Coriolis VLSI CAD Tools
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Those are circuits that we know of because their designers were kind enough to inform us (it is not comprehensive).
Binary packages are avalaibles for the following distributions:
Pull & install the packages from the repository:
root@home:~# yum install alliance alliance-libs alliance-doc
That's all folks. Alliance is ready to use.
Note
With the packaged version of Alliance, files and directories are not at the same places as in the default install. They have been made compliant with the fhs.
| binaries | /usr/lib/alliance/bin |
| cell libraries | /usr/share/alliance/cells |
| man pages | /usr/share/alliance/man |
| tutorials & examples | /usr/share/doc/alliance-5.0/ |
Environment variables should be automatically set.
Alliance is available in the Ubuntu Universe repository, you may install it with the package manager.
ego@home:~> sudo apt-get install alliance
Before using it, you must source the environment (in each terminal you want to use Alliance):
ego@home:~> . /etc/alliance/profile.d/alc_env.sh
If binary packages are not avalaibles for your distribution, you may want to rebuild Alliance from source. To perform this, be aware that you must have at least a basic knowlegde of how to build a C/C++ program from source. Sources are available through the following git repository:
https://github.com/lip6/alliance.git
The stable version is under the branch master, while the development is kept under devel (and will be merged into master from time to time...)
In order to recompile, you will need to install the development tools in your system. The main ones are listed below.
| Build Dependencies | ||
|---|---|---|
| Software | RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux & Fedora | Debian/Ubuntu |
| Basic devel tools | "Development tools" (group) | build-essential |
| Version system | git | git |
| GCC/G++ compiler | gcc, g++ | gcc, g++ |
| Autotools | autoconf, automake libtool | autotool-dev, automake libtool |
| Parser (yacc&lex) | bison, flex | bison, flex |
| X11 libraries | libX11-devel, libXt-devel, libXpm-devel, motif, motif-devel | libx11-dev, libxt-dev libxpm-dev libmotif-dev |
| Graphics | xfig, ImageMagick | xfig, ImageMagick |
| Text Processing | texlive | texlive, texlive-pictures, texlive-latex-extra |
Note
Before running the autotools, you have to run the autostuff script in ./alliance/src which generate the top-level automake files.
Note
If you happen to have forgotten one of the dependency and have to install it after running configure, please remove the whole build directory tree and re-run configure. The same rule applies if you switch from static libraries to dynamic ones.
Note
Do not build in parallel, always uses -j1, the build process fail in strange ways when run in parallel (this is a known problem due to the way Alliance was developped).
Note
Bison/Flex versions. Alliance is very sensitive to the versions of thoses programs. The reference OSes for the build are Scientific Linux 6 & 7, which supplies bison 2.4.1 and 2.7 (resp.), flex 2.5.35 and 2.5.37 (resp.).
In this example we show the case where Alliance is installed in the user's home directory alongside with Coriolis.
Dependencies installation:
ego@home:~> sudo apt-get install build-essential binutils-dev \
git cmake bison flex gcc python-dev \
autotools-dev automake \
libxt-dev libxpm-dev libmotif-dev
Getting the sources (cloning the git repository):
ego@home:~> mkdir -p coriolis-2.x/src
ego@home:~> cd coriolis-2.x/src
ego@home:src> git clone https://github.com/lip6/alliance.git
Compilation & installation. For that step, you can use the following shell script.
Note
The commonRoot variable, the /Linux.x86_64/ component of the path is dependent on the os you are using. It is determined by looking to the kernel version as returned by uname -srm. In the following script, it has been set to what is choosen by the Coriolis installer ccb.py for Ubuntu.
#!/bin/bash
srcDir=${HOME}/coriolis-2.x/src/alliance/alliance/src
commonRoot=${HOME}/coriolis-2.x/Linux.x86_64/Release.Shared
buildDir=${commonRoot}/build
installDir=${commonRoot}/install
export ALLIANCE_TOP=${installDir}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${installDir}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
cd ${srcDir}
# Skip doc generation to avoid pulling TeXLive in docker images.
#sed -i 's,dirs="\$newdirs documentation",dirs="$newdirs",' ./autostuff
./autostuff clean
./autostuff
mkdir -p ${buildDir}
cd ${buildDir}
${srcDir}/configure --prefix=${ALLIANCE_TOP} --enable-alc-shared
make -j1 install
The procedure is very similar as the one for Debian/Ubuntu, except for the package manager step and the commonRoot variable value, which is set to /Linux.SL7_64/ (RHEL, CentOS & Scientific Linux) or /Linux.fc_64/ (Fedora).
Dependencies installation:
root@home:~> yum install git cmake bison flex gcc-c++ libstdc++-devel \
make binutils-devel \
autoconf automake libtool \
libX11-devel libXt-devel libXpm-devel \
motif motif-devel \
Getting the sources (cloning the git repository):
ego@home:~> mkdir -p coriolis-2.x/src
ego@home:~> cd coriolis-2.x/src
ego@home:src> git clone https://github.com/lip6/alliance.git
Compilation & installation. For that step, you can use the following shell script.
#!/bin/bash
srcDir=${HOME}/coriolis-2.x/src/alliance/alliance/src
commonRoot=${HOME}/coriolis-2.x/Linux.SL7_64/Release.Shared
buildDir=${commonRoot}/build
installDir=${commonRoot}/install
export ALLIANCE_TOP=${installDir}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${installDir}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
cd ${srcDir}
# Skip doc generation to avoid pulling TeXLive in docker images.
#sed -i 's,dirs="\$newdirs documentation",dirs="$newdirs",' ./autostuff
./autostuff clean
./autostuff
mkdir -p ${buildDir}
cd ${buildDir}
${srcDir}/configure --prefix=${ALLIANCE_TOP} --enable-alc-shared
make -j1 install