I'm having problems following the instructions with open_pdk

Hi @Matt Venn, according to the instructions in the readme of openlane, you should have both open_pdks and skywater-pdk under pdks so the structure should be as follows:

openlane_working_dir
├── pdks
   ├── skywater-pdk
   ├── open_pdks
├── openlane

then all you have to do is go inside open_pdks and run

make
make install-local

thanks

This is normal because it tries to search for all variants and all types of cells, while for example in the screen you see it can't find the sky130_fd_io library cells. That's because this library hasn't been added yet to the skywater-pdk. Also if you only installed one library/pdk-variant from the skywater-pdk it will still look for others and will not find them, which is normal. We will work on that on later versions of open_pdks and try to make the Makefile more targeted. However, as long as under open_pdks/sky130/sky130A/libs.ref/lib/<library name>/ you find the .lib files, then it probably finished successfully

yes I only installed 1 variant

@User: I assume you're referring to:

Extracting spm into spm.ext:
Completed 5%
Completed 10%
Completed 16%
Completed 21%
Completed 26%
Completed 31%
Completed 36%
Completed 41%
Completed 47%
Completed 52%
Completed 57%
Completed 62%
Completed 67%
Completed 72%
Completed 78%
Completed 83%
Completed 88%
Completed 93%
Completed 98%
Completed 100%
spm: 12417 warnings
Total of 12417 warnings.

Those are very verbose magic warnings; as long as there are no fatal errors, there's nothing to worry about.

Hi @Matt Venn.. can u share a snap of ur "docker run" command? Just want to verify the mount volumes. My pdks volume seems empty.

hi @Nickson Jose - is this what you wanted?

Hi @Matt Venn..this is from inside the container right? Can u send me the snap of "docker run" command which u executed from the linux terminal?

I just copied this exactly from the instructions

And u executed the above command from ~/openlane_working_dir/ path?

yes, so I have the openlane directory and the pdks directory

Had initially suspected that..but the structure seems fine..hope the below pic is clear

image.png

Yeah

sanity check

@Matt Venn..thanks a lot.. I can see huge difference in file count compared to urs..I will try implementing the flow once again

well that's not too much of a difference!