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Rodrigo Wuerdig

10/13/2021, 3:38 PM
Hey, After installing the whole pdk and openlane I've tried the examples such as SPM and the whole flow worked flawlessly; however, when I tried some other designs, as a small MAC, I've got some errors while doing the "detailed placement". Those were surpassed by tweaking FP_CORE_UTIL and PL_TARGET_DENSITY variables. My question is: I've seen that the standard designs (that come with openlane, e.g., SPM) don't have those variables defined on their config.tcl, so, does openlane need more effort while doing smaller designs? Cheers
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Matt Venn

10/13/2021, 3:45 PM
check the last couple of lines in the config.tcl, you'll see it includes a cell library specific file that sets those parameters
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Rodrigo Wuerdig

10/13/2021, 3:59 PM
Ohhhh. I didn't pay attention to that 😅 Thank you!