It looks like openlane is inserting the macros via a python open-source-silicon.dev #microwatt

It looks like openlane is inserting the macros via...

Anton Blanchard

12/20/2020, 4:04 AM

It looks like openlane is inserting the macros via a python script into the database, whereas openroad is doing it via TritonMacroPlace

Anton Blanchard

12/20/2020, 4:08 AM

I guess that's for automatic macro placement, which is not what we want

Anton Blanchard

12/20/2020, 7:18 AM

Having said that, there is a lot of intelligence in TritonMacroPlace, including halos and aligning

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