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New N40 Place and Route Guideline SOC Encounter

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Overview
Mx.S.5.1 Rule Non-FILLER1 Gap

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Placement Check Filler Insertion

Consecutive FILLER1 check

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Mx.S.5.1 Rule
Background

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Mx.S.5.1 : LEF doesnt allow two ENDOFLINE PROPERTY in one LEF file in older version, need to merge two ENDOFLINE rule into one LEF

Syntax

### New M2.S.5 and M2.S.5.1 rules PROPERTY LEF57_SPACING "SPACING 0.10 ENDOFLINE 0.10 WITHIN 0.035 PARALLELEDG E 0.10 WITHIN 0.10 MINLENGTH 0.07 ; SPACING 0.12 ENDOFLINE 0.10 WITHIN 0.035 PAR ALLELEDGE 0.12 WITHIN 0.10 MINLENGTH 0.07 ENCLOSECUT BELOW 0.05 CUTSPACING 0.15 ;"; ### End M2.S.5 and M2.S.5.1 rules

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New Placement options

New commands and options (highlight in red)
addFillerGap <minGap-in-micron> [-effort <medium | high> -mvFlop setPlaceMode <...> [-fillerGapEffort <none|medium|high>] [-fillerGapMinGap <micron>] addFiller <...> [-fitGap <true|false>] setFillerMode <...> [-fitGap <true|false> checkFiller [-reportGap <micron>] [-hilite] [-clearHilite] [-adjacentFiller1]*

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Flow 1 Example: Without filler1 in library

<Load-Design> setPlaceMode -fillerGapEffort high -fillerGapMinGap 0.28 setFillerMode -core <filler-cell-list-with-NO-filler1> -fitGap true placeDesign optDesign preCts clockDesign Or if {![checkFiller -reportGap 0.14]} { clockDesign addFillerGap -mvFlop // allow addFillerGap to move flops optDesign postCts addFillerGap -mvFlop } addFiller checkFiller -reportGap 0.14 globalDetailRoute optDesign postRoute checkFiller -reportGap 0.14 ...
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Flow 2 Example: With filler1 in library

<Load-Design> (with condition to not use it in 'adjacent' position) setPlaceMode -fillerGapEffort medium -fillerGapMinGap 0.28 setFillerMode -core <filler-cell-list-with-filler1> -fitGap true placeDesign optDesign preCts clockDesign optDesign postCts addFiller checkFiller -adjacentFiller1 globalDetailRoute optDesign postRoute checkFiller ...
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Initial Design Stage

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Placement
Commands

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setPlaceMode -fillerGapEffort high -fillerGapMinGap 0.28 User will need to specify the gap which is 2 sites gap In this example, the 1 site gap is 0.14

setFillerMode -core {FILL2BWP FILL3BWP FILL4BWP FILL8BWP FILL16BWP FILL32BWP FILL64BWP} -fitGap true User will need to specify the fillers for the design setPlaceMode fillerGapMoveFlop true -fillerGapMoveFlop will allow moving of FIXED flops, to resolve 1 site gap between fixed cells Equivalent to: addFillerGap -moveFlop

placeDesign running placement

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Check Filler
Commands

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checkFiller [-reportGap <micron>] User will need to specify the 1 site gap Example: checkFiller -reportGap 0.14 In this example, the 1 site gap is 0.14 Tool will report back 1 for non 1 site gap found and 0 for 1 site gap found during checking

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addFillerGap
Commands

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addFillerGap <minGap-in-micron> [-effort <medium | high>] [-moveFlop true|false] User will need to specify the minimum gap size moveFlop setting to true will allow moving fixed flop cells to resolve 1 site gap space between them Example: addFillerGap 0.28 -moveFlop true In this example, the 1 site gap is 0.14, the minGap will be 0.28 Tool will move the fixed flop cells with 1 site gap between them

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Place Stage
checkFiller reports no 1 site gap

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preCTS Stage
checkFiller reports no 1 site gap

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CTS Stage

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postCts Stage

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No 1 site gap

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Route Stage
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FILL2BWP

FILL2BWP with Special wire turned off

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Filler Insertion
Commands

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addFiller setFillerMode must be specified before issue addFiller Example: setFillerMode -core {FILL2BWP FILL3BWP FILL4BWP FILL8BWP FILL16BWP FILL32BWP FILL64BWP} -fitGap true addFiller

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addFiller Stage -1

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Fillers have been added by addFiller command checkFiller reports no 1 site gap

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addFiller Stage -2
checkFiller reports no 1 site gap

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Consecutive FILLER1 check

checkFiller -adjacentFiller1 reports

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Numbers of adjacent Filler1 violations Highlighted the violations Reports the location setFillerMode -core {FILL64BWP FILL32BWP FILL16BWP FILL8BWP FILL4BWP FILL3BWP FILL2BWP FILL1BWP} fitGap true

Example:

Filler1 must be added using the setFillMode to check if Filler1BWP is in list return value 0 for violation to highlight the violations and reports location of violations encMessage info 1needs to turn on setting to see detail information from -verbose to remove the highlighted violation

getFillerMode core

checkFiller -adjacentFiller1

checkFiller -adjacentFiller1 hilite verbose

checkFiller clearHilite

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checkFiller -adjacentFiller1

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Adjacent Filler1violations have been highlighted

checkFiller reports numbers of adjacent Filler1 violations Highlighted the violations Reports the location

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