Trying to contribute

[skaddar]

Hey yall! I am really interested in this project and would love to contribute. Is there a place for open tickets?

I am a 4th year Computer Engineering student and currently working as a software engineer intern. I have worked on drivers for hardware testing instruments in the past.

[QuantamHD]

Hey @skaddar,

There are a few open issues that you can take a look at in the issue tracker. A really good place to start though is profiling OpenROAD on a design test case with Linux perf and trying to improve the performance of the app.

There's lots of low hanging fruit to be found, and it'll get you to the point where you can run a test case, build the app and submit a PR without much need for discussion.

Once you've done that a meatier project might be implementing scan chain reordering in our design for test tool. It's essentially implementing a traveling salesmen optimizer for each flip flop in the design to minimize the wire length of the circuit.
https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/tree/master/src/dft

[QuantamHD]

The bazel flow is generally easier to get running than the cmake one. Just install bazelisk on your machine and run.

bazelisk build //:openroad

[skaddar]

Thanks !

[maliberty]

There are some "good first issues" https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22good%20first%20issue%22

[skaddar]

I appreciate it!

[rovinski]

I have a lecture series here that can potentially help explain some concepts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL45ZEriClcTp79IptvZWJqUmhjypUz_44
It assumes a basic level of C++ and RTL knowledge.