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Chats: {
  ChatName: "2025-08-20 Log"
  Entries: {
    from: USER
    ctime: {
      seconds: 1724160000 # Approx time for 2025-08-20
    }
    content: "We need to generate a .gds file for the sky130 of a linux capabile riscv core. What is a good option?"
  }
  Entries: {
    from: GEMINI
    ctime: {
      seconds: 1724160060
    }
    content: "Excellent question. The best and most well-supported option for this is the combination of the Rocket Chip generator with the OpenLANE RTL-to-GDSII flow."
  }
  Entries: {
    from: USER
    ctime: {
      seconds: 1724160120
    }
    content: "if I do 2 or 4 cores with those size L1 & L2 caches, how many transistors will it be and how large of a footprint on the wafer will it take up?"
  }
  Entries: {
    from: GEMINI
    ctime: {
      seconds: 1724160180
    }
    content: "2-Core SoC: Plausible but challenging. Estimated ~10 million transistors and a footprint of ~3.52 mm². 4-Core SoC: Extremely difficult and likely infeasible. Estimated ~13.0 million transistors and a footprint of ~6.04 mm²."
  }
  Entries: {
    from: USER
    ctime: {
      seconds: 1724160240
    }
    content: "I mean the sky130 chip with 12 million transisters, 6-10mm and 4 riscv cores. How much power will that draw and how hot?"
  }
  Entries: {
    from: GEMINI
    ctime: {
      seconds: 1724160300
    }
    content: "The power draw will be dramatically lower, likely in the 200-500 milliwatt range under a typical load. It will get warm, but it will not require a heat sink for basic operation."
  }
}