set the channel description: Discussion about using Synopsys tools for skywater PDK

Hi all, I have created a public channel for this topic.

Feel free to populate it

Hi @User , thought of checking... any progress on your project?

Hi @User Thanks to your help, we have managed to make our FPGA IPs DRC clean. Meanwhile, @User has also improved some of vendor scripts so that we can sign-off the layouts.

We are preparing for contributing back to your repo

that’s good to hear!

Looking forward to review your improvements

I am a beginner in Back-end design and am starting using ICC2 can anyone provide a link to tutorial or some help to get started??

@Baloch We have initial support on the Skywater PDK for ICC2. You can checkout @20Mhz’s repo: https://github.com/20Mhz/skywater-pdk/tree/synopsys and an improved version at https://github.com/ganeshgore/skywater-pdk/tree/ganesh_dev

Ok thanks will check it out

Hey, I've just updated the ITF file, you may want to re-generate your TLUPlus. https://github.com/20Mhz/skywater-pdk/commit/ea44ef79d81cc3c0c8631d8e5f2cd34f1db44bb5

Ok thank you

I will pull those changes

Hi all, just started with dc_shell synthesis for sky130 targeted design and hit few roadblocks. Are there .db files for sky130 available? How about wire load models? I've got one .db, just one corner, but there is no wireload model specified inside. Any one succeed with dc_shell based synthesis targeting sky130 and use netlist as input to free OpenLANE flow?

@User one more question... Have you tried to generate netlist with power pins from dc_shell for sky130?

Does anybody know how I can generate tluplus files of sky130 needed for ICC ?

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