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GPL: call global routing during timing-driven flow to estimate parasitics
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Timing-driven placement relies only on placement parasitics on all of its iterations. This can result in bad placement that will generate critical paths later in the flow that are hard to solve without too many buffers.
By introducing GRT calls during timing-driven placement, the parasitics used on it will be closer to the parasitics from later stages of the flow. This way, GPL can optmize and prevent critical paths that are only detected on the routing stage today.
PR https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/pull/9361 introduces some updates on the APIs used by timing-driven placement to make it aware of global routing parasitics.
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Issue https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/issues/9363 is a potential blocker for this new feature, as the fullyRebuffer function is used during the timing-driven placement flow.
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