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scripts: load CLKGATE_MAP_FILE as lib and techmap it #2439
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Signed-off-by: Emil J. Tywoniak <[email protected]>
We are not currently using |
Looks like the synthesis netlist is chaotically altered and that propagates into some designs not meeting QoR limits. |
Why is there a difference in the netlist versus what we get without this PR? |
Different identifiers inserted by I think those designs affected might be those which instantiate |
With yosys and openroad built from source, I ran They show a 3% increase in cell count and 8% increase in wire bits. Most modules experience no change or minor decrease/increase in cells / wire bits, but |
@maliberty For the nangate45/swerv design something else is happening. In the design Before the PR the feedthrough connection was inserted before equivalent flip-flops would have a chance to get merged, which would also happen for flip-flops with the same data input and the same clock but different enable (since the enable distinction was lost). After the PR the implementation of This can explain what @widlarizer observed
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The main idea is that if you use yosys
clockgate
to map ICGs toOPENROAD_CLKGATE
, you need a blackbox to be present, which is missing at that time since currently it's loaded with-defer
. That leads tocheck
failures due to missing cells afterabc
which this PR fixes. Credit for the idea goes to @povik