FireSim 1.18.0 Release

Added

• Mainline U200 Support (by @abejgonzalez in #1614)
• Expand TracerV to support more than 7 IPC with FMR fix (by @abejgonzalez in #1596)
• Add default reports for Alveo (by @abejgonzalez in #1664)
• Major re-organization of Vivado U2*0 *.tcl + Support for 4 DRAM channels on U250 (by @abejgonzalez in #1669)

Changed

• Bump to chisel3.6 (by @jerryz123 in #1594)
• Bump the garnet-submodule to be compatible with Vivado 2023.1 (by @william-lyh in #1620)
• TracerV binary mode - Print cycle + insts only (no padding) (by @abejgonzalez in #1643)
• Remove Dromajo in favor of Spike cosimulation (by @abejgonzalez in #1644)
• Update BlockDevBridge to not use Parameters (by @jerryz123 in #1651)
• Move BRAMQueue to targetutils (by @abejgonzalez in #1673)
• Remove BRAMQueue | Add working FireSimQueueHelper (by @abejgonzalez in #1679)

Fixed

• Bump conda-reqs | Use existing conda for conda-lock (by @abejgonzalez in #1601)
• Fix publish scala docs (by @abejgonzalez in #1631)
• add missing step for flashing local FPGAs (by @joey0320 in #1632)
• Don't translate to json in workflow monitor to prevent error (by @abejgonzalez in #1640)
• fix kill pass terminate condition (by @joey0320 in #1549)
• Bump Chipyard (by @abejgonzalez in #1645)
• Update Configuring-Required-Infrastructure-in-Your-AWS-Account.rst (by @abejgonzalez in #1647)
• Remove OS_VERSION in machine-launch-script.sh (by @sagark in #1662)
• Detect v/sv files to regen. jars (by @abejgonzalez in #1665)
• Update entry.cc to always have loadmem.h available (by @abejgonzalez in #1687)

Uncategorized

• Fix doc substitution (copy #1621) (by @mergify[bot] in #1624)
• Revert changes to awstools.py (by @abejgonzalez in #1626)
• Update local bitstream(s) for PR #1627 (whitespace-rebuild-fis) (by @github-actions[bot] in #1628)
• Update AGFI(s) for PR #1627 (whitespace-rebuild-fis) (by @github-actions[bot] in #1629)
• Update local bitstream(s) for PR #1620 (garnet-2023-bump) (by @github-actions[bot] in #1637)
• Update local bitstream(s) for PR #1596 (revamp-wide-tracerv-w-fix) (by @github-actions[bot] in #1638)
• Update AGFI(s) for PR #1596 (revamp-wide-tracerv-w-fix) (by @github-actions[bot] in #1639)
• Update Cospike.rst (by @raghav-g13 in #1648)
• Update local bitstream(s) for PR #1651 (bdbridge) (by @github-actions[bot] in #1652)
• Update local bitstream(s) for PR #1651 (bdbridge) (by @github-actions[bot] in #1654)
• Update AGFI(s) for PR #1651 (bdbridge) (by @github-actions[bot] in #1655)
• Update AGFI(s) for PR #1651 (bdbridge) (by @github-actions[bot] in #1659)
• Update local bitstream(s) for PR #1651 (bdbridge) (by @github-actions[bot] in #1658)
• Update AGFI(s) for PR #1651 (bdbridge) (by @github-actions[bot] in #1661)
• Update local bitstream(s) for PR #1651 (bdbridge) (by @github-actions[bot] in #1660)
• Update local bitstream(s) for PR #1672 (sep-ci) (by @github-actions[bot] in #1674)
• Update testchipip imports to match new testchipip packaging (by @jerryz123 in #1681)
• Remove extraneous -include flags to verilator (by @jerryz123 in #1682)
• Update rocket-chip-blocks naming (by @jerryz123 in #1685)

FireSim 1.17.1 Release

Added

• Bucket log docs (by @joey0320 in #1575)
• Add release note automation (by @abejgonzalez in #1595)

Changed

• Use bar-tender specific access (by @abejgonzalez in #1558)
• CI modifications - Support Vivado 2022.1, New CI machine(s) (by @abejgonzalez in #1592)

Fixed

• Additional VCU118 initial setup fixes (by @sagark in #1606)

Full Changelog: 1.17.0...1.17.1

FireSim 1.17.0 Release

Support for several new local FPGA boards added: Xilinx VCU118 (w/XDMA), Xilinx Alveo U250/U280 (w/XDMA, in addition to previous Vitis support), RHSResearch NiteFury II (w/XDMA). FireSim now also supports Xcelium for metasims.

Added

• Manager support for custom TARGET_PROJECT by @sagark in #1495
• Bare Xilinx U250/U280 shell support by @bgottschall @davidmetz @abejgonzalez in #1497
• Buildbitstream CI by @abejgonzalez in #1458
• FireSim Support for Xilinx VCU118 by @sagark in #1507
• add mcs command to implementation script for u250 by @kevindna in #1518
• Xcelium + Verilog-as-Top by @abejgonzalez in #1527
• Add U250/VCU118 bitstream builds to CI by @abejgonzalez in #1522
• Support building U280 in CI by @abejgonzalez in #1544
• FireSim Support for RHSResearch Nitefury II + various fixes by @sagark in #1525

Changed

• Update Makefile to be non-parallel by @abejgonzalez in #1488
• Dedup CI uartlog checking | Add more checks by @abejgonzalez in #1489
• Bump to chisel3.5.6/latest rocketchip by @jerryz123 in #1476
• Clear screen before prompt by @abejgonzalez in #1491
• Update sample_config_hwdb.yaml for Gemmini build by @abejgonzalez in #1490
• Create separate security group for build/run farm instances that is only accessible from within the firesim VPC by @sagark in #1492
• Bump Verilator to 5.006 by @abejgonzalez in #1471
• Rename SerialBridge to TSIBridge by @jerryz123 in #1500
• bump aws-fpga for fix when using exactly 3 of 4 mem channels by @sagark in #1505
• EC2 AMI update by @joey0320 in #1517
• Split buildbitstream tag into two tags by @abejgonzalez in #1528
• Update CI workflow to use login shell | Misc. cleanup by @abejgonzalez in #1532
• Update xclbin(s) for PR #1530 (bumprc-bitstream) by @github-actions in #1533
• Bump to latest rocketchip by @jerryz123 in #1526
• Use fat jar to reduce SBT invocations instead of cached classpath by @abejgonzalez in #1529
• Update AGFI(s) for PR #1536 (revert-tv-wide) by @github-actions in #1538
• Touch *.jar assembly files by @abejgonzalez in #1540
• conda-lock=1.4, Loosen/restrict conda req. specs by @abejgonzalez in #1539
• Update AGFI(s) for PR #1525 (nitefury_ii) by @github-actions in #1545
• Update AGFI(s) for PR #1543 (rename-scripts) by @github-actions in #1546
• Rename sourceme-f1-manager.sh to sourceme-manager.sh by @sagark in #1543
• Update local bitstream(s) for PR #1525 (nitefury_ii) by @github-actions in #1548
• fix fased useHardwareDefaults setting bug by @PKUZHOU in #1499
• Revert "Expand TracerV to support more than 7 IPC (#1383)" by @abejgonzalez in #1536
• Misc. CI Cleanup - Local Cleanup Parallelism + Clobbered Buildbitstream PRs by @abejgonzalez in #1551
• Update AGFI(s) for PR #1525 (nitefury_ii) by @github-actions in #1553
• Update local bitstream(s) for PR #1525 (nitefury_ii) by @github-actions in #1554

Fixed

• Fix conda lockfile docs / make lockfile generation easier by @t14916 in #1478
• Dedup CI uartlog checking | Add more checks by @abejgonzalez in #1489
• Fix open files only on sudo by @abejgonzalez in #1493
• update assert in timingmodel to allow BURST_FIXED w/len=0 by @sagark in #1496
• Fix first-time-user setup docs by @sagark in #1498
• Fix Scala test on machines with multiple simulators by @abejgonzalez in #1474
• fix main.o build dependency on generated const.h by @sagark in #1504
• Fix buildbitstream CI issues + Add xclbin bitstream generation by @abejgonzalez in #1508
• Misc. U250/U280 FPGA Fixes by @abejgonzalez in #1502
• Various Fixes by @abejgonzalez in #1521
• Misc. Fixes (Downgrade cryptography package, pin packages, fix non-firesim make project compilation) by @abejgonzalez in #1534
• Bump CY by @abejgonzalez in #1555
• automatically try newer hotfix versions of AMI in manager by @sagark in #1559
• Local FPGA managerinit QoL Fixes by @sagark in #1561
• changed mmap to xdma_user instead of pci resource by @cyyself in #1564

FireSim 1.16.0 Release

Vitis documentation updates, re-work of FireSim driver code, URI support for tarball/xclbins, Various bumps

Added

• Vitis: support different bitstream build strategies by @davidbiancolin in #1270
• vitis: Support frequency settings provided at bitstream build by @davidbiancolin in #1281
• Adding support for Azure CI by @t14916 in #1262
• Add apply method that takes ReferenceTarget parameter in RAMStyleHint by @russell-horvath in #1306
• adding a Plusargs Bridge, with unit tests and TutorialSuite tests by @sifive-benjamin-morse in #1291
• Add CI typechecking by @abejgonzalez in #1325
• Added UART bridge test by @nandor in #1326
• Added SimpleRocketF1Tests by @nandor in #1330
• Add an Assert-mode for TerminationBridge; expand testing by @davidbiancolin in #1324
• Introduced an interface to capture the user-defined logic of a simuation by @nandor in #1328
• Added a test for the BlockDevBridge by @nandor in #1335
• Added a root widget class and a low-overhead RTTI mechanism by @nandor in #1382
• Added a bridge registry to own all bridge instances by @nandor in #1369
• Added a test for memory accesses and LoadMemWidget by @nandor in #1433
• Add scalaFix by @sifive-benjamin-morse in #1393
• Add VCS metasimulation to CI by @abejgonzalez in #1396
• Add CI for Vitis driver outside of FPGA sims by @abejgonzalez in #1414
• Add reports and checkpoints section to vitis readme by @russell-horvath in #1412
• Add option to the F1 driver to load an AGFI by @nandor in #1434
• Add URI support to tarball path and xclbin path by @sifive-benjamin-morse in #1432
• Add ci:persist-prior-workflows tag to allow prior workflow to run until completion by @sifive-benjamin-morse in #1449
• Add uartlog checking to Linux boots in CI by @abejgonzalez in #1454
• Add build_farm_tag field to AWS EC2 build farm recipe by @abejgonzalez in #1457
• Add buildfarmprefix to AWS resource dict by @abejgonzalez in #1462
• Add PyTest docs by @abejgonzalez in #1269
• Put instPath before label in AutoCounter output by @timsnyder-siv in #1274
• Add workshop info to README.md by @sagark in #1411
• Bump to latest rocket-chip/scala2.13 by @jerryz123 in #1392
• Bump SBT to 1.8.2 by @abejgonzalez in #1446
• Support AL2 manager instances by @abejgonzalez in #1460
• AL2 Auto-Setup NICE DCV by @abejgonzalez in #1468
• Expand TracerV to support more than 7 IPC by @sifive-benjamin-morse in #1383

Changed

• Expose frequency in the builddcp script by @russell-horvath in #1229
• Match field order in channel info by @nandor in #1264
• Localize Java temp directory + Revert to using sbt-launch.jar by @abejgonzalez in #1257
• build setup: make env.sh sourcable in contexts without conda functions by @davidbiancolin in #1285
• Relaxed restrictions on pipe channel types by @nandor in #1263
• Move XDC circuit paths to config by @fabianschuiki in #1308
• Moved chipyard tests to main FireSim repository by @nandor in #1314
• Rewrite MIDAS tests by @nandor in #1327
• Eliminate virtual inheritance and simplify tests by @nandor in #1323
• Remove references to buildafi; replace with buildbitstream by @davidbiancolin in #1287
• Move termination to Run Farm Inst + monitor_jobs small rework by @abejgonzalez in #1322
• Provided tests with their own random number generator by @nandor in #1338
• Moved MMIO struct type definitions to headers by @nandor in #1331
• Moved widget logic to individual classes by @nandor in #1339
• Switch VCS simulation over to DPI by @nandor in #1332
• Introduced a uniform harness over bridge tests by @nandor in #1336
• Separated testing from peek-poke logic by @nandor in #1341
• VCS and Verilator DPI switchover by @nandor in #1348
• Improve the names of synchronisation primitives in simif_emul by @nandor in #1364
• Replace AXI4 configuration with structures by @nandor in #1358
• Split TutorialSuite into multiple files and helpers by @nandor in #1355
• Introduced a uniform harness across all simulations by @nandor in #1342
• Moved constructor macros to the constructor header by @nandor in #1359
• Eliminate random number generation from simif by @nandor in #1367
• Split target-agnostic.mk into multiple files by @nandor in #1353
• Stream Engine IO interfaces by @nandor in #1366
• Split timing functions from simif.h by @nandor in #1371
• Split simulation_t from simif.h by @nandor in #1372
• [library] Re-organised library file structure by @nandor in #1361
• Remove the use of DPI utilities from dpi.cc by @nandor in #1379
• Separate XSIM from f1 into simif_xsim by @nandor in #1374
• Split project Makefrag into multiple components by @nandor in #1354
• Cache the classpath between SBT runs by @nandor in #1390
• Enable clang-tidy on C++ sources by @nandor in #1400
• Moved simulation step control to the PeekPoke bridge by @nandor in #1399
• [library] Introduced a unique main to the simulation. by @nandor in #1368
• Passed memory region offsets to genHeader by @nandor in #1416
• Removed the compiler-generated runtime config by @nandor in #1422
• Re-enabled timeout detection for harnesses by @nandor in #1423
• Moved non-host IF functions from simif_t into simulation_t by @nandor in #1424
• Restored the runtime config generation phase by @nandor in #1425
• Remove constructor.h and replace it with a Scala-generated header by @nandor in #1398
• Enabled scalafmt on more sources by @nandor in #1429
• VCS post-synthesis RTL simulators by @nandor in #1438
• Extended tests to work with post-synth RTL by @nandor in #1439
• Converted FASEDMemoryTimingModel into a bridge by @nandor in #1440
• Move bridge init/finish handling into the simulation base by @nandor in #1441
• Removed test_harness_bridge and simplified harnesses by @nandor in #1442
• Bump Conda to 22.11.1-4 by @abejgonzalez in #1481
• New Local FPGA Tutorial by @abejgonzalez in #1453
• FPGA-managed bridge stream support in metasimulation by @davidbiancolin in #1181
• Setup defaults to be single-node by @abejgonzalez in #1260
• Changed "firesim infrasetup" to deploy using a tarball. by @sifive-benjamin-morse in #1299
• Switch to py script for XRT shell flashing by @abejgonzalez in #1385
• Update Vitis docs | Bump FPGA platform to 2022.1 by @abejgonzalez in #1397
• Force using 2022.1 Vitis by @abejgonzalez in #1410
• Localize .ivy2 and .sbt folders to FireSim repo by @abejgonzalez in #1456
• Unpin most conda reqs now that we have a lockfile by @abejgonzalez in https://github.com/firesim/...

FireSim 1.15.2 Release

Fix machine-launch-script.sh.

Changed

• Fixed machine-launch-script.sh.

FireSim 1.15.1 Release

Fixes to metasimulation, TracerV, and improved cross-platform support.

Added

• sourceme-f1-manager.sh now has a --skip-ssh-setup argument for users who have pre-set ssh-agent config #1266

Changed

• Instance liveness check now checks to see if login shell is reasonable #1266
• Driver/Metasim build at runtime now executed via run() to avoid conda warnings #1266
• Setup for QCOW2 on a run farm is only performed if the simulation needs it #1266
• The sim launch command is now written to a file before being executed for easier debugging. #1266

Fixed

• Fix missing code in RuntimeBuildRecipeConfig that broke metasims #1266
• Hide warnings from sudo check, guestmount, etc. #1266
• Open file limit increased by default in machine-launch-script to work around buildroot bug. #1266
• TracerV: fix loop bounds in token processing #1249

FireSim 1.15.0 Release

Full migration to Conda-based environment/dependency management; Chipyard now also uses Conda. Bump Rocket Chip/Chisel/etc. Various bugfixes/feature improvements.

Added

• Refactor Conda + Bump Chipyard (which now uses Conda) #1206
• Support FPGA-managed AXI4/DMA in metasimulation #1191

Changed

• Bump chipyard to 1.8.0 #1239
• Bump Rocketchip/chipyard/chisel #1216
• Metasimulation: remove dramsim2 and copy host memory model sources in-tree #1197
• Metasimulation: remove dependency on fesvr for ucontext #1196
• bridges: Remove references to DMA_X in driver sources #1184
• refactor most of machine-launch-script.sh into build-setup.sh #1180
• Backports go to stable branch, which should generally point to the la… #1176
• obey umask and default group in results-workload #1163
• Use libelf and libdwarf from conda #1160
• Improve fabric logging #1159
• Bump to Verilator 4.224 #1156
• ci: support running under forks of firesim #1144
• Allowed bridge parameters to be serialized #1141
• Don't use tsnyder conda channel in production machine-launch-script.sh #1121
• Make bug report system info copy pastable #1104

Fixed

• manager: Cast AWS IDs to string in shareagfi #1227
• Stable backport of 1.12.1 AMI bump #1188
• Fix various VCS metasimulation breakages #1177
• Change elfutils submodule URL to HTTPS #1153
• Annotate Printf statements instead of intercepting parameters. #1151
• Deinit Chipyard's FireSim submodule under FireSim-as-top #1146
• add config_build_recipes.yaml to run_yamls pytest fixture #1143
• Fix mount files ownership #1137
• Add warn_only to vivado builds + Postpone error until all builds complete #1130
• Added missing return in tracerv_t::process_tokens to fix undefined behavior #1129
• correct doc for autocounter_csv_format #1126
• Fixing instructions for external SSH into simulation #1119
• docs: fix underlining in metasimulation configuration section #1106
• Fixed shebang in build-libdwarf.sh and build-libelf.sh scripts (copy #1101) #1105
• VitisShell: Use XPM xpm_cdc_sync_rst for reset synchronizer #1100

Removed

• Removed the clock bridge annotation #1224
• Removed the in-memory bridge annotation #1223
• Removed the Fame1Instances transformation #1202

FireSim 1.14.2 Release

Bump to use AWS FPGA Developer AMI 1.12.1 as 1.11.1 has been de-listed. This also bumps Vivado to 2021.2.

Fixed

• Bump to use AWS FPGA Developer AMI 1.12.1
• Bump Vivado to 2021.2

FireSim 1.14.1 Release

Adds firesim builddriver command, various bugfixes.

Added

• New firesim builddriver command, which runs required driver/metasimulation builds without a launched run farm #1114
• Support for Sydney region on AWS #1111

Changed

• Docs cleanup #1114 #1106
• Don't use tsnyder conda channel in production machine-launch-script.sh #1121

Fixed

• Fixed documentation for SSH-ing into simulations of target designs with NICs #1119. Fixes #580.
• VitisShell: Use XPM xpm_cdc_sync_rst for reset synchronizer #1100
• Fix manager xclbin lookup bug during metasimulation #1114, https://groups.google.com/g/firesim/c/VxHX7QkKJCM

FireSim 1.14.0 Release

Introduces support for local (on-premises) FPGAs and distributed metasimulation

Added

• Support for Vitis FPGAs #1087
• Manager support for deploying verilator/vcs metasimulations, plusarg passthrough, and some useful DRYing-out #1076
• ("Where to Run") Initial support running on different run farm hosts #1028
• A host-portable AutoILA transform that instantiates the black box in IR #1059
• Scala Source Formatting via Scalafmt #1060
• VSCode Integration for Scala Development #1056
• Support A Resource-Minimizing strategy ("AREA") for AWS-FPGA #1055
• XDC-Driven Memory Hints for Xilinx FPGAs #1021
• ("what-to-build") Modularize different run platforms (i.e. bitstream builds) #853
• .ini to .yaml config files + supporting different build hosts #1006
• Capture packet dump from switch #1011

Changed

• Cleanup config initialization #1082
• Switch buildfarm API to be similar to runfarm API #1070
• ("Where to Run") Initial support running on different run farm hosts #1028
• Move C++ implementation of bridge streams out of bridge drivers #1017
• awstools typing + small organization #1037
• Collect Bridge Stream RTL Implementation under StreamEngine module #996
• Use conda for distribution-agnostic dependency management #986
• .ini to .yaml config files + supporting different build hosts #1006
• Use FIRRTL 'FPGA backend' passes in the GG compiler + Isolate Emitter #981

Fixed

• Allow argument passing to bit builder #1046
• Move sim. data class arg parsing into classes #1078
• Hide blowfish deprecation warning until 2022-08-31 #1079
• Have yes/no resolve to bool in Yaml #1069
• Add bash-completion and install argcomplete global into it #1041
• Fix CI FPGA sim timeout issue + Use Python3 formatting in run_linux_poweroff CI script #1040
• Revert the change from #842 that makes launchrunfarm block on instances passing status checks #1003
• Fix first clone setup fast script #990
• Update libdwarf submodule url #988
• Update test_amis.json #982

Removed

• Remove the data_t type alias + unused macros in generated header #1050
• .ini to .yaml config files + supporting different build hosts #1006