SPRoute: A Scalable Parallel Global Router

Build tools

• CMake, version >= 3.16
• GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), version >= 4.8.5

Pre-requisite libraries

• Boost, version >= 1.61.0
• Si2 LEF/DEF parser: LEF parser and DEF parser. Use cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=path/to/install to specify the installation destination for each parser, and export the path as environment variable LEF_ROOT and DEF_ROOT. This LEF/DEF parser requires BISON (>= 3.0.4)
• ACT: environment variable ACT_HOME determines the installation destination of this package
• PhyDB: phydb should be installed in 'ACT_HOME': 'ACT_HOME/include' should contain a 'phydb' folder with all phydb headers, 'ACT_HOME/lib' should contain libphydb.a
• Galois: https://github.com/IntelligentSoftwareSystems/Galois, should be installed in ACT_HOME
• POWV.dat and POST.dat: from FLUTE (http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~cnchu/flute.html), shoule be in the working directory

Required Evironment variable

• 'LEF_ROOT': installation path of the Si2 lef parser
• 'DEF_ROOT': installation path of the Si2 def parser
• 'ACT_HOME': installation path of ACT, where PhyDB and Galois is installed as well

Clone, compile, and install

$ git clone https://github.com/asyncvlsi/SPRoute.git
$ cd SPRoute/
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ make install

If you want an executable of SPRoute, run "cmake .. -DBUILD_BIN=1" in the cmake step. "make install" creates a folder sproute under folder $ACT_HOME/include with all .h of PWRoute/include, and a static library libsproute.a under folder $ACT_HOME/lib.

Performance

This version of SPRoute differs from the ones used for SPRoute 1.0 (ICCAD2019) or 2.0 (ASP-DAC2022). If you want to compare the runtime and performance of SPRoute 1.0/2.0, please email @Michael Jiayuan He ([email protected]) for a standalone version of SPRoute.