Fault — Somehow the only open-source design-for-test solution, including ATPG, Scan Chain Stitching, and TAP insertion and verification.
• Difetto – Graduate thesis; a flow built using plugins to both LibreLane and Yosys to create a faster and more robust open-source design-for-test solution.

Side Projects

These get patches in my dwindling spare time and are pretty inactive, but I'm still mostly proud of them.

• Nudelta — A reverse-engineered open-source alternative to the console for the NuPhy Air75 and Halo75 v1 keyboards
• Oak — A browser-based assembler/simulator for MIPS and RISC-V
• Phi — A more focused take on Verilog that was my undergrad thesis project/parser learning playground

Contacts

• Email: me@donn.website
• LinkedIn: @nnod
• Matrix: @donn:fossi-chat.org

I do not maintain other active social media presences.