Product Information
What is Smelt?
Smelt is a simple and scalable task runner, optimized for chip development workflows. It allows for the easy, programmatic definition of any number of test variants, running these tests in parallel, and analyzing their results. Smelt provides straightforward and efficient workflows for both local and distributed computing environments. Distributed as a Python package, Smelt can be installed via: pipx install pysmelt.
Once installed, you can describe your test suite using either a simple YAML schema in files with the .smelt.yaml extension or through Python scripts. Smelt is designed to make running multiple tasks as effortless as possible. To achieve this, every command under Smelt generates a bash script that can be inspected, rerun, and modified. Built specifically for EDA (Electronic Design Automation), Smelt aims to unify "best practices" in testing infrastructure:
- **Programmatic Test Generation**: Use Python to generate tests programmatically
- **Automatic Rerun on Failure**: Specify the computational resources needed to rerun failed tests
- **Analytics API**: Track and reproduce all necessary data for tests
- **Extensible**: Define your tests with a simple Python interface
How to use Smelt?
Smelt is a simple and scalable task runner optimized for chip development workflows. It helps users programmatically define, run test variants in parallel, and analyze results, simplifying the chip development testing process.
Core Functions of Smelt
Python-based
Usage Scenarios of Smelt
- Programmatically define and generate test variants in chip development
- Run numerous tests in parallel for efficiency
- Analyze test results, track, and reproduce test data
- Execute test tasks in local or distributed computing environments
- Automatically rerun failed tests
- Define test lists using YAML or Python
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