[Libre-silicon-devel] Device security - Help wanted

[Tim Edwards]

Hello Philipp,

> Several months ago, I thought about reproducable builds for qflow,
> specifically Graywolf, and I came to problem that Graywolf had poor
> single-threaded performance for huge projects, so parallelisation was the
> obvious solution for that, but I did not had a good idea how simulated
> annealing could be done in a reproducable way in parallel.

The way to go is not to use simulated annealing (e.g., graywolf) but to
use analytic placement (e.g., RePlaCe from abk-openroad (UCSD) on github).

					---Tim

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