@Tim Edwards gf180mcuC: M5.1 says 0.28um , KLayout DRC checks for 0.28um, but magic checks for 0.36um

Metal 5 is top level metal at 9KAngstrom thickness (0.9um), so the rule that needs to be applied is MT.1, not M5.1.

True, then we need to fix the KLayout DRC, which likely uncovers more issues in other projects too!

@Amro Tork Should we exclude top metal from Mn table rules and check it only in MT DRC table ? For example: 5LM --> Mn table for M1 : M4 & MT table for M5 4LM --> Mn table for M1 : M3 & MT table for M4 and so on

That would be preferred. I assume that since the thick metal rules are more conservative, that it is not incorrect to run both decks on M5, but it certainly is wasting compute cycles. Plus, if a violation is bad enough to break both sets of rules, then the end user is going to be confronted with two different results for the same error, which will be confusing.