Interactive course

A tour of the laylight DSL

Learn the laylight layout language one small step at a time. Every lesson explains one idea and ends with an exercise: edit the code, watch the layout update, and submit it to check your answer. Everything runs in your browser, and your progress is saved there.

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1. Basics

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Cells, layers, shapes, units and constants: the parts of every laylight program.

2. Shapes and placement

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Anchors, relative placement and the geometric primitives: rect, polygon, circle, ring, path, arc and taper.

3. Cells and instances

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Reuse geometry: place cells, give them parameters and attributes, rotate and mirror them.

4. Markers and ports

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Name points of a cell, connect components port to port and check the connections.

5. Loops and values

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Generate layouts with for and if, compute with built-in functions and build up lists.

6. Libraries and projects

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Import shared components and build complete devices.

Looking for the reference instead? Read the language overview or experiment freely in the playground.