turbo-blif

low-memory-usage BLIF (berkeley logic interchange format) parser.

Comparison with other parsers

	this	SIS	yosys	abc	pip blifparser	lorina	crates.io blif-parser	quaigh	libblifparse	spydrnet
top module, latches, LUTs	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
different latch types	x	x	x	x	-	x	x	-	x	-
usage of library gates / latches	x	x	x	x	-	-	x	-	-	~
empty lines, padding, and comments	x	x	?	x	-	x	x	x	x	x
quirk 1: allow omit .end and .model	x	x	?	-	?	?	?	-	-	?
'quirk' 2: \ to continue on next line	x	x	x	x	-	-	x	x	x	x
multiple models per file & sub-circuits	x	x	x	-	-	-	x	-	x	x
model attr: .clock	x	x	x	-	-	-	-	-	-	x
sub-file references	x	x	?	-	x	-	-	-	-	-
finite state machines (.start_kiss)	x	x	-	-	x	-	-	-	-	-
clock constraints (mostly for simulation)	soon	x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
delay constraints	soon	x	-	~	-	-	-	-	-	-
full BLIF specification 1	soon	x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
extension: "Black- & White-boxes" 2	soon	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
extension: .blackbox	soon	-	x	x	-	-	-	-	x	x
extension: .cname (EBLIF3 )	x	-	x	-	-	-	-	-	x	x
extension: .attr and .param (EBLIF3 )	x	-	x	-	-	-	-	-	x	x
extension: .conn (EBLIF3 )	x	-	x	-	-	-	-	-	x	x
extension: .barbuff (identical: .conn)	x	-	x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
extension: .and_gate_delay	soon	-	-	x	-	-	-	-	-	-

Tested with BLIF generators

• yosys write_blif, including all supported extensions: write_blif -iname -iattr -param -cname -blackbox -attr -conn
• abc write blif

Goals

• parse every BLIF file in existence

If you found a program that generates or consists of non-standard BLIF attributes or keywords, please open a GitHub issue. We want to support all non-standard extensions.

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1. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alanmi/publications/other/blif.pdf ↩︎

2. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alanmi/publications/other/boxes01.pdf ↩︎

3. https://docs.verilogtorouting.org/en/latest/vpr/file_formats/ ↩︎