PCB-PR-App

Top-level app for PCB P&R flow

Prerequisites

• GCC >=4.8
• G++ >= 4.8

export CXX=g++

• SWIG >= 2.0

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install swig

• Boost >= 1.6

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev

• CMake >= 3.1

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cmake

• Current support for kicad_pcb format derived from KiCad v5.1.2

Installing

Clone

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/PCB-PR-App.git

Run the build script:

cd PCB-PR-App
source build.sh

The layout app is now available:

python3 run_layout.py --help

Have fun!

Running the tests

Current issues

• Tested on CentOS 6
• Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 (Ubuntu 16.04 doesn't come with Python 3)
• Linking shared object files after swig compilation currently fails on OSX. Docker is a good workaround on OSX.

License

• BSD-3-clause License [Link]