[stephenmm]

Chisel is potentially a revolution in hardware design and I am following it intently but I have not heard of anyone creating an actual chip from a standard fab as of yet. I am trying to make an argument for trying this at my work but I think until we get some more feedback from people in industry it may be too risky of an endeavour. It would be great if you would be willing to share your experiences or know of some papers that would help me build an argument for trying it out.

[trsohmers]

UC Berkeley has taped out ~10-12 chips entirely designed using Chisel through the standard flow and fabed at TSMC (As low at 28nm) and all have functioned. My start up has had minimal problems with using Chisel and going through both Cadence and Synopsys tools (most if not all the problems were user error :P)

Once we get closer to having silicon in hand, I'd love to publish our experience as both a startup making a new processor in this day and age, along with using Chisel and other new tools.