coloquinte 0.2.0

Python interface for the Coloquinte VLSI placer

Coloquinte Place&Route

Coloquinte is a Place&Route tool for electronic circuits. Its goal is to provide a single package of well-tested and well-tuned Place&Route algorithms, to be used in open source electronic design toolchains.

This replaces and extends the placement library used in the Coriolis toolchain.

Using Coloquinte

ISPD placement and routing benchmarks are available directly in this repository using Git LFS. Placement benchmarks can be run with the Python package:

coloquinte benchmarks/ISPD06/adaptec1

For other applications, you can use Coloquinte as a C++ library or a Python package: see src/coloquinte.hpp or help(coloquinte.Circuit).

Installing Coloquinte

Python package

On Linux, you may install Coloquinte from pip:

pip install coloquinte

For the latest version of other OSes, install the dependencies and build the module. For example:

sudo apt-get install g++ cmake libboost-all-dev libeigen3-dev
cd pycoloquinte
python setup.py install

C++ library

Install dependencies and build Coloquinte using CMake :

sudo apt-get install g++ cmake libboost-all-dev libeigen3-dev
cmake -B build; cmake --build build