How To Install alliance on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alliance
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is alliance
alliance is:
Alliance is a complete set of free CAD tools and portable libraries for VLSI design. It includes a VHDL compiler and simulator, logic synthesis tools, and automatic place and route tools.
A complete set of portable CMOS libraries is provided, including a RAM generator, a ROM generator and a data-path compiler.
Alliance is the result of more than ten years effort spent at ASIM department of LIP6 laboratory of the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris VI, France).
Alliance has been used for research projects such as the 875 000 transistors StaCS superscalar microprocessor and 400 000 transistors IEEE Gigabit HSL Router.
Alliance provides CAD tools covering most of all the digital design flow:
- VHDL Compilation and Simulation
- Model checking and formal proof
- RTL and Logic synthesis
- Data-Path compilation
- Macro-cells generation
- Place and route
- Layout edition
- Netlist extraction and verification
- Design rules checking
There are three methods to install alliance
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install alliance Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install alliance
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install alliance
Install alliance Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install alliance
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install alliance
Install alliance Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install alliance
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install alliance
How To Uninstall alliance on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the alliance
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove alliance
Uninstall alliance And Its Dependencies
To uninstall alliance
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove alliance
Remove alliance Configurations and Data
To remove alliance
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge alliance
Remove alliance configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove alliance
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alliance
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alliance
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.