Hi, just tried running

make timing

in the PDK repo and got this conda error:

Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed

ResolvePackageNotFound:
  - netlistsvg
  - yosys

I don’t have experience with conda but can see these listed in environment.yml (presumably from the “symbiflow” channel?). I am on macos if there's a platform specific issue I’m not aware of. I already have yosys and the rest of the OSS FPGA toolchain in

PATH

but would rather stick to the version offered here to avoid any surprises

@drr make in the skywater-pdk gave me the same error. I think the reason was that I was installing on a mac and there was any netlistsvg or yosys package available. What I did was to comment out those 2 lines in the envrionment.yml (filename maybe slightly different) file. Are netlistsvg and yosys actually needed for skywater-pdk installation?

Thanks @User, I just got rid of those two and "make timing" works fine. I wonder if the workflow depends on the yosys in that particular env at a later point though Did you have any luck building magic on macOS? I got a successful configure log (all prerequisites satisfied), build and install and either * It segfaults immediately on startup using "-d OGL/X11" * Or, it immediately exits and shows no window using "-d XR/CAIRO" Interested to hear if any macos users had any luck with the workflow (macos Catalina here)

No couldn't get magic to work on macos. Had to use docker for with noconsole. Run the magic GUI on Windows (downloaded binary). I'll share the setup flow I used to run openlane on macos after I return home.

yes, works fine on mac, but won’t work with Quartz, so you need to install x11 and fix the scripts to build against it.

What I did to install openlane on macos Catalina. (see https://github.com/efabless/openlane) 1. Get openlane

git clone git@github.com:efabless/openlane --branch rc4
    cd openlane
    docker pull efabless/openlane:rc4

There is a Makefile in openlane, and if everything is installed, make in openlane will download and install

skywater-pdks

and

open_pdks

. However, git didn't work inside docker, but the scripts to build the libraries only worked in docker. 2.

export PDK_ROOT=<absolute path to where skywater-pdk and open_pdks will reside>

3. In the openlane directory,

make skywater-pdk 
make open_pdks

This should clone the correct github repos. 4. In the

$PDK_ROOT/skywater-pdk

directory, delete the following lines from

environment.yml

- netlistsvg
- yosys

5. Back in the openlane directory

make skywater-library

6. Start docker

export IMAGE_NAME=efabless/openlane:rc4
    docker run -it -v $(pwd):/openLANE_flow -v $PDK_ROOT:$PDK_ROOT -e PDK_ROOT=$PDK_ROOT -u $(id -u $USER):$(id -g $USER) $IMAGE_NAME

7.

make build-pdk

8. Once everythings completes, you should be able to run the sample

./flow.tcl -design spm

Thanks for the detailed steps, much appreciated

Dear @Mitch Bailey I am using Mac OS Catalina.

what's your PDK_ROOT set to? what command did you execute to get this error?

@Mitch Bailey Thank you...Got it.

Can KL layout view the GDS file?

Yes @Mitch Bailey. Please see the layout view from KL layout of spm.gds.

@b.srinath Srinath So everything's working like you want now? No problems?

Dear @Mitch Bailey, I have doubts. Can I see macros in the layout. ?

@b.srinath Srinath I don't think there are any macros in the spm design. Maybe in a bigger design, but I couldn't tell you which one. I know nothing about timing or power reports. sorry.

thank you @Mitch Bailey .

Did you have any luck building magic on macOS?

Interested to hear if any macos users had any luck with the workflow (macos Catalina here)

Belated reply on this point: I just got the

openlane/alpha-release

docker image version of magic working with XQuartz afaict fine, by installing some fonts and setting up DISPLAY forwarding. More information in links:

Cloning into 'openlane'... Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '13.234.210.38' to the list of known hosts. git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.