markdown/gh_discussions/Query/1732.md

Can the grid/clips in the TritonRoute be exported?

Tool: TritonRoute

Subcategory: Information request

Conversation

Mohamed-Mejri

Hello, I would like to know if the grid can be exported after the processing of the global router output and/or the TA step.

I'm planning on trying some other AI based approaches instead of Heuristics. And if I can export the grid or the clips it would be more helpful.

Any idea/help will be much appreciated!

maliberty

Do you mean the gcell grid? There are messages

"GCELLGRID X {} DO {} STEP {} ;", "GCELLGRID Y {} DO {} STEP {} ;",

that will give you those values. They don't change during drt.

maliberty

The post-processed guides are generated as output_guide.mod in ORFS (controlled by -output_guide). Other internal state of the router is not exported today.

maliberty

Its the same guide format as the input guide file

Mohamed-Mejri

Hello again, I would like to get the access points to each pin in a net and I saw this on another discussion, however, when I tried it the coordinates didn't make sense. For example when I try it on the nangate45 gcd, for the 000 net we have: _000_ ( _672_ D ) ( _504_ ZN ) + USE SIGNAL and the components in the net are _672_ DFF_X2 + PLACED ( 107540 145600 ) N ; and _504_ OAI21_X1 + PLACED ( 107540 148400 ) FS ; and this is the output of the code net 000 ( 46930 141260 ) layerNum 2 metal1 ( 46930 141120 ) layerNum 2 metal1 ( 46740 141260 ) layerNum 2 metal1 ( 51490 146580 ) layerNum 2 metal1 ( 51490 146860 ) layerNum 2 metal1 ( 51490 147140 ) layerNum 2 metal1 ( 51490 147420 ) layerNum 2 metal1 ( 50730 147420 ) layerNum 2 metal1 ( 51870 147420 ) layerNum 2 metal1 ( 51870 147700 ) layerNum 2 metal1 ( 51870 147980 ) layerNum 2 metal1 ( 51110 147420 ) layerNum 2 metal1

So from what I see these coordinates can't be correct, any idea why is this happening?