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Whether you're a student just stepping into the world of chip design, a fresher navigating your first tapeout, a trained professional brushing up on your toolchain skills, or a seasoned semiconductor engineer - TCL is non-negotiable.

TCL Workshop Registration

In a landscape driven by automation and precision, TCL (Tool Command Language) is the backbone scripting language for most front-end and back-end EDA tools. From writing customized flows for synthesis and STA to automating PNR tasks inside industry-grade tools, TCL is your first and last line of control.

What Makes TCL So Irreplaceable?

This workshop isn’t just about writing basic scripts. It’s about building powerful automation utilities and configuring EDA environments that are production-ready. TCL becomes your interface to command the behavior of some of the most complex tools in semiconductor design.

What’s more exciting - past workshop participants have used their learnings to build beautiful, unique TCL utilities. Their scripts, although works in progress, show how creativity meets utility in the world of hardware design automation.

TCL = Lifetime Skill

If you're working in STA or PNR—or plan to—the reality is, you will be using TCL for a very long time. My own team, despite years of experience, still builds automation layers using TCL, Python, and Perl to speed up and customize internal flows.

This workshop is not about theory. It’s about real-world, tool-integrated scripting that mimics the actual tasks you'll perform in a tapeout flow—whether you’re in academia or in the industry trenches.

What This Workshop Delivers

• TCL scripting for PNR and STA automation
• Use-case driven development with real EDA tools
• Exposure to how professional teams handle automation
• Confidence to build your own utilities and wrappers

Your Semiconductor Skillset Is Incomplete Without TCL

If you’re serious about a long-term career in chip design, TCL isn’t optional—it’s essential. This workshop is your bridge between tool usage and tool mastery.

👉 Register now for the TCL Workshop and start writing the scripts that will automate your future.