Silicon Dreams — Verilog Project Template

This is the Tiny Tapeout project template used by Silicon Dreams (CM-HW-101), a three-week co-delivered course from ChipMango and ChipFoundry that takes learners from RTL to real silicon. It's built on the same open-source pillars Tiny Tapeout uses — the SkyWater SKY130 PDK, the OpenLane/LibreLane digital flow, and the fixed Tiny Tapeout pad interface — so the Verilog you write here is genuinely synthesised, verified, and submitted to a real multi-project wafer shuttle.

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What is Tiny Tapeout?

Tiny Tapeout is an educational project that aims to make it easier and cheaper than ever to get your digital and analog designs manufactured on a real chip.

To learn more and get started, visit https://tinytapeout.com.

What is Silicon Dreams?

Silicon Dreams wraps that same tapeout pipeline in a course narrative: you're an independent hardware contractor commissioned to replace the relay-logic elevator controller in a nine-floor building, Mango Tower. Across three modules you design the controller's FSM, harden it against a fault-injection gauntlet, and finally ship a hardened multi-module design to the shuttle. Learn more at chipmango.io/silicon-dreams.

Set up your Verilog project

1. Add your Verilog files to the src folder.
2. Edit info.yaml and update information about your project, paying special attention to the source_files and top_module properties. If you are upgrading an existing Tiny Tapeout project, check out the online info.yaml migration tool.
3. Edit docs/info.md and add a description of your project.
4. Adapt the testbench to your design. See test/README.md for more information.

The GitHub action will automatically build the ASIC files using LibreLane.

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Resources

• FAQ
• Digital design lessons
• Learn how semiconductors work
• Join the community
• Build your design locally
• Silicon Dreams course home
• ChipFoundry platform docs

What next?

• Submit your design to the next shuttle.
• Edit this README and explain your design, how it works, and how to test it.
• Share your project on your social network of choice:
  • LinkedIn #tinytapeout @TinyTapeout
  • Mastodon #tinytapeout @matthewvenn
  • X (formerly Twitter) #tinytapeout @tinytapeout
  • Bluesky @tinytapeout.com

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