The view you re having is the so called `magl

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< U0172QZ342D> The view you re having is the so called `maglef` view which is an abstract one To get magic to load the full views you need to run it with the `MAGTYPE` environment variable set to `mag` instead e g ```MAGTYPE=mag magic rcfile home matt work asic workshop openlane pdks open pdks sky130 sky130A libs tech magic 20200508 sky130A magicrc vga clock mag```

Matt Venn · Answer

ok I tried that and it looks the same

Matt Venn · Answer

still no poly

Matt Venn · Answer

though I get a lot of warnings in magic tcl interface

Ahmed Ghazy · Answer

If you want to see all the layers on the palette try `tech unlock `

Ahmed Ghazy · Answer

Does the layout itself look exactly the same

Matt Venn · Answer

ok here s without the MAGTYPE

Matt Venn · Answer

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Matt Venn · Answer

and here s with

Matt Venn · Answer

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Matt Venn · Answer

tech unlock shows more squares in the palette

Matt Venn · Answer

but it still looks to me like these cells are missing important layers

Ahmed Ghazy · Answer

Yes I just noticed that the warnings show that magic is failing to find the `mag` views so it loads the `maglef` views instead

Matt Venn · Answer

ah ok

Ahmed Ghazy · Answer

The issue has something to do with relative paths used to generate those views This was fixed in yesterday s version which uses absolute paths However if you d like to still load them for now you can create a symbolic link to your `pdks` directory under that directory you re running magic from i e ```mkdir pdks ln s home matt work asic workshop openlane pdks open pdks sky130 sky130A pdks sky130A```

Matt Venn · Answer

same issue but this time magic takes about 10 seconds to print all the warnings there are so many

Matt Venn · Answer

I don t mind updating to the latest version

Matt Venn · Answer

what needs to get updated do I have to re install everything

Matt Venn · Answer

aha I have to have the pdks dir and link inside the same directory as the results from magic

Matt Venn · Answer

now I can see all the layers

Ahmed Ghazy · Answer

openlane and open pdks got updated you can re use your skywater pdk copy still though Note that the instructions on the README are slightly different than before but should give you a cleaner set up The main difference is that you need to define an environment variable `PDK ROOK`

Matt Venn · Answer

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Matt Venn · Answer

yes I saw the new instructions looks clearer

Matt Venn · Answer

I will update it later on and review the instructions