Thread: So that's a port of the I-O cell, right

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2026-07-01T08:10:54.799+00:00 — Chips4Makers aka Staf Verhaegen (@chips4makers)

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2026-07-01T08:10:56.129+00:00 — Chips4Makers aka Staf Verhaegen (@chips4makers)

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The same IO cells can be used with different standard cells with different routing grid so their ports can't be on a routing grid. Also the 90/270 deg rotated ones won't have ports on routing grid.
IMO, it's the job of the routing to route the IO cell ports to the core routing grid.

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