Hey everyone!! I am trying to do manual macro placement using ORFS. I could see a variable MACRO_PLACEMENT in macro_palce.tcl file. What needs to given to this variable?

Only for automatic macro placement and more than one macro need of HALO and CHANNEL values. For manual macro placement use macro position to place with proper spacing

@Vijayan Krishnan that is not correct. The halo is still used to create a placement blockage around the macro, even if manually placed

@Matt Liberty @Vijayan Krishnan I have done the manual macro placement and also created an voltage domain where macros are placed correctly . I am getting an error at detailed placement. Attaching the log file for same.

@Pranav Lulu Share me

<http://config.mk|config.mk>

also file a github issue with test case and share me the link. I will look into that

@Vijayan Krishnan Here's the config file

Update following setting and try once

export CELL_PAD_IN_SITES_GLOBAL_PLACEMENT = 1
export CELL_PAD_IN_SITES_DETAIL_PLACEMENT = 0

Tried with above setting. No change in error.

from your log:

OpenROAD v2.0-4543-g5666af3f6

which is from commit 5666af3f673816a44faf0765c7f75d34bf1fc564 Date: Sat Jul 30 225109 2022 -0700 so you did not update OR

I actually updated the OR but i don't know why ORFS is taking older version. I could see the file updated.I once again tried to update the ORFS with --latest flag so Openroad is updated I got into this error

@Vitor Viana Bandeira any suggestions for above error?

probably some old files from a previous build? try to remove

tools/install

folder and run

./build_openroad.sh

again. This might also help:

git clean -d -x -i
git submodule foreach --recursive git clean -d -x -i

@Vitor Viana Bandeira @Vijayan Krishnan OR got updated and also I got the error resolved. Actually I had to copy the updated openroad file from tools/install/OpenROAD/bin to home/pranav/bin. I don't know for some reason the ORFS is taking the later path.

setup.sh should update your path, did you source it?