above housekeeping, because the upper GPIO pins are in the wrong
place relative to the new GPIO signal routing below the SoC.
Added pins for the pass-through connections. Unconnected/
unrouted OEB pins are still not present and probably should be
removed from the RTL.
Corrected one instance where a buffer had incorrectly been replaced
with a decap cell. Moved the left-hand side in by 0.6um to clear
the chip_io connections on the left-hand side. Corrected a small
DRC error in a route position at the bottom.
based on feedback from tim in order to generate a lef view
with a zero origin and avoid any hacks
+ add caravel_power_routing lef
+ sync caravel_power_routing gds and mag
+ add custom interactive script to insert a buffer on user_clk output
and have a large buffer on core_clk
~ change pdn config to match top level
~ change sdc
~ change openlane configuration
"-hide" option, but was also missing the metals 2 and 3 over the
substrate contact, allowing routes on those layers to short to
the actual layout. The new LEF properly reflects the current
version of the POR layout.
- reimplement using a sparecell
- reimplement using newest open_pdks
!important using openlane pre odb with some local patches which
most if not all are merged in the current head of openlane however
still takes effort to update the interactive script to be latest
openlane compatible
!important override abstract lef generated by openlane. openlane
generates lef and mag that contain def BLOCKAGE layers that cause
congestions during top level routing
view of constant_block which was recently merged into the repository.
The constant_block instance positions and connections were modified
slightly to avoid routing over obstruction areas.
- rtl updated
~ add one column to the right to pass placement congestion
~ density adjusted (probably has no effect)
+ manually add isosubstrate layer in mag and gds from older iterations
!important still need to run dynamic simulations
!important depends on some updates to openlane
!important need to be able to recreate using newer openlane versions