-List of changes and major improvements between releases
+List of major changes and improvements between releases
=======================================================
+Yosys 0.5 .. Yosys 0.6
+----------------------
+
+ * Various
+ - Added Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
+ - Various improvements in dict<> and pool<>
+ - Added hashlib::mfp and refactored SigMap
+ - Improved support for reals as module parameters
+ - Various improvements in SMT2 back-end
+ - Added "keep_hierarchy" attribute
+ - Verilog front-end: define `BLACKBOX in -lib mode
+ - Added API for converting internal cells to AIGs
+ - Added ENABLE_LIBYOSYS Makefile option
+ - Removed "techmap -share_map" (use "-map +/filename" instead)
+ - Switched all Python scripts to Python 3
+ - Added support for $display()/$write() and $finish() to Verilog front-end
+ - Added "yosys-smtbmc" formal verification flow
+ - Added options for clang sanitizers to Makefile
+
+ * New commands and options
+ - Added "scc -expect <N> -nofeedback"
+ - Added "proc_dlatch"
+ - Added "check"
+ - Added "select %xe %cie %coe %M %C %R"
+ - Added "sat -dump_json" (WaveJSON format)
+ - Added "sat -tempinduct-baseonly -tempinduct-inductonly"
+ - Added "sat -stepsize" and "sat -tempinduct-step"
+ - Added "sat -show-regs -show-public -show-all"
+ - Added "write_json" (Native Yosys JSON format)
+ - Added "write_blif -attr"
+ - Added "dffinit"
+ - Added "chparam"
+ - Added "muxcover"
+ - Added "pmuxtree"
+ - Added memory_bram "make_outreg" feature
+ - Added "splice -wires"
+ - Added "dff2dffe -direct-match"
+ - Added simplemap $lut support
+ - Added "read_blif"
+ - Added "opt_share -share_all"
+ - Added "aigmap"
+ - Added "write_smt2 -mem -regs -wires"
+ - Added "memory -nordff"
+ - Added "write_smv"
+ - Added "synth -nordff -noalumacc"
+ - Added "rename -top new_name"
+ - Added "opt_const -clkinv"
+ - Added "synth -nofsm"
+ - Added "miter -assert"
+ - Added "read_verilog -noautowire"
+ - Added "read_verilog -nodpi"
+ - Added "tribuf"
+ - Added "lut2mux"
+ - Added "nlutmap"
+ - Added "qwp"
+ - Added "test_cell -noeval"
+ - Added "edgetypes"
+ - Added "equiv_struct"
+ - Added "equiv_purge"
+ - Added "equiv_mark"
+ - Added "equiv_add -try -cell"
+ - Added "singleton"
+ - Added "abc -g -luts"
+ - Added "torder"
+ - Added "write_blif -cname"
+ - Added "submod -copy"
+ - Added "dffsr2dff"
+ - Added "stat -liberty"
+
+ * Synthesis metacommands
+ - Various improvements in synth_xilinx
+ - Added synth_ice40 and synth_greenpak4
+ - Added "prep" metacommand for "synthesis lite"
+
+ * Cell library changes
+ - Added cell types to "help" system
+ - Added $meminit cell type
+ - Added $assume cell type
+ - Added $_MUX4_, $_MUX8_, and $_MUX16_ cells
+ - Added $tribuf and $_TBUF_ cell types
+ - Added read-enable to memory model
+
+ * YosysJS
+ - Various improvements in emscripten build
+ - Added alternative webworker-based JS API
+ - Added a few example applications
+
+
+Yosys 0.4 .. Yosys 0.5
+----------------------
+
+ * API changes
+ - Added log_warning()
+ - Added eval_select_args() and eval_select_op()
+ - Added cell->known(), cell->input(portname), cell->output(portname)
+ - Skip blackbox modules in design->selected_modules()
+ - Replaced std::map<> and std::set<> with dict<> and pool<>
+ - New SigSpec::extend() is what used to be SigSpec::extend_u0()
+ - Added YS_OVERRIDE, YS_FINAL, YS_ATTRIBUTE, YS_NORETURN
+
+ * Cell library changes
+ - Added flip-flops with enable ($dffe etc.)
+ - Added $equiv cells for equivalence checking framework
+
+ * Various
+ - Updated ABC to hg rev 61ad5f908c03
+ - Added clock domain partitioning to ABC pass
+ - Improved plugin building (see "yosys-config --build")
+ - Added ENABLE_NDEBUG Makefile flag for high-performance builds
+ - Added "yosys -d", "yosys -L" and other driver improvements
+ - Added support for multi-bit (array) cell ports to "write_edif"
+ - Now printing most output to stdout, not stderr
+ - Added "onehot" attribute (set by "fsm_map")
+ - Various performance improvements
+ - Vastly improved Xilinx flow
+ - Added "make unsintall"
+
+ * Equivalence checking
+ - Added equivalence checking commands:
+ equiv_make equiv_simple equiv_status
+ equiv_induct equiv_miter
+ equiv_add equiv_remove
+
+ * Block RAM support:
+ - Added "memory_bram" command
+ - Added BRAM support to Xilinx flow
+
+ * Other New Commands and Options
+ - Added "dff2dffe"
+ - Added "fsm -encfile"
+ - Added "dfflibmap -prepare"
+ - Added "write_blid -unbuf -undef -blackbox"
+ - Added "write_smt2" for writing SMT-LIBv2 files
+ - Added "test_cell -w -muxdiv"
+ - Added "select -read"
+
+
Yosys 0.3.0 .. Yosys 0.4
------------------------
* Changes for simple synthesis flows
- There is now a "synth" command with a recommended default script
- Many improvements in synthesis of arithmetic functions to gates
- - Multiplieres and adders with many operands are using carry-save adder trees
- - Remaining adders are now implemented using Brent–Kung carry look-ahead adders
+ - Multipliers and adders with many operands are using carry-save adder trees
+ - Remaining adders are now implemented using Brent-Kung carry look-ahead adders
- Various new high-level optimizations on RTL netlist
- Various improvements in FSM optimization
- Updated ABC to hg 5b5af75f1dda (from 2014-11-07)
- Added macros for code coverage counters
- Added some Makefile magic for pretty make logs
- Added "kernel/yosys.h" with all the core definitions
- - Chanded a lot of code from FILE* to c++ streams
+ - Changed a lot of code from FILE* to c++ streams
- Added RTLIL::Monitor API and "trace" command
- Added "Yosys" C++ namespace
- Added "sat -dump_cnf" feature
- Added "sat -initsteps <N>" feature
- Added "freduce -stop <N>" feature
- - Added "fredure -dump <prefix>" feature
+ - Added "freduce -dump <prefix>" feature
* Integration with ABC:
- Updated ABC rev to 7600ffb9340c
- Added "expose" command
- Added support for @<sel_name> to sat and eval signal expressions
- * Changes in the 'make test' framework and auxilary test tools:
+ * Changes in the 'make test' framework and auxiliary test tools:
- Added autotest.sh -p and -f options
- Replaced autotest.sh ISIM support with XSIM support
- Added test cases for SAT framework
* Added "abbreviated IDs":
- - Now $<something>$foo can be abbriviated as $foo.
+ - Now $<something>$foo can be abbreviated as $foo.
- Usually this last part is a unique id (from RTLIL::autoidx)
- This abbreviated IDs are now also used in "show" output