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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#about-alliance" id="id2">About Alliance</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#circuit-designed-with-alliance" id="id3">Circuit Designed with Alliance</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#useful-links" id="id4">Useful Links</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#installing-alliance-from-a-distribution" id="id5">Installing <span class="sc">Alliance</span> from a Distribution</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#fedora" id="id6">Fedora</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#ubuntu-lts-18-04" id="id7">Ubuntu LTS 18.04</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#rebuild-from-source-git" id="id8">Rebuild From Source (Git)</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#debian-9-ubuntu-18" id="id9">Debian 9 & Ubuntu 18</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#rhel-centos-fedora" id="id10">RHEL, CentOS, Fedora</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="about-alliance">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2">About Alliance</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="circuit-designed-with-alliance">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Circuit Designed with Alliance</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.smartlabsinc.com/">Smartlabs</a>/Smarthome designed a complete circuit in the <span class="sc">xfab</span> <span class="cb">XH035</span> technology
(2014).</li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.u-tokai.ac.jp/international/">Tokai University</a> (<a class="reference external" href="http://labo.nshimizu.com/">Shimizu Lab</a>) designed the <span class="sc">snx</span>, a 16 bits processor in
the <span class="sc">rohm</span> 0.18µm (2010).</li>
</ul>
<p>Those are circuits that we know of because their designers were kind enough to inform
us (it is not comprehensive).</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="useful-links">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">Useful Links</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Improved Standard Cell libraries and documentation on how to design them,
by Graham <span class="sc">Petley</span>: <a class="reference external" href="http://www.vlsitechnology.org/">VLSI Technology</a></li>
<li>A book presenting <span class="sc">Alliance</span> in depth:
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.cc.toin.ac.jp/sc/palacios/openbook/vlsie.pdf">Introduction to VLSI CMOS Circuits design</a>
by Carlos Silva <span class="sc">Cardenas</span>, Takeo <span class="sc">Yoshida</span> & Alberto Palacios <span class="sc">Pawlovsky</span>.</li>
<li>For spanish locutors, a set of tutorials made by Miguel Eduardo <span class="sc">Flores Gomez</span>
from <a class="reference external" href="http://www.udb.edu.sv/">Don Bosco University</a>:
<a class="reference external" href="http://microelectronicdesignandsimulation.blogspot.com/2015/10/tutoriales-de-alliance-vlsi.html">Tutorial de Alliance</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="installing-alliance-from-a-distribution">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">Installing <span class="sc">Alliance</span> from a Distribution</a></h2>
<p>Binary packages are avalaibles for the following distributions:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fedora</li>
<li>Ubuntu LTS</li>
<li>MacOS X, through <a class="reference external" href="https://www.macports.org/">MacPorts</a></li>
</ul>
<div class="section" id="fedora">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">Fedora</a></h3>
<ol class="arabic">
<li><p class="first">Pull & install the packages from the repository:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>root@home:~# yum install alliance alliance-libs alliance-doc
</pre></div>
<p>That's all folks. <span class="sc">Alliance</span> is ready to use.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>With the packaged version of <span class="sc">Alliance</span>, files and directories are not at
the same places as in the default install. They have been made compliant
with the <span class="sc">fhs</span>.</p>
<table class="table">
<colgroup>
<col width="44%" />
<col width="56%" />
</colgroup>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td><strong>binaries</strong></td>
<td>/usr/lib/alliance/bin</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>cell libraries</strong></td>
<td>/usr/share/alliance/cells</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>man pages</strong></td>
<td>/usr/share/alliance/man</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>tutorials & examples</strong></td>
<td>/usr/share/doc/alliance-5.0/</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="last">Environment variables should be automatically set.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="ubuntu-lts-18-04">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7">Ubuntu LTS 18.04</a></h3>
<p><span class="sc">Alliance</span> is available in the <a class="reference external" href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/alliance">Ubuntu Universe repository</a>,
you may install it with the package manager.</p>
<blockquote>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>ego@home:~> sudo apt-get install alliance
</pre></div>
</blockquote>
<p>Before using it, you must source the environment (in each terminal
you want to use <span class="sc">Alliance</span>):</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>ego@home:~> . /etc/alliance/profile.d/alc_env.sh
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="rebuild-from-source-git">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8">Rebuild From Source (Git)</a></h2>
<p>If binary packages are not avalaibles for your distribution, you may want
to rebuild <span class="sc">Alliance</span> from source. To perform this, be aware that you must
have at least a basic knowlegde of how to build a C/C++ program from source.
Sources are available through the following <span class="cb">git</span> repository:</p>
<blockquote>
<a class="reference external" href="https://gitlab.lip6.fr/jpc/alliance.git">https://gitlab.lip6.fr/jpc/alliance.git</a></blockquote>
<p>The stable version is under the branch <span class="cb">master</span>, while the development
is kept under <span class="cb">devel</span> (and will be merged into <span class="cb">master</span> from time
to time...)</p>
<p>In order to recompile, you will need to install the development tools in
your system. The main ones are listed below.</p>
<table class="table">
<colgroup>
<col width="21%" />
<col width="44%" />
<col width="35%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head" colspan="3">Build Dependencies</th>
</tr>
<tr><th class="head">Software</th>
<th class="head">RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux & Fedora</th>
<th class="head">Debian/Ubuntu</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>Basic devel tools</td>
<td>"Development tools" (group)</td>
<td><cite>build-essential</cite></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Version system</td>
<td><cite>git</cite></td>
<td><cite>git</cite></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GCC/G++ compiler</td>
<td><cite>gcc</cite>, <cite>g++</cite></td>
<td><cite>gcc</cite>, <cite>g++</cite></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Autotools</td>
<td><cite>autoconf</cite>, <cite>automake</cite>
<cite>libtool</cite></td>
<td><cite>autotool-dev</cite>, <cite>automake</cite>
<cite>libtool</cite></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Parser (yacc&lex)</td>
<td><cite>bison</cite>, <cite>flex</cite></td>
<td><cite>bison</cite>, <cite>flex</cite></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>X11 libraries</td>
<td><cite>libX11-devel</cite>, <cite>libXt-devel</cite>,
<cite>libXpm-devel</cite>,
<cite>motif</cite>, <cite>motif-devel</cite></td>
<td><cite>libx11-dev</cite>, <cite>libxt-dev</cite>
<cite>libxpm-dev</cite>
<cite>libmotif-dev</cite></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Graphics</td>
<td><cite>xfig</cite>, <cite>ImageMagick</cite></td>
<td><cite>xfig</cite>, <cite>ImageMagick</cite></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Text Processing</td>
<td><cite>texlive</cite></td>
<td><cite>texlive</cite>, <cite>texlive-pictures</cite>,
<cite>texlive-latex-extra</cite></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">Before running the <span class="cb">autotools</span>, you have to run the <span class="cb">autostuff</span>
script in <tt class="docutils literal">./alliance/src</tt> which generate the top-level automake files.</p>
</div>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">If you happen to have forgotten one of the dependency and have to
install it after running <cite>configure</cite>, please remove the <em>whole</em>
build directory tree and re-run <cite>configure</cite>. The same rule applies
if you switch from static libraries to dynamic ones.</p>
</div>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last"><strong>Do not build in parallel</strong>, always uses <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-j1</span></tt>, the build process
fail in strange ways when run in parallel (this is a known problem
due to the way Alliance was developped).</p>
</div>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last"><strong>Bison/Flex</strong> versions. Alliance is very sensitive to the versions
of thoses programs. The reference OSes for the build are <span class="sc">Scientific Linux</span>
6 & 7, which supplies <span class="cb">bison</span> 2.4.1 and 2.7 (resp.), <span class="cb">flex</span> 2.5.35 and
2.5.37 (resp.).</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="debian-9-ubuntu-18">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9">Debian 9 & Ubuntu 18</a></h3>
<p>In this example we show the case where <span class="sc">Alliance</span> is installed in the user's home
directory alongside with <span class="sc">Coriolis</span>.</p>
<ol class="arabic">
<li><p class="first">Dependencies installation:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>ego@home:~> sudo apt-get install build-essential binutils-dev <span class="se">\</span>
git cmake bison flex gcc python-dev <span class="se">\</span>
autotools-dev automake <span class="se">\</span>
libxt-dev libxpm-dev libmotif-dev
</pre></div>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Getting the sources (cloning the <span class="cb">git</span> repository):</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>ego@home:~> mkdir -p coriolis-2.x/src
ego@home:~> <span class="nb">cd</span> coriolis-2.x/src
ego@home:src> git clone https://gitlab.lip6.fr/jpc/alliance.git
</pre></div>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Compilation & installation. For that step, you can use the following shell
script.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last"><strong>The commonRoot variable</strong>, the <tt class="docutils literal">/Linux.x86_64/</tt> component of
the path is dependent on the <span class="sc">os</span> you are using. It is determined
by looking to the kernel version as returned by <tt class="docutils literal">uname <span class="pre">-srm</span></tt>.
In the following script, it has been set to what is choosen by the
<span class="sc">Coriolis</span> installer <tt class="docutils literal">ccb.py</tt> for <span class="sc">Ubuntu</span>.</p>
</div>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="ch">#!/bin/bash</span>
<span class="nv">srcDir</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">HOME</span><span class="si">}</span>/coriolis-2.x/src/alliance/alliance/src
<span class="nv">commonRoot</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">HOME</span><span class="si">}</span>/coriolis-2.x/Linux.x86_64/Release.Shared
<span class="nv">buildDir</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">commonRoot</span><span class="si">}</span>/build
<span class="nv">installDir</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">commonRoot</span><span class="si">}</span>/install
<span class="nb">export</span> <span class="nv">ALLIANCE_TOP</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">installDir</span><span class="si">}</span>
<span class="nb">export</span> <span class="nv">LD_LIBRARY_PATH</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">installDir</span><span class="si">}</span>/lib:<span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">LD_LIBRARY_PATH</span><span class="si">}</span>
<span class="nb">cd</span> <span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">srcDir</span><span class="si">}</span>
<span class="c1"># Skip doc generation to avoid pulling TeXLive in docker images.</span>
<span class="c1">#sed -i 's,dirs="\$newdirs documentation",dirs="$newdirs",' ./autostuff</span>
./autostuff clean
./autostuff
mkdir -p <span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">buildDir</span><span class="si">}</span>
<span class="nb">cd</span> <span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">buildDir</span><span class="si">}</span>
<span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">srcDir</span><span class="si">}</span>/configure --prefix<span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">ALLIANCE_TOP</span><span class="si">}</span> --enable-alc-shared
make -j1 install
</pre></div>
</li>
</ol>
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<div class="section" id="rhel-centos-fedora">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10">RHEL, CentOS, Fedora</a></h3>
<p>The procedure is very similar as the one for Debian/Ubuntu, except for the
package manager step and the <strong>commonRoot</strong> variable value, which is set
to <tt class="docutils literal">/Linux.SL7_64/</tt> (RHEL, CentOS & Scientific Linux)
or <tt class="docutils literal">/Linux.fc_64/</tt> (Fedora).</p>
<ol class="arabic">
<li><p class="first">Dependencies installation:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>root@home:~> yum install git cmake bison flex gcc-c++ libstdc++-devel <span class="se">\</span>
make binutils-devel <span class="se">\</span>
autoconf automake libtool <span class="se">\</span>
libX11-devel libXt-devel libXpm-devel <span class="se">\</span>
motif motif-devel <span class="se">\</span>
</pre></div>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Getting the sources (cloning the <span class="cb">git</span> repository):</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>ego@home:~> mkdir -p coriolis-2.x/src
ego@home:~> <span class="nb">cd</span> coriolis-2.x/src
ego@home:src> git clone https://gitlab.lip6.fr/jpc/alliance.git
</pre></div>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Compilation & installation. For that step, you can use the following shell
script.</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="ch">#!/bin/bash</span>
<span class="nv">srcDir</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">HOME</span><span class="si">}</span>/coriolis-2.x/src/alliance/alliance/src
<span class="nv">commonRoot</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">HOME</span><span class="si">}</span>/coriolis-2.x/Linux.SL7_64/Release.Shared
<span class="nv">buildDir</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">commonRoot</span><span class="si">}</span>/build
<span class="nv">installDir</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">commonRoot</span><span class="si">}</span>/install
<span class="nb">export</span> <span class="nv">ALLIANCE_TOP</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">installDir</span><span class="si">}</span>
<span class="nb">export</span> <span class="nv">LD_LIBRARY_PATH</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">installDir</span><span class="si">}</span>/lib:<span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">LD_LIBRARY_PATH</span><span class="si">}</span>
<span class="nb">cd</span> <span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">srcDir</span><span class="si">}</span>
<span class="c1"># Skip doc generation to avoid pulling TeXLive in docker images.</span>
<span class="c1">#sed -i 's,dirs="\$newdirs documentation",dirs="$newdirs",' ./autostuff</span>
./autostuff clean
./autostuff
mkdir -p <span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">buildDir</span><span class="si">}</span>
<span class="nb">cd</span> <span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">buildDir</span><span class="si">}</span>
<span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">srcDir</span><span class="si">}</span>/configure --prefix<span class="o">=</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">ALLIANCE_TOP</span><span class="si">}</span> --enable-alc-shared
make -j1 install
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