Meta: Top Five Tasks You Wish Were Done Today

[QuantamHD]

What are the top five tasks you wish were done today? i.e. 5 most impactful tasks for the project

[QuantamHD]

@maliberty @tspyrou

[maliberty]

My list

• Restructuring (rmp)
• Post-drt final fixing flow which will require incremental detailed routing. This would replace the 'eco' flow in OL.
• Turn on the post-grt fixing flow in ORFS
• Enable RTL-MP and hierarchical synthesis with selective flattening
• Improved CTS (better clustering, GH-tree, improved buffer selection, smart NDRs)

[QuantamHD]

@antonblanchard @arlpetergadfort Would love to hear from you as well. Let's try to collect ideas, and then we can prioritize on impact x difficulty

[gadfort]

My list:

• CTS, the tree built something makes fixing setup/hold worse by poorly selecting buffers, improving CTS would help with that I think.
• Resizer setup repair gives up too soon when fixing setup violations, that could be improved with a better stop criteria, etc.
• Detail placement allowing specification of minimum gap (not just padding).

I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones at the front of my mind at the moment.

[maliberty]

@arlpetergadfort is the minimum gap to deal with the lack of 1 site filler in some pdks or something else?

[gadfort]

@arlpetergadfort is the minimum gap to deal with the lack of 1 site filler in some pdks or something else?

@maliberty yes, exactly. Without it increasing density would become extremely difficult.

[antonblanchard]

• +1 for "Post-drt final fixing flow which will require incremental detailed routing."
• +1 for "Improved CTS"
• Integrated VHDL/GHDL support. This is being worked on and I unfortunately haven't had time to test and offer feedback yet.