open-source-silicon #containers

With regard to the concept of a "ready to use IDE based on containers", I created this issue a few days ago: https://github.com/hdl/containers/issues/45

Unai Martinez-Corral

09/13/2021, 6:07 PM

There you will find references to Eclipse Che, Gitpod, etc.

Unai Martinez-Corral

09/13/2021, 6:08 PM

A couple of weeks ago, I had an interesting dialogue with one of the people in charge of the Open Source "strategy" in Gitpod (https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1433085284309037061). That's what triggered me creating that issue.

Unai Martinez-Corral

09/13/2021, 6:09 PM

It would be good if Kareem and/or Mohamed could have a look at it (hope I got your names correct). That will provide us a common ground to talk about VNC, X11, etc. which are required by GtkWave, KLayout, etc. It's not the most important aspect, but a very relevant one in hardware design (compared to software), particularly when targeting people with no experience with the EDA tool stack.

mkk

09/13/2021, 6:13 PM

@User @User^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

donn

09/15/2021, 12:39 PM

* Weekly -> GitHub Actions Limit
   * Unai pinged Ethan about GCP?
   
* Agreed on adding commit hash tags to individual tools

* Adding missing tools
        * cugr, drcu
        * openroad (!!)
        * <http://github.com/donn/padring|github.com/donn/padring>
        * qflow

* Verified: Tests in hdl containers are simply smoke tested

"Recipe file"- could be a good starting point
<https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenLane/blob/master/dependencies/tool_metadata.yml>

donn

09/15/2021, 12:39 PM

@User @User @User Can you guys help Unai move to a GCP runner? Currently, GHA limits his ability to build tools nightly, so he's doing it weekly, which is not frequent enough for OpenLane.

Unai Martinez-Corral

12/05/2021, 2:10 AM

I'm sharing https://github.com/pyTooling/Actions/#context here, which is general information about GitHub Actions' Action kinds, particularly Composite Actions and Reusable Workflows. That is the "theory" behind the CI plumbing being used in https://github.com/hdl/containers. At the same time, I'm decoupling dependency lists and build procedures from the dockerfiles, in order to hopefully favour contributions. See, for instance, https://github.com/hdl/containers/tree/pkg-file/debian-bullseye/gtkwave

Murat Eskiyerli

01/17/2022, 3:53 PM

The Revolution EDA that includes Glade schematic and layout editors, Xyce circuit simulator, simulation GUI and plotting front ends and some Sky130 parametric cells is released as a preview. You could find more information at https://reveda.eu .

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mkk

01/19/2022, 5:35 PM

all - long time overdue

mkk

01/19/2022, 5:35 PM

could you take a look on that

mkk

01/19/2022, 5:35 PM

https://github.com/efabless/foss-asic-tools

mkk

01/19/2022, 5:37 PM

this is a poor man’s way to build a container from a recipe https://github.com/efabless/foss-asic-tools/blob/main/recipes/recipe-template.csv

Kennedy Caisley

01/21/2022, 12:44 AM

@User has left the channel

Belal Ali

07/07/2022, 4:41 PM

I have an issue here, how i can get into the exited container here ?, because it contains what i have done before. start doesn't work. when i try to use the same docker open command, it opens a new container!