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@jerryz123 jerryz123 released this 20 Jan 23:32
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Major features include expanded support for multi-clock designs, a FPGA prototyping and bringup flow, and new optimizations in FireSim 1.11.

A more detailed account of everything included is included in the dev to master PR for this release: #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)
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