What even is this project? There are no details on the DARPA page either. Is it for PCB design, ASIC design or both? Is a constant current source also consid

What even is this project? There are no details on the DARPA page either. Is it for PCB design, ASIC design or both? Is a constant current source also considered a “small chip” or just digital designs? Basically every EDA tool already has the ability to group sub modules which one could distribute as open source if they chose. Do it in kicad and put your circuit into a hierarchal symbol if you must be all open source. I get hard IP blocks from vendors all the time for inclusion in our ASICs. It’s not the EDA tools that are preventing “openness”. I was just joking the other day how all the PCB designs I’m reviewing lately are just conglomerations of app note circuits and it’s really boring. So to me it seems like there’s plenty of design reuse. :)