Manual macro placement configuration not read by RTLMP2

[vijayank88]

Subject

Describe the bug

Based fixed macro location with macro.cfg RTLMP flow not placing in right co-ordinates.

Expected Behavior

Macros should be placed based on export MACRO_PLACEMENT = ./designs/$(PLATFORM)/$(DESIGN_NICKNAME)/macro.cfg

Environment

with latest master

To Reproduce

Due to file size limit uploaded here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rvno9adoQkzrV6ewoT_LXogtc1EgWzr4/view?usp=share_link

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[maliberty]

If you manually place the macros then you shouldn't be using rtlmp.

[vijayank88]

Thanks @maliberty.

We have requested documentation for RTLMP tool from @ravi-varadarajan.

The issues was reported by Jignesh from USC_ext.

[ravi-varadarajan]

This is an enhancement request. mpl2 should be able to handle cases where some of the macros are pre-placed

[maliberty]

The issue is that orfs doesn't call mpl2 when you give a config file as it assumes all macros are placed.

[ravi-varadarajan]

This check to read the manual macro placement is only for TMP and not for rtlmp2. I will add it to mpl2 too in macro_place.tcl. However we will need to support some of the macros being pre-placed in the flow. I will create an enhancement request and assign it to me.

[vijayank88]

@ravi-varadarajan Any update on this?

[maliberty]

There are two different things here

• MACRO_PLACEMENT_TCL/MACRO_PLACEMENT should be used even if RTLMP_FLOW is set which is a trivial change. I can do this.
• mpl2 should support partial macro placement which is probably a lot of work. This will be an enhancement request to OR. @ravi-varadarajan did you open one as you said?