iris 1.3.0

The major changes compared to v1.2.0 are:

• AI Engine (AIE) Backend support as external plugin by @dimdano in #1390
• ☢️ Libero backend for rad-hard PolarFire line of FPGAs by @vloncar in #1240
• Einsum and EinsumDense for oneAPI by @laurilaatu in #1424
• vivado/vitis support sample broadcasting merge ops by @calad0i in #1426
• pytest based synthesis tests by @marco66colombo in #1257

The full list of changes is:

• Bump version to 1.2.0 and switch to ruff for formatting by @JanFSchulte in #1395
• AI Engine (AIE) Backend support as external plugin by @dimdano in #1390
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1397
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1399
• Update funding section in README.md by @bo3z in #1403
• Add NGT logo to README by @jmduarte in #1404
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1402
• Manually increment checkout to version v6 by @JanFSchulte in #1405
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1408
• Backend predict hook by @dimdano in #1409
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1411
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1414
• pytest based synthesis tests by @marco66colombo in #1257
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1416
• Remove parametrized fixtures from pytests for pytest 9 compatability by @JanFSchulte in #1417
• Bump upload-artifact version by @JanFSchulte in #1413
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1420
• allow partial config def by @calad0i in #1419
• Add keras3 environment in tests by @marco66colombo in #1412
• ☢️ Libero backend for rad-hard PolarFire line of FPGAs by @vloncar in #1240
• minor fixes to CONTRIBUTING.md by @jmitrevs in #1423
• Einsum and EinsumDense for oneAPI by @laurilaatu in #1424
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1425
• Add LHC trigger use case context to README by @siddardhadesu in #1418
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1430
• hgq2 homogeneous quant fix by @calad0i in #1427
• Da custom layer by @calad0i in #1429
• Fix Keras v3 model conversion in numerical profiling by @Abubakar-rashid in #1421
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1434
• Uniform test root path by @jmitrevs in #1435
• Pytest folder naming update by @nghielme in #1437
• Fix parsing of activations in Keras v3 non-activation layers by @bo3z in #1440
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1441
• vivado/vitis support sample broadcasting merge ops by @calad0i in #1426
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1447
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1450
• Bump upload-artifact version by @JanFSchulte in #1449
• fix autoprecision fallback for generic weights by @calad0i in #1453
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1452

New Contributors

• @siddardhadesu made their first contribution in #1418
• @Abubakar-rashid made their first contribution in #1421

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.3.0