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# Cocoon: An Infrastructure for Integrated EDA
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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. Below are key features of Cocoon:
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- Agile RTL-to-GDSII frontend and backend VLSI flow generation.
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- Completely user-defined tech library, component EDA tool and design constraints.
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- Multi-flow parallelism and automatic iterative circuit timing optimization.
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## Cocoon Architecture
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## Dependency
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- Python3
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- Genus or [Yosys](https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys)
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- Innovus
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- [DREAMPlace](https://github.com/limbo018/DREAMPlace) (optional)
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- JDK 8+ and sbt (optional)
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## Basic Usage
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Once you have installed the previous required dependencies, you can run Cocoon from the command line using your customized configuration file in INI format.
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A demo configuration `demo/config.sample.ini` is provided, where your can find detailed description of user-defined options from the comments. Here's an example of a single flow:
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```ini
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[flow_No.1]
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# Design settings
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design_name = your_design_topmodule_name
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is_Chisel_design = True
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rtl_input = /Path/to/verilog/file
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Chisel_input = /Path/to/Chisel/project/
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result_dir = /Path/to/result/dir/
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clk_name = clk
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delay = 1000
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# Library settings
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lib_name = your_lib_name
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lef_input = /Path/to/library/foo.lef
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liberty_input = /Path/to/library/bar.lib
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# External toolkit settings
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cadence_version = 19
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dreamplace_bin_path = /Path/to/DREAMPlace/install/dreamplace/Placer.py
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yosys_bin_path = /Path/to/yosys/build/
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# Flow settings
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flow = {'synth':'yosys', 'placement':'dreamplace', 'routing':'innovus'}
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n_iter_IFT = 0
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verbose = True
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```
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You can then run your design flow by executing:
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```bash
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cd cocoon/
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python run.py /Path/to/your/config.ini
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```
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## Ongoing work
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- Integrate more EDA tools
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- Efficient resource scheduling
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- Legality check (LVS, DRC, etc.) and post-simulation (e.g. timing, power)
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- Support design-space search and optimization
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## Related works
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- Berkeley [Hammer](https://github.com/ucb-bar/hammer/)
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- Stanford [mflowgen](https://github.com/mflowgen/mflowgen)
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- [SiliconCompiler](https://github.com/siliconcompiler/siliconcompiler)
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- [qflow](https://github.com/RTimothyEdwards/qflow)
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## Publication
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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.``
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```
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@article{zhang-cocoon-woset2020,
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title = "{Cocoon: An Open Source Infrastructure for Integrated EDA with Interoperability and Interactivity}",
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author = {Jiaxi Zhang and Tuo Dai and Zhengzheng Ma and Yibo Lin and Guojie Luo}
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journal = {Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology (WOSET)},
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month = {Nov},
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year = {2020},
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}
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```
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