RePlAce: Advancing Solution Quality and Routability Validation in Global Placement
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| Visualized examples from ISPD 2006 contest; adaptec2.inf |
- Intel MKL and IPP package Link >= 2016.3.210
- GCC compiler and libstdc++ static library >= 5.4.0
- boost library >= 1.53
- X11 library (for CImg library to visualize) >= 1.6.5
- Recommended OS: Centos7 or Ubuntu 16.04
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/abk-openroad/RePlAce.git
Then, modify the MKLROOT and IPPROOT to the corresponding install paths in src/Makefile
$ cd ~/RePlAce
$ make clean
$ ./prerequisite/install_centos7.sh // for centos 7
$ ./prerequisite/install_ubuntu16.sh // for ubuntu 16
$ make
// download lefdef benchmarks
$ cd ~/RePlAce/bench/lefdef
$ ./download_ispd18.sh
// download bookshelf benchmarks
$ cd ~/RePlAce/bench/bookshelf
$ ./download_dac2012.sh
// Generate a result from ISPD18 - ispd18.test1.input
// Check doc/ScriptUsage.md in detail
$ cd ~/RePlAce/src
$ ./execute_lefdef.py 0
// Generate a result from DAC2012 - superblue19
// Check doc/ScriptUsage.md in detail
$ cd ~/RePlAce/src
$ ./execute_bookshelf.py superblue19
- BSD-3-clause License [Link]
- Eigen
- CImg
- Google Dense Hash Map
- NTUPlacer3/4h (Thanks for agreeing with redistribution)
- Ben Marshall's verilog-parser (Modified by mgwoo)
- LEF/DEF Parser (Modified by mgwoo)
- Ilgweon Kang and Lutong Wang (respective Ph.D. advisors: Chung-Kuan Cheng, Andrew B. Kahng), based on Dr. Jingwei Lu's Fall 2015 code implementing ePlace and ePlace-MS.
- Many subsequent improvements were made by Mingyu Woo leading up to the initial release.
- Paper reference: C.-K. Cheng, A. B. Kahng, I. Kang and L. Wang, "RePlAce: Advancing Solution Quality and Routability Validation in Global Placement", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2018. (Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TCAD.2018.2859220)