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Hammer is just a driver for tools that cost >100k to license. And that doesn't include access to memory compilers, which you would also need.
by orbifold 6y ago
Hammer is just a driver for tools that cost >100k to license. And that doesn't include access to memory compilers, which you would also need.
- MayeulC 6y agoThanks for the answer, I had forgotten about this. I looked at hammer some time ago, but we decided to go for PoC-like, less complex designs.
- seldridge 6y agoThere is an open PR adding support for the OpenROAD tools [^1]. So, there should be a flow that uses open source VLSI tools eventually. The Google 130nm library is still filling a huge gap as all the open PDKs up to this point were "fake" educational libraries, e.g., FreePDK [^2]. You can run them through the a VLSI flow, but you can't tape them out. [^1]: https://github.com/ucb-bar/hammer/pull/584 https://github.com/ucb-bar/hammer/pull/584 [^2]: https://www.eda.ncsu.edu/wiki/FreePDK https://www.eda.ncsu.edu/wiki/FreePDK