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Add support for `techlef` `SpacingRange` feature

Open mithro opened this issue 3 years ago • 5 comments

The GF180MCU PDK has the SpacingRange features (?) in its techlef file. It would be good for the OpenROAD tooling to support this.

See report from @kareefardi @ https://github.com/RTimothyEdwards/open_pdks/issues/277

mithro avatar Sep 04 '22 19:09 mithro

The related rule appears to be here:

LAYER Metal1
    # ...

    MINWIDTH 0.230 ;                   # Mn.1  (n=1)
    WIDTH 0.230 ;                      # Mn.1  (n=1)
    SPACING 0.230  ;                   # Mn.2a (n=1)
    SPACING 0.300 RANGE 10.005 999.00 ; # Mn.2b
    
    # ...
END Metal1

This will very rarely if ever impact DRT correctness because it only applies to metals with width > 10.005 um, which is way out of range of the 0.230 um default width.

That being said, since we support spacing tables, I don't think this should be too difficult to implement?

rovinski avatar Sep 04 '22 20:09 rovinski

This is only going to be relevant for pdngen @arlpetergadfort

maliberty avatar Sep 04 '22 21:09 maliberty

@maliberty the warning about not being supported is in DRT:

https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/blob/5140e61103f7c01ccad05718f746fc598c0581bb/src/drt/src/io/io.cpp#L1633-L1634

rovinski avatar Sep 04 '22 21:09 rovinski

@maliberty if it's implemented in https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/blob/bbf00fa504cb847866c9f91d641a4a0ad53f45ed/src/odb/include/odb/db.h#L7032 PDNGEN would honor it.

gadfort avatar Sep 04 '22 21:09 gadfort

I don't think this represents a real barrier to gf180 bring up. PDN supports it and drt will only hit it with some extreme NDR of the sort we never use. I'll leave it open but as a low priority.

maliberty avatar Sep 06 '22 20:09 maliberty

As GF180 implemented with OpenROAD flow, is the issue still relevant?

vijayank88 avatar Jun 19 '23 11:06 vijayank88

We still don't support it in drt but I don't think this will ever get to the top of the priority list.

maliberty avatar Jun 19 '23 11:06 maliberty