How to make nanoroute understand "USEMINSPACING"

Hi,
Try the following:
setNanoRouteMode -quiet drouteUseMinSpacingForBlockage false

If the "thick blockage" is memory, those min_step violations you see maybe false, because LEF doesn't show the real route of the memory, and the blockage you see is not "thick". The final DRC checks are performed with GDS and not with LEF

Hi Stalker,

Thanks for the tip. I try the setting, and it works around 95% of the time! For example, if I don't use this setting, I get 100 violations. If I use the setting, I get much less violations, about 5.

With or without the settings, nanroute finished with 0 violations. Something else is still strange...

Regards,
Eng Han

It is possible that Nanoroute still did not see those 5 violationsblockages as fat blockages. In lef5.6 syntax, you can make those blockages with the spacing you want. You can check the lef reference doc. As for why Nanoute did not see the violation, one possible answer is that those are power wire with slotting and the lef is modeled it as thin blockage.

li siang

Hi,

I look at the remaing violations and observed that they are of the same type.

The violation is between routed M4 with M4 pin (from the lef). The M4 pin is a power net. When this M4 pin tape to a wide M3 pin (also in the lef), spacing from the VIA34 has to obey wide metal spacig. It look like nanorouter does not understanding this while verifyGeometry detct the error.For now, I am not sure if nanoroute is correct or verifyGeometry is correct.

Regards,
Eng Han