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Genesis2 is a chip generator originally developed at Stanford University.
- In a nutshell...
- The Chip Generator (CG) is a design system for automatically producing custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).
- Tell me more...
- Because of technology scaling, power dissipation is today’s major performance limiter. Moreover, the traditional way to achieve power efficiency, application-specific designs, is prohibitively expensive. These power and cost issues necessitate rethinking digital design. To reduce design costs, we need to stop building chip instances, and start making chip generators instead. Domain-specific chip generators are templates that codify designer knowledge and design trade-offs to create different application-optimized chips.
- I really want to understand...
- Please read "Rethinking Digital Design: Why Design Must Change," O. Shacham, O. Azizi, M. Wachs, W. Qadeer, Z. Asgar, K. Kelley, J.P. Stevenson, A. Solomatnikov, A. Firoozshahian, B.C. Lee, S. Richardson, M. Horowitz IEEE Micro, Nov/Dec 2010. (IEEE Explore)
To install in e.g. /home/mydir/Genesis2:
setenv GENESIS_HOME $destdir/Genesis2Tools set path=(. $GENESIS_HOME/bin $GENESIS_HOME/gui/bin $path) setenv PERL5LIB $GENESIS_HOME/PerlLibs/ExtrasForOldPerlDistributions
If you get an error like this when you try to run Genesis:
Compress::Raw::Zlib object version 2.060 does not match bootstrap parameter...
You might need to do this:
/bin/rm -rf $destdir/Genesis2Tools/PerlLibs/ExtrasForOldPerlDistributions/Compress
Also see Genesis2 installation instructions
Download the tar ball, then follow the installation instructions.
Use Genesis2 to create your own chip generator (see below).
Use the Genesis2 GUI to generate chips (see below).
- Genesis2 User Guide
- Genesis2 Small Design Examples
- Genesis2 Frequently Asked Questions
- Related Publications
- Genesis2 To Do List
The GUI is a convenient graphical user interface with which to generate chips from Genesis2-based chip generators. It comes free with the Genesis2 distribution.