@User So through rather ugly hacking of PdnGen.tcl I managed to get it to generate the grid outside of where it thinks the grid should be ... Then carefully selecting pitch and offset, I make sure some fo the

met4

lines go btween the SRAMs so the

met5

connections are actully connected. And then it does auto via to the SRAM ...

Nice! Can you anyway share the hack (or PR a clean one at OpenROAD)? Are you simply exempting any macro (LEF

CLASS BLOCK

) from the line you shared earlier?

I Literally just hard coded the

get_stdcell_area

return value ... so ... not exactly something you can use anywehere else. 😕