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Jean-Paul Chaput 6ed8de5837 Added latest doc compilation to avoid rebuild. 2018-05-05 00:23:44 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 1c2c858ce8 Added netlist & tool engines to Hurricane+Python tutorial. 2018-03-18 23:28:49 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput dd4a01fe70 Validating channel routing mode (two metals) on SNX.
* New: In Hurricane::Entity, add an id counter limit and a memory size
    limit. The two limits are checked only when a new Entity object is
    created. This should help avoiding massive memory links.
* New: In CRL Core, add a "crlcore.groundName" and a "crlcore.powerName"
    parameter to specify the name of the ground/power signals to be
    created if they are missing in a Cell. For Alliance libraries it
    would be "vss" & "vdd" (default values), but for real technologies,
    it is often "gnd!" & "vdd!".
      The Blif parser is modificated to make use of it.
* Bug: In AnabaticEngine::unify(), set the resulting unified segment in
    the  center of the GCells common side. Gcells under a segment are
    found by using the edge that cover the segment axis. When we have
    a "bend" GCell stack and the axis is wrong, they could be ommited.
      This was causing deleted segments to be not removed from some
    Edges, then core dump.
* Change: In Anabatic::AutoSegment::create(), smarter choosing of the
    reference contact, select the fixed or terminal one instead of
    always the source one.
* New: In Anabatic::Edge::isEnding(), new function to check if a
    segment going through an Edge is starting/ending in either source
    or target GCell of the edge (active only when running in channel
    mode).
* New: In Anabatic::Edge::add(), a segment takes part in the occupancy
    only if it is not ending in either source or target (channel mode
    only). The occupancy due to terminal is pre-computed in Katana.
* New: In Anabatic::Edge::ripup(), in channel mode, never ripup a
    segment which is ending in either source or target (we *have* to
    access this edge to connect to the terminal).
* Bug: In Anabatic::GCell::hcut() and vcut(), force the update of
    the Edge which is on the side that will get splitted by the cut.
    It's capacity will be reduced to it must be updated.
* Change: In Anabatic::GCell::updateGContacts() add a flag to conditionnally
    update horizontals or verticals only. We may require only a partial
    update when resizing the GCell in only one direction.
      This, again, related to the fact that we compute the GCells under
    a segment thanks to it's axis position, so we need to be very careful
    when modificating axis.
* Change: In Katana::Block::resizeChannels(), only update GContact vertical
    position. Do not disturb X positions of segments.
* Bug: In Katana::GlobalRoute::DigitalDistance, in channel mode, some
    Edges can have a zero capacity, but still be reachable if the net has
    a terminal in either source or target. Look for this case and return
    a distance of zero instead of "unreachable". This was causing the
    global routing not to complete in channel mode.
      For computing the edge distance, makes the vertical edges much more
    long (10 times) than the horizontal ones as the vertical capacity is
    very limited. Hard coded for now, should make it a parameter in the
    future.
* Change: In KatanaEngine::annotateGlobalGraph(), decrease the capacity
    of edges with reserveCapacity for each terminal inside a GCell.
    Both north and south edges are decreased as we a terminal will
    block both north and south edges.
      As a counterpart, the Edge capacity is not decreased when the
    global router connect to a terminal.
* Change: In Katana::RoutingEvent::revalidate(), when in repair stage,
    do not expand the slack for horizontal segments in channel mode.
    So they may not overlap the standard cell row.
* Bug: In Stratus documentation, do not use the french option in babel,
    the documentation is in english!
* New: In Documentation, added Hurricane/Python tutorial, part for drawing
    layout.
2018-03-16 16:20:04 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 95aba574a5 Happy New Year 2018 ! Update license years... 2018-01-06 17:55:44 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 3e1a7ec591 Updating the documentation of the startup procedure. 2017-12-02 15:51:21 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput ef63f5f93d Update documentation for new technology scheme. 2017-11-17 12:04:33 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 4d6b06d368 Update documentation to build on Debian 9.2 (stretch).
* Change: In documentation/CMakeLists.txt, for add_custom_targets(),
    add_dependencies() no longer allow to give files (only others
    *target* in the sense of cmake). We must use the DEPENDS option
    of add_custom_target().
* Change: In documentation/UsersGuide, it seems that docutils no longer
    handle correctly '$' and/or '_' in verbatim in the LaTeX backend.
    (i.e. they are *not* escaped, resulting in math mode errors).
    Remove those characters as we can use others...
* Commit a snaphot of the current documentation.
2017-10-30 15:33:37 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput a033e3ba98 More doc unification and cleanup. 2017-07-17 19:12:18 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput eb73e5eca7 Force add of pdf files. 2017-07-15 17:40:37 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 95d1b53646 Complete hoverhaul of the documentation to Sphinx.
* New: In documentation, reorganise all the various documents into one
    Sphinx coherent one. The index also provide a link toward the
    Doxygen generated doc (C++ APIs) and the venerable LaTeX2HTML ones
    (for Stratus).
      This will make easier all future extensions to the doc corpus.
      The generated documentation is commited into Git so a new user
    can use it directly after cloning the repository.
      The HTML doc is truly generated by Sphinx, but the pdf one is
    created rst2latex. The Sphinx pdf writer is buggy when a "tabular"
    contain a multicol and a multirow in the same area of the table.
    rst2latex handles it correctly.
      We use a theme borrowed for Read The Doc (half of it).
      It seems that some Javascripts are not working correctly,
    namely the folding of the navigation sub-menus and the index
    generation and search mode.
2017-07-15 17:35:02 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput e12e45e495 Rename SymmetricStage into PairSymmetrics, plus small cleanup. 2017-05-26 13:32:30 +02:00
EricLaoGitHub 371946c1c0 - Minor debug test fix 2017-05-11 14:02:49 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 48f3a2bc3c Anabatic transient commit 18. Port of Kite (Katana), Yeah, Baby! Yeah!
* Bug: In Hurricane, in StaticObservable::getObserver(), if the slot
    pointer is NULL, do not try to access the owner. Returns NULL, so
    the caller can be aware of the situation...
* Change: In Hurricane, in BreakpointWidget & ExceptionWidget some
    cosmetic changes (fonts and window sizes).
* Bug: In Anabatic, In AutoHorizontal::getConstraints(), take into account
    the constraints from the source AutoContact, as it holds the constraints
    transmitted by the RoutingPads and sets up by propageConstraintsFromRp().
    It is likely to be a bug affecting the original Katabatic as well.
* Change: In Anabatic, in RawGCellsUnder(), check that the segment is not
    completly oustside the cell abutment box and truncate the coordinates
    to the part that is inside. Use the "shrink" if we reach the east/north
    border.
* Change: In Anabatic, in Configuration, no more decorator because we will
    use a true derived relationship. Katana *derives* from *Anabatic* and do
    not *decorate* it, so the Configuration can do the same. It also implies
    that we directly create a Katana engine, not an Anabatic one.
* Change: In Anabatic, in Session, do not allow the opening of the Session
    in a standalone fashion (with a static method). Instead it must be opened
    using the relevant method of the Anabatic/Katana engine. This ensure we
    are opening the right Session type.
* Change: In Anabatic, in AutoSegment_Aligneds() collection the seed segment
    is not part of the collection by default, but will be included if the
    Flags::WithSelf is set.
* Change: In Configuration, all the flags value are now defined in two steps.
    Declared in the header and initialized in the module. This is to prevent
    the fact that on some cases, in relation with the Python "extern C" part
    modules, we need a true allocated variable. It was causing weird linking
    problems.
      A side effect is that they can no longer be used as entry is switches,
    have to replace them by if/else.
* New: In Anabatic, new GCell::getNeighborAt() utility function.
* Bug: In Anabatic, in GCell::doGrid(), tag all the GCells of the grid with
    the grid type... Back annote all the edges capacity (north & east) with
    the reserved local capacity.
* New: Complete portage of Kite over Anabatic. The new engine is christened
    "Katana" for Kite-Analogic. When it's capabilities and performances
    will be on a part with Kite, it is to completly replace it (and take
    back the "Kite" name). Preliminary tests seems to show that, contrary
    to intuition (because built on a more complex/slower grid), it is even
    slightly faster than Kite 8-).
2016-08-15 16:30:13 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput f68ac4d0e6 Argh. cdebug was slowing down the program too much.
* Change: In Hurricane Commons.h, even when cdebug print nothing, it slow
    down the program (three times for Kite!). Create a macro cdebug_log
    which calls cdebug *only* if the debug level is active.
2016-06-11 21:56:12 +02:00
Gabriel Gouvine 77c4277482 Removed (now unused) dependency to Lemon/Coin-OR 2016-06-05 17:29:00 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 6fd38e9847 Update the documentation for the traceLevels parameters. 2016-05-17 23:13:11 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 82cff69d9f Complete rewrite of the trace system (now a stream).
* Change: In Hurricane, in Flags add operator overload for "int" type
    and not only "unsigned int". Otherwise the compiler complaints about
    ambiguous overload when using enum values which are considered as
    "int".
      Simpler code for the BaseFlags::contains() method.
      Added implicit conversion from BaseFlags toward bool type.
* Change: In Hurricane, in Commons, complete replacement of the previous
    two trace systems (trace & ltrace) by a stream-based one.
    As it is a true object it is much less fragile than the one based
    on defines (but maybe a little slower).
      Define a reservation table for the trace levels for all the
    Coriolis & Chams components.
* Change: All tools, use the new trace system.
2016-05-17 23:00:06 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput b5d3a2ec3c Update JsonReader for the latest RapidJSON. Doc rebuild.
* Change: In Hurricane, in JsonReader::HurricaneHandler, add RawNumber().
    Don't know what kind of data it parses, so for now if it's called,
    just issue a warning.
* Bug: In documentation, in UsersGuide, add dependencies on doc_HTML and
    doc_LaTeX so they are rebuild if the source files changes.
      Some modifications to work with our new installation of TeXLive 2014.
2016-03-22 15:38:26 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 73e21908c5 Small mistake in RapidJson setup. 2016-03-06 12:38:18 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 1b7bd9de36 Happy new year 2016! 2016-01-21 00:41:19 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 5baddeb558 Implementation of DataBase native save/restore in JSON (step 2).
* New: In boostrap, in ccb.py, added support for the "support" project
    which contains external dependencies. Currently contains only
    RapidJSON. Those dependencies must be cloned here manually.
* New: In Hurricane, Initializer class for an ordered static initialization
    across different compilation modules.
* Change: In Hurricane, at DataBase level, no longer save the Cells in
    the libraries, but create and ordered list of Cell. Deepest cells
    (leaf cells) first. To avoid dependency problems.
* New: In Hurricane, JSON support for Property.
* New; In CRL, added JSON support for AllianceFramework, Environement &
    Catalog and their associated properties. Adjustment of the
    AllianceLibrary creation policy.
2016-01-21 00:25:39 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 693c05cf32 Added README and detection of 64 bits using /lib. 2015-04-25 18:27:04 +02:00
Gabriel Gouvine 233a2af3d3 Changes to the documentation + README file
* README file with basic instructions
* Updated the prerequisites
* More information for synthesis with Yosys
2015-04-24 14:48:56 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput bacea5214c Adapt the rpm automated build system of bootstrap (pass 2)
* Change: coriolis2.spec.in, Makefile.package and Builder/ccb now support
    RHEL6, RHEL7 & Fedora.
* Change: In Bootstrap, added a flag to activate compilation with
    openmp.
2015-04-09 22:45:48 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 014e5eb538 Generate LaTeX documentation using dvipdfmx.
* Change: In documentation UserGuide, under RHEL7 documents generated
    with pdflatex tends to make evince core-dump while trying to print.
    So use latex+dvipdfm instead. Images then needs to be pdf with an
    auxiliary .bb file (the BoundingBox line extracted from the .eps).
2015-04-05 23:43:01 +02:00
Gabriel Gouvine aa17b90bea Doc for Yosys and Etesian + minor fixes
* Blif import checks if the file exists
* Typo in Knik
2015-04-05 11:35:06 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput d825a76252 Updated documentation, introduce Etesian & plugins. 2015-03-06 08:58:10 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 8566126acc Adding Configuration support to Etesian.
* Change: In Bootstrap & ccb, the coloquinte project is renamed into
    "importeds", it will be the home of all the externally
    devellopped softwares that are needed to build Coriolis.
      Add explicit support for Fedora ("Linux.fc") and uses
    site-packages, as everybody else.
* New: In CRL Core, in etc/, adds the configuration files for Etesian.
* New: In Etesian, activate the Configuration object. Now uses it's
    own configuration variables instead of borrowing those of
    Nimbus & Mauka.
* Change: In Documentation, updated User's Guide to present Etesian
    as the placer, instead of Mauka.
* Change: In Cumulus, slight change in ClokTreePlugin and ChipPlugin
    to match the new Etesian/Python interface.
2015-02-27 18:16:03 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 6fb56f43e7 Documentation update for MacOS. 2014-12-12 12:05:25 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput d0d045b55b Starting to implement support for Windows/Cygwin.
* New: In all to CMakeLists.txt, disable the warning about deprecated
   WIN32 under cygwin.
* New: In boostrap, in ccb.py, coriolisEnv.py and builder/Configuration.py
   add recognition in uname for the values returned under Windows/Cygwin.
* New: In Documenation, in UsersGuide.rst add some informations about
   Cygwin and a section for the devel branch.
2014-07-13 13:14:49 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 20d25b2053 Add NetRoutingState (Property) on Nets to tell Kite what to do.
* New: In Katabatic, add the ability to decorate some (i.e. few) nets
    with a state that indicate to Katabatic & Kite what to do with it.
    The possible states are:
    1. Fixed : all the wire are in fixed positions. The router cannot
       move them and account them as obstacles.
    2. ManualGlobalRoute : a user-defined topology is supplied. The
       wires still have to be detailed route in "Detailed Pre-Route"
       but will be skipped for the global routing and fixed for the
       general Detailed route.
    3. AutomaticGlobalRoute : ordinary nets, to be global routed then
       detail routed.
    4. Excluded : do not try to global or detail route thoses nets.
    5. MixedPreRoute : mask combining Fixed and ManualGlobalRoute.
      Not all nets have this property, only those that needs a special
    processing.
      To ease the access to the state, it is nested inside a
    PrivateProperty in the net (NetRoutingProperty), with an extension
    access class (NetRoutingExtension).
* New: In Kite, take account of NetRoutingState. Pointers to the
    net's states are strored inside an internal map for faster access.
    The property is *not* deleted when Kite is destroyed. The property
    will remains until the Net itself is destroyed.
      As a consequence, the lists that where passed to high level
    function are removed as the information can now be accessed directly
    through the net NetRoutingProperty.
* New: In Unicorn, in CgtMain, comply with the update interface.
* New: In documentation, update the User's Guide to explain the Pre-routed
    step of Kite.
2014-07-02 14:36:58 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 7296dcd6fb Make the Python interface closely mirroring the C++ one.
* Change: In Isobar, the Python interface was not exactly mirroring the
    C++ one, now it is the case. The Python code should look likes almost
    exactly like the C++ one, the only differences remaining being due
    to the languages respective syntaxes. Note that in the case of
    constructor functions, it leads to a slightly longer notation in
    Python that it could have been (mimic the ".create()" static
    member). Main modifications:
    1. Mirror the static constructor syntax with create():
          Cell( ... )   ==>  Cell.create( ... )
    2. Correct hierarchy for constants in Instance, Net, Pin
       & Transformation. For example:
          Hurricane.PlacementStatusFIXED
                     ==> Hurricane.Instance.PlacementStatus.FIXED
          Hurricane.OrientationID
                     ==> Hurricane.Transformation.Orientation.ID
          Hurricane.TypeLOGICAL  ==>  Hurricane.Net.Type.LOGICAL
          Hurricane.DirectionIN  ==>  Hurricane.Net.Direction.IN
* Change: In CRL Core, correction to match the improved Python API
    in the configutation helpers.
* Change: In Cumulus, correction to match the improved Python API.
* Change: In Stratus, correction to match the improved Python API.
* Change: In Documenation, update for the new Python interface
    (both user's guide & examples).
* Note: We must port those changes into Chams for it to continue
   to run.
* Change: In Documenation, update the Python script support part.
2014-06-29 14:26:59 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 8bc7bd38db Add a common/ to share the trunk of symbolic technologies configurations.
In CRL Core configuration files, "display.conf", "patterns.conf" and
"technology.conf" share most of their code. So that common part is put
into "common/" and sourced from the final configuration file.
Update the documentation according the the new initialization scheme.
2014-05-22 00:13:17 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput c2f0be9d64 In User's Guide add a section about compiling under MacOS X. 2014-05-13 17:15:29 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput f6ab7b87f0 Compliance with g++ 4.8.1, support for devtoolset-2
Details:
* New: in <bootstrap>: add support for devtoolset-2 in ccb. Run the
    cmake commands through 'scl', set shell environment variables
    BOOST_INCLUDEDIR & BOOST_LIBRARYDIR and disable the default
    system path search.
* Change: In various flex scanners add the %nounput to suppress
    compiler warnings.
* Change: Little cleanup for g++ 4.8.1 as it's more strict.
* Change: In various top CMakeLists.txt, suppress extraneous '/'
    after DESTDIR.
2014-03-15 10:47:37 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 39b6479457 Update Documentation release tag to 2.0.1
Details:
* Sync the release tag in the User's Guide to the one of the effective
  release.
2014-03-11 13:42:04 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 14a5f5f7ef Documentation restructuration
Documentation restructuration:
* Bug: in <hurricane>: bad figure for transf-R1.
* Change, in <kite>: Remove deprecated configuration variables.
* New: documentation <tool> to regroup all documentation not directly
  related to one tool.
* Change, in <crlcore>, move the user's guide and the top doc index
  into <documentation>.
* New, in <documenation>: added Python script demo based on AM2901.
2014-03-11 12:21:31 +01:00