ngiambla / placer

Analytical Placer

Build Instructions

To build the environment for the placer, start a terminal process and execute the following:

$ chmod +x build.sh
$ ./build.sh

Compilation

To compile the analytical placer, begin executing a terminal and proceed with the following commands:

$ make

This should produce no errors, and minimal warnings.

If there are any errors during execution, please attempt the following:

$ make clean
$ make

Usage

You can begin executing the placer by executing a terminal, and entering:

$ ./placer -file [filename]

1. There are several options for test circuits, such as cct1, cct2, cct3, cct4, as well as oct1, oct2, oct3, oct4;
2. A GUI should proceed to open, and execute. You can step through the progress of the placer by clicking the Step >> button.
3. You can toggle the clique model visualization by clicking the Nets [1 | 0] button. 1 indicates on. 0 indicates off.
4. You can toggle the Block numbering by clicking the Show #[1 | 0] button. 1 indicates on. 0 indicates off.

And voila!

Author

Nicholas V. Giamblanco, 2017