Installation

Installation

A prerequisite for noRTL is the availablility of icarus Verilog in your path. This can be installed using your system's package manager or using the oss-cad-suite (https://github.com/YosysHQ/oss-cad-suite-build)

Method 1: Using pip (Public Registry)

# Install nortl
pip install nortl

Method 2: Using uv (Recommended)

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/IMMS-Ilmenau/nortl
cd nortl

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Activate the virtual environment
source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate

Method 3: Development Installation

For development work, install in editable mode:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/IMMS-Ilmenau/nortl
cd nortl

# Install development dependencies
uv sync --all-extras

# Activate the virtual environment
source .venv/bin/activate