cuhk-eda / cu-gr-2

CUGR 2.0

CUGR 2.0, the successor of CUGR, is a VLSI global routing tool developed by the research team supervised by Prof. Evangeline F. Y. Young at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). CUGR 2.0 is a detailed routability-driven global router and its solution quality is solely determined by the final detailed routing results.

Please read our paper for more technical details:

• Jinwei Liu, Evangeline F. Y. Young, EDGE: Efficient DAG-Based Global Routing Engine, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, USA, July 9-13, 2023.

(CUGR 2.0 supports ICCAD'19 benchmarks (v2, hidden). This version of code is consistent with the DAC paper.)

1. How to Build

Step 1: Download the source code. For example,

$ git clone https://github.com/cuhk-eda/cu-gr-2

Step 2: Go to the project root and build by

$ cd cu-gr-2
$ scripts/build.py -o release

Note that this will generate two folders under the root, build and run (build contains intermediate files for build/compilation, while run contains binaries and auxiliary files). More details are in scripts/build.py.

1.1. Dependencies

• GCC (version >= 5.5.0) or other working c++ compliers
• CMake (version >= 2.8)
• Boost (version >= 1.58)
• Python (version 3, optional, for utility scripts)
• Innovus® (version 18.1, optional, for design rule checking and evaluation)
• Rsyn (a trimmed version is used, already added under folder rsyn)
• Dr. CU (v4.1.1, optional, official detailed router for ICCAD'19 Contest, binary is already included under the root)

2. License

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License Agreement for CUGR 2.0

Copyright (c) 2023 by The Chinese University of Hong Kong

All rights reserved

CU-SD LICENSE (adapted from the original BSD license) Redistribution of the any code, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the conditions below are met.

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