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2026-08-27_34b7de89 - Precompiled Asynchronus Circuit Toolkit (ACT) 64bit drop in install

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@async-ic-bot async-ic-bot released this 27 Aug 18:54

download the latest rowling release from actflow_[dev_]package_<commit>_<date>.tar.gz from https://github.com/async-ic/yale-asyncvlsi-actflow_release/releases and extract it with tar -xpf actflow_[dev_]package_<commit>_<date>.tar.gz,
move the act folder to you prefered install location and set in your shell (this is for bash, setenv works eqiv.) export ACT_HOME=<path to extracted act folder>, export PATH=${ACT_HOME}/bin:${PATH} and start working with it!

For more info and the list of tools included see README.md.

The actflow_dev_package_<cpu_architecture>_<date>_<commit>.tar.gz includes all static libaries and include headers in case the user wants to compile addons againced it.
actflow_package_<cpu_architecture>_<date>_<commit>.tar.gz includes only the binaries and shared libraries, which should be fine for the normal user.

CPU Archirtecture versions to have decent perfomance you need to choose the optimised binary for your CPU and OS (see Wikipedia micro arch):
x86-64-v4: AMD Zen 4+, Intel Server 2017+ (and Linux kernel 5.14+)
x86-64-v3: AMD Zen 1+, Intel 2017+ (and Linux kernel 5.14+)
x86-64-v2: AMD, Intel 2008+ (and Linux kernel 3.10+)
armv8.7-a: Apple M4+ (and Linux kernel)
armv8.5-a: Apple M1+ (and Linux kernel)
applem4: Apple M4+ (macos)
applem1: Apple M1+ (macos)
you can check your cpu level on linux with /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help