Arman A.

> In the meantime, you can create your own solution as a pre_build hook. As of right now its done by Makefile. I had to use Makefiles anyway, because I...

@donn You referring to docs/source/quickstart.rst file only, correct?

UPD: The pull request is ready to be merged

Can you post the full design including verilog if possible?

> can I ask why do you need the full design ? I suspect that it is simply missing connection between the top level power net and the IP.

> but the verilog isn't a factor here, as far as i know. openroad reads a def/lef and pdn commands file and these are the things that affect pdn output...

Yes. There is no check to make sure that the RTL used for RTL-to-GDS flow for the underlying cell matched the parameter-wise referenced cell. There is no check for this....

@maliberty I am fully aware of that. I intentionally crafted this example to show the issues that I had while writing the guide for blackboxing/integrating sub macros. But some users...

P.S: The blackboxes in other tools can't have parameters. They produce an error.

Flow does not generate the SDF files in sta multi corner. There is no current_sdf that can be loaded from single point. There is no one common "libs" variable, so...