Harden is the fancy industry word that means to take your HDL and using a tool like LibreLane turn it into the GDS2 files necessary for manufacture by a foundry.

Course feedback

I can highly recommend the Zero to ASIC course, especially to other students. Thanks to the grant program I was able to get a Silicon Level ticket and actually fabricate my own chip. It was a great opportunity to take something I learned at university in my case, Huffman coding and implement it in real silicon. The course made the whole process understandable and achievable.

Marvin B (digital course)