ADMS - An automatic device model synthesizer

ADMS is a code generator that converts electrical compact device models specified in high-level description language into ready-to-compile C code for the API of spice simulators. Based on transformations specified in XML language, ADMS transforms Verilog-AMS code into other target languages.

This version is forked from the code previously available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mot-adms/files/adms-source/2.3/

The original SVN repo no longer available.

This version is based on ADMS 2.3.0, the last version released by the original author.

Currently only a subset of the Verilog-AMS language is supported.

• Homepage (unmaintained): http://vacomp.noovela.com/
• Source code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mot-adms/

Platforms

ADMS is known to work on these platforms.

• GNU/Linux
• Darwin/OS X
• FreeBSD
• Windows

Dependencies

• C compiler (gcc, clang)
• Autotools (autoconf, automake,...) or CMake
• GNU Flex
• GNU Bison 2.6+
• GNU Libtool
• Perl with XML::LibXml and GD modules (only for maintainers)

Installation

Autotools is the original build system and is more complete. Prefered for maintainance and packaging. CMake was recently introduced and is not as well tested.

Maintainers Install and Packaging from Git

This section is relevant in case ADMS is compiled from the Git repository.

Compilation Using Autotools

The --enable-maintainer-mode makes sure the required files are generated (using Perl and LibXml).

sh bootstrap.sh
./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
make install

Autotools it currently used for creating release packages, the adms-x.x.x.tar.gz source code archive.

sh bootstrap.sh
./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
make clean
make dist

Compilation Using CMake

The -DUSE_MAINTAINER_MODE=ON makes sure the required files are generated (using Perl and LibXml).

mkdir cmake; cd cmake
cmake .. -DUSE_MAINTAINER_MODE=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/install/location/
make install

Packaging is not yet supported with CMake.

Users Install from Tarball

This section is relevant in case ADMS is compiled from a source code archive (adms-x.x.x.tar.gz). Users should be able to build without Perl (and the maintainer required modules XML::LibXml and GD).

Compilation Using Autotools

tar xvfz adms-x.x.x.tar.gz
cd adms-x.x.x
./configure --prefix=[/install/location/]
make install

Compilation Using CMake

tar xvfz adms-x.x.x.tar.gz
cd adms-x.x.x
mkdir build; cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=[/install/location/]
make install

Credits

See AUTHORS file.

License

ADMS is under LGPL-GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1. See COPYING file.

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Original author's build instructions: (for posterity)

0- Prerequisites
    0- gnu make is required (do not use other native make)

1- Description
  ADMS is a code generator that converts electrical compact device models
  specified in high-level description language into ready-to-compile c code
  for the API of spice simulators.

2- Installation - Unix or Linux
    0- run: ./configure - see file INSTALLATION for more options
    1- run: gmake
    2- run: gmake install
  If the installation fails try:
    0- run: autoheader
    1- run: aclocal
    2- run: automake
    3- run: autoconf
    4- run: ./configure - see file INSTALLATION for more options
    5- run: gmake
    6- run: gmake install
    In two shots:
      autoheader && aclocal && automake && autoconf && ./configure
      gmake && gmake install

3- Installation - Windows with cygwin environment
    0- run: ./configure - see file INSTALLATION for more options
    1- run: gmake
    2- run: gmake install
  If the installation fails try:
    0- run: autoheader
    1- run: aclocal
    2- run: automake
    3- run: autoconf
    4- run: ./configure - see file INSTALLATION for more options
    5- run: gmake
    6- run: gmake install
    In two shots:
      autoheader && aclocal && automake && autoconf && ./configure
      gmake && gmake install

4- Installation windows (no cygwin environment)
  0- run:
       cl -DYY_NO_UNISTD_H -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"msvc-229\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DinsideElement -DinsidePreprocessor -DinsideVeriloga -I. -IadmsXml \
          admsXml/adms.c admsXml/preprocessorLex.c admsXml/preprocessorMain.c admsXml/preprocessorYacc.c admsXml/verilogaLex.c admsXml/verilogaYacc.c \
          admsXml/admsXml.c admsXml/admstpathYacc.c -o admsXml.exe
     If the installation fails send a message to [email protected]
     (note that there is NO strong support for windows compilers.)

5- Directory Structure
   adms
    - metaadms.dtd
      DTD of file adms.xml
    - adms.xml
      This file defines the data structure used by adms to save parsed hdl code.
    - auxconf
      set-up files created by automake -a -c
    - scripts:
      perl scripts
    - admsXml
      source code

5- For developers (using the cygwin environment)
  Here is how I create the compilation environment after checking out adms from
  the CVS repository:
  0- run: autoheader (create autom4te.cache/config-h.in from configure.in)
  1- run: mkdir auxconf (create directory auxconf)
  2- run: aclocal (create aclocal.m4 from configure.in)
  3- run: libtoolize --force --ltdl -c (create libltdl and config.guess, config.sub, ltmain.sh in auxconf)
  4- run: automake -a -c (create missing, mkinstalldirs, install-sh in auxconf and all Makefile.in)
  5- run: autoconf (create configure)
  6- run: ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
  In three shots:
    rm -rf auxconf && autoheader && mkdir auxconf && aclocal && libtoolize --force --ltdl -c
    touch ChangeLog && automake -a -c && autoconf
    ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode