This is the third time this week someone asks about STA flow. I have never seen anyone call anything STA flow in the past decade. I assume you mean logic synthesis... if so, yes, you can do it without lef. there is no good reason for it though. if you have the LEF files, just use them.
The design flow should be telling you what you need and
what you need to do, not us. We don't know your tools
(lef and def pertain, I believe, to Synopsys compiler?).
Are we just a substitute for reading documents that you
were supposed to, but are too lazy? Should we maybe
Passive-aggressively teach your friends how to Google. For all those people who find it more convenient to ask you rather than search it themselves. Not associated with Google.
This is the third time this week someone asks about STA flow. I have never seen anyone call anything STA flow in the past decade. I assume you mean logic synthesis... if so, yes, you can do it without lef. there is no good reason for it though. if you have the LEF files, just use them.
you can't reach post route stage without LEF. LEF determines pin locations of the cells. without LEF, there is no routing.
but I stand by my previous comment. if you have LEF files, just use them. this is the industry flow for as long as I can remember. what is the motivation for not using it? I don't get it.