Manual Macro Placement through GUI

[Avyshnavi04]

I'm looking for guidance on how to manually place macros through gui or through the scripts...

• Not able to select the macros all at one shoot
• Not able move manually macro in gui / how can we do through script like boundaries how can given
• detailed instructions on how to perform manual macro placement through the GUI, including any relevant commands and options.

[maliberty]

See https://openroad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/main/src/mpl/README.html#place-macro

The GUI is mostly for viewing and not editing. You can through the inspector set coordinates by hand but it isn't much better than using the command.

[Avyshnavi04]

thank you

[Avyshnavi04]

hi,
well for the manual macro placement by using the command place_macro we are getting like macro position is locked so, I tried by using place_inst -status its not changing .... seen that there is no command to change the placement status of macro .. actually before the auto floorplan need to do the manual macro placement? or how to do that ?

[maliberty]

It is locked before you place it? I'm not sure I understand your question.

[NAGENDRA-ARASAN-K]

It is saying it couldn't find the macro with the specified name though I gave same name from the GUI under Name heading
@maliberty
[ERROR MPL-0020] Couldn't find a macro named b_cpuwrapper_ls_I0/genblk4_CPUWRAPPER_I1/PIPE_I0/pipe_i0/pipe_mmr_intf_i0/pipe_mem_intf_i0/lfu_en_tech_node_65nm_mem_inst_256_gen_mem_i0. [ERROR GUI-0070] MPL-0020

[maliberty]

This would be a lot easier with a test case in an issue. This is all guess-work.

[NAGENDRA-ARASAN-K]

Sorry but I can't get you.