Mohamed Gaber

Use spef_extractor OpenRCX rulesets instead of magic RCX rulesets

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The magic RCX rulesets are showing timing violations: https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenLane/actions/runs/2000464858 According to @mkkassem, these are inaccurate. The new ones should be installed in their place, which are available at https://github.com/efabless/openrcx-calibration/tree/main/openrcx-spef_extractor for...

~ `openroad_app` -> `0889970` --- Resolves https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/issues/4647

Review commands affecting SDC files

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### Description Some commands ran by the flow may alter the contents of generated SDC files, for example: * `unset_dont_touch` may interfere with configurations set by users' SDC files. Since...

### Description Other than `CTS_MAX_CAP` (which is expressly for clock-tree synthesis which benefits from a different constraint,) there is no way to set max capacitance with the default SDC file,...

### Description The documentation has a number of outdated sections and/or broken links. ### Proposal The documentations should have in-date sections and functional links.

Units situation is a mess

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### Description OpenLane and its invocation of tools makes too many assumptions about the library being used. Preliminarily analysis shows that there are three units widely used by variables: *...

Dumping estimated parasitics as SPEF

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### Description You can run `estimate_parasitics` prior to RCX extraction with OpenROAD, however, there isn't a way to dump this data to a SPEF file as far as we can...

PSM power grid check lists false-positive disconnected nodes inside macros

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### Describe the bug Trying a smoke-test multi-macro design with core rings: `check_power_grid -net VPWR` reports a multitude of disconnected PDN nets. Key is, the nets are not in fact...

### Describe the bug Fallout from https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/pull/2914: the removal of `using namespace std;` causes compilation to fail with these messages: ```log /Users/donn/efabless/openroad/build/src/ant/src/CMakeFiles/ant_py.dir/AntennaChecker-pyPYTHON_wrap.cxx:8233:3: error: no template named 'vector'; did you mean...