How to design a microcircuit. Own processor (almost)

How to develop your own microcircuit. I asked this question when I wanted to create my own processor. I went to google and found nothing good. The answers are mostly two։ "You won't make your own processor, because it's too difficult" and "Hammer and assemble a computer from components."

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cd ~/openlane_exp/openlane
docker run -it --rm -v /home/armleo/openlane_exp/openlane:/openLANE_flow \
-v /home/armleo/openlane_exp/openlane/pdks:/home/armleo/openlane_exp/openlane/pdks \
-e PDK_ROOT=/home/armleo/openlane_exp/openlane/pdks \
-e PDKPATH=/home/armleo/openlane_exp/openlane/pdks/sky130A/libs.tech/magic \
-v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
-v /home/armleo/openlane_exp:/home/armleo/openlane_exp \
-e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY \
-u 1000:1001 efabless/openlane:v0.12

klayout /home/armleo/openlane_exp/openlane/pdks/skywater-pdk/libraries/sky130_fd_sc_hd/latest/cells/inv/sky130_fd_sc_hd__inv_1.gd
      
      

        
        
        
      

    
        
        
        
      
      

        
        
        
      

    
    

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• Let's understand how to assemble our schema in Caravel