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regfile: why a register file placed as a macro needs a bigger core (study) - #1221

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Commits on Oct 12, 2026
- test/regfile/riscv32i: the register file's shapes on riscv32i, and an area ledger
  
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- test/regfile/riscv32i: netlist_service0, the register file without service columns
  
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- test/regfile/riscv32i: narrow, every shape with 2 um macro channels
  
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- regfile: mode netlist's abstract is its core, with a row halo
  
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- test/regfile/riscv32i: netlist at 55 %, where the cropped abstract tiles
  
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- regfile: generate_regfile's tests read //test's asap7 files, and run here
  
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- regfile: periphery generator|verilog, who builds the periphery
  
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- regfile: periphery verilog in mode netlist, the core a macro of its own
  
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- lib_to_verilog: tristate outputs, quoted state variables, blocks per branch
  
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- ram: generate_ram with more than one write port (patch 0011)
  
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- ram: generate_ram reads through AND-OR trees without tristates (patch 0012)
  
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- ram: generate_ram -zero_word, a word that reads 0 (patch 0013)
  
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- ram: generate_ram -reset_value, an asynchronous reset (patch 0014)
  
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- ram: generate_ram -banks, -bank_columns, -bank_order (patch 0015)
  
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- ram: generate_ram -rb_ports, banked read ports (patch 0016)
  
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- ram: generate_ram -read_latency, registered read addresses (patch 0017)
  
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- ram: generate_ram -write_style mux, a hold mux per bit (patch 0018)
  
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- ram: generate_ram_netlist -periphery unplaced (patch 0019)
  
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- ram: generate_ram -cells and -name (patch 0020)
  
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- regfile: AUTO_MEMORIES_REGFILES through generate_ram (ORFS 0109, OpenROAD 0021)
  
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- ram: generate_ram -bit_folds, a word in rows (patch 0022)
  
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- regfile: fold a register file that comes out a long strip (ORFS 0109)
  
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- ram: -bit_folds stacks a column's input buffers a row a fold (patch 0022)
  
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- ram: generate_ram_netlist -periphery verilog (patch 0023; ORFS 0109)
  
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- regfile: kept macros and ibex through generate_ram (ORFS 0109)
  
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- regfile: drop patch 0010, everything on generate_ram
  
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