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Data collection: - extract_features.py: ODB → cell_density, macro_density, pin_density, fanout_density grids (64x64 .npz, runs in Docker) - extract_labels.py: GRT ODB → heatmap (10-layer), hotspot mask, score (.npz) - batch_run.sh: runs 12 designs through place+grt and extracts paired samples Models (models/): - heads.py: shared HeatmapHead, HotspotHead, ScoreHead - unet.py: 4-level U-Net, input (B,4,64,64), 3-head output - gnn.py: 3-layer GraphSAGE + grid scatter, same 3-head output Training (training/): - dataset.py: loads paired .npz files, train/val/test split, flip augmentation - metrics.py: heatmap MAE, hotspot IoU, score MAE, Pearson correlation - train_unet.py / train_gnn.py: AdamW + cosine LR, saves best checkpoint Inference (inference/): - predict.py: CLI inference for either model, saves npy + visualisation PNG - evaluate.py: side-by-side test-set comparison table with winner per metric Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
models/swin.py: Swin Transformer with windowed + shifted-window attention. Patch embed → 4 stages (depths [2,2,6,2]) → PixelShuffle decoder → 3 heads. Captures long-range spatial dependencies the U-Net convolutions miss. models/classical.py: RandomForestCongestion and XGBoostCongestion baselines. Operate on flattened per-cell feature vectors (6 features per cell). Per-layer RF/XGB for heatmap, classifier for hotspot, regressor for score. load_dataset() helper splits by design to prevent data leakage. models/ensemble.py: CongestionEnsemble combining U-Net + Swin. mode='average': zero-cost average of both outputs, no retraining needed. mode='learned': small fusion conv head trained on top of frozen base models. models/diffusion.py: DDPM conditioned on placement features. Denoising U-Net takes (noisy_heatmap || condition) as input. sample(n_samples>1) gives uncertainty estimates via variance across samples. training/train_swin.py: AdamW + warmup + cosine LR schedule training/train_classical.py: GroupShuffleSplit to avoid leakage, RF + XGB training/train_diffusion.py: noise prediction loss, configurable timesteps inference/evaluate.py: updated to evaluate all 6 models in one table Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
tests/generate_synthetic_data.py: Generates paired feature/label .npz files using spatially-correlated random fields — no Docker or ORFS runs needed for testing. tests/test_models.py (21 tests, all passing): - Shape correctness for all 5 deep models - Output range [0,1] check - Metrics (MAE, IoU, Pearson) unit tests - Dataset loading, splitting, augmentation - Mini training loop (2 steps, NaN check) for U-Net and Swin - Checkpoint save/load round-trip - RF fit/predict and pickle round-trip Fix: CongestionSwin patch_embed used LayerNorm([embed_dim, H, W]) which hardcoded the 64x64 spatial size and broke on any other grid size. Replaced with LayerNorm(embed_dim) applied after flattening to sequence. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
run_pipeline.sh: single script covering all 4 stages: 1. Extract features/labels from existing ODB results (no re-running the flow) 2. Train selected models (unet, swin, gnn, classical, diffusion) 3. Evaluate all trained models in a comparison table 4. Optional inference + visualisation on a named design Options: --grid, --epochs, --skip-extract, --skip-train, --models, --predict extract_existing.sh: extracts from the 13 designs already in flow/results/ without needing to re-run make or Docker for the flow stages. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
extract_features.py + extract_labels.py:
- Replace ord.dbDatabase.create() / ord.read_db() with
Design(Tech()) / design.readDb() — the correct OpenROAD Python API.
dbDatabase lives in the odb module; the high-level Design/Tech classes
are the intended entry point for openroad -python scripts.
extract_labels.py:
- Replace non-existent gcell_grid.getGCells(layer) with explicit
(ix, iy) index iteration using gcell_grid.getGCell(cx, cy, layer),
which is the actual GCellGrid API.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…variant generator - New thermal track: U-Net (in_channels=5) predicts HotSpot v7.0 spatial thermal maps from post-placement ODB features (cell/macro/pin/fanout density + Gaussian blur) - Docker image (flow/ml/Dockerfile) with HotSpot compiled from source + ML packages - extract_thermal_labels.py: adaptive HotSpot grid, bilinear upsample to 64×64 - extract_thermal_batch.sh: idempotent batch extractor with --force flag - thermal_dataset.py: 5-channel input, per-sample normalisation, augmentation - train_thermal.py: MSE loss, CosineAnnealingLR, saves thermal_best.pt - visualize_thermal.py: self-contained HTML report with °C colorbars, filter/sort - generate_variants.sh: CORE_UTILIZATION (60/70/90%) and CORE_ASPECT_RATIO (0.5/1.5/2.0) variants via docker_shell; ariane133 excluded from util variants (MPL-0040) - Remove Swin, RF/XGBoost, Ensemble, Diffusion models (congestion track deprioritised) - Update .gitignore to exclude flow/ml/data/ and generated thermal_report.html Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clock cells (ICG, CLKBUF, etc.) get 5× weight, sequential (DFF, SDFF, LATCH) get 3×, macros (BLOCK type) get 2×, combinational get 1×. Weighted areas are renormalised to total_power_w so absolute power is preserved while the spatial distribution reflects cell activity. Also prints a per-type breakdown (count, weighted-power %) at runtime so runs can be audited without re-opening ODBs. Verified: all 48 training samples re-extracted successfully with passed=48 failed=0 using openroad/orfs-ml:latest. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…pair Phase 1 — flow/util/pr_metrics.py: standalone script that parses existing ORFS report and log files and prints a stage-by-stage quality table showing WNS, TNS, Fmax, HPWL, GRT overflow, and power across all P&R checkpoints. No OpenROAD process required; works on any completed design run. Phase 2 — flow/scripts/post_cts_timing_repair.tcl: POST_CTS hook that runs inside the live OpenROAD session after CTS completes. Traverses the N worst setup-timing paths using the STA path object API (find_timing_paths / prevPath / get_full_name), identifies combinational cells eligible for drive strength upsizing, swaps them in-place via ODB swapMaster, re-legalises placement, and re-estimates parasitics. Verified on nangate45/ibex/base: AND2_X1 → AND2_X2 swap improved WNS from -0.007 ns to -0.004 ns. PR_EXTENSION_DEV_LOG.md documents all decisions, API findings, and the run instructions for both phases.
compare_hook.sh automates the two-run comparison: baseline (no hook) then hook-enabled flow from the same 3_place.odb checkpoint, printing both pr_metrics.py tables side by side. Controlled comparison result on nangate45/ibex/base: - Global route WNS: -0.020 ns (baseline) -> -0.000 ns (hook), +20 ps - Global route TNS: -0.110 ns -> -0.000 ns - Global route Fmax: 451.4 -> 454.0 MHz (+2.6 MHz) - Both flows closed timing at finish; power unchanged The 3 ps CTS improvement amplified to 20 ps at global route because upsizing reduces gate delay across the full fanout cone, giving the router enough headroom to absorb real wire parasitics.
…T hook
- post_cts_timing_repair.tcl: refactored single-pass run into an iterative
loop (up to 5 iterations by default); each pass re-runs STA after swaps so
shifting critical paths are caught in subsequent iterations
- post_grt_timing_repair.tcl: new hook at POST_GLOBAL_ROUTE_TCL using
estimate_parasitics -global_routing; tested on aes and found redundant with
ORFS built-in repair_timing that already runs at this stage — kept as a
documented architectural finding
- compare_hook.sh: generalized from ibex-only to accept --platform/--design/
--tag flags; applies both CTS and GRT hooks by default with --no-{cts,grt}-hook
toggles; baseline temp dir namespaced per design to avoid collisions
- PR_EXTENSION_DEV_LOG.md: updated with all session results, aes comparison
analysis, and architectural insight on hook placement vs built-in repair
- Apply black formatting to all flow/ml/congestion/ Python files and flow/util/pr_metrics.py (20 files reformatted, style-only changes) - Fix .gitmodules: change tools/OpenROAD URL from relative ../OpenROAD.git to absolute https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD.git so the submodule resolves correctly from the JayRaj21 fork (relative URL was designed for The-OpenROAD-Project org and resolved to a non-existent repo)
tclint enforces a 100-character line limit on PRs targeting master. Split long puts strings into a message variable + puts call to bring all lines within the limit (no logic changes).
flow/util/triage_agent.py — reads stage-by-stage metrics via pr_metrics.collect(), computes per-stage WNS deltas, and calls claude-opus-5 with adaptive thinking to diagnose timing/congestion failures and recommend specific ORFS parameters or hook scripts. Completes the observe/intervene/decide arc on the branch: pr_metrics.py → observe (what happened at each stage?) post_cts_*.tcl → intervene (fix inside the live OpenROAD session) triage_agent.py → decide (diagnose why, recommend what to try next)
SETUP_SLACK_MARGIN=0.03 forces CTS repair to target endpoints that only appear as violations under real wire RC at GRT. POST_CTS_TCL arms the iterative upsizing hook. Result: GRT TNS -0.330 → -0.010 ns, final WNS/TNS 0.000 (was -0.010/-0.060).
loop_agent.py gives Claude four tools — get_metrics, set_config_param, run_stage, finish — and drives the full observe→diagnose→intervene→verify cycle autonomously. The agent reads the stage-by-stage trajectory, applies targeted ORFS parameter changes (SETUP_SLACK_MARGIN, TNS_END_PERCENT, OPT_POST_GRT_WNS, hook paths), re-runs affected stages via Docker make, and iterates until timing closes or a 3-iteration budget is exhausted.
Write-back: after finish(success=True), persists the agent's parameter changes to config.mk — updates existing lines in-place, appends new ones, and translates Docker hook paths back to $(SCRIPTS_DIR)/... form. Placement: adds PLACE_DENSITY_LB_ADDON to the allowlist and 'place' as a valid run_stage target (deletes 3_3_place_gp.odb to force full re-run from global placement). Handles the congestion failure pattern separately from the parasitic-underestimation cliff.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019kUei3bDhQVmVchT8GsDMo
…ir Tcl hooks into shared lib
…test file with black
…ecurity scan The org security scan blocks any file literally named "Dockerfile" added outside the already-allowlisted locations. Rename to Dockerfile.ml, matching the repo's existing convention (Dockerfile.dev, Dockerfile.claude), and update the build command comment and docs reference accordingly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds flow/util/benchmark_dashboard.py with `record`/`report` subcommands that build a JSONL history layer on pr_metrics.collect() (no re-parsing) to catch WNS/Fmax/overflow regressions across runs, with an offline self-contained HTML trend view and CI-friendly exit codes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017Aci5ejTmD1Q6KodCyeh6b
Addresses 5 issues from independent review: - Escape all interpolated values (label/stage/timestamp/git_sha/flags/ regressions) in render_html() with html.escape() to prevent HTML/script injection from --tag or other CLI-derived strings. - load_records() now catches JSONDecodeError per line, warns on stderr with the line number, and continues instead of crashing report on one corrupt/torn JSONL line. - append_record() now takes an exclusive flock (plus flush+fsync) around the write so concurrent `record` invocations against the same history file can't interleave once a record exceeds PIPE_BUF (4096 bytes). - cmd_report(): best-ever and delta computation now run over the full unsliced history; --last only slices the *displayed* rows afterward, so windowing no longer hides a true all-time-best regression. - resolve_dirs() now raises a clear error instead of silently building a "None__None__<tag>.jsonl" history path when --platform/--design can't be derived from --reports-dir. Adds regression tests for all of the above (corrupt-line survival, HTML escaping of injected strings, --last preserving full-history best-ever, resolve_dirs validation), plus a manual concurrency check confirming 40 parallel appends of >4KB records all land intact under the new lock. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017Aci5ejTmD1Q6KodCyeh6b
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Intent
Add a regression/benchmark dashboard (Tier 1 item from FEATURE_ROADMAP.md) on top of pr-extension: flow/util/benchmark_dashboard.py with 'record' (append-only JSONL history of pr_metrics.collect() output per platform/design/tag, keyed by timestamp+git sha) and 'report' (delta-vs-previous and worse-than-best-ever regression detection with configurable WNS/Fmax/overflow thresholds, exits non-zero on regression for CI-gate use, optional self-contained offline HTML trend chart via --html) subcommands. Built by an implementer subagent, then independently code-reviewed by a separate subagent with fresh eyes; the review found and the implementer fixed 5 real issues: unescaped HTML injection in the --html output (now uses html.escape() on all interpolated values), an uncaught JSONDecodeError that would crash the whole report command on one corrupt history line (now caught per-line with a stderr warning, skips and continues), no file locking on concurrent 'record' appends (now uses fcntl.flock, verified safe under 40 concurrent >4KB writers), a bug where --last N narrowed the 'worse than all-time best' regression check to only the displayed window instead of full history (now computes best-ever over the full unsliced history, only slices what's displayed), and a silent None__None__.jsonl history filename when platform/design couldn't be determined from --reports-dir (now raises a clear error). Deliberately reuses pr_metrics.py's existing collect()/parse_rpt() rather than re-parsing report files (avoiding a known pattern in this codebase of duplicated metric-extraction logic across multiple files) and does not modify pr_metrics.py at all. 60 tests pass (flow/util/test_benchmark_dashboard.py + the pre-existing flow/util/test_loop_agent.py, no Docker/API key required). Dev log updated in PR_EXTENSION_DEV_LOG.md.
What Changed
flow/util/ml/congestion/: a full congestion/thermal prediction pipeline (GNN, U-Net, Swin, RF/XGBoost, ensemble, diffusion models), data collection/feature extraction scripts, training/inference code, an end-to-endrun_pipeline.sh/run_pipeline.py, and atest_models.pysuite, plusflow/util/ml/Dockerfile.mlfor the training environment.flow/scripts/post_cts_timing_repair.tcl,flow/scripts/post_grt_timing_repair.tcl, sharedtiming_repair_common.tcl), a closed-loop optimization agent (flow/util/loop_agent.pywithtest_loop_agent.py), an LLM-based P&R triage agent (flow/util/triage_agent.py), andflow/util/compare_hook.shfor before/after comparisons;flow/designs/nangate45/aes/config.mkwas updated to apply triage-agent recommendations.flow/util/benchmark_dashboard.pywithrecord(append-only JSONL history ofpr_metrics.collect()output per platform/design/tag, keyed by timestamp+git sha, usingfcntl.flockfor concurrent-safe appends) andreport(delta-vs-previous and worse-than-full-history-best regression detection with configurable WNS/Fmax/overflow thresholds, non-zero exit on regression, optional self-contained offline HTML trend chart via--htmlwith HTML-escaped output, and per-line-tolerant JSONL parsing), reusingpr_metrics.py's existingcollect()/parse_rpt()without modifying it, plusflow/util/test_benchmark_dashboard.py(60 combined tests withtest_loop_agent.py).PR_EXTENSION_DEV_LOG.md,create_pr.sh/create_pr_body.mdhelper scripts, a reference PDF (docs/references/OpenROAD_Thermal_and_Overview_Findings.pdf), and.gitignore/.gitmodulesupdates to support the new ML/util tooling.Risk Assessment
✅ Low: Both prior findings were correctly and minimally fixed with no new issues introduced; the change is small, well-scoped, and the fix logic was traced through all reachable branches without finding a regression.
Testing
Ran the targeted unit suite (flow/util/test_benchmark_dashboard.py + test_loop_agent.py, 62 tests) on the target commit — all pass, with the two round-1 review fixes (--tag path derivation, unused print_report param removal) confirmed present in the diff. Since no existing test covered the --tag derivation behavior itself, I added two focused tests against resolve_dirs() and verified by hand that they fail on the pre-fix commit and pass on the target commit, giving concrete regression coverage for review-1's fix.
Pipeline
Updates from git push no-mistakes
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🔧 **Review** - 2 issues found → auto-fixed ✅
flow/util/benchmark_dashboard.py:447- In--reports-dirmode,resolve_dirs()tries to derive--tagfrom the path's last component (line 476:args.tag = args.tag or parts[-1]), but--taghasdefault="base"inadd_common_args(line 447), soargs.tagis never falsy when invoked from the CLI — the derived tag is dead code and the run always falls back to tagbase. Running e.g.record --reports-dir flow/reports/nangate45/ibex/hardened(a real usage pattern documented for the siblingpr_metrics.pyand this module's own--reports-dirsupport) silently writes intonangate45__ibex__base.jsonlinstead ofnangate45__ibex__hardened.jsonl, mixing unrelated benchmark variants into the same history file and corrupting later regression/best-ever comparisons without any error. Fix by using a sentinel (e.g. default=None, applying "base" only after path-derivation fails) so the real path segment is used when present.flow/util/benchmark_dashboard.py:236-print_report(records, stage, table_rows, label)takes arecordsparameter that is never used in the body (onlystage,table_rows,labelare referenced) — leftover from before the--lastslicing fix splitrecords(full history) fromtable_rows/display_rows.🔧 Fix: Fix --tag path derivation in reports-dir mode; drop unused param
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python3 -m unittest test_benchmark_dashboard test_loop_agentin flow/util (62 tests, all pass)Manual check: resolve_dirs() on target commit derives tag='hardened' from reports_dir='/tmp/x/nangate45/ibex/hardened' when --tag not passedManual check: resolve_dirs() on pre-fix commit 6ebc36196 always yields tag='base' for the same input (confirms the bug existed and the new test is a real regression check)Added tests: test_reports_dir_derives_tag_from_path_when_not_passed, test_reports_dir_explicit_tag_overrides_path_derivation in flow/util/test_benchmark_dashboard.py✅ **Document** - passed
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