Route guide
Beginner
The rough plan for one connection that the planning pass hands to the exact pass.
Novice
The output of global routing for one net: a set of rectangles, each a run of GCells on one layer, that the detailed router should keep that net’s wires inside.
Expert
A per-net list of GCell-aligned rectangles with a layer each. TritonRoute reads them in the ISPD-2018/2019 contest format. Detailed routers may stray outside the guides at a cost, so comparing guide coverage with final wiring shows how well the global model matched reality.