I'm trying to harden my design and I'm choosing option 2 from (https://github.com/efabless/caravel/blob/master/openlane/README.md) so that I can just plug in my design's verilog files and they're processed as part of the entire flow (e.g., synthesis, STA, CTS, routing, etc). I don't have any macros, just all verilog files. I have a couple of questions: 1.) Do I place my verilog design files under the

VERILOG_FILES

or

VERILOG_FILES_BLACKBOX

? 2.) Do I need to specify the

EXTRA_LEFS

and

EXTRA_GDS_FILES

even though I don't have any macros that are hardened? For this I don't understand why there are LEF and GDS files specified before they're generated. I have removed

add_macro_placement mrpj 1150 1700 N

and

manual_macro_placement f

from the interactive script. Thanks.

@Matt Aamold Did you do this:

Remove this line add_macro_placement mprj 1150 1700 N from the interactive script here and replace it with the placement for your macro instances. Or, remove it entirely if you have no macros, along with this line manual_macro_placement f.

(step 3)?

Yes, I have removed

add_macro_placement mrpj 1150 1700 N

and

manual_macro_placement f

from the interactive script.

@Matt Aamold: Yes, I will look into the issues soon. Sorry about the delay, things are moving fast.

No problem, I understand. Thanks for looking into it.

@Matt Aamold: I think I know the issue here. There are more changes that has to be done in the interactive script in order for it to work with stdcells. Sorry for that. I'll try out your design (SweeperAA, I assume), and update the documentation.

Yes, that's correct.

@Matt Aamold: For the magic issue, you probably ran out of RAM (that's what

kill signal

usually mean in unix based systems).

Ahmed Ghazy got back to me on it and he thinks it's an issue in magic that has been fixed in version

8.3.91

. I'm going to try it out a little later.

@Matt Aamold: I'm sorry I forgot to reply here. I updated the documentation in what changes needs to be done in the interactive script to run it with a different user_project_wrapper/user_proj_example. these changes have been pushed to master.