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

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This course has fundamentally changed how I will teach VLSI in the future. Having used and taught the closed source tools, I am now a convert to the open-source tool chain. This course was the guiding force to get over the initial hump of the learning curve near painlessly.

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