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mpw-8a

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Can we submit new projects or is it only open for the prior submission?

MPW-8 is for new projects and resubmissions.

correct

Which PDK should be used for it, sky130A or sky130B? Thanks.

@jeffdi @Matt Venn I followed the instructions to setup a new caravel project, but it misses the critical step to switch to the correct tag in your git clone. Please, how can I switch the tags?

git checkout mpw-8b

does NOT work.

Yes the generate thing is not going to work for fetching a particular tag. You need to clone the repo and then checkout mpw-8b. I've already let @jeffdi know

@Matt Venn Do you have a recipe that works for setting up a repo for MPW-8? Please, I set up a repo now a few times and I got stuck on one or the other end. This is exhausting.

This is the workflow I'm using to test main branch - https://github.com/mattvenn/project0_test/blob/main/.github/workflows/install-main.yaml

Thanks for the recipe! However, when I follow it, I struck again one of the errors that I see:

Harald@macpretl mpw8-test % make user_proj_example
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make -C openlane user_proj_example
# user_proj_example
mkdir -p ./user_proj_example/runs/22_11_25_14_35
rm -rf ./user_proj_example/runs/user_proj_example
ln -s $(realpath ./user_proj_example/runs/22_11_25_14_35) ./user_proj_example/runs/user_proj_example
docker run -it -v $(realpath /Users/Harald/src/mpw8-test/..):$(realpath /Users/Harald/src/mpw8-test/..) -v /Users/Harald/src/mpw8-submission/dependencies/pdks:/Users/Harald/src/mpw8-submission/dependencies/pdks -v /Users/Harald/src/mpw8-test/caravel:/Users/Harald/src/mpw8-test/caravel -v /Users/Harald/src/mpw8-submission/dependencies/openlane_src:/openlane -v /Users/Harald/src/mpw8-test/mgmt_core_wrapper:/Users/Harald/src/mpw8-test/mgmt_core_wrapper -e PDK_ROOT=/Users/Harald/src/mpw8-submission/dependencies/pdks -e PDK=sky130A -e MISMATCHES_OK=1 -e CARAVEL_ROOT=/Users/Harald/src/mpw8-test/caravel -e OPENLANE_RUN_TAG=22_11_25_14_35 -e MCW_ROOT=/Users/Harald/src/mpw8-test/mgmt_core_wrapper -u 501:20 \
		efabless/openlane:2022.11.19 sh -c "flow.tcl -design $(realpath ./user_proj_example) -save_path $(realpath ..) -save -tag 22_11_25_14_35 -overwrite -ignore_mismatches"
OpenLane cb59d1f84deb5cedbb5b0a3e3f3b4129a967c988
All rights reserved. (c) 2020-2022 Efabless Corporation and contributors.
Available under the Apache License, version 2.0. See the LICENSE file for more details.

[WARNING]: OpenLane may not function properly: The version of open_pdks used in building the PDK does not match the version OpenLane was tested on (installed: 0059588eebfc704681dc2368bd1d33d96281d10f, tested: 3af133706e554a740cfe60f21e773d9eaa41838c)
This may introduce some issues. You may want to re-install the PDK by invoking `make pdk`.
[ERROR]: Design /Users/harald/src/mpw8-test/openlane/user_proj_example not found.
make[1]: *** [user_proj_example] Error 255
make: *** [user_proj_example] Error 2

If I understand correctly, git checkout mpw-8b will not work because this tag doesn't exist in your generated repo. The easiest solution, AFAIK, is that you fork instead of generating, then checkout mpw-8b will work.

I'm not seeing this happen on the clean VMs in the github actions, so it could be you have old environment variables set?

The directory is there, is is a straight clone from the caravel repo.

yes and I see it making a new directory insdie, which would fail if it wasn't

@Harald Pretl are you at the project when you run

make user_proj_example

?

@jeffdi After a bit of debugging I could localize the fail: If I use these instructions here https://caravel-user-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ everything works nicely on Ubuntu. If I run them on MacOS I get this fail: