Hi, are there any resources on instantiating macros with

VERILOG_BLACKBOX_FILES

without explicitly specifying instance locations in

macro.cfg

? I've tried pushing

user_project_wrapper

through after deleting

FP_PDN_MACRO_HOOKS

and

MACRO_PLACEMENT_CFG

to see if the tool could do it on its own, but I'm getting a cryptic error and am not sure what is going wrong.

[INFO DRT-0199]   Number of violations = 1.
Viol/Layer        met4
Short                1

Cryptic errors are not good, but I don't think there's a way of instantiation a macro without also setting a location

@Edmund Lam The error is stating that after the detailed routing step there is one violation - a short on the metal4 layer. There may be another file that has the location.

@Matt Venn is there no way for the tool to place the macros for me? I am building a module with many reuses of the same macro but it is parametrized and I would ideally want the tool to figure out the best placement...

not that I know of