Tutorial / Advice for using commercial CAD tools (e.g. Synopsys Design Compiler, Cadence Innovus, Synopsys Primetime)

[StephenMoreOSU]

Feature Description

I'm interested in running designs through sc using standard commercial ASIC tools (in title).

Steps Taken

• I did a few grep -R text searches on the repo looking for "synopsys", "cadence", "design compiler" and the only place I could find them were in the docs under supported technologies.
• Looked through the FAQ and tools documentation
• Looked through examples

If there is any information on how to connect commercial CAD tools to sc it would be interesting.

Thanks

[gadfort]

@StephenMoreOSU due to license limitations, we do not have the synopsys and cadence enablement available publicly. To add a tool you would need to add a tool and task driver (you can see how that is done with yosys or openroad), and then you would need to add a flow that makes use of these tasks. We probably need a proper tutorial for adding a tool.