Luna Place and Route

For more information, please visit the homepage.

Current development status

• TLDR; LunaPnR is not production ready.
• Cell browser works.
• Tech browser works.
• Has layer rendering customization.
• Reads flat Verilog netlists (no busses - expand them, YMMV).
• Uses/requires external OpenSTA to perform static timing analysis.
• Has a global router based on directed/depth-first search.
• Has an integrated Python 3 based console.

LunaPnR can read the SKY130, OSU 180nm, Nangate/FreePDK 45nm cell libraries.

Build requirements

• GCC (tested with version 11.3)
• CMake 3.20 or higher
• Ninja-build
• Qt 6 or higher
• Eigen3 (libeigen3-dev)
• Python 3.8 or higher
• wget
• tar
• libboost-test-dev (for running tests)
• libboost-filesystem-dev (for running tests)
• cppcheck 2.4.1 or higher (optional)
• clang-tidy (optional)

Building on Linux

• execute './bootstrap.sh', this will generate a ./build directory.
• enter the build directory and type 'ninja'.
• LunaPnR application will be available in ./gui/lunapnr

Supported distributions are:

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Building on Windows

• open the Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022.
• make sure to set the BOOST_ROOT environment variable to the location of the BOOST libraries.
• run bootstrap_release.bat in the top level project dir.
• enter the build directory and type 'ninja'.
• LunaPnR application will be available in ./gui/lunapnr

Building using Docker

See: https://github.com/asicsforthemasses/lunapnr_build

Sponsors

This project is supported by NLnet.