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Site CORE doesn't exist in the search path

ImanKian
ImanKian over 8 years ago

Hello all,

I am importing my design from Encounter13 to Virtuoso (IC.5) in order to apply DRC and LVS checks by Calibre. But before 'streaming in' my design, I imported the LEF files. In icfb, when I do File->Import->LEF, I receive the following warning for every macro in the lef file.
Processing Macro '<cellname>'. *WARNING* Site CORE doesn't exist in search path. Ignored.
How can I get rid of this warning?

Detail info:
First I imported the LEF files, including the header (tech-lef file), then the body-lef file including the macro's info. In the header file I have the following info of the site core:
#------------------------------------------
# site definition for P&R
#------------------------------------------
SITE core
    SYMMETRY y ;
    CLASS CORE  ;
    SIZE 0.400 BY 3.200 ;
END core

In the body-lef file, every macro starts with the lines below:


MACRO <cellname>
    CLASS CORE ;
    FOREIGN <cellname> 0.000 0.000 ;
    ORIGIN 0.000 0.000 ;
    SIZE 2.400 BY 3.200 ;
    SYMMETRY x y   ;
    SITE core ;
    ....
    ....




  

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    ImanKian over 8 years ago
    Well, I found the reason. I just uncommented the statment "NAMECASESENSIUTIVE ON" in the lef file, to avoid the following warning.

    WARNING (LEFPARS-2007): NAMECASESENSITIVE state is obsolete in version 5.6 and later. The LEF parser will ignore this statement.

    I think it is better to live with it and do not remove or uncomment it.
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    ImanKian over 8 years ago
    Well, I found the reason. I just uncommented the statment "NAMECASESENSIUTIVE ON" in the lef file, to avoid the following warning.

    WARNING (LEFPARS-2007): NAMECASESENSITIVE state is obsolete in version 5.6 and later. The LEF parser will ignore this statement.

    I think it is better to live with it and do not remove or uncomment it.
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