testrun monday

Author: ThorKn

Chapter_02_OpenROAD_tools/c02_lecture.md

@@ -129,4 +129,11 @@ AIC 2025 lectures by Carsten Wullf:
 
 [https://analogicus.com/aic2025/](https://analogicus.com/aic2025/)
 
+### The list of open-source tools
+
+The list of flow steps and flow components in ORFS contains the information about the original open-source tools.
+
+We will dive a little deeper into this list with the course training:
+
+[https://openroad-flow-scripts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/FlowTutorial.html#running-the-automated-rtl-to-gds-flow](https://openroad-flow-scripts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/FlowTutorial.html#running-the-automated-rtl-to-gds-flow)
 

Chapter_02_OpenROAD_tools/c02_training_common.md

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ toc: true
 ### Browse the resources
 
 ##### Task: Review the flow terminology
+
+- Try to formulate the meaning and purpose of all the following search results in your own words.
 - Search for each of the flow steps
     * Synthesis
     * Floorplan
@@ -29,7 +31,6 @@ toc: true
     * Finishing
 - Search for as much flow components as possible (see the components names in the diagram in the lecture slides)
 - If no result is found, try a search engine (or chatGPT).
-- Try to formulate the meaning and purpose of them in your own words.
 
 Matt Venns list:
 
@@ -48,3 +49,27 @@ Let's try to create a timeline (or taskline) for "How to make microchips?" in a
 - We try to figure out the meaning and the position in a timeline / taskline?
 - Flipchart, Whiteboard, Texteditor?
 
+
+### List the open-source tools in OpenROAD
+
+OpenROAD uses a lot of open-source tools, that were available even before OpenROAD.
+
+##### Task: Create a list of tools
+
+- Use this link list as the knowledge base:
+    * [https://openroad-flow-scripts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/FlowTutorial.html#running-the-automated-rtl-to-gds-flow](https://openroad-flow-scripts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/FlowTutorial.html#running-the-automated-rtl-to-gds-flow)
+- Find the names of the open-source tools that are used in ORFS.
+- Create a list with the columns:
+    * Name of the open-source tool
+    * Flow step and flow component in ORFS were the tool is used.
+    * Description of the function of the tool
+    * Bonus: What was modified or contributed to this tool by the OpenROAD team?
+
+### Example row
+
+##### Example row in the list:
+    
+* Yosys
+* Synthesis
+* Verilog and contstraints to netlists
+* Most of the initial development was coded by Claire Wolf (not by ORFS)