workspace

The shared open-source EDA workspace for the UofT ASIC Internal Education Initiative. Clone it once during IC101 and reuse it for every tool-heavy course.

📖 Course manuals: https://edu.uoftasic.com/ · IC101 setup: https://uoftasic.github.io/ic101/

Local folder name: workspace. GitHub: uoftasic/workspace.

Quick start

1. Install Docker Desktop (see the IC101 Docker guide).
2. Clone into a folder named workspace:

   git clone https://github.com/uoftasic/workspace.git workspace
   cd workspace

3. Start the environment:
   • macOS / Linux: ./scripts/start_vnc.sh
   • Windows: double-click scripts/start_vnc.bat
4. Open http://localhost/ in your browser (password abc123) for the EDA desktop.
5. In the desktop terminal, verify your tools:

   . /foss/designs/common/.designinit   # load env + mod helpers (once per shell)
   /foss/designs/scripts/smoke_test.sh
   mod                                 # list course modules under modules/

Later courses: mod add <course> clones github.com/uoftasic/<course> into modules/<course> (for example mod add ad101). See modules/README.md.

What's here

Path	Purpose
.devcontainer/	VS Code Dev Containers config
scripts/	Container launch & helper scripts (noVNC, X11, clipboard, smoke test, add_module.sh)
common/	Shared environment (.designinit with mod, xschemrc)
pdk/	Pinned SKY130 PDK version (volare.lock)
modules/	Per-course starter files (mod / mod add / mod <name>)
docker/	noVNC landing page

One image, one PDK pin, shared by every course. The toolchain is the IIC-OSIC-TOOLS image maintained by IIC-JKU.

Course manuals, troubleshooting, and labs are on the docs site linked above.