v0.21.11

SiliconCompiler 0.21.11 (2024-04-26)

Minor:

• Added helper functions to tcl to make accessing schema information easier.
• Added helper functions to allow tools to have consistent behavior around picking from pdk/library/option variables during setup.
• Ensure the remote client downloads the final results from the remote to get any logs and error messages.
• Tools:
  • openroad: fixed default routing via settings.
  • klayout: made hide_layer variable more consistent with klayouts layer information, and added support for .gz file handling in show and screenshotting tasks.

v0.21.10

SiliconCompiler 0.21.10 (2024-04-22)

Minor:

• Switch to use templates for generating tool files instead of python print statements to make it easier to maintain.
• Added logic depth to schema metrics.
• Tools:
  • yosys: added support for handling hierarchy selection with globbing, added better handling of library merging to ensure liberty templates are properly copied in.
  • openroad: added support for extracting logic depth of the design and added irdrop extraction to tool driver.

v0.21.9

SiliconCompiler 0.21.9 (2024-04-12)

Minor:

• General cleanup of documentation building.
• Tools:
  • yosys: added support for specifying blackbox models via ['tool', 'yosys', 'task', 'syn_asic', 'var', 'blackbox_modules']

v0.21.8

SiliconCompiler 0.21.8 (2024-04-11)

Minor:

• Fixed packaging extraction when downloading from github.
• Fixed remote run fiel retrival to avoid errors when extracting and moving files.
• Tools:
  • vpr: added support for show and screenshoting tasks.

v0.21.7

SiliconCompiler 0.21.7 (2024-04-02)

Minor:

• Update remote code to honor constraints transmitted by the remote runner.
• Add fall back to package locking when file system locking is not available.
• Fixed handling of github artifact packages.
• Added build scripts for ubuntu22.
• Tools:
  • vpr: add reporting images to tool driver, these can be disabled via ['tool', 'vpr', 'task', 'place' or 'route', 'var', 'enable_images'] = 'false'.

v0.21.6

SiliconCompiler 0.21.6 (2024-03-28)

Minor:

• Fixed handling of files with codec errors.
• Update package lock file handling to avoid race conditions in parallel flows.
• Tools:
  • yosys: minor code cleanup in FPGA flow.
  • vpr: add support for clock routing.
  • surelog: added wrapper comments in output file for parsing to indicate where segments of code came from.

v0.21.5

SiliconCompiler 0.21.5 (2024-03-21)

Minor:

• Added a github data source to handle data from private repositories.
• Tools:
  • vpr: added pin metrics collection for FPGA flows.

v0.21.4

SiliconCompiler 0.21.4 (2024-03-15)

Minor:

• Added keys to schema to track FPGA resources.
• Tools:
  • yosys: add metrics collection for FPGA flows.
  • vpr: added metrics collection for FPGA flows.

v0.21.3

SiliconCompiler 0.21.3 (2024-03-13)

Minor:

• Tools:
  • openroad: fixed handling of pin constraints
  • yosys: updated to take advantange of native dont_use interfaces

v0.21.2

SiliconCompiler 0.21.2 (2024-03-08)

Minor:

• Fix importing of package data from non libraries
• Fix unlocking behavior in schema keys