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Placement, Tool Commands

The document describes various placement related commands in ICC2 and Innovus EDA tools. In ICC2, commands are provided for defining magnet placement, setting keepout distances, defining move bounds, and specifying placement effort and density. Innovus commands include specifying scan chains, performing placement and optimization, setting congestion effort, creating density screens, and reporting timing and congestion information. Commands in both tools allow defining constraints, running placement, and analyzing results.

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Placement, Tool Commands

The document describes various placement related commands in ICC2 and Innovus EDA tools. In ICC2, commands are provided for defining magnet placement, setting keepout distances, defining move bounds, and specifying placement effort and density. Innovus commands include specifying scan chains, performing placement and optimization, setting congestion effort, creating density screens, and reporting timing and congestion information. Commands in both tools allow defining constraints, running placement, and analyzing results.

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Placement Commands

Sanity checks in Placement( ICC2 TOOL)


 Check_lagality --------------->> Checks the legality of the current placement

 Check_design -------------->> Runs pre-defined or user-defined checks on current design

 Check_scan_chain ------->> Allows scan chain structural consistency checking based on the scan
chain information stored in the current design

 Report_design-------------->> Reports netlist, floorplan, routing, and library information for the
current block
 Report_threshold_voltage_groups-->> Reports statistics on cell count and area by threshold
voltage group names.

 Report_timing ------------------->> Displays timing information about a design.

 Report_power -------------------->> Calculates and reports dynamic and static power for the design
or instance

 Report_qor ------------------------->> Displays QoR information and statistics for the current design.

Sanity checks in Placement ( INNOVUS TOOL):

 checkPlace----------------------->> For violation Caused by preplaced cells or block

 checkDesign -all---------------------->> Runs pre-defined or user-defined checks on current design

 report_power ----------------------->> To generate power report

 timeDesign – preplace ---------------->>To get an idea of Zero Wire Load timing of the design

 Report_timing ------------------->> Displays timing information about a design.

ICC-II PALACEMENT RELATED COMMANDS:

Magnet_placement –logical_level 1 { [get_ports* ] * [all_macro_cells*] } ---------->> to define magnet


placement to macros and I/O’s to improve congestion and timing.

Set_app_var physopt_hard_keepout_distance 10------------------>> setting a keepout margin, is a region


around the boundary of fixed cells in a block in which no other cells are placed.

Printvar physopt_hard_keepout_distance ----------------------------->> To define an outer keepout margin


for hard Macro
Create_bound –name bound_1 –effort medium (cell name *)--------------------->> To define a move bound
(To define the boundaries of these shapes)

set place.coarse.congestion_deriven_max_util ------------------------------------->> Specify a maximum


utilization that controls how densely the tool can place cells

set place.coarse.max_density ----------------------------------------------->> Specify a maximum density that


controls how densely the tool can place cells

create_placement –timing_driven –continue_on_missing_scandef ------->> for global placement

place_opt –effort medium –area –power –skip_initial_placement –continue_on_missing_scandef ---------


----->> detail placement (legal placement)

INNOVUS PALACEMENT RELATED COMMANDS:

specifyScanChain scan1 -start { } –stop { } --------------------->>To specify the scan chain in the design

placeDesign --------------------------------->> place the standard cells in the core area

placeDesign - incremental------------------->>Placement incremental to spread out cells

optDesign –preCTS---------------------->> optimize the setup and congestion violation in the placement
stage

setPlaceMode –congEffort high---------->> set congestion effort to high prior to running PlaceDesign

congRepair command------------------>> an incremental placement based on the trialRoute congestion


results

setPlaceMode –modulePadding module factor--------------------->> Specifies a module that needs


padding(Placement Clearance)

createDensityArea { x1 y1 x2 y2} factor------------------>> to create density screens,also known as partial

placement blockages.

generate_fence ---------------------->> To create the bounds to overcome congestion


timeDesign -preCTS -prefix prects -drvReports -expandReg2Reg –slackReports ---------->> Generate
number of violating paths in setup mode

reportCongestion -overflow => reports the overflow of congestion

describeCongestion => reports horizontal and vertical congestion

report_timing – path_type {end_slack_only }– late - max_paths { }

report_timing – path_type {end_slack_only }– early - max_paths { }

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