Hi everyone! My name is Priyanka Raina and I am an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at Stanford. I teach the graduate level VLSI design classes at Stanford: EE271, EE272A and EE272B. EE271 gives an introduction to digital design, and EE272A and B are project-based courses which cover both digital and analog EDA flows from creating a chip specification all the way to producing a tapeout-ready GDS. We also cover how to integrate analog blocks in a larger digital system.  This year we would like to enable students to actually tapeout their designs, and are exploring using the SkyWater technology for it. We are very open to contributing the designs produced in the class into the open source hardware libraries. Since our class (EE272A) starts in January, we are very interested in accessing the technology files early, so we can test our tapeout flows in it, and we would be happy to contribute the flows back to the open source community, as well as help in the debugging process.

Hi Priyanka! I took EE271 in 2012, was great experience. I remember we did final project using DC, if you want to get started setting up Synopsys flow, I took at stab at writing some support files/scripts to enable DC/ICC flow… may be worth a try, at least until OSU or something more official gets released, Bests https://github.com/20Mhz/skywater-pdk/tree/synopsys

We will be using DC for synthesis. Thank you for the pointer to the Synopsys scripts, these will be very helpful to us!