Hi, I've validated that most of Kwantae Kim examples work on the proposed Docker Image. The git repo is updated with a test notebook. Some observations: • From personal chipathon 2023 experience, the packages

sky130

and

gf180

maintained by

gdsfactory

don't have support. I think the best is to avoid them and use instead the ones that came on

glayout

package

glayout.flow.pdk.sky130_mapped.sky130_mapped_pdk

• I avoid most of Kwantae configuration using only klayout for displaying the gds. The

klive

package is already installed on the image. • The capability of showing the layout inside the notebook is required while working on Google Colab. Kwantae

display_gds

function seems very useful. I hope it is integrated into glayout soon if is not. • I was not able to convert the code of Current Mirror from gf180 to sky130. I'm still not sure how to do this but the code generates the expected CM.

Cool! My method is more geared to the people who are not familiar to follow the existing docker installation instructions. This solution is absolutely great for advanced users. Great!

I would say that this method is not for advanced users, with vscode devcontainers it's easy to have multiple terminals and open klayout in one of those. My docker image is already on dockerhub, if someone use the Makefile, it will be downloaded automatically