Contributor workflow

Work from the smallest independently checkable boundary outward:

1. software oracle or arithmetic property;
2. leaf RHDL kernel;
3. stateful component;
4. cluster;
5. production top source simulation;
6. generated-RTL parser and self-checking simulation;
7. isolated synthesis;
8. placement and route; and
9. shell/card execution.

Stop when the evidence required by the change is satisfied. A documentation or software-type change does not authorize an expensive implementation run, while a timing claim cannot stop at source simulation.

The full contribution policy is rendered under Project → Contributing.