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Currently when they encounter an error they just hang until someone hits Ctrl-C. ``` 1 Encountered problems processing file: [...]/obj/syn-rundir/syn.tcl WARNING: This version of the tool is [...] days old....

Dump reports

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CadenceTool/Innovus should set its batch information from Hammer IR

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e.g. stuff like this could be generated from the new submit command APIs in Hammer IR instead of hardcoded into projects: ``` set_db super_thread_batch_command {bsub -q bora -o /dev/null -n...

Hammer tech JSON validity checker tool

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Would be nice to have a hammer shell tool that checks that a technology's `.json` is valid. This is the `.tech.json` equivalent of #160

Plugin-common code/defaults don't have a good place to live

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Partial argument parsing from CLIDriver

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When building other tools that use Hammer programmatically, it may be nice to use Hammer's standard conventions of `-p`, `-e` etc but not necessarily all the actions. Currently it's possible...

check_input_files should check that the list is not empty

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https://github.com/ucb-bar/hammer/blob/9d56414df43f8dfd494e74d3ffa9248b7756dc51/src/hammer-vlsi/hammer_vlsi/hammer_tool.py#L723 Otherwise it's annoying if a CAD tool runs and borks on `read_files {}`

vivado plugin should set environment variables in defaults.yml

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Avoid dependence on magic sourceme scripts