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Balsa Asynchronous Synthesis System

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Balsa Asynchronous Synthesis System 3.5 is electronic design automation ( software developed by Advanced Processor Technology.
Balsa project is an asynchronous circuit synthesis system. Balsa is built around the Handshake Circuits methology, and it can generate gate level netlists from high-level descriptions in the Balsa language.



Both dual-rail (QDI) and single-rail (bundled data) circuits can be generated.

Requirements:
GCC >= 3.2
GLIB >= 1.2.0
GTK >= 1.2.0
GNU libgmp multiprecision arithmetic library >= 4.1
GNU guile Scheme interpreter >= 1.3

Installation

1) cd to a convenient build directory and get all the packages listed above

2) Choose a handy installation directory, eg. /usr/local/balsa, and add that directory to your shell paths:

PATH=/usr/local/balsa/bin:${PATH}
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/balsa/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

3) Install the Balsa package:

tar xzf balsa-3.4.2.tar.gz
cd balsa-3.4.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/balsa
make install
cd ..

4) Install the other optional packages:

tar xzf gtkwave-2.0.0pre5.tar.gz
cd gtkwave-2.0.0pre5
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/balsa
make install
cd ..
tar xzf espresso-ab-1.0.tar.gz
cd espresso-ab-1.0
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/balsa
make install
cd ..

4b) Install dot if you want the visualisation system

Either from the graphviz package (better)
tar xzf graphviz-2.2.tar.gz
cd graphviz-2.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/balsa
make install
cd ..

Or from the binary version (deprecated)
chmod +x dot--1.10
cp dot--1.10 /usr/local/balsa/bin/dot

5) Check that the executables gtkwave, espresso and dot are visible in the path

which gtkwave
which espresso
which dot

6) Check that the executable balsa-config is visible

which balsa-config

7) Install the example technology package

tar xzf balsa-tech-example-3.4.tar.gz
cd balsa-tech-example-3.4
./configure Note, no prefix!
Configure should find the Balsa installation
make install
cd ..

8) If you need Verilog simulation, please continue with the instructions in INSTALL_VerilogSimulators

What's New in This Release:
This release adds several changes aimed at achieving substantial performance improvements by the introduction of new handshake components. A number of experimental features have been made visible to the general user and there have been a number of minor bug fixes.
Balsa Asynchronous Synthesis System 3.5 supports different languages (including english). It works with Linux.

Downloading Balsa Asynchronous Synthesis System 3.5 will take minute if you use fast ADSL connection.

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