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ACT hardware description language and core tools.
https://github.com/asyncvlsi/act

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# The ACT language and core tools
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This is the implementation of the ACT hardware description language, and some of the core tools.
(ACT = asynchronous circuit/compiler tools)

## System requirements:

* The system must have libedit installed. For the yum package manager, the
package is called libedit-devel; for apt-get, it is libeditline-dev. Some
systems have *both* packages. In that case please use libedit, not libeditline.
* The system should have zlib installed
* The system should have the macro pre-processing package m4 installed

## Build instructions:

* Create a directory where you'd like the tools to be installed. Example
common locations on Unix-like machines include /usr/local/cad, /opt/cad, /opt/async. You can also install them in any other directory (e.g. $HOME/async)
* Set the environment variable ACT_HOME to point to the install directory.
* Set the environment variable VLSI_TOOLS_SRC to the root of the source tree
(i.e. the /path/to/act).
* From the $VLSI_TOOLS_SRC directory, run
./configure $ACT_HOME
* Run ./build

If there is an issue building the software and you want to do a clean build, use
"make realclean"

Once you've built the tools, run "make install" to install the files, and "make runtest" to run through a set of test cases.

## Standard library

The ACT [standard library](https://github.com/asyncvlsi/stdlib) (analogous to the C++ standard template library) is under development. We recommend
installing it as part of your ACT install, as some of the other tools might assume some standard ACT files exist.

## More information:

More detailed documentation is available here:
https://avlsi.csl.yale.edu/act/

A first ACT tutorial:
https://avlsi.csl.yale.edu/act/doku.php?id=intro_example:start

Some more installation instructions are available here:
https://avlsi.csl.yale.edu/act/doku.php?id=install