Editor Access Required for this Tapeout/Bringup Resources Site
While anyone with the link to this site's URL is able to view the published site, you need to be given editor privileges in order to add to it. Anyone with editor privileges can add new people and give them editor privileges. This Tapeout/Bringup Resources site is intended to be very simple, and mainly used as an index to point to locations where more in-depth information lives. All students each semester will be given editor privileges for this Tapeout/Bringup Resources site.
To test if you've been given access privileges, in a browser, type:
sites.google.com
You should see a link to this Tapeout/Bringup wiki there.
Content Manager Access Required for the Google Drive behind this Tapeout/Bringup Resources Site
Once you have Editor access to this site, then you need Contributor or Content Manager access privileges to the google drive which sits behind this site. You can store a file (e.g. Google Slide doc, Google Sheet doc, etc.) on the google drive behind this site as a means of communicating in a more visual/organized way. Contributor privileges enable you to add or edit files on this google drive. Content Manager privileges additionally allow you to delete files. All students will be given Content Manager privileges each semester.
To test if you've been given access privileges to this google drive, in a browser type:
drive.google.com
Then click on "Shared Drives" and you should see a drive there named "EE194 Tapeout/Bringup Drive". Here's the direct link to it:
Test Accessing a Google Slides Doc and How to Edit this Site
Throughout this site, there are links to Google Slide docs. Click on this link to see if you can access this doc which shows site editing screenshots and gives a few tips. All students are welcome to contribute to this site.
What Does Not Go On This Site
Much of the design of your chip will be done at a high level in Chisel. However, when you're working at a lower level, closer to the foundry's proprietary technology (e.g. Hammer, DRC/LVS, etc.), if you want to ask a question by posting a screenshot in a Google Slide doc, you cannot do that on this site. Nothing NDA related gets discussed on this site. We have a separate site and google drive for that each semester. There, the permissions are set to "restricted" mode. Only students who have signed the NDA for a given semester will be given full access to that site/drive.