[zsmi]

perf/area comes with a huge number of caveats and it basically doesn't mean anything as given.

For example, the exact same verilog, on the same process node at the same foundry, can synthesize to very different areas depending on the standard library used. They come in a lot of varieties with a lot of different trade offs.

For even more detail, the SkyWater130 node, which has been popular on HN lately and is public so we can actually post links to it, has 6 different mappings that are possible. Note, some are called high speed, or high density, etc. You get the idea.

https://skywater-pdk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contents/libra...