Hello, any tips to reduce the time it takes LVS to run? Been looking through this readme https://github.com/efabless/mpw_precheck/blob/main/checks/be_checks/README.md and its not entirely clear to me what options can make it run faster. Thanks in advance!

If you have any srams, LVS is probably stuck in a loop until magic is updated to 8.3.442 or better. Are you running locally or on the platform?

On the platform as in?

Running locally is done with

make run-precheck

. On the platform, is done on the web.

I'm running locally then. And yes, using the gfmpw-1c Makefile

Can you check the magic version used in the precheck docker? Look in the

precheck_results/<tag>/logs

directory for any magic logs.

In /precheck_results/<tag>/logs/tools.info, I'm seeing Magic: 8.3.442. Not seeing any magic logs though.

Can you check your precheck version with

git log

? Installed in

~/mpw_precheck

by default or

PRECHECK_ROOT

if that’s set. If it’s not

gfmpw-1c

the run

make precheck

. Is the LVS job completing but taking a long time?

Precheck version is gfmpw-1c. It's completed on user_proj_example, but I've implemented a small test project that it hasn't completed on.

Can you tell if it’s stuck on extraction or LVS?

The last output is the LVS output directory

LVS can take a while if there’s a serious mis-match. You can look at the current report file to (hopefully) find a clue.