Coriolis README

Coriolis is a free database, placement tool and routing tool for VLSI design.

Purpose

Coriolis provides several tools to perform the layout of VLSI circuits. Its main components are the Hurricane database, the Etesian placer and the Katana router, but other tools can use the Hurricane database and the parsers provided.

The user interface <cgt> is the prefered way to use Coriolis, but all Coriolis tools are Python modules and thus scriptable.

Documentation

The complete documentation is available here, both in pdf & html:

./documentation/output/html ./documentation/UsersGuide/UsersGuide.pdf

The documentation of the latest stable version is also available online. It may be quite outdated from the devel version.

https://www-soc.lip6.fr/sesi-docs/coriolis2-docs/coriolis2/en/latex/users-guide/UsersGuide.pdf

Building Coriolis

To build Coriolis, ensure the following prerequisites are met:

• Python 2.7.
• cmake.
• boost.
• bison & flex.
• Qt 4 or 5.
• libxml2.
• RapidJSON
• A C++11 compliant compiler.

The build system relies on a fixed directory tree from the root of the user currently building it. Thus first step is to get a clone of the repository in the right place. Proceed as follow: :

ego@home:~$ mkdir -p ~/coriolis-2.x/src/support
ego@home:~$ cd ~/coriolis-2.x/src/support
ego@home:~$ git clone http://github.com/miloyip/rapidjson
ego@home:~$ git checkout ec322005072076ef53984462fb4a1075c27c7dfd
ego@home:~$ cd ~/coriolis-2.x/src
ego@home:src$ git clone https://www-soc.lip6.fr/git/coriolis.git
ego@home:src$ cd coriolis

If you want to use the devel branch: :

ego@home:coriolis$ git checkout devel

Then, build the tool: :

ego@home:coriolis$ make install

Coriolis gets installed at the root of the following tree: :

~/coriolis-2.x/<OS>.<DISTRIB>/Release.Shared/install/

Where <OS> is the name of your operating system and <DISTRIB> your distribution.

Using Coriolis

The Coriolis main interface can be launched with the command: :

ego@home:~: ~/coriolis-2.x/<OS>.<DISTRIB>/Release.Shared/install/bin/coriolis

The coriolis script detects its location and setups the UNIX environment appropriately, then lauches cgt (or any command, with the --run=<COMMAND> option).

Conversely, you can setup the current shell environement for Coriolis by using the helper coriolisEnv.py, then run any Coriolis tool: :

ego@home:~$ eval `~/coriolis-2.x/src/coriolis/bootstrap/coriolisEnv.py`
ego@home:~$ cgt -V