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Your move every option was run

A design is in a particular state and something has to change. Pick the change you would make, and see what each of them actually did, because every option here was run. Nothing is anybody's opinion: the best answer is whichever run came out best on the stated measure.

SourceEach option in these situations is a run of the same design with one thing changed, and the table you see afterwards is what those runs produced. The answer is whichever run came out best on the measure the question names, which is not always the change that sounds most sensible.

Every situation

A mixed round across all of them.

20situations across 7 kinds

mixed roundplay

Closing timing

The block misses its target. Which lever actually moves it?

clock targetinterface budgetroomrepair effortlogic depth

7 situations play

Routing pressure

The wires do not have room. What relieves it?

layersutilizationspreadingwhat it costs at scale

2 situations play

Area and density

Somebody wants the block smaller. Which knob actually does that?

utilizationsynthesis objectivewhat area means

2 situations play

The power grid

The supply sags. What brings it back?

gridfrequencyspreadingcurrent

3 situations play

Floorplan

The shape of the block before a single cell is placed.

macro keep-outaspect ratio

2 situations play

Placement

Where the cells go, and the passes that decide it on your behalf.

timing-drivenroutability-drivendensity at scale

2 situations play

Repair

The tools fix what they can. How much of that effort is worth paying for?

effortgate cloningpin swapping

2 situations play