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Changelog

This changelog follows the format defined here: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/

[1.11.0] - 2024-1-22

Adds Ubuntu support for firemarshal, multi-chiptop configuration for chiplets, caliptra accelerator, spike-cosim.

Added

  • Provide example of tethered-config simulation with MultiHarnessBinders (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1484)
  • Add release note automation (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1548)
  • Improve peripheral config binders (Reapply #1511) (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1527)
  • UPF Generation (by @sriramsridhar23 in ucb-bar#1347)
  • Improve: SiFive peripheral device doumentation (by @T-K-233 in ucb-bar#1578)
  • Bump to latest rocket-chip | integrated fixed-point | pull in stage/phase (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1577)
  • Enable precommit | Format files (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1585)
  • KLayout section of Sky130+OpenROAD tutorial (by @nayiri-k in ucb-bar#1514)
  • Added useful "Build script exited at step X" errors for each step in build-setup.sh (by @JL102 in ucb-bar#1614)
  • Adds support for Digilent Nexys Video FPGA board. (by @milovanovic in ucb-bar#1616)
  • Add NarrowRocketCache config fragment (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1603)
  • Add Caliptra AES256 ECB engine as RoCC accelerator (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1642)
  • Support using HarnessBinders without IOBinders (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1636)
  • Add Bringup on Arty100T config, using PMOD-gpio for ser-tl (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1657)
  • Install uart_tsi utility as part of build-toolchain-extra (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1670)
  • Add spike devices (by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1692)
  • Bump testchipip to support multi-serial-tl (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1630)
  • ADD: bump fpga-shell (by @T-K-233 in ucb-bar#1703)
  • Add UART device/JTAG to Arty100T default design (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1712)
  • Add generators/ submodule status check to all Make targets (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1718)
  • Add clearer --skip flags to build-setup (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1724)
  • Add Baremetal IDE support (by @T-K-233 in ucb-bar#1534)
  • ADD: add information on Baremetal-IDE in docs (by @T-K-233 in ucb-bar#1730)
  • Support clustered-cores (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1629)
  • Add debug clock tap port to all default designs (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1697)
  • Add support for symmetric serial-tilelink (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1716)
  • Add Chip ID Pin and Port (by @schwarz-em in ucb-bar#1721)
  • FastSimRocketConfig with no TLMonitors (by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1752)
  • Use lean conda for faster initial setup (by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1750)
  • Add BroadcastCoherence rocket config (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1755)

Changed

  • Bump FireMarshal (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1556)
  • Bump spike | support M-mode only cosim (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1530)
  • Bump to chisel3.6 (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1531)
  • Replace Dromajo FireSim bridge with Cospike (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1588)
  • Add PortAPI between IO and Harness blocks (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1610)
  • REFACTOR: change bootaddr register address and PC reset vector address (by @T-K-233 in ucb-bar#1605)
  • REFACTOR: rename arty35t explicitly (by @T-K-233 in ucb-bar#1682)
  • Add HasHarnessInstantiators into MultiHarnessBinder (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1674)
  • Install CIRCT out of Conda (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1675)
  • [cd] Bump CIRCT from firtool-1.58.0 to firtool-1.60.0 (copy #1688) (by @mergify[bot] in ucb-bar#1689)
  • Bump constellation with improved TL-noc (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1633)
  • Update testchipip imports with new testchipip organization (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1710)
  • CHANGE: Set scratchpad as default config (by @T-K-233 in ucb-bar#1719)
  • Rename blocks/cache submodules to match new chipsalliance ownership (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1726)
  • Rename timeout_cycles to TIMEOUT_CYCLES to match convention (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1706)
  • [cd] Bump CIRCT from firtool-1.60.0 to firtool-1.61.0 (copy #1691) (by @mergify[bot] in ucb-bar#1699)
  • Bump tcip/barf/marshal/fsim (by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1748)
  • Remove skip-validate option (by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1749)
  • Add .gitignore for Embench Build Folder (by @vighneshiyer in ucb-bar#1754)

Fixed

  • Bump lockfiles | Force user-installed conda during conda-lock (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1555)
  • Fix FIFO-fixing for PRCI bus (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1563)
  • Fix VCU118 freq adjustment configs (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1597)
  • Fix Arty100T verilog build (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1608)
  • Make scripts/insert-includes.py use Python from conda env (by @hansungk in ucb-bar#1615)
  • Fix icenet-loopback clock and reset domain (by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1612)
  • Bump FireMarshal for linux rng init fix (by @raghav-g13 in ucb-bar#1620)
  • Bump barstools (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1625)
  • [vlsi][ci skip] Fix tutorial.mk so that INPUT_CONFS override only affects tutorials (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1631)
  • Fix regex for similar module names that are uniquified (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1640)
  • Rebuild jars when sv/v files are changed + Add documentation on blackboxes (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1639)
  • Use TARGET instead of PREFIX in /tests Makefile(s) (by @raghav-g13 in ucb-bar#1647)
  • Fix IO direction for host Serial-TL port (by @ethanwu10 in ucb-bar#1654)
  • More robust env.sh | Fix conda activate if in subshell (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1653)
  • Always generate MFC Blackbox filelist (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1668)
  • Remove references to ENABLE_YOSYS (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1695)
  • FIX: fix vcu118 sd card frequency (by @T-K-233 in ucb-bar#1685)
  • FIX: fix conda-lock version, >1.4.0 does not work! (by @T-K-233 in ucb-bar#1714)
  • docs: correct to TOP_MACROCOMPILER_MODE (by @oharboe in ucb-bar#1744)
  • Use non-lock-file conda requirements in RTD (by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1742)
  • Fix GCD MMIO example (by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1753)

Removed

Uncategorized

  • Documentation: Change "don't use Windows" to "if using Windows, use WSL" (by @JL102 in ucb-bar#1572)
  • docs: Add info on chipyard's tests directory and how to do multithreading in RTL simulations (by @JL102 in ucb-bar#1646)
  • Reduce CDE lookups for IOBinders (by @tymcauley in ucb-bar#1720)
  • Update deprecated APIs to prepare for Chisel 5 (by @tymcauley in ucb-bar#1723)
  • Allow sed override in uniquify-module-names.py (by @tymcauley in ucb-bar#1729)
  • Update deprecated/unused Chisel APIs (by @tymcauley in ucb-bar#1743)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ucb-bar/chipyard/compare/1.10.0...main

[1.10.0] - 2023-6-16

Adds superscalar in-order core, prefetchers, architectural checkpointing, examples for custom-chiptop/tapeout-chip/flat-chiptop. FireSim bumped with new local FPGA support: 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

  • QoL improvement to IOBinders + custom ChipTop example by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1399
  • New Scala-based Config Finder by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1424
  • ADD: improve Makefile in tests/, add explicit arch flags by @T-K-233 in ucb-bar#1439
  • Add mt-helloworld example by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1428
  • Add tutorial software by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1447
  • Support not instantiating the TileClockGater/ResetSetter PRCI control by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1459
  • ELF-based-loadmem | architectural restartable checkpoints by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1438
  • Add embench build support by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1479
  • Support multi-run of binaries by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1480
  • Integrate barf (prefetchers) by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1505
  • Add higher level explanations of RoCC + more resources by @nikhiljha in ucb-bar#1486
  • Support banked/partitioned scratchpads by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1431
  • Add dual-issue in-order "shuttle" core by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1495
  • Improve peripheral fragments to include more peripheral devices and support instantiating multiple instances of same device by @T-K-233 in ucb-bar#1511

Changed

  • Bump to latest rocket-chip/chisel3.5.6 by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1411
  • Resolve merge conflicts in chisel3.5.6 bump by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1430
  • PLL integration example + FlatChipTop/TestHarness by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1427
  • bump testchipip by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1434
  • Fix ChipLikeQuadRocketConfig crossing by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1436
  • Bump TestChipIp to improve default serial_tl behavior by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1435
  • Bump testchipip to standardize TL serdesser bundle params by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1446
  • Bump to Hammer 1.1.1 by @harrisonliew in ucb-bar#1451
  • Always initialize fpga-shells with init-submodules.sh by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1456
  • Support uni-directional TLSerdesser by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1476
  • Move xcelium.mk out of top-level by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1482
  • Set default config back to 1-channel by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1483
  • Unify supernode/harness-clocking across chipyard/firesim/fpga by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1474
  • Use fat jar's to remove SBT invocations by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1375
  • Bump to latest rocket-chip by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1475
  • Improvements to chipyard clocking by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1489
  • Downgrade cryptography | Pin linux sysroot by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1494
  • bump mempress by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1498
  • bump sha3 by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1499
  • Bump FireMarshal by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1502
  • Split NVDLA config out of ManyMMIOAccels config to reduce CI load by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1503
  • Ignore barstools compilation if not needed by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1504
  • Disable NVDLA simulations in CI by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1507
  • Update NoC example config to match new PRCI organization by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1509
  • Bump gemmini by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1519

Fixed

  • Various improvements and fixes by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1420
  • Ensure conda cleanup regex properly filters out non-numeric chars by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1425
  • Clear screen on prompt by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1449
  • misc: many fixes to cospike by @tianrui-wei in ucb-bar#1450
  • Uniquify module names that are common to Top & Model by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1442
  • Use pk/encoding.h for hello/mt-hello by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1454
  • Fix no-uart configs by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1457
  • Fix support for no-bootROM systems by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1458
  • Check that HarnessClockInstantiator doesn't receive requests for similarly-named-clocks with different frequencies by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1460
  • uniquify module names by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1452
  • Flip serial_tl_clock to be generated off-chip by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1445
  • Move TestHarness to chipyard.harness, make chipyard/harness directory by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1463
  • Separate out conda-lock generation into new script by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1466
  • Bump DRAMSim2 to avoid verbose log files by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1468
  • Bump Verilator and use TestDriver.v as top by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1398
  • Add 1GB / 4GB DRAM firechip configs for FireSim VCU118 by @sagark in ucb-bar#1471
  • Rename SerialAdapter+SimSerial to TSIToTileLink/SimTSI/TSIHarness by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1465
  • Make BootAddrReg optional by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1464
  • Fix vcd/fst/fsdb waveform generation by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1473
  • Switch RTL sims to absolute clock-generators by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1472
  • Generate objdump | check BINARY | cospike fixes by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1467
  • Small QOL fixes for Xcelium by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1485
  • (VCU118 DDR HarnessBinder)Fix data field width mismatch between DDR AXI and TileLink MemoryBus by @jerryhethatday in ucb-bar#1487
  • Force conda-lock to v1 by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1492
  • Loosen/tighten conda requirements | Fix conda-lock req by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1497
  • Misc Makefile Fixes by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1496
  • Bump constellation to fix interconnect FIFO-fixers by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1510
  • [ci skip] Fix broken docs link by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1515
  • Revert changes to peripheral fragments by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1518

New Contributors

[1.9.1] - 2023-04-21

Various fixes for Linux boot, More Chip/bringup examples, Chisel 3.5.6 bump

Added

  • QoL improvement to IOBinders + custom ChipTop example by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1399
  • PLL integration example + FlatChipTop/TestHarness by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1427
  • Bump TestChipIp to improve default serial_tl behavior by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1435
  • Bump testchipip to standardize TL serdesser bundle params by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1446
  • HarnessBinder asserts to catch bad clock generation by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1460

Changed

  • New Scala-based Config Finder by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1424
  • Bump to latest rocket-chip/chisel3.5.6 by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1411
  • Resolve merge conflicts in chisel3.5.6 bump by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1430
  • bump testchipip by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1434
  • ADD: improve Makefile in tests/, add explicit arch flags by @T-K-233 in ucb-bar#1439
  • Various submodule bumps by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1448
  • Support not instantiating tile reset/clock contorl features by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1459

Fixed

  • Various improvements and fixes by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1420
  • Ensure conda cleanup regex properly filters out non-numeric chars by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1425
  • Fix ChipLikeQuadRocketConfig crossing by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1436
  • Uniquify module names that are common to Top & Model by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1442
  • Support for no-bootROM systems by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1458
  • Support for no-UART systems by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1457

[1.9.0] - 2023-03-23

Faster FIRRTL build support work CIRCT. New software support for RISC-V GCC12 and Linux 6.2. Various bumps and fixes of all submodules.

Added

Changed

  • remove RocketTilesKey by @SingularityKChen in ucb-bar#1264
  • Move setup script to scripts/, use a symlink at top-level by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1271
  • Decoupled sbus width from boom|hwacha|gemmini memory interface widths by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1273
  • Remove conda from build-toolchains-extra.sh by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1266
  • Rework build-setup | Add single-node CI by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1282
  • Switch simulators to C++17. by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1285
  • Init FPGA submodules in build-setup.sh by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1292
  • Stripped down rocket configs for FireSim testing by @t14916 in ucb-bar#1302
  • Add more minimal firesim configs for testing by @t14916 in ucb-bar#1313
  • Add workshop info to README.md by @sagark in ucb-bar#1314
  • Removed FireSim tests and harnesses by @nandor in ucb-bar#1317
  • Move boom's tracegen interface to boom submodule by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1331
  • Split up RocketConfigs.scala by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1340
  • Sky130/Openroad Tutorial Fixes by @nayiri-k in ucb-bar#1392
  • Testing VLSI commands for chipyard tutorial by @nayiri-k in ucb-bar#1395
  • Reduce test cases for noc-config in CI by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1359
  • Remove TLHelper, directly use tilelink node constructors by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1358
  • Remove chisel-testers submodule by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1378
  • Cache .ivy2 and .sbt within Chipyard root directory by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1362

Fixed

  • Remove extra parenthesis by @odxa20 in ucb-bar#1261
  • Fixed typo in Initial-Repo-Setup.rst by @PisonJay in ucb-bar#1269
  • fix: S-interpolator for assert, assume and printf by @SingularityKChen in ucb-bar#1242
  • Revert "fix: S-interpolator for assert, assume and printf" by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1272
  • changelog: fixed TinyRocketArtyConfig FPGA reset signal polarity (Please Backport) by @T-K-233 in ucb-bar#1257
  • Fix CY logo in README by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1295
  • More files to gitignore by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1297
  • Bump rocket-dsp-utils for ShiftRegisterMem fix. by @milovanovic in ucb-bar#1298
  • Set VLOGMODEL=MODEL by default in variables.mk by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1337
  • Fix compile breaking due to merge conflict by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1321
  • Makefile bug fixes by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1336
  • Fix Verilog Prerequisites + Ignore mv stdout by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1406
  • Fix Chisel hierarchy API - Fixes #1356 by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1361
  • Remove gen-collateral when rebuilding by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1342
  • Fix VLSI input files list emission to avoid bash "too many arguments" error by @sagark in ucb-bar#1348
  • Small build system improvements by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1349
  • Fix socket name length issues on CI by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1353
  • Fix TestDriver.v missing from gen-collateral after recompiling by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1354
  • Consolidate CI testing configs to improve CI runtime by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1352
  • Remove Duplicate Compiler Flags by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1351
  • fpga makefile clean fix by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1357
  • Fix newline in message in build-setup.sh by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1365
  • Update assert message if configs can't be split by : by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1373
  • Remove Duplicate Compiler Flags by @joey0320 in ucb-bar#1367
  • Move more tmp/ folders to a unique location by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1382
  • Remove stale conda env's after 2 days by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1389
  • Match CY/FireSim deps | Unpin deps | Update lockfiles by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1391
  • Only support HTML docs by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1401
  • Only HTML docs v2 by @abejgonzalez in ucb-bar#1402
  • Fix ANSI color output by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1407
  • Fix chisel elab errors not causing flow to stop by @jerryz123 in ucb-bar#1409
  • lean gemmini tutorial by @sagark in ucb-bar#1413

[1.8.1] - 2022-10-18

Various fixes and improvements, bump FireSim to 1.15.1.

Added

  • Bump chipyard to integrate mempress #1253

Changed

  • Default VCS simulators should generate FSDB #1252
  • Bump to FireSim 1.15.1 for various improvements #1258

Fixed

  • Revert to using sbt-launch.jar to run SBT #1251
  • Fix open files issue automatically on systems with a sufficiently large hard limit, to work around buildroot bug. #1258
  • Fixed PATH issues in generated env.sh #1258
  • Fixed scripts/repo-clean.sh to restore clean repo state again #1258

[1.8.0] - 2022-09-30

Adds support for NoC-based interconnects with Constellation (https://constellation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). Switch to Conda for dependency/environment management. Bump Rocket Chip and other hardware libraries. Bump to FireSim 1.15.0.

Added

  • RTL: Support for packet-switched NoC-based TileLink main bus interconnects with Constellation
  • Conda: Support setting up a Chipyard development environment through Conda
  • Hammer: Fully open-source Sky130 flow tutorials in open-source and commercial tools
  • Hammer: IR key history
  • Hammer: Joules power analysis support
  • Hammer: Tempus STA support

Changed

  • RTL: Default memory-mapped addresses for fft/dsp/example MMIO accelerators changed to be non-overlapping
  • Repo: Update SiFive submodules to new chipsalliance upstreams
  • Rocketchip: Bumped to 1.6
  • Chisel: Bumped to 3.5.2
  • Firesim: Bumped to 1.15.0
  • Firemarshal: Bumped to latest

Fixed

  • RTL: Fix clock frequency rounding
  • Hammer: VCS FGP is now opt-in
  • Dromajo: Fix to variable definition
  • Testchipip: Fix write-strobe handling for 64B configurations
  • Build: Ignore dotfiles in lookup_srcs

[1.7.1] - 2022-07-06

FireSim bump for new builddriver command and various fixes. See FireSim 1.14.1 CHANGELOG.md.

Changed

  • Bump FireSim to 1.14.1

[1.7.0] - 2022-06-18

FireSim bump for local (on-premises) FPGA and distributed metasimulation support. Hammer now supports the OpenROAD open-source EDA tools for a fully open-source RTL-to-GDS VLSI flow.

Added

  • Add a FireSim config with no mem port (#1172)
  • Hammer OpenROAD plugins: Yosys (syn), OpenROAD (par), Magic (drc), Netgen (lvs) (#1183)

Changed

  • Bump FireSim to 1.14.0
  • Give the PRCI widgets valnames to clean up module naming (#1152)

Fixed

  • Add missing Apache commons dependencies (fixes #1144) (#1147)
  • Disable Boost for spike (#1168)
  • VCS enhancements (#1150)
    • Support multi-thread VCS simv option like FGP, Xprof etc.
    • Idle tsi in the target thread
  • Don't shallow clone submodules (revert #1064) (#1143)
  • Remove extra spaces in FPGA makefile (#1135)

[1.6.3] - 2022-04-06

FireSim bump for various fixes. Revert shallow cloning. Various CI fixes.

Fixed

[1.6.2] - 2022-03-01

Minor fixes to FireSim.

Fixed

  • Bump to FireSim 1.13.3 (#1134)

[1.6.1] - 2022-03-01

Minor fixes to FireSim.

Fixed

  • Bump to FireSim 1.13.2 (#1133)

[1.6.0] - 2022-02-15

A more detailed account of everything included is included in the dev to master PR for this release: ucb-bar#913

Added

  • Diplomatic IOBinder-like approach to setting up PRCI across different deployment targets (#900)
  • Default set of MMIO-controlled reset-setters and clock-gaters (#900)
  • Added simulation makefile options torture and torture-overnight for running Torture (#992)
  • FSDB waveform support (#1072, #1102)
  • Use GitHub Actions for CI (#1004, #999, #1090, #1092)
  • Add MAKE variable in build-toolchains.sh (#1021)
  • Cleanup GH issue and PR templates (#1029, #1032)
  • Add support for Ibex core (#979)
  • Add system bus width fragment (#1071)
  • Add support for FSDB waveform files (#1072, #1102)
  • Document simulator timeout settings (#1094)
  • Add FFT Generator (#1067)
  • Add waveforms for post-PNR and power (#1108)
  • Have PRCI control registers use clock of corresponding bus (#1109)
  • Add check to verify that user is running on tagged release (#1114)
  • Hammer tutorial in Sky130 (#1115)

Changed

  • Bump CVA6 (#909 )
  • Bump Hammer tutorial for ASAP7 r1p7 (#934)
  • Use Published Chisel, FIRRTL, Treadle, FIRRTLInterpreter packages instead of building from source. #1054
  • Change serialTL width to 32. Speeds up simulations (#1040)
  • Update how sbt flag is overridden (by using SBT_BIN variable) (#1041)
  • Use published dependencies for Chisel, FIRRTL, Treadle, and FIRRTLInterpreter (#1054)
  • Split ConfigFragments.scala into multiple files (with more organization) (#1061)
  • Avoid initializing nvdla software by default (#1063)
  • Update ASAP to 1.7 in Hammer (#934)
  • Shorten Gemmini docs and point to repo (#1078)
  • Bump Gemmini to 0.6.2 (#1083)
  • Use python2 for tracegen script (#1107)
  • Bump to Chisel/FIRRTL 3.5.1 (#1060, #1113)
  • Bump to FireMarshal 1.12.1 (#1116)
  • Bump to FireSim 1.13.0 (#1118 )

Fixed

  • Fix UART portmap for Arty (#968)
  • Support changing make variable MODEL from the cmdline (#1030)
  • Force FIRRTL to 1.4.1 (#1052)
  • Fix MMIO IOBinder (#1045)
  • Mask fd warning when running make (#1057)
  • Fix Sodor 5-stage hazard check (#1086)
  • Fix Sodor val io issue (#1089)
  • Fix BOOM reference in Readme (#1104)
  • Fix waveforms for post-P&R power analysis (#1108)

Removed

  • Remove duplicate WithUARTIOCells fragment (#1047)
  • Remove MaxPermSize in java variables (#1082)
  • Remove support for CircleCI (#1105)

[1.5.0] - 2021-06-13

A more detailed account of everything included is included in the dev to master PR for this release: ucb-bar#773

Added

  • FireMarshal support for FPGA prototypes (#849)
  • Hammer update to include power estimation flows, rail analysis, hierarchical sim support, and improved ASAP7 plugin with dummy SRAMs (#886)
  • Docker image
  • Support specifying architecture when building tools. (#802)
  • Add Config fragments: WithMultiRoCCFromBuildRoCC, PMP (#809, #821)
  • Add support for simulating an AXI memory interface over the default TL serial link (#812)
  • Add option to add async queues between chip-serialIO and harness serdes (#828)
  • Spike support for multiple extensions, and add sha3 spike model to esp-tools (#837, #897)
  • Default generator support for I2C and PWM (#885)

Changed

  • Gemmini bump to version 0.5
  • FireSim bump to version 1.12
  • FireMarshal bump to version 1.12
  • Changes default FireSim frequency from 3.2 GHz (dual clock domains) to 1 GHz (single clock domain)
  • Bump pygments from 2.2.0 to 2.7.4 in docs
  • Hammer tutorial example is now a TinyRocketConfig (#886)
  • Sha3 Spike model moved from sha3 repo to esp-isa-sim

Fixed

  • Avoid permissions conflict on shared protocjar.webcache (#774)
  • Passing MBus clock frequency to SimDRAM (#790)
  • Fix parsing of --ignore-qemu option (#791)
  • FPGA Prototype - Support Adding Pullup R's to Bringup GPIOs (#806)
  • Use "tile" instead of "core" to assign frequencies in WithTileFrequency config. fragment (#807)
  • Fix IOCell generation for clock and reset to use IOCellKey (#824)
  • Fix TileResetCtrl to be ahead of reset synchronizers (#826)
  • Fix memory alignment in character count RoCC test (#853)
  • Synchronize JTAG reset to JTAG.TCK. (#859)
  • Updates to system requirements scripts (#874)
  • Rocket-dsp-utils integration and cleanup for dsptools (#888)

Removed

  • Dummy DCO collateral from Hammer tutorial example (#886)

[1.4.0] - 2021-01-19

A more detailed account of everything included is included in the dev to master PR for this release: ucb-bar#599

Added

  • OpenSBI Support (#633)
  • Support for Diplomacy-based clocking (#614, #682)
  • Support for Diplomacy-based IOBinders (#699)
  • Sodor core integration (#648)
  • Simple Divider-Only PLL for Multiclock RTL Simulation (#676)
  • Enable parallel Hammer simulations (#600)
  • OpenRoad nangate45 Hammer backend (#608)
  • Add support for "LBWIF" backing memory through serialized TileLink (#673)
  • Add variable to control FIRRTL logging verbosity (#627)
  • Add RANDOM_SEED variable to set random init for VCS and Verilator simulations (#629)
  • Fast LoadMem support (#635)
  • Multithreaded Verilator (#654)
  • Support for custom Verilator optimization flags (#728)
  • Add config-fragment to use broadcast manager instead of L2 for coherence (#721)
  • Added optional ignore QEMU flag to build-toolchains.sh (#709)
  • Split JAVA_ARGS into JAVA_OPTS and SBT_OPTS (#719)
  • Experimental support for SBT thin client. Enable with export ENABLE_SBT_THIN_CLIENT=1 (sbt/sbt#5620) (#719)
  • Helper make targets to launch SBT console (sbt) and shutdown/start thin server (<start/shutdown>-sbt-server) (#719)
  • Allow users to override CC and CXX for build-toolchains.sh (#739)
  • Support VCU118/Arty local FPGA prototypes through fpga-shells (#747)
  • A 16-core LargeBOOM configuration has been added to FireChip to highlight the resource-optimizing platform configurations added to FireSim in firesim/firesim#636 (#756)

Changed

  • Bump Chisel to 3.4.1.x (#742, #719, #751)
  • Bump RocketChip to a7b016e (#742, #719)
  • Bump FireSim to 1.11
  • Bump Gemmini to v0.5
  • Bump to SBT 1.4.4 (#719)
  • Split IOBinders into IOBinders and HarnessBinders | punch out clocks to harness for simwidgets and bridges (#670, #674)
  • Have FireSim build recipes use Chipyard configs rather than FireChip configs (#695)
  • FireMarshal boot default to OpenSBI rather than BBL (#633)
  • Override default baud rate for FireChip (#625)
  • DTM only supports HTIF in DMI mode (#672)
  • Unify HTIF implementation between Chipyard and Firesim (#683)
  • Renamed Ariane to CVA6 (#710)
  • build.sbt refactoring/fixes for RC/Chisel/Firrtl bump (#719)
  • Use ; x; y; z; syntax to run multiple SBT commands (#719)
  • CI Improvements: Cleanup check-commit printout. Don't transfer .git folders. (#750)

Fixed

  • Multi-SHA3 configs (#597)
  • Allow dramsim_ini folder to be set at the command line (#598)
  • Emit HTIF Node in device tree (#607)
  • Fixes for AXI4 MMIO and FBus ports (#618)
  • Only punch realistic subset of DebugIO through chiptop | default to JTAG+Serial (#664)
  • IceNet bug fixes (#720)
  • smartelf2hex.sh bug fixes (#677, #693)
  • env.sh zsh compatibility (#705)
  • build-toolchains.sh bug fixes (#745 #739)
  • Bump Dromajo to work with older version of glibc (#709)

Removed

  • Support for synchronous ChipTop reset (#703)
  • Split JAVA_ARGS into JAVA_OPTS and SBT_OPTS (#719)

[1.3.0] - 2020-05-31

A more detailed account of everything included is included in the dev to master PR for this release: ucb-bar#500

Added

  • A new Top-level module, ChipTop, has been created. ChipTop instantiates a "system" module specified by BuildSystem. (#480)
  • A new BuildSystem key has been added, which by default builds DigitalTop (#480)
  • The IOBinders API has changed. IOBinders are now called inside of ChipTop and return a tuple3 of (IO ports, IO cells, harness functions). The harness functions are now called inside the TestHarness (this is analogous to the previous IOBinder functions). (#480)
  • IO cell models have been included in ChipTop. These can be replaced with real IO cells for tapeout, or used as-is for simulation. (#480)
  • CI now checks documentation changes (#485)
  • Support FireSim multi-clock (#468)
  • Allows make variables to be injected into build system (#499)
  • Various documentation/comment updates (#511,#517,#518,#537,#533,#542,#570,#569)
  • DSPTools documentation and example (#457, #568)
  • Support for no UART configs (#536)
  • Assemble firrtl-test.jar (#551)
  • Add SPI flash configurations (#546)
  • Add Dromajo + FireSim Dromajo simulation support (#523, #553, #560)
  • NVDLA integration (#505, #559, #580)
  • Add support for Hammer Sim (#512,#581,#580,#582)

Changed

  • Bump FireSim to version 1.10 (#574,#586)
  • Bump BOOM to version 3.0 (#523, #574,#580)
  • Bump Gemmini to version 0.3 (#575, #579)
  • Bump SPEC17 workload (#504, #574)
  • Bump Hwacha for fixes (#580)
  • Bump SHA3 for Linux 5.7rc3 support (#580)
  • Bump Rocket Chip to commit 1872f5d (including stage/phase compilation) (#503,#544)
  • Bump FireMarshal to version 1.9.0 (#574)
  • Chisel 3.3 and FIRRTL 1.3 (#503,#544)
  • BuildTop now builds a ChipTop dut module in the TestHarness by default (#480)
  • The default for the TOP make variable is now ChipTop (was Top) (#480)
  • Top has been renamed to DigitalTop (#480)
  • Bump libgloss (#508, #516, #580)
  • The default version of Verilator has changed to v4.034 (#547). Since this release adds enhanced support for Verilog timescales, the build detects if Verilator v4.034 or newer is visible in the build environment and sets default timescale flags appropriately.
  • Use Scalatests for FireSim CI (#528)
  • Cleanup Ariane pre-processing (#505)
  • Modify Issue Template to be more explicit (#557)
  • FireChip uses Chipyard generator (#554)
  • Have all non-synthesizeable constructs in test harness (#572)

Fixed

  • Aligned esp-tools spike with Gemmini (#509)
  • Fix debug rule in Verilator (#513)
  • Clean up SBT HTTP warnings (#526,#549)
  • Artefacts dropped in FireSim (#534)
  • Working IceNet + TestChipIP Unit Tests (#525)
  • Don't initialize non-existent Midas submodule (#552)
  • Verilator now supports +permissive similar to VCS (#565)
  • Fix direction of IOCell OE (#586)

Deprecated

  • N/A

Removed

  • Removed MIDAS examples CI (until a better solution that is faster is found) (#589)

[1.2.0] - 2020-03-14

A more detailed account of everything included is included in the dev to master PR for this release: ucb-bar#418

Added

  • Ring Topology System Bus NoC (#461)
  • Integration of the Ariane core into Chipyard (#448)
  • FireMarshal now generates an extra copy of linux kernel with dwarf debugging info for use in FirePerf (#427)
  • Add option to use blackboxed SimDRAM instead of SimAXIMem (#449)
  • Log init-submodules script (#433)
  • Moved the Docker image used for CI into Chipyard (prev. in BOOM) (#463)

Changed

  • Bump FireSim to 1.9.0 - Includes FirePerf TracerV Flame Graph features
  • IOBinders and BuildTop unification between FireChip and Chipyard (#390)
  • Bump BOOM to version 2.2.4 (#463)
  • Bump Gemmini to version 0.2 (#469)
  • Update to CircleCI 2.1 config. syntax and cleanup CI file (#421)
  • FireMarshal moved from FireSim to Chipyard (#415)
  • Rename config. mixins to config fragments (#451)

Fixed

  • git status should be clean. (Although you will need to manually cleanup the libgloss and qemu directories after first setup). (#411, #414)
  • Fix Hetero. BOOM + Rocket + Hwacha config (#413)
  • Fix VCS stdout (#417)
  • Add a git version check to the init scripts and make them work outside of the repo root (#459)
  • Fix generation of env.sh for zsh (#435)
  • GCD example bug (#465)

Deprecated

  • N/A

Removed

  • N/A

[1.1.0] - 2020-01-25

A more detailed account of everything included is included in the dev to master PR for this release: ucb-bar#367

Added

  • Gemmini generator and config (PR #356 )
  • Coremark + SPEC2017 benchmarks (PR #326, #338, #344)
  • Add Hwacha tests to CI (PR #284)
  • Add Hwacha tests to benchmark and assembly test suites (PR #284)
  • Added Hwacha + Large Boom Config (PR #315)
  • Add multi-core config with a small Rocket core attached on the side (PR #361 )
  • Add UART and Test Harness UART Adapter to all configurations (PR #348)
  • User can specify $RISCV directory in build-toolchains.sh (PR #334)
  • Checksum offload in IceNet (PR #364)

Changed

  • Rocketchip bumped to commit 4f0cdea, for chisel version 3.2.0 which includes Async reset support
  • FireSim release 1.8.0
  • FireMarshal release 1.8.0
  • BOOM release 2.2.3 (PR #397)
  • baremetal software toolchains, using libgloss and newlib instead of in-house syscalls.
  • Add toolchain specific env.sh (PR #304)
  • run-binary-like interface now dumps .log (stdout) and .out (stderr) files (PR #308)
  • Split the VLSI build dir on type of design (PR #331)
  • Reduce Ctags runtime and only look at scala, C, C++, and Python files (PR #346)
  • Top/Top-level-traits now behave as a configurable generator (PR #347)
  • Test suite makefrag generator includes Hwacha test suites (PR #342)

Fixed

  • Fix VLSI makefile requirements for SRAM generation (PR #318)
  • Only filter header files from common simulation files (PR #322)
  • Bump MacroCompiler for bugfixes (PR #332)
  • commit-on-master check has specific behavior based on source branch (PR #345)
  • Makefile filtering of blackbox resource files only omits .h files (PR #322)
  • Parallel make fixed (PR #386 #392)

Deprecated

  • No longer need to specify WithXTop, default Top is a generator for all Tops (PR #347)

Removed

  • N/A

[1.0.0] - 2019-10-19

Added

  • This repository used to be "project-template", a template for Chisel-based projects. Through tighter integration of multiple projects from the Berkeley Architecture Research group at UC Berkeley, this repository is re-released as Chipyard - a framework for agile hardware development of RISC-V based Systems-on-Chip.