Coriolis is a free database, placement tool and routing tool for VLSI design.
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.
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 It may be quite outdated from the devel version.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
To build Coriolis, ensure the following prerequisites are met:
- Python 3,
- 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/ ego@home:~$ cd ~/coriolis-2.x/src ego@home:src$ git clone https://gitlab.lip6.fr/vlsi-eda/coriolis.git ego@home:src$ cd coriolis
Then, build the tool:
ego@home:coriolis$ make install
If you encounter issues, please consult SUPPORT.rst for tips. 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.
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 environment 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