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What the lab is, how it is organised, and your first project from nothing to a passing simulation.

• What is Nelix Silicon LabA chip design lab that runs in your browser, with an AI engineer beside you at every step.
• Platform overviewThe areas of the lab, the tabs of a project, where to find things, and the Lab map that shows it all on one page.
• First projectFrom an empty account to a chip layout in about fifteen minutes, using the MAC-8 starter.
• First passing simulationRun the starter's test, read the output line by line, and open the waveform.
• Understanding a project's filesThe three files that do the work, and how they connect to the three stages.
• Choosing FPGA or ASICThe two ways to turn a digital design into hardware, and which one this lab supports today.
• How well it works: measured resultsWhat the lab's AI repair, chip builds, analog runs and Autopilot actually achieved, measured on this server, with the numbers and how they were taken.
• "Benchmarks: real designs through the lab"The lab's standing benchmark set (every design LiveHD publishes results for, plus PicoRV32), each design taken through the lab's normal import, build and V&V checks on the test account; measured results only, with the lab's own limits named where a design does not build yet.