Øyvind Harboe

### Description When putting a design under CI early, it is useful to run through CTS quickly to get a macro abstract so that floorplanning can proceed indepenently of solving...

Improve readability of report_clock_skew

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### Description Before running example, make sure this fix is in: https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/issues/4886#issuecomment-2036039360 Output from report_clock_skew is a bit hard to read: ``` >>> report_clock_skew Clock clock 337.78 source latency ces_4_7/clock...

Accessing a destroyed database from python should result in an exception, not SEGFAULT

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### Description Ref. https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/pull/4802, producing a clear exception instead of a SEGFAULT when accessing a destroyed database from Python is the idiomatic way to handle things in Python. Tasks: -...

Speed up global route, antenna repair in particular

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### Description untar https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YjhsuuE8w0GLaL_opM6-s5izSQq0ML4H/view?usp=sharing Run: ``` ./run-me-BoomTile-asap7-base.sh ``` global route finishes in an hour or so: ``` OpenROAD v2.0-12680-gc2b1d565b This program is licensed under the BSD-3 license. See the LICENSE...

### Description untar https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i1t-JcIebV9CiMOm55G2RezttqwH74DD/view?usp=sharing Completes in 10 minutes: ``` $ CTS_SNAPSHOTS=1 SKIP_REPORT_METRICS=1 time ./run-me-BoomTile-asap7-base.sh OpenROAD v2.0-12680-gc2b1d565b [deleted] ``` ``` ODB_FILE=bazel-out/k8-fastbuild/bin/results/asap7/BoomTile/base/4_1_pre_repair_clock_nets.odb openroad -gui scripts/gui.tcl ```  After clock repair nets: ```...

Default CTS arguments don't give good skew results

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### Description Expected:  Actual:  To reproduce: untar [cts.tar.gz](https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/files/14541128/cts.tar.gz) ``` ./run-me-mock-array-asap7-base.sh . vars-mock-array-asap7-base.sh ODB_FILE=results/asap7/mock-array/base/4_1_cts.odb openroad -gui scripts/gui.tcl ``` ### Suggested Solution CTS should automatically pick good defaults ### Additional...

Improve PDN warning and error messages when failing to make PDN with macros

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### Description If I add this line: ``` export PDN_TCL = $(FLOW_HOME)/platforms/asap7/openRoad/pdn/BLOCKS_grid_strategy.tcl ``` These error messages go away: ``` [INFO PDN-0001] Inserting grid: CORE_macro_grid_1 - foo_2 [INFO PDN-0001] Inserting grid:...

Problems launching magic gui

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Normally, I can launch a GUI from within Docker on my desktop by running the command below, but I get an error message. I run Ubuntu 18.04. ``` $ docker...

Support workflow for early exploration of designs with alpha-release flow

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I believe it would be useful to be able to run designs through the alpha-release flow while setting an enumerated list of modules to black boxes to get statistics on...

Proposal - create a top level Python driver for the workflow

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I'm sure this has been discussed, but I thought I'd write down my thoughts on a top-level driver. Today there's a number of siloed tools that have been stitched together...