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Multiple MinArea, No-Grid and Spacing Errors

Kabal
Kabal over 11 years ago

Using Encounter 13.2

Defined .capTbl, .tch, .lef files, defined timing and other settings in viewdefinition. Got the design placed and routed. Once I start checking the design with verifyGeometry I see hundreds of thousands errors of different type like:

Antenna

MinArea

No-Grid

OffGrid

Spacing

Short

Using the following commands did not help:
setOptMode -fixDRC true
optDesign -preCTS



Then I used these commands:

verifyTracks
generateTracks 
globalDetailRoute


Now the amount of errors after verifyGeometry check reduced to:

18 MinArea errors

171152 No-Grid errors

239 Spacing errors

So I see some improvement but I cannot get it any better yet. Those >170k MinArea errors and 239 Spacing errors tell me that something is wrong maybe with the flow or with the way how the tool interprets constraints. But I am not sure what exactly could be wrong.

The LEF files I am using are from the manufacturer and as they say were tested on many designs (the IBM 7RF Kit). So, I am assuming something is wrong on my side or in the way how I configure something.

Anyone has some ideas where else would be worth looking at? 

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    Kari over 10 years ago
    sounds like verGeom was run on a trialroute instead of a nanoroute
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  • Kari
    Kari over 10 years ago
    sounds like verGeom was run on a trialroute instead of a nanoroute
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