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

v0.21.1

SiliconCompiler 0.21.1 (2024-03-07)

Minor:

• Fix handling of python module packages on older versions of python.

v0.21.0

SiliconCompiler 0.21.0 (2024-03-07)

Major:

• Added support for handling soft libraries in the schema via ['option', 'library'] and updated all frontend task drivers to support these.

Minor:

• Ensure that libraries, which import a library, are handled correctly.

v0.20.3

SiliconCompiler 0.20.3 (2024-03-06)

Minor:

• Added testing to ensure command line arguments are all checked for functionality and follow the schema pattern.
• Fixed python package lookup when the installed package does not match the name of the distribution.
• Added print controls to command line applications to allow custom arguments to be displayed along with schema values via the key sc_print:.
• Updated the conda environment and added testing to ensure functionality.

v0.20.2

SiliconCompiler 0.20.2 (2024-02-20)

Minor:

• Fixed some issued identified by tclint.
• Added helper function to better detect locally installed and editable python packages for package registration.

v0.20.1

SiliconCompiler 0.20.1 (2024-02-12)

Major:

• Moved from hosting third party pdks in SiliconCompiler to fully using lamdapdk.
• Added a demonstration target for gf180.

Minor:

• Tools:
  • vpr: added support for pin constraints.
  • openroad: added estimated routing congestion to the task image writing and updated fmax metric collection to use OpenROAD directly.

v0.20.0

SiliconCompiler 0.20.0 (2024-02-01)

Major:

• Update file path hashing to include package information.

Minor:

• Tools:
  • yosys: update FPGA synthesis to better map LUTs and memories.
  • openroad: added option to control CTS with obstruction awareness via via ['tool', 'openroad', 'task', 'cts', 'var', 'cts_obstruction_aware'].
  • klayout: added operation to be able to rename cells in layout via ['tool', 'klayout', 'task', 'operations', 'var', 'operations', 'rename_cell'].

v0.19.1

SiliconCompiler 0.19.1 (2024-01-24)

Major:

• Tools:
• Yosys: updated implementation for FPGA flow to better support flip-flop mapping and hard macro extraction and mapping.

Minor:

• Package downloading to ensure GitHub release artifacts can be downloaded from private repositories.