AFF3CT - Release 3.0.2

Changes listed below:

• add operator= method to the module::Socket class to simplify the binding
• add an automated create_reset_task method in the module::Module class
• add get_n_input_sockets and get_n_output_sockets methods in module::Task
• add tools::Interface_is_done to tools::Sequence: enable auto-stop in tools::Pipeline
• add exec_step method to tools::Sequence: enable task by task execution
• improve tools::Sequence: new task is added to graph if all input sockets are fed
• implement get_info_bits_pos method in module::Extractor_RSC class
• improve module::Switcher: enable different type and number of elements in commute and select tasks
• plug CWD socket to the RS decoder (to know if the decoder found a codeword)
• replace reference members by copy in modules (to simplify the binding with py_aff3ct)
• add documentation of some tasks
• fix doc requirements
• fix the LDPC BP flooding/layered decoder (inter-frame SIMD)
• fix the puncture method prototype of the module::Puncturer class
• fix AZCW simulations
• unbind adaptors when a tools::Pipeline is destroyed (avoid bugs)
• disable backtrace on Android NDK

AFF3CT - Release 3.0.1

Changes listed below:

• add tools::Sequence and tools::Pipeline

• add 0-copy module::Adaptor for efficient tools::Pipeline implementation

• add module::Binaryop, module::Unaryop, module::Reducer

• add module::Switcher, module::Controller and module::Iterator to support
  loops and conditional structures (if, switch, ...)

• add the hwloc dependency for thread pinning in tools::Sequence and
  tools::Pipeline

• implement clonable modules (required for automated duplication in
  tools::Sequence)

• add a status module::Socket for each task automatically

• add a priority during the binding of a module::Socket

• add an unbind method to module::Socket

• add BCH and LDPC decoding status

• add FRA, BE, FE, BER and FER as output sockets for monitor BFER

• add Multi-kernel Polar encoders and decoders

• add module::Extractor to extract information bits in a codeword

• add module::Initializer, module::Incrementer, module::Sleeper and
  module::Finalizer

• add module::Probe for very precise feedback

• add module::Sink (write end of a communication system into a file)

• add module::Subsequence to regroup multiple tasks in a single one

• add tools::Interface (clone, reset, set_n_frames, is_done, set_seed, ...)

• add the C++ API doc in Sphinx (Doxygen + Breathe + Sphinx)

• add an inter-SIMD implementation of the BCH encoder

• add new code rates to DVB-RCS2

• add a set_n_frames method in the module::Module, tools::Sequence and
  tools::Pipeline

• add native support of inter-frames (in the module::Task)

• add a new socket CWD (codeword) to get the decoding status per frame

• add the operator[] method for string in module::Module

• add scripts (based on Clang AST) to simplify the automation of AFF3CT wrappers
  (Python, MATLAB)

• add auto-stop feature in tools::Sequence and tools::Pipeline (based on the
  is_done interface)

• add tools::Digraph (directed graph)

• add a new operator= to module::Socket: sockets can be bound in both
  directions (SIN = SOUT or SOUT = SIN)

• replace tools::Noise by a channel parameter (CP) socket in module::Channel
  and module::Modem

• command Line Interface (CLI) has been externalized

• split source code (src/) in public include/ and private src/ folders

• simplify tools::Interleaver: no need to call the init method anymore

• dockerize the CI/CD

• fix a bug in the LDPC Gallager A decoder for irregular matrices

• fix the bug on the majority vote of the LDPC Gallager B decoder

• fix bug en the DVB-S2 constants (thx Ben Mathews)

• fix Galois field segmentation fault

• speedup the LDPC Gallager E (~x2)

• remove SystemC/TLM interfaces

• remove EXIT chart simulations

• remove legacy simulation (without tools::Sequence)

• remove SIN_SOUT socket type

AFF3CT - Release 3.0.0

Changes listed below:

• add tools::Sequence and tools::Pipeline

• add 0-copy module::Adaptor for efficient tools::Pipeline implementation

• add module::Binaryop, module::Unaryop, module::Reducer

• add module::Switcher, module::Controller and module::Iterator to support
  loops and conditional structures (if, switch, ...)

• add the hwloc dependency for thread pinning in tools::Sequence and
  tools::Pipeline

• implement clonable modules (required for automated duplication in
  tools::Sequence)

• add a status module::Socket for each task automatically

• add a priority during the binding of a module::Socket

• add an unbind method to module::Socket

• add BCH and LDPC decoding status

• add FRA, BE, FE, BER and FER as output sockets for monitor BFER

• add Multi-kernel Polar encoders and decoders

• add module::Extractor to extract information bits in a codeword

• add module::Initializer, module::Incrementer, module::Sleeper and
  module::Finalizer

• add module::Probe for very precise feedback

• add module::Sink (write end of a communication system into a file)

• add module::Subsequence to regroup multiple tasks in a single one

• add tools::Interface (clone, reset, set_n_frames, is_done, set_seed, ...)

• add the C++ API doc in Sphinx (Doxygen + Breathe + Sphinx)

• add an inter-SIMD implementation of the BCH encoder

• add new code rates to DVB-RCS2

• add a set_n_frames method in the module::Module, tools::Sequence and
  tools::Pipeline

• add native support of inter-frames (in the module::Task)

• add a new socket CWD (codeword) to get the decoding status per frame

• add the operator[] method for string in module::Module

• add scripts (based on Clang AST) to simplify the automation of AFF3CT wrappers
  (Python, MATLAB)

• add auto-stop feature in tools::Sequence and tools::Pipeline (based on the
  is_done interface)

• add tools::Digraph (directed graph)

• add a new operator= to module::Socket: sockets can be bound in both
  directions (SIN = SOUT or SOUT = SIN)

• replace tools::Noise by a channel parameter (CP) socket in module::Channel
  and module::Modem

• command Line Interface (CLI) has been externalized

• split source code (src/) in public include/ and private src/ folders

• simplify tools::Interleaver: no need to call the init method anymore

• dockerize the CI/CD

• fix a bug in the LDPC Gallager A decoder for irregular matrices

• fix the bug on the majority vote of the LDPC Gallager B decoder

• fix bug en the DVB-S2 constants (thx Ben Mathews)

• fix Galois field segmentation fault

• speedup the LDPC Gallager E (~x2)

• remove SystemC/TLM interfaces

• remove EXIT chart simulations

• remove legacy simulation (without tools::Sequence)

• remove SIN_SOUT socket type

AFF3CT - Release 2.3.5

Changes listed below:

• Fix link issues due to missing 'inline' keywords.
• Add a custom name to the abstract 'Module' class.
• Fix SystemC compilation error.
• Remove the outdated completion script.

AFF3CT - Release 2.3.4

Changes listed below:

• Rename PPA packages:
  • 'aff3ct' becomes 'aff3ct-bin'.
  • 'aff3ct-dev' has been split in 'libaff3ct' and 'libaff3ct-dev'.
  • 'aff3ct-doc' stays 'aff3ct-doc'.
• Remove the automatic swap of M, N and K in the alist G and H matrices.
• Add an exception when the path to the polar best channels is wrong.
• Move versioning functions from 'aff3ct' to 'aff3ct::tools' namespace.
• Remove all the code from the '.h' and '.hpp' header files.
• Replace includes relative paths by absolute paths.
• Clean includes, remove useless ones and add others:
  • speedup re-compilation time in many cases.
  • allow to easily include specific headers from external project.

AFF3CT - Release 2.3.3

Changes listed below:

• Add AFF3CT PPA repositories for Debian/Ubuntu OSes:
  • ppa:aff3ct/aff3ct-stable
  • ppa:aff3ct/aff3ct-dev
• Doc: explain how to use AFF3CT as a library.

AFF3CT - Release 2.3.2

Changes listed below:

• Extend constructors of 'Galois' and 'BCH_polynomial_generator' to support generic primitive polynomials.
• Add the possibility to dump the best channels of the polar codes.
• Add missing ML decoder for BCH codes.
• Thread safe '--enc-g-save-path' option.
• Improve the CMake scripts and bug fixes.
• Fix warnings on MSVC compiler (Visual Studio 2019).
• Fix noise management in Polar codec when working on 64-bit floats.
• Remove link dependencies with GSL and MKL libraries.
• CI: merge 'documentation' and 'parser' stages in 'check'.
• CI: upload the builds as artifacts in the deploy script.

AFF3CT - Release 2.3.1

Changes listed below:

• Rewrite the 'CMakeLists.txt' file following the CMake 3.x philosophy with targets.
• Generate automatically the 'aff3ct-config.cmake' file to link easily with AFF3CT.
• Add CPack support in the 'CMakeLists.txt' to generate Windows/macOS installers, DEB, RPM, etc.
• Split the LDPC 'WBF' algorithm in 'WBF' and 'MWBF' algorithms.
• Rename '--dec-mwbf' in '--dec-mwbf-factor'.
• Fix an uninitialized attribute in the polar SCF naive decoder.
• CI: compile the shared library for Windows (DLL).
• CI: simplify the build and deploy scripts relying on the CMake install feature.

AFF3CT - Release 2.3.0

Changes listed below:

• Add BEC frozen bits generator for polar codes.
• Add 5G frozen bits generator for polar codes.
• Add 5G CRCs.
• Add a naive implementation of the SC Flip (SCF) decoder for polar codes.
• Add a new parameter '--ter-sigma' to display the standard deviation of the Gaussian distribution.
• Enable FAST SC and FAST SCL polar decoding on BEC channels.
• Fix a possible SCMA bug in the user to resource loop.
• Fix compilation of incompatibles LDPC files in the library when the compiler does not support C++17 'aligned new' feature.
• Fix wrong load in the BCJR decoder (RSC DB codes) when using non-buffered encoding.
• CI: integrate the debug parser script.
• CI: add RSC, RSC_DB, REP and RA regression tests.

AFF3CT - Release 2.2.2

Changes listed below:

• Speedup the monitor reduction process.
• Fix the MPI version of the code and rename the --sim-mpi-comm argument in --mnt-mpi-comm-freq.
• Add a lazy monitor reduction process and add two arugments to enable and configure it (--mnt-red-lazy and --mnt-red-lazy-freq).