@User: We (at efabless) have been in a couple of discussions with SkyWater about the layout of the reticle; they propose adjusting the size of the caravel chip slightly so that we can fix a 6 x 7 array on the reticle and get 41 project slots out of it (they use the 42nd for test structures). But that means that we will need to make a new GDS layout based on the new dimensions, so don't consider what's in the repository now to be final. The result should have a user area approximately the same as before but slightly wider.

so is the 10 sq mm still accurate or is it going to be closer to 7.8mm? (the former is from the GDSes, the latter from config files in the caravel repo)

And this is why being able to regenerate your project from sources is so critical!!! 🙂🙂