User Guide

This guide provides an overview for users. You will also want to look at API References for details.

Getting Started

• What is SiliconCompiler?
• Installation
• Quickstart guide
• Docker guide
• Running remotely

Fundamentals

• Design & compilation data
• Compilation process
• Directory structures
• Checklists and signoff

Tutorials: First runs

• Lint your RTL
• Simulate and verify
• Bringing your own design
• When a run fails

Tutorials: Real designs

• Building your own SoC
• Build for an FPGA
• Hardware design frontends
• From a model to silicon (SODA)
• Implementing an IO pad ring
• Instantiating a hardened module in a design
• Hardening parameterized modules (uniquify)
• Calibrating the parasitic estimate (PEX)

Tutorials: Scaling up

• Multi-job flows and automation
• Parallel job execution
• Running on a cluster
• Running builds in CI
• Authoring a custom flow
• Using commercial tools
• Using the dashboard
• Job status emails

Examples

• Example designs

Appendix

• Glossary
• Frequently asked questions
• How do I…?
• Migrating from the Chip API