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This is the implementation of the ACT hardware description language, and some of the core tools.(ACT = asynchronous circuit/compiler tools)

• The system must have libedit installed. For the yum package manager, thepackage is called libedit-devel; for apt-get, it is libeditline-dev. Somesystems haveboth packages. In that case please use libedit, not libeditline.
• The system should have zlib installed
• The system should have the macro pre-processing package m4 installed

• Create a directory where you'd like the tools to be installed. Examplecommon locations on Unix-like machines include /usr/local/cad, /opt/cad, /opt/async. You can also install them in any other directory (e.g. $HOME/async)
• Set the environment variable ACT_HOME to point to the install directory.
• Set the environment variable VLSI_TOOLS_SRC to the root of the source tree(i.e. the /path/to/act).
• From the $VLSI_TOOLS_SRC directory, run./configure $ACT_HOME
• Run ./build

If there is an issue building the software and you want to do a clean build, use"make realclean"

Once you've built the tools, run "make install" to install the files, and "make runtest" to run through a set of test cases.

The ACTstandard library (analogous to the C++ standard template library) is under development. We recommendinstalling it as part of your ACT install, as some of the other tools might assume some standard ACT files exist.

More detailed documentation is available here:https://avlsi.csl.yale.edu/act/

A first ACT tutorial:https://avlsi.csl.yale.edu/act/doku.php?id=intro_example:start

Some more installation instructions are available here:https://avlsi.csl.yale.edu/act/doku.php?id=install