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

It’s a fairly daunting prospect going into something like an ASIC, but I feel confident now that I could pick another project up and go from the start with the Verilog and end up with something that will hopefully work.

Jamie Iles (digital course)