Hello, this is my first post here (in a long time, technically I lurked a bit during an early MPW shuttle). I'm currently aiming to be on the 2304C chipIgnite shuttle, and I'd like to make sure I've got all of my ducks in a row. I'm going to be pasting in a custom macro (made with the sky130 standard cells) synthesized into a .gds with unrelated tools. I get the impression that the general process will look like: 1. Sign up and pay the appropriate costs. I guess I should be putting down the deposit? 2. Fork the caravel harness github repo. 3. Set it up to paste in my GDS as a macro, and make sure that it hooks up appropriately to the IO and power. 4. Presumably there are various DRCs and LVS tools I should run on my final gds? Apologies for the basic questions, I participated in a previous MPW shuttle, but a friend handled most of the details, so I'm relatively inexperienced.

The steps you're mentioned are still same. You're all set to go and generate GDS and submit for fabrication.

4th step is done using Magic VLSI (for sky130) and then you will need to pass the prechecks on efabless website (some can be run offline)

@Peter Schmidt-Nielsen Yes this is all correct. You can create a 2304C project on platform.efabless.com which will allow you to upload your GDS and run the precheck. And yes, you can reserve your spot in the 2304C shuttle by paying the $200 deposit. Please contact me at nathan.pier@efabless.com with your billing address and shipping address and I can help arrange the reservation.

@Nathan Pier Great, thanks, I just emailed you.