https://github.com/asyncvlsi/act

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

asynchronous-circuits asynchronous-vlsi cad chp circuit-simulator communicating-hardware-processes dataflow dataflow-programming design-automation eda hardware-description-language hdl language production-rules prs vlsi vlsi-cad

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ACT hardware description language and core tools.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/asyncvlsi/act
• Owner: asyncvlsi
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2018-12-10T11:20:39.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-26T18:45:52.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-27T19:29:02.728Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: asynchronous-circuits, asynchronous-vlsi, cad, chp, circuit-simulator, communicating-hardware-processes, dataflow, dataflow-programming, design-automation, eda, hardware-description-language, hdl, language, production-rules, prs, vlsi, vlsi-cad
• Language: C++
• Homepage: http://avlsi.csl.yale.edu/act
• Size: 4.54 MB
• Stars: 95
• Watchers: 15
• Forks: 21
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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README

        
# The ACT language and core tools

[![CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/asyncvlsi/act.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/asyncvlsi/act)

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