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Special Wires: Pieces of the net are not connected together.

MC202410167019
MC202410167019 1 month ago

Dear all,

 I am trying to do PnR using Innovus and after floorplanning, pin placement and macro placement , i am doing power planning . with this i have stated the global nets VDD VSS, after that created the core ring, macro block ring , strips . Then I did the sroute . But when i check_connectivity -nets {VDD VSS} -type special, i am getting many many errors

check_connectivity -nets {VDD VSS} -type special -ignore_unconnected_pins -error 10000
VERIFY_CONNECTIVITY use new engine.

******** Start: VERIFY CONNECTIVITY ********
Start Time: Wed Apr 29 11:22:36 2026

Design Name: post_proc_core
Database Units: 2000
Design Boundary: (0.0000, 0.0000) (1400.0000, 1000.0200)
Error Limit = 10000; Warning Limit = 50
Check specified nets
*** Checking Net VDD
Net VDD: has special routes with opens, dangling Wire.
*** Checking Net VSS
Net VSS: has special routes with opens, dangling Wire.

Begin Summary  
   1226 Problem(s) (IMPVFC-200): Special Wires: Pieces of the net are not connected together.
   3550 Problem(s) (IMPVFC-94): The net has dangling wire(s).
   4776 total info(s) created.
End Summary


Please help me in this regards, I tried same flow with no macros , and there i was not getting these errors. But with macros , the errors were coming with sroute between the macro channel

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