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                                            Ethan Mahintorabi

sta slow at reporting clock skew

Isn't this the thing Antmicro reported

sta slow at reporting clock skew

https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenSTA/pull/220 I think that one

Failing to run globalroute for MegaBoom on Nangate45.

https://github.com/bespoke-silicon-group/bsg_fakeram Is a good place to start if you're trying to generate rams

Failing to run globalroute for MegaBoom on Nangate45.

@oharboe that's true of most SRAMs even foundry provided ones. The user is expected to wrap them in their own logic. For BIST, ECC or whatever. Mocking is also valid,...

Create a decap insertion routine

What's the benefit over just using Decap cells as fill cells? I imagine there's a leakage benefit, but how much?

Create a decap insertion routine

Why not just extend liberty to add a new field?

Create a decap insertion routine

Or read it out of a lef property

Create a decap insertion routine

Yeah, but if the IHP people want to add a property to their LEF that would make setup easier. I think the command is also useful

rsz: fail early if repair_setup sees a hopeless wns (> 4 * the clock …

Will this trigger on super high fan-out nets? Those can often be fixed easily, but have really high wns

rsz: fail early if repair_setup sees a hopeless wns (> 4 * the clock …

Kind of a bad experience though. Can we amend the error message to either check for the presence of high fanout nets, and or let the user know that repair_setup...