CHANGELOG

   1
   2 List of major changes and improvements between releases
   3 =======================================================
   4
   5 Yosys 0.15 .. Yosys 0.15-dev
   6 --------------------------
   7
   8 Yosys 0.14 .. Yosys 0.15
   9 --------------------------
  10
  11  * Various
  12     - clk2fflogic: nice names for autogenerated signals
  13     - simulation include support for all flip-flop types.
  14     - Added AIGER witness file co-simulation.
  15
  16  * Verilog
  17     - Fixed evaluation of constant functions with variables or arguments with
  18       reversed dimensions
  19     - Fixed elaboration of dynamic range assignments where the vector is
  20       reversed or is not zero-indexed
  21     - Added frontend support for time scale delay values (e.g., `#1ns`)
  22
  23  * SystemVerilog
  24     - Added support for accessing whole sub-structures in expressions
  25
  26  * New commands and options
  27     - Added glift command, used to create gate-level information flow tracking
  28       (GLIFT) models by the "constructive mapping" approach
  29
  30  * Verific support
  31     - Ability to override default parser mode for verific -f command.
  32
  33 Yosys 0.13 .. Yosys 0.14
  34 --------------------------
  35
  36  * Various
  37     - Added $bmux and $demux cells and related optimization patterns.
  38
  39  * New commands and options
  40     - Added "bmuxmap" and "dmuxmap" passes
  41     - Added "-fst" option to "sim" pass for writing FST files
  42     - Added "-r", "-scope", "-start", "-stop", "-at", "-sim", "-sim-gate",
  43       "-sim-gold" options to "sim" pass for co-simulation
  44
  45  * Anlogic support
  46     - Added support for BRAMs
  47
  48 Yosys 0.12 .. Yosys 0.13
  49 --------------------------
  50
  51  * Various
  52     - Use "read" command to parse HDL files from Yosys command-line
  53     - Added "yosys -r <topmodule>" command line option
  54     - write_verilog: dump zero width sigspecs correctly
  55
  56  * SystemVerilog
  57     - Fixed regression preventing the use array querying functions in case
  58       expressions and case item expressions
  59     - Fixed static size casts inadvertently limiting the result width of binary
  60       operations
  61     - Fixed static size casts ignoring expression signedness
  62     - Fixed static size casts not extending unbased unsized literals
  63     - Added automatic `nosync` inference for local variables in `always_comb`
  64       procedures which are always assigned before they are used to avoid errant
  65       latch inference
  66
  67  * New commands and options
  68     - Added "clean_zerowidth" pass
  69
  70  * Verific support
  71     - Add YOSYS to the implicitly defined verilog macros in verific
  72
  73 Yosys 0.11 .. Yosys 0.12
  74 --------------------------
  75
  76  * Various
  77     - Added iopadmap native support for negative-polarity output enable
  78     - ABC update
  79
  80  * SystemVerilog
  81     - Support parameters using struct as a wiretype
  82
  83  * New commands and options
  84     - Added "-genlib" option to "abc" pass
  85     - Added "sta" very crude static timing analysis pass
  86
  87  * Verific support
  88     - Fixed memory block size in import
  89
  90  * New back-ends
  91     - Added support for GateMate FPGA from Cologne Chip AG
  92
  93  * Intel ALM support
  94     - Added preliminary Arria V support
  95
  96
  97 Yosys 0.10 .. Yosys 0.11
  98 --------------------------
  99
 100  * Various
 101     - Added $aldff and $aldffe (flip-flops with async load) cells
 102
 103  * SystemVerilog
 104     - Fixed an issue which prevented writing directly to a memory word via a
 105       connection to an output port
 106     - Fixed an issue which prevented unbased unsized literals (e.g., `'1`) from
 107       filling the width of a cell input
 108     - Fixed an issue where connecting a slice covering the entirety of a signed
 109       signal to a cell input would cause a failed assertion
 110
 111  * Verific support
 112     - Importer support for {PRIM,WIDE_OPER}_DFF
 113     - Importer support for PRIM_BUFIF1
 114     - Option to use Verific without VHDL support
 115     - Importer support for {PRIM,WIDE_OPER}_DLATCH{,RS}
 116     - Added -cfg option for getting/setting Verific runtime flags
 117
 118 Yosys 0.9 .. Yosys 0.10
 119 --------------------------
 120
 121  * Various
 122     - Added automatic gzip decompression for frontends
 123     - Added $_NMUX_ cell type
 124     - Added automatic gzip compression (based on filename extension) for backends
 125     - Improve attribute and parameter encoding in JSON to avoid ambiguities between
 126       bit vectors and strings containing [01xz]*
 127     - Improvements in pmgen: subpattern and recursive matches
 128     - Support explicit FIRRTL properties
 129     - Improvements in pmgen: slices, choices, define, generate
 130     - Added "_TECHMAP_WIREINIT_*_" parameter and "_TECHMAP_REMOVEINIT_*_" wire for "techmap" pass
 131     - Added +/mul2dsp.v for decomposing wide multipliers to custom-sized ones
 132     - Added new frontend: rpc
 133     - Added --version and -version as aliases for -V
 134     - Improve yosys-smtbmc "solver not found" handling
 135     - Improved support of $readmem[hb] Memory Content File inclusion
 136     - Added CXXRTL backend
 137     - Use YosysHQ/abc instead of upstream berkeley-abc/abc
 138     - Added WASI platform support.
 139     - Added extmodule support to firrtl backend
 140     - Added $divfloor and $modfloor cells
 141     - Added $adffe, $dffsre, $sdff, $sdffe, $sdffce, $adlatch cells
 142     - Added "_TECHMAP_CELLNAME_" parameter for "techmap" pass
 143     - Added firrtl backend support for generic parameters in blackbox components
 144     - Added $meminit_v2 cells (with support for write mask)
 145     - Added $mem_v2, $memrd_v2, $memwr_v2, with the following features:
 146       - write priority masks, per write/write port pair
 147       - transparency and undefined collision behavior masks, per read/write port pair
 148       - read port reset and initialization
 149       - wide ports (accessing a naturally aligned power-of-two number of memory cells)
 150
 151  * New commands and options
 152     - Added "write_xaiger" backend
 153     - Added "read_xaiger"
 154     - Added "abc9" pass for timing-aware techmapping (experimental, FPGA only)
 155     - Added "synth -abc9" (experimental)
 156     - Added "script -scriptwire"
 157     - Added "clkbufmap" pass
 158     - Added "extractinv" pass and "invertible_pin" attribute
 159     - Added "proc_clean -quiet"
 160     - Added "proc_prune" pass
 161     - Added "stat -tech cmos"
 162     - Added "opt_share" pass, run as part of "opt -full"
 163     - Added "-match-init" option to "dff2dffs" pass
 164     - Added "equiv_opt -multiclock"
 165     - Added "techmap_autopurge" support to techmap
 166     - Added "add -mod <modname[s]>"
 167     - Added "paramap" pass
 168     - Added "portlist" command
 169     - Added "check -mapped"
 170     - Added "check -allow-tbuf"
 171     - Added "autoname" pass
 172     - Added "write_verilog -extmem"
 173     - Added "opt_mem" pass
 174     - Added "scratchpad" pass
 175     - Added "fminit" pass
 176     - Added "opt_lut_ins" pass
 177     - Added "logger" pass
 178     - Added "show -nobg"
 179     - Added "exec" command
 180     - Added "design -delete"
 181     - Added "design -push-copy"
 182     - Added "qbfsat" command
 183     - Added "select -unset"
 184     - Added "dfflegalize" pass
 185     - Removed "opt_expr -clkinv" option, made it the default
 186     - Added "proc -nomux
 187     - Merged "dffsr2dff", "opt_rmdff", "dff2dffe", "dff2dffs", "peepopt.dffmux" passes into a new "opt_dff" pass
 188
 189  * SystemVerilog
 190     - Added checking of always block types (always_comb, always_latch and always_ff)
 191     - Added support for wildcard port connections (.*)
 192     - Added support for enum typedefs
 193     - Added support for structs and packed unions.
 194     - Allow constant function calls in for loops and generate if and case
 195     - Added support for static cast
 196     - Added support for logic typed parameters
 197     - Fixed generate scoping issues
 198     - Added support for real-valued parameters
 199     - Allow localparams in constant functions
 200     - Module name scope support
 201     - Support recursive functions using ternary expressions
 202     - Extended support for integer types
 203     - Support for parameters without default values
 204     - Allow globals in one file to depend on globals in another
 205     - Added support for: *=, /=, %=, <<=, >>=, <<<=, >>>=
 206     - Added support for parsing the 'bind' construct
 207     - support declaration in procedural for initialization
 208     - support declaration in generate for initialization
 209     - Support wand and wor of data types
 210
 211  * Verific support
 212     - Added "verific -L"
 213     - Add Verific SVA support for "always" properties
 214     - Add Verific support for SVA nexttime properties
 215     - Improve handling of verific primitives in "verific -import -V" mode
 216     - Import attributes for wires
 217     - Support VHDL enums
 218     - Added support for command files
 219
 220  * New back-ends
 221     - Added initial EFINIX support
 222     - Added Intel ALM: alternative synthesis for Intel FPGAs
 223     - Added initial Nexus support
 224     - Added initial MachXO2 support
 225     - Added initial QuickLogic PolarPro 3 support
 226
 227  * ECP5 support
 228     - Renamed labels/options in synth_ecp5 (e.g. dram -> map_lutram; -nodram -> -nolutram)
 229     - Added "synth_ecp5 -abc9" (experimental)
 230     - Added "synth_ecp5 -nowidelut"
 231     - "synth_ecp5" to now infer DSP blocks (-nodsp to disable, experimental)
 232
 233  * iCE40 support
 234     - Added "synth_ice40 -abc9" (experimental)
 235     - Added "synth_ice40 -device"
 236     - Renamed labels/options in synth_ice40 (e.g. dram -> map_lutram; -nodram -> -nolutram)
 237     - Added "ice40_wrapcarry" to encapsulate SB_LUT+SB_CARRY pairs for techmapping
 238     - Removed "ice40_unlut"
 239     - Added "ice40_dsp" for Lattice iCE40 DSP packing
 240     - "synth_ice40 -dsp" to infer DSP blocks
 241
 242  * Xilinx support
 243     - Added "synth_xilinx -abc9" (experimental)
 244     - Added "synth_xilinx -nocarry"
 245     - Added "synth_xilinx -nowidelut"
 246     - "synth_xilinx" to now infer wide multiplexers (-widemux <min> to enable)
 247     - Renamed labels/options in synth_xilinx (e.g. dram -> map_lutram; -nodram -> -nolutram)
 248     - Added "synth_xilinx -family xc6s" for Spartan 6 support (experimental)
 249     - Added "synth_xilinx -ise" (experimental)
 250     - Added "synth_xilinx -iopad"
 251     - "synth_xilinx" now automatically inserts clock buffers (add -noclkbuf to disable)
 252     - Added "xilinx_srl" for Xilinx shift register extraction
 253     - Removed "shregmap -tech xilinx" (superseded by "xilinx_srl")
 254     - Added "xilinx_dsp" for Xilinx DSP packing
 255     - "synth_xilinx" to now infer DSP blocks (-nodsp to disable)
 256     - Added latch support to synth_xilinx
 257     - Added support for flip-flops with synchronous reset to synth_xilinx
 258     - Added support for flip-flops with reset and enable to synth_xilinx
 259     - Added "xilinx_dffopt" pass
 260     - Added "synth_xilinx -dff"
 261
 262  * Intel support
 263     - Renamed labels in synth_intel (e.g. bram -> map_bram)
 264     - synth_intel: cyclone10 -> cyclone10lp, a10gx -> arria10gx
 265     - Added "intel_alm -abc9" (experimental)
 266
 267  * CoolRunner2 support
 268     - Separate and improve buffer cell insertion pass
 269     - Use extract_counter to optimize counters
 270
 271 Yosys 0.8 .. Yosys 0.9
 272 ----------------------
 273
 274  * Various
 275     - Many bugfixes and small improvements
 276     - Added support for SystemVerilog interfaces and modports
 277     - Added "write_edif -attrprop"
 278     - Added "opt_lut" pass
 279     - Added "gate2lut.v" techmap rule
 280     - Added "rename -src"
 281     - Added "equiv_opt" pass
 282     - Added "flowmap" LUT mapping pass
 283     - Added "rename -wire" to rename cells based on the wires they drive
 284     - Added "bugpoint" for creating minimised testcases
 285     - Added "write_edif -gndvccy"
 286     - "write_verilog" to escape Verilog keywords
 287     - Fixed sign handling of real constants
 288     - "write_verilog" to write initial statement for initial flop state
 289     - Added pmgen pattern matcher generator
 290     - Fixed opt_rmdff handling of $_DFFSR_???_ and $_DLATCHSR_???_
 291     - Added "setundef -params" to replace undefined cell parameters
 292     - Renamed "yosys -D" to "yosys -U", added "yosys -D" to set Verilog defines
 293     - Fixed handling of defparam when default_nettype is none
 294     - Fixed "wreduce" flipflop handling
 295     - Fixed FIRRTL to Verilog process instance subfield assignment
 296     - Added "write_verilog -siminit"
 297     - Several fixes and improvements for mem2reg memories
 298     - Fixed handling of task output ports in clocked always blocks
 299     - Improved handling of and-with-1 and or-with-0 in "opt_expr"
 300     - Added "read_aiger" frontend
 301     - Added "mutate" pass
 302     - Added "hdlname" attribute
 303     - Added "rename -output"
 304     - Added "read_ilang -lib"
 305     - Improved "proc" full_case detection and handling
 306     - Added "whitebox" and "lib_whitebox" attributes
 307     - Added "read_verilog -nowb", "flatten -wb" and "wbflip"
 308     - Added Python bindings and support for Python plug-ins
 309     - Added "pmux2shiftx"
 310     - Added log_debug framework for reduced default verbosity
 311     - Improved "opt_expr" and "opt_clean" handling of (partially) undriven and/or unused wires
 312     - Added "peepopt" peephole optimisation pass using pmgen
 313     - Added approximate support for SystemVerilog "var" keyword
 314     - Added parsing of "specify" blocks into $specrule and $specify[23]
 315     - Added support for attributes on parameters and localparams
 316     - Added support for parsing attributes on port connections
 317     - Added "wreduce -keepdc"
 318     - Added support for optimising $dffe and $_DFFE_* cells in "opt_rmdff"
 319     - Added Verilog wand/wor wire type support
 320     - Added support for elaboration system tasks
 321     - Added "muxcover -mux{4,8,16}=<cost>"
 322     - Added "muxcover -dmux=<cost>"
 323     - Added "muxcover -nopartial"
 324     - Added "muxpack" pass
 325     - Added "pmux2shiftx -norange"
 326     - Added support for "~" in filename parsing
 327     - Added "read_verilog -pwires" feature to turn parameters into wires
 328     - Fixed sign extension of unsized constants with 'bx and 'bz MSB
 329     - Fixed genvar to be a signed type
 330     - Added support for attributes on case rules
 331     - Added "upto" and "offset" to JSON frontend and backend
 332     - Several liberty file parser improvements
 333     - Fixed handling of more complex BRAM patterns
 334     - Add "write_aiger -I -O -B"
 335
 336  * Formal Verification
 337     - Added $changed support to read_verilog
 338     - Added "read_verilog -noassert -noassume -assert-assumes"
 339     - Added btor ops for $mul, $div, $mod and $concat
 340     - Added yosys-smtbmc support for btor witnesses
 341     - Added "supercover" pass
 342     - Fixed $global_clock handling vs autowire
 343     - Added $dffsr support to "async2sync"
 344     - Added "fmcombine" pass
 345     - Added memory init support in "write_btor"
 346     - Added "cutpoint" pass
 347     - Changed "ne" to "neq" in btor2 output
 348     - Added support for SVA "final" keyword
 349     - Added "fmcombine -initeq -anyeq"
 350     - Added timescale and generated-by header to yosys-smtbmc vcd output
 351     - Improved BTOR2 handling of undriven wires
 352
 353  * Verific support
 354     - Enabled Verific flags vhdl_support_variable_slice and veri_elaborate_top_level_modules_having_interface_ports
 355     - Improved support for asymmetric memories
 356     - Added "verific -chparam"
 357     - Fixed "verific -extnets" for more complex situations
 358     - Added "read -verific" and "read -noverific"
 359     - Added "hierarchy -chparam"
 360
 361  * New back-ends
 362     - Added initial Anlogic support
 363     - Added initial SmartFusion2 and IGLOO2 support
 364
 365  * ECP5 support
 366     - Added "synth_ecp5 -nowidelut"
 367     - Added BRAM inference support to "synth_ecp5"
 368     - Added support for transforming Diamond IO and flipflop primitives
 369
 370  * iCE40 support
 371     - Added "ice40_unlut" pass
 372     - Added "synth_ice40 -relut"
 373     - Added "synth_ice40 -noabc"
 374     - Added "synth_ice40 -dffe_min_ce_use"
 375     - Added DSP inference support using pmgen
 376     - Added support for initialising BRAM primitives from a file
 377     - Added iCE40 Ultra RGB LED driver cells
 378
 379  * Xilinx support
 380     - Use "write_edif -pvector bra" for Xilinx EDIF files
 381     - Fixes for VPR place and route support with "synth_xilinx"
 382     - Added more cell simulation models
 383     - Added "synth_xilinx -family"
 384     - Added "stat -tech xilinx" to estimate logic cell usage
 385     - Added "synth_xilinx -nocarry"
 386     - Added "synth_xilinx -nowidelut"
 387     - "synth_xilinx" to now infer hard shift registers (-nosrl to disable)
 388     - Added support for mapping RAM32X1D
 389
 390 Yosys 0.7 .. Yosys 0.8
 391 ----------------------
 392
 393  * Various
 394     - Many bugfixes and small improvements
 395     - Strip debug symbols from installed binary
 396     - Replace -ignore_redef with -[no]overwrite in front-ends
 397     - Added write_verilog hex dump support, add -nohex option
 398     - Added "write_verilog -decimal"
 399     - Added "scc -set_attr"
 400     - Added "verilog_defines" command
 401     - Remember defines from one read_verilog to next
 402     - Added support for hierarchical defparam
 403     - Added FIRRTL back-end
 404     - Improved ABC default scripts
 405     - Added "design -reset-vlog"
 406     - Added "yosys -W regex", "yosys -w regex", and "yosys -e regex"
 407     - Added Verilog $rtoi and $itor support
 408     - Added "check -initdrv"
 409     - Added "read_blif -wideports"
 410     - Added support for SystemVerilog "++" and "--" operators
 411     - Added support for SystemVerilog unique, unique0, and priority case
 412     - Added "write_edif" options for edif "flavors"
 413     - Added support for resetall compiler directive
 414     - Added simple C beck-end (bitwise combinatorical only atm)
 415     - Added $_ANDNOT_ and $_ORNOT_ cell types
 416     - Added cell library aliases to "abc -g"
 417     - Added "setundef -anyseq"
 418     - Added "chtype" command
 419     - Added "design -import"
 420     - Added "write_table" command
 421     - Added "read_json" command
 422     - Added "sim" command
 423     - Added "extract_fa" and "extract_reduce" commands
 424     - Added "extract_counter" command
 425     - Added "opt_demorgan" command
 426     - Added support for $size and $bits SystemVerilog functions
 427     - Added "blackbox" command
 428     - Added "ltp" command
 429     - Added support for editline as replacement for readline
 430     - Added warnings for driver-driver conflicts between FFs (and other cells) and constants
 431     - Added "yosys -E" for creating Makefile dependencies files
 432     - Added "synth -noshare"
 433     - Added "memory_nordff"
 434     - Added "setundef -undef -expose -anyconst"
 435     - Added "expose -input"
 436     - Added specify/specparam parser support (simply ignore them)
 437     - Added "write_blif -inames -iattr"
 438     - Added "hierarchy -simcheck"
 439     - Added an option to statically link abc into yosys
 440     - Added protobuf back-end
 441     - Added BLIF parsing support for .conn and .cname
 442     - Added read_verilog error checking for reg/wire/logic misuse
 443     - Added "make coverage" and ENABLE_GCOV build option
 444
 445  * Changes in Yosys APIs
 446     - Added ConstEval defaultval feature
 447     - Added {get,set}_src_attribute() methods on RTLIL::AttrObject
 448     - Added SigSpec::is_fully_ones() and Const::is_fully_ones()
 449     - Added log_file_warning() and log_file_error() functions
 450
 451  * Formal Verification
 452     - Added "write_aiger"
 453     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --aig"
 454     - Added "always <positive_int>" to .smtc format
 455     - Added $cover cell type and support for cover properties
 456     - Added $fair/$live cell type and support for liveness properties
 457     - Added smtbmc support for memory vcd dumping
 458     - Added "chformal" command
 459     - Added "write_smt2 -stbv" and "write_smt2 -stdt"
 460     - Fix equiv_simple, old behavior now available with "equiv_simple -short"
 461     - Change to Yices2 as default SMT solver (it is GPL now)
 462     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --presat" (now default in SymbiYosys)
 463     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --smtc-init --smtc-top --noinit"
 464     - Added a brand new "write_btor" command for BTOR2
 465     - Added clk2fflogic memory support and other improvements
 466     - Added "async memory write" support to write_smt2
 467     - Simulate clock toggling in yosys-smtbmc VCD output
 468     - Added $allseq/$allconst cells for EA-solving
 469     - Make -nordff the default in "prep"
 470     - Added (* gclk *) attribute
 471     - Added "async2sync" pass for single-clock designs with async resets
 472
 473  * Verific support
 474     - Many improvements in Verific front-end
 475     - Added proper handling of concurent SVA properties
 476     - Map "const" and "rand const" to $anyseq/$anyconst
 477     - Added "verific -import -flatten" and "verific -import -extnets"
 478     - Added "verific -vlog-incdir -vlog-define -vlog-libdir"
 479     - Remove PSL support (because PSL has been removed in upstream Verific)
 480     - Improve integration with "hierarchy" command design elaboration
 481     - Added YOSYS_NOVERIFIC for running non-verific test cases with verific bin
 482     - Added simpilied "read" command that automatically uses verific if available
 483     - Added "verific -set-<severity> <msg_id>.."
 484     - Added "verific -work <libname>"
 485
 486  * New back-ends
 487     - Added initial Coolrunner-II support
 488     - Added initial eASIC support
 489     - Added initial ECP5 support
 490
 491  * GreenPAK Support
 492     - Added support for GP_DLATCH, GP_SPI, GP_DCMx, GP_COUNTx, etc.
 493
 494  * iCE40 Support
 495     - Add "synth_ice40 -vpr"
 496     - Add "synth_ice40 -nodffe"
 497     - Add "synth_ice40 -json"
 498     - Add Support for UltraPlus cells
 499
 500  * MAX10 and Cyclone IV Support
 501     - Added initial version of metacommand "synth_intel".
 502     - Improved write_verilog command to produce VQM netlist for Quartus Prime.
 503     - Added support for MAX10 FPGA family synthesis.
 504     - Added support for Cyclone IV family synthesis.
 505     - Added example of implementation for DE2i-150 board.
 506     - Added example of implementation for MAX10 development kit.
 507     - Added LFSR example from Asic World.
 508     - Added "dffinit -highlow" for mapping to Intel primitives
 509
 510
 511 Yosys 0.6 .. Yosys 0.7
 512 ----------------------
 513
 514  * Various
 515     - Added "yosys -D" feature
 516     - Added support for installed plugins in $(DATDIR)/plugins/
 517     - Renamed opt_const to opt_expr
 518     - Renamed opt_share to opt_merge
 519     - Added "prep -flatten" and "synth -flatten"
 520     - Added "prep -auto-top" and "synth -auto-top"
 521     - Using "mfs" and "lutpack" in ABC lut mapping
 522     - Support for abstract modules in chparam
 523     - Cleanup abstract modules at end of "hierarchy -top"
 524     - Added tristate buffer support to iopadmap
 525     - Added opt_expr support for div/mod by power-of-two
 526     - Added "select -assert-min <N> -assert-max <N>"
 527     - Added "attrmvcp" pass
 528     - Added "attrmap" command
 529     - Added "tee +INT -INT"
 530     - Added "zinit" pass
 531     - Added "setparam -type"
 532     - Added "shregmap" pass
 533     - Added "setundef -init"
 534     - Added "nlutmap -assert"
 535     - Added $sop cell type and "abc -sop -I <num> -P <num>"
 536     - Added "dc2" to default ABC scripts
 537     - Added "deminout"
 538     - Added "insbuf" command
 539     - Added "prep -nomem"
 540     - Added "opt_rmdff -keepdc"
 541     - Added "prep -nokeepdc"
 542     - Added initial version of "synth_gowin"
 543     - Added "fsm_expand -full"
 544     - Added support for fsm_encoding="user"
 545     - Many improvements in GreenPAK4 support
 546     - Added black box modules for all Xilinx 7-series lib cells
 547     - Added synth_ice40 support for latches via logic loops
 548     - Fixed ice40_opt lut unmapping, added "ice40_opt -unlut"
 549
 550  * Build System
 551     - Added ABCEXTERNAL and ABCURL make variables
 552     - Added BINDIR, LIBDIR, and DATDIR make variables
 553     - Added PKG_CONFIG make variable
 554     - Added SEED make variable (for "make test")
 555     - Added YOSYS_VER_STR make variable
 556     - Updated min GCC requirement to GCC 4.8
 557     - Updated required Bison version to Bison 3.x
 558
 559  * Internal APIs
 560     - Added ast.h to exported headers
 561     - Added ScriptPass helper class for script-like passes
 562     - Added CellEdgesDatabase API
 563
 564  * Front-ends and Back-ends
 565     - Added filename glob support to all front-ends
 566     - Added avail (black-box) module params to ilang format
 567     - Added $display %m support
 568     - Added support for $stop Verilog system task
 569     - Added support for SystemVerilog packages
 570     - Fixed procedural assignments to non-unique lvalues, e.g. {y,y} = {a,b}
 571     - Added support for "active high" and "active low" latches in read_blif and write_blif
 572     - Use init value "2" for all uninitialized FFs in BLIF back-end
 573     - Added "read_blif -sop"
 574     - Added "write_blif -noalias"
 575     - Added various write_blif options for VTR support
 576     - write_json: also write module attributes.
 577     - Added "write_verilog -nodec -nostr -defparam"
 578     - Added "read_verilog -norestrict -assume-asserts"
 579     - Added support for bus interfaces to "read_liberty -lib"
 580     - Added liberty parser support for types within cell decls
 581     - Added "write_verilog -renameprefix -v"
 582     - Added "write_edif -nogndvcc"
 583
 584  * Formal Verification
 585     - Support for hierarchical designs in smt2 back-end
 586     - Yosys-smtbmc: Support for hierarchical VCD dumping
 587     - Added $initstate cell type and vlog function
 588     - Added $anyconst and $anyseq cell types and vlog functions
 589     - Added printing of code loc of failed asserts to yosys-smtbmc
 590     - Added memory_memx pass, "memory -memx", and "prep -memx"
 591     - Added "proc_mux -ifx"
 592     - Added "yosys-smtbmc -g"
 593     - Deprecated "write_smt2 -regs" (by default on now)
 594     - Made "write_smt2 -bv -mem" default, added "write_smt2 -nobv -nomem"
 595     - Added support for memories to smtio.py
 596     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --dump-vlogtb"
 597     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --smtc --dump-smtc"
 598     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --dump-all"
 599     - Added assertpmux command
 600     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --unroll"
 601     - Added $past, $stable, $rose, $fell SVA functions
 602     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --noinfo and --dummy"
 603     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --noincr"
 604     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --cex <filename>"
 605     - Added $ff and $_FF_ cell types
 606     - Added $global_clock verilog syntax support for creating $ff cells
 607     - Added clk2fflogic
 608
 609
 610 Yosys 0.5 .. Yosys 0.6
 611 ----------------------
 612
 613  * Various
 614      - Added Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
 615      - Various improvements in dict<> and pool<>
 616      - Added hashlib::mfp and refactored SigMap
 617      - Improved support for reals as module parameters
 618      - Various improvements in SMT2 back-end
 619      - Added "keep_hierarchy" attribute
 620      - Verilog front-end: define `BLACKBOX in -lib mode
 621      - Added API for converting internal cells to AIGs
 622      - Added ENABLE_LIBYOSYS Makefile option
 623      - Removed "techmap -share_map" (use "-map +/filename" instead)
 624      - Switched all Python scripts to Python 3
 625      - Added support for $display()/$write() and $finish() to Verilog front-end
 626      - Added "yosys-smtbmc" formal verification flow
 627      - Added options for clang sanitizers to Makefile
 628
 629  * New commands and options
 630      - Added "scc -expect <N> -nofeedback"
 631      - Added "proc_dlatch"
 632      - Added "check"
 633      - Added "select %xe %cie %coe %M %C %R"
 634      - Added "sat -dump_json" (WaveJSON format)
 635      - Added "sat -tempinduct-baseonly -tempinduct-inductonly"
 636      - Added "sat -stepsize" and "sat -tempinduct-step"
 637      - Added "sat -show-regs -show-public -show-all"
 638      - Added "write_json" (Native Yosys JSON format)
 639      - Added "write_blif -attr"
 640      - Added "dffinit"
 641      - Added "chparam"
 642      - Added "muxcover"
 643      - Added "pmuxtree"
 644      - Added memory_bram "make_outreg" feature
 645      - Added "splice -wires"
 646      - Added "dff2dffe -direct-match"
 647      - Added simplemap $lut support
 648      - Added "read_blif"
 649      - Added "opt_share -share_all"
 650      - Added "aigmap"
 651      - Added "write_smt2 -mem -regs -wires"
 652      - Added "memory -nordff"
 653      - Added "write_smv"
 654      - Added "synth -nordff -noalumacc"
 655      - Added "rename -top new_name"
 656      - Added "opt_const -clkinv"
 657      - Added "synth -nofsm"
 658      - Added "miter -assert"
 659      - Added "read_verilog -noautowire"
 660      - Added "read_verilog -nodpi"
 661      - Added "tribuf"
 662      - Added "lut2mux"
 663      - Added "nlutmap"
 664      - Added "qwp"
 665      - Added "test_cell -noeval"
 666      - Added "edgetypes"
 667      - Added "equiv_struct"
 668      - Added "equiv_purge"
 669      - Added "equiv_mark"
 670      - Added "equiv_add -try -cell"
 671      - Added "singleton"
 672      - Added "abc -g -luts"
 673      - Added "torder"
 674      - Added "write_blif -cname"
 675      - Added "submod -copy"
 676      - Added "dffsr2dff"
 677      - Added "stat -liberty"
 678
 679  * Synthesis metacommands
 680      - Various improvements in synth_xilinx
 681      - Added synth_ice40 and synth_greenpak4
 682      - Added "prep" metacommand for "synthesis lite"
 683
 684  * Cell library changes
 685      - Added cell types to "help" system
 686      - Added $meminit cell type
 687      - Added $assume cell type
 688      - Added $_MUX4_, $_MUX8_, and $_MUX16_ cells
 689      - Added $tribuf and $_TBUF_ cell types
 690      - Added read-enable to memory model
 691
 692  * YosysJS
 693      - Various improvements in emscripten build
 694      - Added alternative webworker-based JS API
 695      - Added a few example applications
 696
 697
 698 Yosys 0.4 .. Yosys 0.5
 699 ----------------------
 700
 701  * API changes
 702      - Added log_warning()
 703      - Added eval_select_args() and eval_select_op()
 704      - Added cell->known(), cell->input(portname), cell->output(portname)
 705      - Skip blackbox modules in design->selected_modules()
 706      - Replaced std::map<> and std::set<> with dict<> and pool<>
 707      - New SigSpec::extend() is what used to be SigSpec::extend_u0()
 708      - Added YS_OVERRIDE, YS_FINAL, YS_ATTRIBUTE, YS_NORETURN
 709
 710  * Cell library changes
 711      - Added flip-flops with enable ($dffe etc.)
 712      - Added $equiv cells for equivalence checking framework
 713
 714  * Various
 715      - Updated ABC to hg rev 61ad5f908c03
 716      - Added clock domain partitioning to ABC pass
 717      - Improved plugin building (see "yosys-config --build")
 718      - Added ENABLE_NDEBUG Makefile flag for high-performance builds
 719      - Added "yosys -d", "yosys -L" and other driver improvements
 720      - Added support for multi-bit (array) cell ports to "write_edif"
 721      - Now printing most output to stdout, not stderr
 722      - Added "onehot" attribute (set by "fsm_map")
 723      - Various performance improvements
 724      - Vastly improved Xilinx flow
 725      - Added "make unsintall"
 726
 727  * Equivalence checking
 728      - Added equivalence checking commands:
 729          equiv_make equiv_simple equiv_status
 730          equiv_induct equiv_miter
 731          equiv_add equiv_remove
 732
 733  * Block RAM support:
 734      - Added "memory_bram" command
 735      - Added BRAM support to Xilinx flow
 736
 737  * Other New Commands and Options
 738      - Added "dff2dffe"
 739      - Added "fsm -encfile"
 740      - Added "dfflibmap -prepare"
 741      - Added "write_blid -unbuf -undef -blackbox"
 742      - Added "write_smt2" for writing SMT-LIBv2 files
 743      - Added "test_cell -w -muxdiv"
 744      - Added "select -read"
 745
 746
 747 Yosys 0.3.0 .. Yosys 0.4
 748 ------------------------
 749
 750  * Platform Support
 751      - Added support for mxe-based cross-builds for win32
 752      - Added sourcecode-export as VisualStudio project
 753      - Added experimental EMCC (JavaScript) support
 754
 755  * Verilog Frontend
 756      - Added -sv option for SystemVerilog (and automatic *.sv file support)
 757      - Added support for real-valued constants and constant expressions
 758      - Added support for non-standard "via_celltype" attribute on task/func
 759      - Added support for non-standard "module mod_name(...);" syntax
 760      - Added support for non-standard """ macro bodies
 761      - Added support for array with more than one dimension
 762      - Added support for $readmemh and $readmemb
 763      - Added support for DPI functions
 764
 765  * Changes in internal cell library
 766      - Added $shift and $shiftx cell types
 767      - Added $alu, $lcu, $fa and $macc cell types
 768      - Removed $bu0 and $safe_pmux cell types
 769      - $mem/$memwr WR_EN input is now a per-data-bit enable signal
 770      - Added $_NAND_ $_NOR_ $_XNOR_ $_AOI3_ $_OAI3_ $_AOI4_ $_OAI4_
 771      - Renamed ports of $lut cells (from I->O to A->Y)
 772      - Renamed $_INV_ to $_NOT_
 773
 774  * Changes for simple synthesis flows
 775      - There is now a "synth" command with a recommended default script
 776      - Many improvements in synthesis of arithmetic functions to gates
 777          - Multipliers and adders with many operands are using carry-save adder trees
 778          - Remaining adders are now implemented using Brent-Kung carry look-ahead adders
 779      - Various new high-level optimizations on RTL netlist
 780      - Various improvements in FSM optimization
 781      - Updated ABC to hg 5b5af75f1dda (from 2014-11-07)
 782
 783  * Changes in internal APIs and RTLIL
 784      - Added log_id() and log_cell() helper functions
 785      - Added function-like cell creation helpers
 786      - Added GetSize() function (like .size() but with int)
 787      - Major refactoring of RTLIL::Module and related classes
 788      - Major refactoring of RTLIL::SigSpec and related classes
 789      - Now RTLIL::IdString is essentially an int
 790      - Added macros for code coverage counters
 791      - Added some Makefile magic for pretty make logs
 792      - Added "kernel/yosys.h" with all the core definitions
 793      - Changed a lot of code from FILE* to c++ streams
 794      - Added RTLIL::Monitor API and "trace" command
 795      - Added "Yosys" C++ namespace
 796
 797  * Changes relevant to SAT solving
 798      - Added ezSAT::keep_cnf() and ezSAT::non_incremental()
 799      - Added native ezSAT support for vector shift ops
 800      - Updated MiniSAT to git 37dc6c67e2 (from 2013-09-25)
 801
 802  * New commands (or large improvements to commands)
 803      - Added "synth" command with default script
 804      - Added "share" (finally some real resource sharing)
 805      - Added "memory_share" (reduce number of ports on memories)
 806      - Added "wreduce" and "alumacc" commands
 807      - Added "opt -keepdc -fine -full -fast"
 808      - Added some "test_*" commands
 809
 810  * Various other changes
 811      - Added %D and %c select operators
 812      - Added support for labels in yosys scripts
 813      - Added support for here-documents in yosys scripts
 814      - Support "+/" prefix for files from proc_share_dir
 815      - Added "autoidx" statement to ilang language
 816      - Switched from "yosys-svgviewer" to "xdot"
 817      - Renamed "stdcells.v" to "techmap.v"
 818      - Various bug fixes and small improvements
 819      - Improved welcome and bye messages
 820
 821
 822 Yosys 0.2.0 .. Yosys 0.3.0
 823 --------------------------
 824
 825  * Driver program and overall behavior:
 826      - Added "design -push" and "design -pop"
 827      - Added "tee" command for redirecting log output
 828
 829  * Changes in the internal cell library:
 830      - Added $dlatchsr and $_DLATCHSR_???_ cell types
 831
 832  * Improvements in Verilog frontend:
 833      - Improved support for const functions (case, always, repeat)
 834      - The generate..endgenerate keywords are now optional
 835      - Added support for arrays of module instances
 836      - Added support for "`default_nettype" directive
 837      - Added support for "`line" directive
 838
 839  * Other front- and back-ends:
 840      - Various changes to "write_blif" options
 841      - Various improvements in EDIF backend
 842      - Added "vhdl2verilog" pseudo-front-end
 843      - Added "verific" pseudo-front-end
 844
 845  * Improvements in technology mapping:
 846      - Added support for recursive techmap
 847      - Added CONSTMSK and CONSTVAL features to techmap
 848      - Added _TECHMAP_CONNMAP_*_ feature to techmap
 849      - Added _TECHMAP_REPLACE_ feature to techmap
 850      - Added "connwrappers" command for wrap-extract-unwrap method
 851      - Added "extract -map %<design_name>" feature
 852      - Added "extract -ignore_param ..." and "extract -ignore_parameters"
 853      - Added "techmap -max_iter" option
 854
 855  * Improvements to "eval" and "sat" framework:
 856      - Now include a copy of Minisat (with build fixes applied)
 857      - Switched to Minisat::SimpSolver as SAT back-end
 858      - Added "sat -dump_vcd" feature
 859      - Added "sat -dump_cnf" feature
 860      - Added "sat -initsteps <N>" feature
 861      - Added "freduce -stop <N>" feature
 862      - Added "freduce -dump <prefix>" feature
 863
 864  * Integration with ABC:
 865      - Updated ABC rev to 7600ffb9340c
 866
 867  * Improvements in the internal APIs:
 868      - Added RTLIL::Module::add... helper methods
 869      - Various build fixes for OSX (Darwin) and OpenBSD
 870
 871
 872 Yosys 0.1.0 .. Yosys 0.2.0
 873 --------------------------
 874
 875  * Changes to the driver program:
 876      - Added "yosys -h" and "yosys -H"
 877      - Added support for backslash line continuation in scripts
 878      - Added support for #-comments in same line as command
 879      - Added "echo" and "log" commands
 880
 881  * Improvements in Verilog frontend:
 882      - Added support for local registers in named blocks
 883      - Added support for "case" in "generate" blocks
 884      - Added support for $clog2 system function
 885      - Added support for basic SystemVerilog assert statements
 886      - Added preprocessor support for macro arguments
 887      - Added preprocessor support for `elsif statement
 888      - Added "verilog_defaults" command
 889      - Added read_verilog -icells option
 890      - Added support for constant sizes from parameters
 891      - Added "read_verilog -setattr"
 892      - Added support for function returning 'integer'
 893      - Added limited support for function calls in parameter values
 894      - Added "read_verilog -defer" to suppress evaluation of modules with default parameters
 895
 896  * Other front- and back-ends:
 897      - Added BTOR backend
 898      - Added Liberty frontend
 899
 900  * Improvements in technology mapping:
 901      - The "dfflibmap" command now strongly prefers solutions with
 902            no inverters in clock paths
 903      - The "dfflibmap" command now prefers cells with smaller area
 904      - Added support for multiple -map options to techmap
 905      - Added "dfflibmap" support for //-comments in liberty files
 906      - Added "memory_unpack" command to revert "memory_collect"
 907      - Added standard techmap rule "techmap -share_map pmux2mux.v"
 908      - Added "iopadmap -bits"
 909      - Added "setundef" command
 910      - Added "hilomap" command
 911
 912  * Changes in the internal cell library:
 913      - Major rewrite of simlib.v for better compatibility with other tools
 914      - Added PRIORITY parameter to $memwr cells
 915      - Added TRANSPARENT parameter to $memrd cells
 916      - Added RD_TRANSPARENT parameter to $mem cells
 917      - Added $bu0 cell (always 0-extend, even undef MSB)
 918      - Added $assert cell type
 919      - Added $slice and $concat cell types
 920
 921  * Integration with ABC:
 922      - Updated ABC to hg rev 2058c8ccea68
 923      - Tighter integration of ABC build with Yosys build. The make
 924            targets 'make abc' and 'make install-abc' are now obsolete.
 925      - Added support for passing FFs from one clock domain through ABC
 926      - Now always use BLIF as exchange format with ABC
 927      - Added support for "abc -script +<command_sequence>"
 928      - Improved standard ABC recipe
 929      - Added support for "keep" attribute to abc command
 930      - Added "abc -dff / -clk / -keepff" options
 931
 932  * Improvements to "eval" and "sat" framework:
 933      - Added support for "0" and "~0" in right-hand side -set expressions
 934      - Added "eval -set-undef" and "eval -table"
 935      - Added "sat -set-init" and "sat -set-init-*" for sequential problems
 936      - Added undef support to SAT solver, incl. various new "sat" options
 937      - Added correct support for === and !== for "eval" and "sat"
 938      - Added "sat -tempinduct" (default -seq is now non-induction sequential)
 939      - Added "sat -prove-asserts"
 940      - Complete rewrite of the 'freduce' command
 941      - Added "miter" command
 942      - Added "sat -show-inputs" and "sat -show-outputs"
 943      - Added "sat -ignore_unknown_cells" (now produce an error by default)
 944      - Added "sat -falsify"
 945      - Now "sat -verify" and "sat -falsify" can also be used without "-prove"
 946      - Added "expose" command
 947      - Added support for @<sel_name> to sat and eval signal expressions
 948
 949  * Changes in the 'make test' framework and auxiliary test tools:
 950      - Added autotest.sh -p and -f options
 951      - Replaced autotest.sh ISIM support with XSIM support
 952      - Added test cases for SAT framework
 953
 954  * Added "abbreviated IDs":
 955      - Now $<something>$foo can be abbreviated as $foo.
 956      - Usually this last part is a unique id (from RTLIL::autoidx)
 957      - This abbreviated IDs are now also used in "show" output
 958
 959  * Other changes to selection framework:
 960      - Now */ is optional in */<mode>:<arg> expressions
 961      - Added "select -assert-none" and "select -assert-any"
 962      - Added support for matching modules by attribute (A:<expr>)
 963      - Added "select -none"
 964      - Added support for r:<expr> pattern for matching cell parameters
 965      - Added support for !=, <, <=, >=, > for attribute and parameter matching
 966      - Added support for %s for selecting sub-modules
 967      - Added support for %m for expanding selections to whole modules
 968      - Added support for i:*, o:* and x:* pattern for selecting module ports
 969      - Added support for s:<expr> pattern for matching wire width
 970      - Added support for %a operation to select wire aliases
 971
 972  * Various other changes to commands and options:
 973      - The "ls" command now supports wildcards
 974      - Added "show -pause" and "show -format dot"
 975      - Added "show -color" support for cells
 976      - Added "show -label" and "show -notitle"
 977      - Added "dump -m" and "dump -n"
 978      - Added "history" command
 979      - Added "rename -hide"
 980      - Added "connect" command
 981      - Added "splitnets -driver"
 982      - Added "opt_const -mux_undef"
 983      - Added "opt_const -mux_bool"
 984      - Added "opt_const -undriven"
 985      - Added "opt -mux_undef -mux_bool -undriven -purge"
 986      - Added "hierarchy -libdir"
 987      - Added "hierarchy -purge_lib" (by default now do not remove lib cells)
 988      - Added "delete" command
 989      - Added "dump -append"
 990      - Added "setattr" and "setparam" commands
 991      - Added "design -stash/-copy-from/-copy-to"
 992      - Added "copy" command
 993      - Added "splice" command
 994