Colin Schmidt

There are cases where a tool version update changes one word to another across multiple commands and so a tool-specific API to enable reuse of these kind of switches might...

Add help text that lists plugins, steps, and hooks available

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Would require loading more than just the selected plugins h/t @ssteffl

Support assembly/hierarchical by abutment

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Not just nested

Ability to add the same hooks to all hierarchical modules

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If my project needs to add hooks and is using a hierarchical flow I need to create a dictionary for all possible modules names. https://github.com/ucb-bar/hammer/blob/fcd92bd82b03f9128ab5fa51affc1fd198b674a1/src/hammer-vlsi/hammer_vlsi/cli_driver.py#L740 While the current scheme is...

X-to-Y steps should remove old configs even in full output mode

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For example: when par-to-sim sets `sim.inputs.all_regs` from `par.outputs.all_regs` we should drop `par.outputs.all_regs` from the data structure.

Hierarchical flat mode doesn't properly set synthesis inputs

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For example if you set hierarchical mode to flat you would assume the hierarchical top_module would be set as the synthesis top module, but that currently doesn't happen. Reported by...

Also potentially a helper method to put all the tcl snippets in a file, depending on whether this helper would be used in tool plugins.

Enable textual description/modification of hooks and orders

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Allow the user to supply a file that describes the order of steps/hooks they would like in something like yaml but looks like a simple text list of steps. In...

Currently there is a lot of redundancy when you define a component with MMMC. Several of the files do not change when the corner changes, so we should try to...

Add more path and directory meta config options

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Right now `prependlocal` enables easy relative path config variables. Adding a `prependabs` option that prepends the absolute path would be useful. In addition, another option that would help for absolute...