TritonRoute-WXL, which is built on the open source detailed router TritonRoute, is an open source router for modern industrial designs. The router consists of several main building blocks, including pin access analysis, global routing, track assignment, detailed routing, and a DRC engine. TritonRoute-WXL was developed by graduate students Lutong Wang and Bangqi Xu at UC San Diego in La Jolla, California.
TritonRoute-WXL provides industry standard LEF/DEF interface with support of ISPD-2018 and ISPD-2019 contest-compatible route guide format. In addition, it provides a global-detailed routing interface that is compatibale with existing contest-based interface.
TritonRoute-WXL is tested in 64-bit CentOS 6/7 environments with the following prerequisites:
- A compatible C++ compiler supporting C++17 (GCC 7 and above)
- Boost >= 1.68.0
- OpenMP >= 4.5
- Bison >= 3.0.4
- zlib >= 1.2.7
- CMake >= 3.1
To install TritonRoute-WXL:
$ git clone https://github.com/ABKGroup/TritonRoute-WXL.git
$ cd TritonRoute
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ../
$ make
To run TritonRoute-WXL for detailed routing:
$ ./TritonRoute -lef <LEF_FILE> -def <DEF_FILE> -guide <GUIDE_FILE> -output <OUTPUT_DEF>
To run TritonRoute-WXL for global-detailed routing:
$ ./TritonRoute -lef <LEF_FILE> -def <DEF_FILE> -output <OUTPUT_DEF>
Note that you will need to have POST9.dat and POWV9.dat (under /src/gr/flute/) present in your run directory for global-detailed routing.
- ISPD-2018 and ISPD-2019 Initial Detailed Routing Contests
Please cite the following paper(s) for publication:
- A. B. Kahng, L. Wang and B. Xu, "TritonRoute: The Open Source Detailed Router", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (2020), doi:10.1109/TCAD.2020.3003234.
- A. B. Kahng, L. Wang and B. Xu, "The Tao of PAO: Anatomy of a Pin Access Oracle for Detailed Routing", Proc. ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf., 2020, pp. 1-6.