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I'm more interested that they also developed an agile methodology for Hardware development here https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan-doc/blob/main/public

• rektide 4y ago
  I'm squinting a lot to draw a net conclusion, but clearly a massive focus on testing & simulators. They notably seem to be validating & simulating C/C++ targets for a lot of this. They have a great breakdown of the tools they've used & build. Chisel, out of Berkeley, lies at the heart of almost everything. But they have reams of new tools they've madd. There's over a dozen simulators or tester pieces they said they've made. Which is epic, and makes total sense. Great paper thanks for sharing. I quickly scanned their gitbub repos. A lot of these tools probably arent iterated on as much & I just haven't got to them yet. The paper claims the overarching development structure is embodied on a tool MinJie, which the paper says is open source. Fantastic, fingers crossed 50%+ of the tooling here is available. I also feel like the US's OpenROAD deserves some shout out as related, relying on extremely good design checking/validators to be so agile at chipmaking that ML can spit out designs en mass & then we can run loss checks to find out how working the various designs are. Millions of monkeys on typewriters style ultra agile.