# siliconcompiler

**Repository Path**: developerMonkey/siliconcompiler

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: siliconcompiler
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

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- **Created**: 2025-09-01
- **Last Updated**: 2025-09-01

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## README

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# Introduction

SiliconCompiler is a modular hardware build system ("make for silicon"). The project philosophy is to "make the complex possible while keeping the simple simple".

# Supported Technologies

| Type | Supported|
|------|----------|
|**Design Languages**| C, Verilog, SV, VHDL, Chisel, Migen/Amaranth, Bluespec, [MLIR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLIR_(software))
|**Simulation Tools**| Verilator, Icarus, GHDL, Xyce
|**Synthesis**| Yosys, Vivado, Synopsys, Cadence
|**ASIC APR**| OpenROAD, Synopsys, Cadence
|**FPGA APR**| VPR, nextpnr, Vivado
|**Layout Viewer**| Klayout, OpenROAD, Cadence, Synopsys
|**DRC/LVS**| Klayout, Magic, Synopsys, Siemens
|**PDKs**| sky130, ihp130, gf180, asap7, freepdk45, gf12lp, gf22fdx, intel16

# Getting Started

SiliconCompiler is available as wheel packages on PyPI for macOS, Windows and
Linux platforms. For working Python 3.9-3.13 environment, just use pip.

```sh
python3 -m pip install --upgrade siliconcompiler
```

Converting RTL into DRC clean GDS takes 10 lines of simple Python code.

```python
from siliconcompiler import Chip                   # import python package
from siliconcompiler.targets import skywater130_demo
chip = Chip('heartbeat')                           # create chip object
chip.use(skywater130_demo)                         # load a pre-defined target
chip.input('heartbeat.v')                          # set input sources
chip.clock('clk', period=10)                       # set constraints
chip.set('option','remote', True)                  # enable remote execution
chip.run()                                         # run compilation
chip.summary()                                     # print summary
chip.show()                                        # show layout
```

Simple designs can be compiled in a single line using the built in command line 'sc' app:

```sh
sc -remote -target "asic_demo"
```

# Why SiliconCompiler?

* **Ease-of-use**: Programmable with a simple [Python API](https://docs.siliconcompiler.com/en/stable/reference_manual/core_api.html)
* **Portability:** Powerful dynamic JSON [schema](https://docs.siliconcompiler.com/en/stable/reference_manual/schema.html) supports ASIC and FPGA design and simulation
* **Speed:** Flowgraph [execution model](https://docs.siliconcompiler.com/en/stable/user_guide/execution_model.html) enables cloud scale execution.
* **Friction-less:** [Remote execution model](https://docs.siliconcompiler.com/en/stable/development_guide/remote_processing.html) enables "zero install" compilation
* **Modularity:** [Tool abstraction layer](https://docs.siliconcompiler.com/en/latest/development_guide/tools.html) makes it easy to add/port new tools to the project.
* **Provenance:** [Compilation manifests](https://docs.siliconcompiler.com/en/stable/user_guide/data_model.html) created automatically during execution.
* **Documented:** An extensive set of auto-generated high quality [reference documents](https://docs.siliconcompiler.com/).
* **In-use:** Actively used by Zero ASIC for commercial tapeouts at advanced process nodes.

# Documentation

The full reference manual and tutorials can be found [HERE](https://docs.siliconcompiler.com/).

# License

[Apache License 2.0](LICENSE)

# How to Cite

If you want to cite our work, please use the following paper:

A. Olofsson, W. Ransohoff, N. Moroze, "[Invited: A Distributed Approach to Silicon Compilation](docs/papers/sc_dac2022.pdf)", 59th Design Automation Conference (DAC), 10-14 July 2022, San Francisco, CA, USA. Published, 7/2022.

Bibtex:
```
@inproceedings{10.1145/3489517.3530673,
  author = {Olofsson, Andreas and Ransohoff, William and Moroze, Noah},
  title = {A Distributed Approach to Silicon Compilation: Invited},
  year = {2022},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference},
  pages = {1343–1346},
  location = {San Francisco, California}
}
```

# Installation

Complete installation instructions are available in the [Installation Guide](https://docs.siliconcompiler.com/en/stable/user_guide/installation.html).

To install the project from source (recommended for developers only).

```bash
git clone https://github.com/siliconcompiler/siliconcompiler
cd siliconcompiler
python3 -m pip install -e .             # Required install step
python3 -m pip install -e .[docs,test]  # Optional install step for generating docs and running tests
```

# EDA Tool Installation

Installation instructions for all external tools can be found in the
[External Tools](https://docs.siliconcompiler.com/en/stable/user_guide/installation.html#external-tools) section
of the user guide. We have included shell setup scripts (Ubuntu) for most of the supported tools, which can be accessed via [sc-install](https://docs.siliconcompiler.com/en/latest/reference_manual/apps.html#apps-sc-install-ref).
See the [./siliconcompiler/toolscripts](./siliconcompiler/toolscripts) directory for a complete set of scripts and [./siliconcompiler/toolscripts/_tools.json](./siliconcompiler/toolscripts/_tools.json) for the currently recommended tool versions.

# Contributing

SiliconCompiler is an open-source project and welcomes contributions. To find out
how to contribute to the project, see our
[Contributing Guidelines](./CONTRIBUTING.md).

# Issues / Bugs

We use [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/siliconcompiler/siliconcompiler/issues)
for tracking requests and bugs.

# More information

| Resources | Link|
|-----------|-----|
| **Website**|  https://www.siliconcompiler.com
| **Documentation**|  https://docs.siliconcompiler.com
| **Sources**|  https://github.com/siliconcompiler/siliconcompiler
| **Issues**|  https://github.com/siliconcompiler/siliconcompiler/issues
| **RFCs**|  https://github.com/siliconcompiler/rfcs
| **Discussion**| https://github.com/siliconcompiler/siliconcompiler/discussions