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+# Cocoon: An Infrastructure for Integrated EDA
+Cocoon is an open-source infrastructure for integrated EDA with interoperability and interactivity.
+It contains a set of cross-tool interfaces and plays the role of EDA agent that can help IC designers 
+choose EDA point tools to assemble a legal design flow and to produce ICs with a higher quality of results (QoR).
+It can also help EDA researchers and tool developer research new design methodology and cross-stage optimization.
+
+## Cocoon Architecture
+![avatar](image/arch.png)
+
+## Dependency
+ - python3
+ - [Yosys](https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys)
+ - [Hpyeropt](https://github.com/hyperopt/hyperopt) (optional for tuning)
+ - genus (optional)
+ - innovus (optional)
+ 
+## Demo
+ 1. Branch Flow
+ 	- `cd demo/branch/ && python3 flow.py`
+ 2. Flow Tuning
+ 	- `cd demo/tuner/ && python3 main.py`
+ 
+## Ongoing work
+ - Integrating other open source binaries
+ - Legality Check
+ - More demo flows
+ - Beautify the UI
+
+## Related works
+- Berkeley [Hammer](https://github.com/ucb-bar/hammer/)
+- Stanford [mflowgen](https://github.com/mflowgen/mflowgen)
+
+## Publication
+
+If you use cocoon in your research, please cite our WOSET'20 paper: ``Jiaxi Zhang, Tuo Dai, Zhengzheng Ma, Yibo Lin, Guojie Luo, "Cocoon: An Open Source Infrastructure for Integrated EDA with Interoperability and Interactivity", Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology (WOSET), November 2020.``
+```
+@article{zhang-cocoon-woset2020,
+  title   = "{Cocoon: An Open Source Infrastructure for Integrated EDA with Interoperability and Interactivity}",
+  author  = {Jiaxi Zhang and Tuo Dai and Zhengzheng Ma and Yibo Lin and Guojie Luo}
+  journal = {Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology (WOSET)},
+  month   = {Nov},
+  year    = {2020},
+}
+```