CHANGELOG

   1
   2 List of major changes and improvements between releases
   3 =======================================================
   4
   5
   6 Yosys 0.9 .. Yosys 0.9-dev
   7 --------------------------
   8
   9  * Various
  10     - Added "write_xaiger" backend
  11     - Added "abc9" pass for timing-aware techmapping (experimental, FPGA only, no FFs)
  12     - Added "synth_xilinx -abc9" (experimental)
  13     - Added "synth_ice40 -abc9" (experimental)
  14     - Added "synth -abc9" (experimental)
  15     - Added "script -scriptwire
  16     - "synth_xilinx" to now infer wide multiplexers (-widemux <min> to enable)
  17     - Renamed labels/options in synth_ice40 (e.g. dram -> map_lutram; -nodram -> -nolutram)
  18     - Renamed labels/options in synth_ecp5 (e.g. dram -> map_lutram; -nodram -> -nolutram)
  19     - Renamed labels in synth_intel (e.g. bram -> map_bram)
  20     - Renamed labels/options in synth_xilinx (e.g. dram -> map_lutram; -nodram -> -nolutram)
  21     - Added automatic gzip decompression for frontends
  22     - Added $_NMUX_ cell type
  23     - Added automatic gzip compression (based on filename extension) for backends
  24     - Improve attribute and parameter encoding in JSON to avoid ambiguities between
  25       bit vectors and strings containing [01xz]*
  26     - Improvements in pmgen: subpattern and recursive matches
  27     - Added "opt_share" pass, run as part of "opt -full"
  28     - Added "ice40_wrapcarry" to encapsulate SB_LUT+SB_CARRY pairs for techmapping
  29     - Removed "ice40_unlut"
  30     - Improvements in pmgen: slices, choices, define, generate
  31
  32 Yosys 0.8 .. Yosys 0.8-dev
  33 --------------------------
  34
  35  * Various
  36     - Added $changed support to read_verilog
  37     - Added "write_edif -attrprop"
  38     - Added "ice40_unlut" pass
  39     - Added "opt_lut" pass
  40     - Added "synth_ice40 -relut"
  41     - Added "synth_ice40 -noabc"
  42     - Added "gate2lut.v" techmap rule
  43     - Added "rename -src"
  44     - Added "equiv_opt" pass
  45     - Added "shregmap -tech xilinx"
  46     - Added "read_aiger" frontend
  47     - Added "muxcover -mux{4,8,16}=<cost>"
  48     - Added "muxcover -dmux=<cost>"
  49     - Added "muxcover -nopartial"
  50     - Added "muxpack" pass
  51     - Added "pmux2shiftx -norange"
  52     - Added "synth_xilinx -nocarry"
  53     - Added "synth_xilinx -nowidelut"
  54     - Added "synth_ecp5 -nowidelut"
  55     - "synth_xilinx" to now infer hard shift registers (-nosrl to disable)
  56     - Fixed sign extension of unsized constants with 'bx and 'bz MSB
  57
  58
  59 Yosys 0.7 .. Yosys 0.8
  60 ----------------------
  61
  62  * Various
  63     - Many bugfixes and small improvements
  64     - Strip debug symbols from installed binary
  65     - Replace -ignore_redef with -[no]overwrite in front-ends
  66     - Added write_verilog hex dump support, add -nohex option
  67     - Added "write_verilog -decimal"
  68     - Added "scc -set_attr"
  69     - Added "verilog_defines" command
  70     - Remember defines from one read_verilog to next
  71     - Added support for hierarchical defparam
  72     - Added FIRRTL back-end
  73     - Improved ABC default scripts
  74     - Added "design -reset-vlog"
  75     - Added "yosys -W regex", "yosys -w regex", and "yosys -e regex"
  76     - Added Verilog $rtoi and $itor support
  77     - Added "check -initdrv"
  78     - Added "read_blif -wideports"
  79     - Added support for SystemVerilog "++" and "--" operators
  80     - Added support for SystemVerilog unique, unique0, and priority case
  81     - Added "write_edif" options for edif "flavors"
  82     - Added support for resetall compiler directive
  83     - Added simple C beck-end (bitwise combinatorical only atm)
  84     - Added $_ANDNOT_ and $_ORNOT_ cell types
  85     - Added cell library aliases to "abc -g"
  86     - Added "setundef -anyseq"
  87     - Added "chtype" command
  88     - Added "design -import"
  89     - Added "write_table" command
  90     - Added "read_json" command
  91     - Added "sim" command
  92     - Added "extract_fa" and "extract_reduce" commands
  93     - Added "extract_counter" command
  94     - Added "opt_demorgan" command
  95     - Added support for $size and $bits SystemVerilog functions
  96     - Added "blackbox" command
  97     - Added "ltp" command
  98     - Added support for editline as replacement for readline
  99     - Added warnings for driver-driver conflicts between FFs (and other cells) and constants
 100     - Added "yosys -E" for creating Makefile dependencies files
 101     - Added "synth -noshare"
 102     - Added "memory_nordff"
 103     - Added "setundef -undef -expose -anyconst"
 104     - Added "expose -input"
 105     - Added specify/specparam parser support (simply ignore them)
 106     - Added "write_blif -inames -iattr"
 107     - Added "hierarchy -simcheck"
 108     - Added an option to statically link abc into yosys
 109     - Added protobuf back-end
 110     - Added BLIF parsing support for .conn and .cname
 111     - Added read_verilog error checking for reg/wire/logic misuse
 112     - Added "make coverage" and ENABLE_GCOV build option
 113
 114  * Changes in Yosys APIs
 115     - Added ConstEval defaultval feature
 116     - Added {get,set}_src_attribute() methods on RTLIL::AttrObject
 117     - Added SigSpec::is_fully_ones() and Const::is_fully_ones()
 118     - Added log_file_warning() and log_file_error() functions
 119
 120  * Formal Verification
 121     - Added "write_aiger"
 122     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --aig"
 123     - Added "always <positive_int>" to .smtc format
 124     - Added $cover cell type and support for cover properties
 125     - Added $fair/$live cell type and support for liveness properties
 126     - Added smtbmc support for memory vcd dumping
 127     - Added "chformal" command
 128     - Added "write_smt2 -stbv" and "write_smt2 -stdt"
 129     - Fix equiv_simple, old behavior now available with "equiv_simple -short"
 130     - Change to Yices2 as default SMT solver (it is GPL now)
 131     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --presat" (now default in SymbiYosys)
 132     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --smtc-init --smtc-top --noinit"
 133     - Added a brand new "write_btor" command for BTOR2
 134     - Added clk2fflogic memory support and other improvements
 135     - Added "async memory write" support to write_smt2
 136     - Simulate clock toggling in yosys-smtbmc VCD output
 137     - Added $allseq/$allconst cells for EA-solving
 138     - Make -nordff the default in "prep"
 139     - Added (* gclk *) attribute
 140     - Added "async2sync" pass for single-clock designs with async resets
 141
 142  * Verific support
 143     - Many improvements in Verific front-end
 144     - Added proper handling of concurent SVA properties
 145     - Map "const" and "rand const" to $anyseq/$anyconst
 146     - Added "verific -import -flatten" and "verific -import -extnets"
 147     - Added "verific -vlog-incdir -vlog-define -vlog-libdir"
 148     - Remove PSL support (because PSL has been removed in upstream Verific)
 149     - Improve integration with "hierarchy" command design elaboration
 150     - Added YOSYS_NOVERIFIC for running non-verific test cases with verific bin
 151     - Added simpilied "read" command that automatically uses verific if available
 152     - Added "verific -set-<severity> <msg_id>.."
 153     - Added "verific -work <libname>"
 154
 155  * New back-ends
 156     - Added initial Coolrunner-II support
 157     - Added initial eASIC support
 158     - Added initial ECP5 support
 159
 160  * GreenPAK Support
 161     - Added support for GP_DLATCH, GP_SPI, GP_DCMx, GP_COUNTx, etc.
 162
 163  * iCE40 Support
 164     - Add "synth_ice40 -vpr"
 165     - Add "synth_ice40 -nodffe"
 166     - Add "synth_ice40 -json"
 167     - Add Support for UltraPlus cells
 168
 169  * MAX10 and Cyclone IV Support
 170     - Added initial version of metacommand "synth_intel".
 171     - Improved write_verilog command to produce VQM netlist for Quartus Prime.
 172     - Added support for MAX10 FPGA family synthesis.
 173     - Added support for Cyclone IV family synthesis.
 174     - Added example of implementation for DE2i-150 board.
 175     - Added example of implementation for MAX10 development kit.
 176     - Added LFSR example from Asic World.
 177     - Added "dffinit -highlow" for mapping to Intel primitives
 178
 179
 180 Yosys 0.6 .. Yosys 0.7
 181 ----------------------
 182
 183  * Various
 184     - Added "yosys -D" feature
 185     - Added support for installed plugins in $(DATDIR)/plugins/
 186     - Renamed opt_const to opt_expr
 187     - Renamed opt_share to opt_merge
 188     - Added "prep -flatten" and "synth -flatten"
 189     - Added "prep -auto-top" and "synth -auto-top"
 190     - Using "mfs" and "lutpack" in ABC lut mapping
 191     - Support for abstract modules in chparam
 192     - Cleanup abstract modules at end of "hierarchy -top"
 193     - Added tristate buffer support to iopadmap
 194     - Added opt_expr support for div/mod by power-of-two
 195     - Added "select -assert-min <N> -assert-max <N>"
 196     - Added "attrmvcp" pass
 197     - Added "attrmap" command
 198     - Added "tee +INT -INT"
 199     - Added "zinit" pass
 200     - Added "setparam -type"
 201     - Added "shregmap" pass
 202     - Added "setundef -init"
 203     - Added "nlutmap -assert"
 204     - Added $sop cell type and "abc -sop -I <num> -P <num>"
 205     - Added "dc2" to default ABC scripts
 206     - Added "deminout"
 207     - Added "insbuf" command
 208     - Added "prep -nomem"
 209     - Added "opt_rmdff -keepdc"
 210     - Added "prep -nokeepdc"
 211     - Added initial version of "synth_gowin"
 212     - Added "fsm_expand -full"
 213     - Added support for fsm_encoding="user"
 214     - Many improvements in GreenPAK4 support
 215     - Added black box modules for all Xilinx 7-series lib cells
 216     - Added synth_ice40 support for latches via logic loops
 217     - Fixed ice40_opt lut unmapping, added "ice40_opt -unlut"
 218
 219  * Build System
 220     - Added ABCEXTERNAL and ABCURL make variables
 221     - Added BINDIR, LIBDIR, and DATDIR make variables
 222     - Added PKG_CONFIG make variable
 223     - Added SEED make variable (for "make test")
 224     - Added YOSYS_VER_STR make variable
 225     - Updated min GCC requirement to GCC 4.8
 226     - Updated required Bison version to Bison 3.x
 227
 228  * Internal APIs
 229     - Added ast.h to exported headers
 230     - Added ScriptPass helper class for script-like passes
 231     - Added CellEdgesDatabase API
 232
 233  * Front-ends and Back-ends
 234     - Added filename glob support to all front-ends
 235     - Added avail (black-box) module params to ilang format
 236     - Added $display %m support
 237     - Added support for $stop Verilog system task
 238     - Added support for SystemVerilog packages
 239     - Fixed procedural assignments to non-unique lvalues, e.g. {y,y} = {a,b}
 240     - Added support for "active high" and "active low" latches in read_blif and write_blif
 241     - Use init value "2" for all uninitialized FFs in BLIF back-end
 242     - Added "read_blif -sop"
 243     - Added "write_blif -noalias"
 244     - Added various write_blif options for VTR support
 245     - write_json: also write module attributes.
 246     - Added "write_verilog -nodec -nostr -defparam"
 247     - Added "read_verilog -norestrict -assume-asserts"
 248     - Added support for bus interfaces to "read_liberty -lib"
 249     - Added liberty parser support for types within cell decls
 250     - Added "write_verilog -renameprefix -v"
 251     - Added "write_edif -nogndvcc"
 252
 253  * Formal Verification
 254     - Support for hierarchical designs in smt2 back-end
 255     - Yosys-smtbmc: Support for hierarchical VCD dumping
 256     - Added $initstate cell type and vlog function
 257     - Added $anyconst and $anyseq cell types and vlog functions
 258     - Added printing of code loc of failed asserts to yosys-smtbmc
 259     - Added memory_memx pass, "memory -memx", and "prep -memx"
 260     - Added "proc_mux -ifx"
 261     - Added "yosys-smtbmc -g"
 262     - Deprecated "write_smt2 -regs" (by default on now)
 263     - Made "write_smt2 -bv -mem" default, added "write_smt2 -nobv -nomem"
 264     - Added support for memories to smtio.py
 265     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --dump-vlogtb"
 266     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --smtc --dump-smtc"
 267     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --dump-all"
 268     - Added assertpmux command
 269     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --unroll"
 270     - Added $past, $stable, $rose, $fell SVA functions
 271     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --noinfo and --dummy"
 272     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --noincr"
 273     - Added "yosys-smtbmc --cex <filename>"
 274     - Added $ff and $_FF_ cell types
 275     - Added $global_clock verilog syntax support for creating $ff cells
 276     - Added clk2fflogic
 277
 278
 279 Yosys 0.5 .. Yosys 0.6
 280 ----------------------
 281
 282  * Various
 283      - Added Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
 284      - Various improvements in dict<> and pool<>
 285      - Added hashlib::mfp and refactored SigMap
 286      - Improved support for reals as module parameters
 287      - Various improvements in SMT2 back-end
 288      - Added "keep_hierarchy" attribute
 289      - Verilog front-end: define `BLACKBOX in -lib mode
 290      - Added API for converting internal cells to AIGs
 291      - Added ENABLE_LIBYOSYS Makefile option
 292      - Removed "techmap -share_map" (use "-map +/filename" instead)
 293      - Switched all Python scripts to Python 3
 294      - Added support for $display()/$write() and $finish() to Verilog front-end
 295      - Added "yosys-smtbmc" formal verification flow
 296      - Added options for clang sanitizers to Makefile
 297
 298  * New commands and options
 299      - Added "scc -expect <N> -nofeedback"
 300      - Added "proc_dlatch"
 301      - Added "check"
 302      - Added "select %xe %cie %coe %M %C %R"
 303      - Added "sat -dump_json" (WaveJSON format)
 304      - Added "sat -tempinduct-baseonly -tempinduct-inductonly"
 305      - Added "sat -stepsize" and "sat -tempinduct-step"
 306      - Added "sat -show-regs -show-public -show-all"
 307      - Added "write_json" (Native Yosys JSON format)
 308      - Added "write_blif -attr"
 309      - Added "dffinit"
 310      - Added "chparam"
 311      - Added "muxcover"
 312      - Added "pmuxtree"
 313      - Added memory_bram "make_outreg" feature
 314      - Added "splice -wires"
 315      - Added "dff2dffe -direct-match"
 316      - Added simplemap $lut support
 317      - Added "read_blif"
 318      - Added "opt_share -share_all"
 319      - Added "aigmap"
 320      - Added "write_smt2 -mem -regs -wires"
 321      - Added "memory -nordff"
 322      - Added "write_smv"
 323      - Added "synth -nordff -noalumacc"
 324      - Added "rename -top new_name"
 325      - Added "opt_const -clkinv"
 326      - Added "synth -nofsm"
 327      - Added "miter -assert"
 328      - Added "read_verilog -noautowire"
 329      - Added "read_verilog -nodpi"
 330      - Added "tribuf"
 331      - Added "lut2mux"
 332      - Added "nlutmap"
 333      - Added "qwp"
 334      - Added "test_cell -noeval"
 335      - Added "edgetypes"
 336      - Added "equiv_struct"
 337      - Added "equiv_purge"
 338      - Added "equiv_mark"
 339      - Added "equiv_add -try -cell"
 340      - Added "singleton"
 341      - Added "abc -g -luts"
 342      - Added "torder"
 343      - Added "write_blif -cname"
 344      - Added "submod -copy"
 345      - Added "dffsr2dff"
 346      - Added "stat -liberty"
 347
 348  * Synthesis metacommands
 349      - Various improvements in synth_xilinx
 350      - Added synth_ice40 and synth_greenpak4
 351      - Added "prep" metacommand for "synthesis lite"
 352
 353  * Cell library changes
 354      - Added cell types to "help" system
 355      - Added $meminit cell type
 356      - Added $assume cell type
 357      - Added $_MUX4_, $_MUX8_, and $_MUX16_ cells
 358      - Added $tribuf and $_TBUF_ cell types
 359      - Added read-enable to memory model
 360
 361  * YosysJS
 362      - Various improvements in emscripten build
 363      - Added alternative webworker-based JS API
 364      - Added a few example applications
 365
 366
 367 Yosys 0.4 .. Yosys 0.5
 368 ----------------------
 369
 370  * API changes
 371      - Added log_warning()
 372      - Added eval_select_args() and eval_select_op()
 373      - Added cell->known(), cell->input(portname), cell->output(portname)
 374      - Skip blackbox modules in design->selected_modules()
 375      - Replaced std::map<> and std::set<> with dict<> and pool<>
 376      - New SigSpec::extend() is what used to be SigSpec::extend_u0()
 377      - Added YS_OVERRIDE, YS_FINAL, YS_ATTRIBUTE, YS_NORETURN
 378
 379  * Cell library changes
 380      - Added flip-flops with enable ($dffe etc.)
 381      - Added $equiv cells for equivalence checking framework
 382
 383  * Various
 384      - Updated ABC to hg rev 61ad5f908c03
 385      - Added clock domain partitioning to ABC pass
 386      - Improved plugin building (see "yosys-config --build")
 387      - Added ENABLE_NDEBUG Makefile flag for high-performance builds
 388      - Added "yosys -d", "yosys -L" and other driver improvements
 389      - Added support for multi-bit (array) cell ports to "write_edif"
 390      - Now printing most output to stdout, not stderr
 391      - Added "onehot" attribute (set by "fsm_map")
 392      - Various performance improvements
 393      - Vastly improved Xilinx flow
 394      - Added "make unsintall"
 395
 396  * Equivalence checking
 397      - Added equivalence checking commands:
 398          equiv_make equiv_simple equiv_status
 399          equiv_induct equiv_miter
 400          equiv_add equiv_remove
 401
 402  * Block RAM support:
 403      - Added "memory_bram" command
 404      - Added BRAM support to Xilinx flow
 405
 406  * Other New Commands and Options
 407      - Added "dff2dffe"
 408      - Added "fsm -encfile"
 409      - Added "dfflibmap -prepare"
 410      - Added "write_blid -unbuf -undef -blackbox"
 411      - Added "write_smt2" for writing SMT-LIBv2 files
 412      - Added "test_cell -w -muxdiv"
 413      - Added "select -read"
 414
 415
 416 Yosys 0.3.0 .. Yosys 0.4
 417 ------------------------
 418
 419  * Platform Support
 420      - Added support for mxe-based cross-builds for win32
 421      - Added sourcecode-export as VisualStudio project
 422      - Added experimental EMCC (JavaScript) support
 423
 424  * Verilog Frontend
 425      - Added -sv option for SystemVerilog (and automatic *.sv file support)
 426      - Added support for real-valued constants and constant expressions
 427      - Added support for non-standard "via_celltype" attribute on task/func
 428      - Added support for non-standard "module mod_name(...);" syntax
 429      - Added support for non-standard """ macro bodies
 430      - Added support for array with more than one dimension
 431      - Added support for $readmemh and $readmemb
 432      - Added support for DPI functions
 433
 434  * Changes in internal cell library
 435      - Added $shift and $shiftx cell types
 436      - Added $alu, $lcu, $fa and $macc cell types
 437      - Removed $bu0 and $safe_pmux cell types
 438      - $mem/$memwr WR_EN input is now a per-data-bit enable signal
 439      - Added $_NAND_ $_NOR_ $_XNOR_ $_AOI3_ $_OAI3_ $_AOI4_ $_OAI4_
 440      - Renamed ports of $lut cells (from I->O to A->Y)
 441      - Renamed $_INV_ to $_NOT_
 442
 443  * Changes for simple synthesis flows
 444      - There is now a "synth" command with a recommended default script
 445      - Many improvements in synthesis of arithmetic functions to gates
 446          - Multipliers and adders with many operands are using carry-save adder trees
 447          - Remaining adders are now implemented using Brent-Kung carry look-ahead adders
 448      - Various new high-level optimizations on RTL netlist
 449      - Various improvements in FSM optimization
 450      - Updated ABC to hg 5b5af75f1dda (from 2014-11-07)
 451
 452  * Changes in internal APIs and RTLIL
 453      - Added log_id() and log_cell() helper functions
 454      - Added function-like cell creation helpers
 455      - Added GetSize() function (like .size() but with int)
 456      - Major refactoring of RTLIL::Module and related classes
 457      - Major refactoring of RTLIL::SigSpec and related classes
 458      - Now RTLIL::IdString is essentially an int
 459      - Added macros for code coverage counters
 460      - Added some Makefile magic for pretty make logs
 461      - Added "kernel/yosys.h" with all the core definitions
 462      - Changed a lot of code from FILE* to c++ streams
 463      - Added RTLIL::Monitor API and "trace" command
 464      - Added "Yosys" C++ namespace
 465
 466  * Changes relevant to SAT solving
 467      - Added ezSAT::keep_cnf() and ezSAT::non_incremental()
 468      - Added native ezSAT support for vector shift ops
 469      - Updated MiniSAT to git 37dc6c67e2 (from 2013-09-25)
 470
 471  * New commands (or large improvements to commands)
 472      - Added "synth" command with default script
 473      - Added "share" (finally some real resource sharing)
 474      - Added "memory_share" (reduce number of ports on memories)
 475      - Added "wreduce" and "alumacc" commands
 476      - Added "opt -keepdc -fine -full -fast"
 477      - Added some "test_*" commands
 478
 479  * Various other changes
 480      - Added %D and %c select operators
 481      - Added support for labels in yosys scripts
 482      - Added support for here-documents in yosys scripts
 483      - Support "+/" prefix for files from proc_share_dir
 484      - Added "autoidx" statement to ilang language
 485      - Switched from "yosys-svgviewer" to "xdot"
 486      - Renamed "stdcells.v" to "techmap.v"
 487      - Various bug fixes and small improvements
 488      - Improved welcome and bye messages
 489
 490
 491 Yosys 0.2.0 .. Yosys 0.3.0
 492 --------------------------
 493
 494  * Driver program and overall behavior:
 495      - Added "design -push" and "design -pop"
 496      - Added "tee" command for redirecting log output
 497
 498  * Changes in the internal cell library:
 499      - Added $dlatchsr and $_DLATCHSR_???_ cell types
 500
 501  * Improvements in Verilog frontend:
 502      - Improved support for const functions (case, always, repeat)
 503      - The generate..endgenerate keywords are now optional
 504      - Added support for arrays of module instances
 505      - Added support for "`default_nettype" directive
 506      - Added support for "`line" directive
 507
 508  * Other front- and back-ends:
 509      - Various changes to "write_blif" options
 510      - Various improvements in EDIF backend
 511      - Added "vhdl2verilog" pseudo-front-end
 512      - Added "verific" pseudo-front-end
 513
 514  * Improvements in technology mapping:
 515      - Added support for recursive techmap
 516      - Added CONSTMSK and CONSTVAL features to techmap
 517      - Added _TECHMAP_CONNMAP_*_ feature to techmap
 518      - Added _TECHMAP_REPLACE_ feature to techmap
 519      - Added "connwrappers" command for wrap-extract-unwrap method
 520      - Added "extract -map %<design_name>" feature
 521      - Added "extract -ignore_param ..." and "extract -ignore_parameters"
 522      - Added "techmap -max_iter" option
 523
 524  * Improvements to "eval" and "sat" framework:
 525      - Now include a copy of Minisat (with build fixes applied)
 526      - Switched to Minisat::SimpSolver as SAT back-end
 527      - Added "sat -dump_vcd" feature
 528      - Added "sat -dump_cnf" feature
 529      - Added "sat -initsteps <N>" feature
 530      - Added "freduce -stop <N>" feature
 531      - Added "freduce -dump <prefix>" feature
 532
 533  * Integration with ABC:
 534      - Updated ABC rev to 7600ffb9340c
 535
 536  * Improvements in the internal APIs:
 537      - Added RTLIL::Module::add... helper methods
 538      - Various build fixes for OSX (Darwin) and OpenBSD
 539
 540
 541 Yosys 0.1.0 .. Yosys 0.2.0
 542 --------------------------
 543
 544  * Changes to the driver program:
 545      - Added "yosys -h" and "yosys -H"
 546      - Added support for backslash line continuation in scripts
 547      - Added support for #-comments in same line as command
 548      - Added "echo" and "log" commands
 549
 550  * Improvements in Verilog frontend:
 551      - Added support for local registers in named blocks
 552      - Added support for "case" in "generate" blocks
 553      - Added support for $clog2 system function
 554      - Added support for basic SystemVerilog assert statements
 555      - Added preprocessor support for macro arguments
 556      - Added preprocessor support for `elsif statement
 557      - Added "verilog_defaults" command
 558      - Added read_verilog -icells option
 559      - Added support for constant sizes from parameters
 560      - Added "read_verilog -setattr"
 561      - Added support for function returning 'integer'
 562      - Added limited support for function calls in parameter values
 563      - Added "read_verilog -defer" to suppress evaluation of modules with default parameters
 564
 565  * Other front- and back-ends:
 566      - Added BTOR backend
 567      - Added Liberty frontend
 568
 569  * Improvements in technology mapping:
 570      - The "dfflibmap" command now strongly prefers solutions with
 571            no inverters in clock paths
 572      - The "dfflibmap" command now prefers cells with smaller area
 573      - Added support for multiple -map options to techmap
 574      - Added "dfflibmap" support for //-comments in liberty files
 575      - Added "memory_unpack" command to revert "memory_collect"
 576      - Added standard techmap rule "techmap -share_map pmux2mux.v"
 577      - Added "iopadmap -bits"
 578      - Added "setundef" command
 579      - Added "hilomap" command
 580
 581  * Changes in the internal cell library:
 582      - Major rewrite of simlib.v for better compatibility with other tools
 583      - Added PRIORITY parameter to $memwr cells
 584      - Added TRANSPARENT parameter to $memrd cells
 585      - Added RD_TRANSPARENT parameter to $mem cells
 586      - Added $bu0 cell (always 0-extend, even undef MSB)
 587      - Added $assert cell type
 588      - Added $slice and $concat cell types
 589
 590  * Integration with ABC:
 591      - Updated ABC to hg rev 2058c8ccea68
 592      - Tighter integration of ABC build with Yosys build. The make
 593            targets 'make abc' and 'make install-abc' are now obsolete.
 594      - Added support for passing FFs from one clock domain through ABC
 595      - Now always use BLIF as exchange format with ABC
 596      - Added support for "abc -script +<command_sequence>"
 597      - Improved standard ABC recipe
 598      - Added support for "keep" attribute to abc command
 599      - Added "abc -dff / -clk / -keepff" options
 600
 601  * Improvements to "eval" and "sat" framework:
 602      - Added support for "0" and "~0" in right-hand side -set expressions
 603      - Added "eval -set-undef" and "eval -table"
 604      - Added "sat -set-init" and "sat -set-init-*" for sequential problems
 605      - Added undef support to SAT solver, incl. various new "sat" options
 606      - Added correct support for === and !== for "eval" and "sat"
 607      - Added "sat -tempinduct" (default -seq is now non-induction sequential)
 608      - Added "sat -prove-asserts"
 609      - Complete rewrite of the 'freduce' command
 610      - Added "miter" command
 611      - Added "sat -show-inputs" and "sat -show-outputs"
 612      - Added "sat -ignore_unknown_cells" (now produce an error by default)
 613      - Added "sat -falsify"
 614      - Now "sat -verify" and "sat -falsify" can also be used without "-prove"
 615      - Added "expose" command
 616      - Added support for @<sel_name> to sat and eval signal expressions
 617
 618  * Changes in the 'make test' framework and auxiliary test tools:
 619      - Added autotest.sh -p and -f options
 620      - Replaced autotest.sh ISIM support with XSIM support
 621      - Added test cases for SAT framework
 622
 623  * Added "abbreviated IDs":
 624      - Now $<something>$foo can be abbreviated as $foo.
 625      - Usually this last part is a unique id (from RTLIL::autoidx)
 626      - This abbreviated IDs are now also used in "show" output
 627
 628  * Other changes to selection framework:
 629      - Now */ is optional in */<mode>:<arg> expressions
 630      - Added "select -assert-none" and "select -assert-any"
 631      - Added support for matching modules by attribute (A:<expr>)
 632      - Added "select -none"
 633      - Added support for r:<expr> pattern for matching cell parameters
 634      - Added support for !=, <, <=, >=, > for attribute and parameter matching
 635      - Added support for %s for selecting sub-modules
 636      - Added support for %m for expanding selections to whole modules
 637      - Added support for i:*, o:* and x:* pattern for selecting module ports
 638      - Added support for s:<expr> pattern for matching wire width
 639      - Added support for %a operation to select wire aliases
 640
 641  * Various other changes to commands and options:
 642      - The "ls" command now supports wildcards
 643      - Added "show -pause" and "show -format dot"
 644      - Added "show -color" support for cells
 645      - Added "show -label" and "show -notitle"
 646      - Added "dump -m" and "dump -n"
 647      - Added "history" command
 648      - Added "rename -hide"
 649      - Added "connect" command
 650      - Added "splitnets -driver"
 651      - Added "opt_const -mux_undef"
 652      - Added "opt_const -mux_bool"
 653      - Added "opt_const -undriven"
 654      - Added "opt -mux_undef -mux_bool -undriven -purge"
 655      - Added "hierarchy -libdir"
 656      - Added "hierarchy -purge_lib" (by default now do not remove lib cells)
 657      - Added "delete" command
 658      - Added "dump -append"
 659      - Added "setattr" and "setparam" commands
 660      - Added "design -stash/-copy-from/-copy-to"
 661      - Added "copy" command
 662      - Added "splice" command
 663