In case it helps, here are some more detailed steps and tips for creating your repo, hardening your design and submitting your project on the EF platform: 1. Create a public github repo using the template from efabless/caravel_user_project . If you are logged into github, you can use this link directly — https://github.com/efabless/caravel_user_project/generate 2. Clone the new repo to your local linux desktop. Follow the instructions to set the environment variables for PDK _ROOT and OPENLANE_ROOT and run make setup to get the pdk and OpenLane tools — https://caravel-user-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#quickstart 3. Place your verilog code including the updated

user_project_wrapper.v

in the

verilog/rtl

directory of the project 4. Update the

config.json

file in the

openlane/user_project_wrapper

directory. This includes the references to any verilog files in addition to user_project_wrapper.v that you have in your design. Review

base_user_project_wrapper.sdc

in the same directory if you need to update any timing contraints for the design. 5. From the project root directory, run

make user_project_wrapper

to harden the design. 6. If your design is implementing multiple macros, see the documentation for Caravel User Project on how to implement your design. 7. See the following link for how to extend the example test bench provided for running full-chip simulation — https://caravel-user-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#running-full-chip-simulation 8. Update

verilog/rtl/user_defines.v

. You must replace GPIO_MODE_INVALID for each gpio default configuration with a valid value from the comments in the file (see https://caravel-user-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#gpio-configuration) 9. Commit and push all files including

gds/caravel_user_project_wrapper.gds

to your repo. 10. Create a project on the Efabless platform using this link (assuming you are already registered) — link . Make sure you set the visibility to public. Insert the URL (with the .git extension) in the GIT URL field on the form. Also include

AI-design-content

in the label field (to make it easier for us to id the project) . 11. Submit a precheck job followed by a tapeout job for the project. See the ‘Manage My Submission’ button on the project detail page. 12. Complete the billing, shipping and terms and agreements and submit your project. You can resubmit and update after this up to the deadline for submission. 13. Send an email to shuttle@efabless.com with a link to your project.

Well... I got ChatGPT to create me the matrix convolution block now as well. Matrix multiplication works