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idea-fasoc / OpenFASOC

Fully Open Source FASOC generators built on top of open-source EDA tools
https://openfasoc.readthedocs.io
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OpenFASOC may be able to depends on klayout-pypi rather the klayout CLI #37

Open proppy opened 2 years ago

proppy commented 2 years ago

klayout-pypi expose a subset of klayout Python API (klayout.db, klayout.tl and klayout.rdb) packaged as a standalone python module distributed on https://pypi.org/project/klayout/.

Depending on it (even optionally) rather than the CLI, could simplify the process of install dependencies for OpenFASOC, we should explore if the subset of klayout functionality used by the generators can be provided by the bare python API.

saicharan0112 commented 1 year ago

Thanks @proppy. That sounds interesting. Let me check.

saicharan0112 commented 11 months ago

klayout is used inside openroad-flow-scripts under each generator (not sure how gdsfactory uses klayout) and in the Makefile, along with openroad/yosys/magic/netgen binaries klayout is also used specifically for merging gds files and macros. Not sure how good the idea is to replace that with a python package.

proppy commented 11 months ago

Not sure how good the idea is to replace that with a python package

I was suggesting this in case the python generators need to call klayout directly.