Cite ORCA¶

If you use ORCA in your research, please cite our upcoming SBCCI 2026 paper:

@INPROCEEDINGS{2026_COBRA,
  author={Simone, Gianluca and Lurz, David and Grund, Martin and Schneider, Fabian and Loose, Michael and Breun, Sascha and Koch, Manuel and Weigel, Robert and Franchi, Norman},
  booktitle={2026 39th SBC/SBMicro/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design (SBCCI)},
  title={{COBRA: An AI-Assisted Circuit-Level Optimizer for Open Source Based RFIC Design}},
  year={2026},
  organization={IEEE},
  keywords={artificial intelligence, design automation, EDA, neural network, open-source, optimization, Palace, radio frequency integrated circuit, surrogate model}
}

The GitHub repository also ships a CITATION.cff file, so you can use GitHub's Cite this repository button to export APA or BibTeX.

License¶

ORCA is released under the Apache License 2.0.

Acknowledgements¶

This work was supported by the Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR) under the DI-PASSIONATE project. We thank our colleagues at the LITES institute for their feedback and support during development. Special thanks to the open-source community for providing the tools and libraries that made this project possible, including but not limited to: