chisel

n : a hand tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge

v : carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble"

CHISEL

An extension of {C} for {VLSI} design, implemented as a C

{preprocessor}. It produces {CIF} as output.

["CHISEL - An Extension to the Programming language C for VLSI

Layout", K. Karplus, PHD Thesis, Stanford U, 1982].