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by seldridge 2177 days ago
There 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

[^2]: https://www.eda.ncsu.edu/wiki/FreePDK