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# sky130
r
Hi all, does anyone know if it is possible to use sky130B also using volare? We're looking at doing some designs using ReRAM but after installing the sky130 PDK I only see the -A version
For context, I'm running on the IIC-OSIC-TOOLS docker. Loading the root terminal and rebuilding the sky130 PDK gives a version with sky130B available, but since it is a docker session I drops the changes as soon as I close the session. It would be nice though to have a version that we could use out of the box as we're planning to have multiple students work with this.
m
@Roel Jordans Doesn’t running 
volare enable <commit>
install both sky130A and sky130B?
r
It seems that in the IIC-OSIC-TOOLS docker only the sky130A version is installed by default. I was able to use 
volare build <commit>
to enable the sky130B version, but I'm only able to do that as root and that's not something I would like to teach my students to do
m
Are you comfortable with setting PDK_ROOT to a user accessible directory and installing there?
r
Looking at the install, I guess @hpretl chose to not install the sky130B there, probably saving some space as there aren't many people using sky130B yet. Also, once you have the PDK installed I believe it still needs a patch to be able to run the ReRAM models
That could be an option indeed. I have the PDK installed already on a bunch of servers where we offer students access to work with the tools, but I'm looking for a convenient way to also offer them the possibility of working on their own systems
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