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  • How to Use This Course
  • Reading Paths
  • Quick Start: Your First Green Build
  • Part 1: How Chips Get Made6
  • Part 2: Your Workstation5
  • Part 3: Specify and Architect3
  • Part 4: The Design Loop6
  • Part 5: The Verification Ladder6
  • Part 6: Automation and Reproducibility5
    • Makefile for the Loop
    • Exit Codes and Pass Markers
    • CI Smoke Test
    • Pinning Tool Versions
    • Smoke vs Nightly
  • Part 7: Hand-Off to the Back-End3
  • Part 8: When Things Go Wrong3
  • Part 9: Project and Next Steps3
  • Reference4
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Part 6 · Automation and Reproducibility · All levels

Part 6: Automation and Reproducibility

How do I make the whole loop rerunnable by anyone, anywhere? Write a Makefile that rebuilds everything and reports pass or fail by exit code.

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    Part 6 answers: How do I make the whole loop rerunnable by anyone, anywhere?

    A flow that only works on one laptop from remembered commands is not engineering. This part captures the loop in a Makefile with pass markers and exit codes, records tool versions and shows which of them can be pinned, and adds a CI smoke test that checks every change.

    It also draws the line between the smoke test that runs on every push and the nightly regression that can afford to take longer.

    After this part you can

    • Write a Makefile that rebuilds everything and reports pass or fail by exit code.

    • Record tool versions and say which of them can and cannot be pinned.

    • Explain what belongs in a smoke test versus a nightly regression.

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    6.1

    Makefile for the Loop

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    6.2

    Exit Codes and Pass Markers

    W · Working

    ready

    6.3

    CI Smoke Test

    W · Working

    ready

    6.4

    Pinning Tool Versions

    W · Working

    ready

    6.5

    Smoke vs Nightly

    W · Working

    ready

    Every lesson in this part is ready. Work through them in order: each one sets up the problem the next one solves.

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    • How to Use This Course
    • Reading Paths
    • Quick Start: Your First Green Build