Hi! I am trying to place two macros side-by-side. ...
# openlanea
Anuj Dubey
04/26/2022, 1:58 AMHi! I am trying to place two macros side-by-side. However, I see that the nesterov solver is not able to successfully place them; it eventually gives us after 2800 iterations with the following error: [ERROR GPL-0305] RePlAce diverged at newStepLength. Any leads on how can I go about fixing this?
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Vijayan Krishnan
04/26/2022, 5:31 AMFile github issue here: https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenLane/issues with issue_reproducible generated by flow
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Mitch Bailey
04/26/2022, 6:15 AM@User Are you placing the macros manually or attempting to auto place them?
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Anuj Dubey
04/26/2022, 11:14 AM@User: Placing them manually.
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Mitch Bailey
04/26/2022, 11:16 AMMaybe add more space between the macros?
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Anuj Dubey
04/26/2022, 11:23 AMCool I'll try that.
Anuj Dubey
04/26/2022, 1:57 PM@User: I opened the issue in the caravel repo since I was using OpenLane via the caravel_user_project makeflow for my experiment: https://github.com/efabless/caravel_user_project/issues/118
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Vijayan Krishnan
04/27/2022, 5:13 AM@User Thumb rule is whenever you're facing some issue you need to report to respective repo. Example here is while using OpenLane flow facing some issue, report to OpenLane repo, you will get some quick response
Vijayan Krishnan
04/27/2022, 7:45 AM@User set following variable in
config.tclset ::env(PL_BASIC_PLACEMENT) 17 Views