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IIC-OSIC-TOOLS Release Notes

This document summarizes the most important changes of the individual releases of the IIC-OSIC-TOOLS Docker container.

2024.10

  • Adding support for devcontainers (for use of the image inside VSCode).
  • Enable pyosys when building yosys (for use with OpenLane2).
  • Adding pytest (for, e.g., cocotb).
  • Add writing the users' data directory to eda_server_start.sh, and write the full VM name in the json file.
  • Bump various tool versions.
  • Get xyce sourcecode from Sandia homepage instead of GitHub.

2024.09

  • Add slang plugin for yosys for direct SystemVerilog read-in.
  • Add spike RISC-V ISA simulator.
  • Add riscv-pk proxy kernel and boot loader.
  • Add jq for CLI JSON processing.
  • Bump various tool versions.
  • Fixed ngspice simulation issue with sky130A.
  • Remove a few outdated WA.
  • Remove synlig yosys plugin (depreciated).

2024.08

  • Add testsuite for image release testing (very basic at this stage).
  • Add required tools for PULP-platform (morty, bender, svase, sv2v, verible).
  • Add RISC-V GNU tool chain back in, as the PULP-platform is using it.
  • Add surelog.
  • Add pygmid.
  • Add xcircuit.
  • Bump various tool and PDK versions.
  • Fix VHDL flow in OpenLane2.
  • Simplify tool directory structure by removing the tool GitHub hashes from the directory tree (the original intention was to be able to install different tool versions in parallel, but this was never really used).
  • Adapt the Docker build script to use our new ARM build server. Now we build the image in parallel on two 100+ cores aarch64 and amd64 machines.
  • Adapt all tool build scripts to work in /tmp.
  • Move install for as many Python packages as possible from APT to PIP (to enable newer versions).
  • Remove alias for xschem and magic, instead properly install RC files in /headless.
  • Remove netlistsvg, as it is requiring the large node.js package.
  • Remove hdl21 and vlsirtools to allow numpy 2.

2024.07

  • Bump various tool versions.
  • Include an example for cace.
  • Add pyuvm.
  • Adding BSIMCMG model for ngspice.
  • Remove gdstk due to build issues.

2024.05

  • Changing from OpenLane(1) to OpenLane2! OpenLane(1) is removed from the image. The tool versions used by OpenLane2 are now set to latest release (or if necessary the version required by OL2), instead of pinned (older) versions. This impacts the following tools:

    • Magic
    • Netgen
    • OpenROAD
    • OpenSTA
    • Yosys
    • PDK version
    • Padring

  • Remove ALIGN (has only been included in amd64 version, not in arm64).

  • Update various tool versions.

2024.04

  • This will be the last release using OpenLane(1). We will switch to OpenLane2 going forward.
  • Remove fault (and atalanta and Swift).
  • Update various tool versions.

2024.03

  • Add synlig (SystemVerilog plugin for Yosys).
  • Add Python packages for IIC-RALF.
  • Add simple analog (inverter) and digital (counter) design examples in /foss/examples.
  • Add libman as a proposal for a design manager.
  • Add cace and schemdraw packages.
  • Create KNOWN_ISSUES.md to document issues and work to do.
  • Update various tool versions.
  • Remove RISC-V toolchain to reduce image size.
  • Cleanup of build process to reduce image size.

2024.01

  • Fix PyOPUS and matplotlib (and therewith openems. Please see the known issues for a persisting problem).
  • Adding virtualenv.
  • Adding gf180mcuD PDK flavor.
  • Bump various tool versions.

2023.12

  • OpenVAF is built from source during the image build.
  • Adding scikit-rf and schemdraw.
  • Update ngspice to support KLU (fast solver) and Verilog co-simulation.
  • Update OpenVAF to enable MOS-FET noise simulation.
  • Update gtkwave to the new build system.
  • Update various tool versions.
  • Remove gcc-9 to reduce image size.

2023.10

  • Setup xschem and ngspice simulation for sg13g2.
  • Moved Docker build-related stuff into _build directory.
  • Add GitHub CITATION.ff for automatic citation support.
  • Adding eqy (equivalence checker), sby (formal verification), and mcy (mutation coverage) for yosys.
  • Upgrade to LLVM-15/Clang-15 to slim down image. Remove GCC-10 as well.
  • Update various tool versions.
  • Removes various examples from /foss/examples folder to reduce image size.

2023.09

  • Update various tool versions.
  • Added hdl21 and vlsirtools.

2023.08

  • Update various tool versions.
  • Remove PDK sky130B to reduce image size.
  • Added align package (only for amd64 and using sky130 PDK, arm64 postponed due to build fails).
  • Added slang (can be used for SystemVerilog to Verilog translation).
  • Fixed a few issues along the way.

2023.06

  • Added Qucs-S and PyOPUS.
  • Fix XFCE configuration (background and other settings).
  • Cleanup of the startup script (container stops when subprocesses stop, redirect logs to Docker).
  • Update various tool versions.
  • Upgrade SWIFT to 5.8, upgrade LIBBOOST to 1.82, and remove legacy support of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

2023.05

  • Improved Docker container build infrastructure (using existing variables throughout the scripts) and reduced the number of layers by copying a skeleton.
  • Added environment variable IIC_OSIC_TOOLS_VERSION so that user scripts can check container version.
  • Added gnuplot, FasterCap, FastHenry2, and openEMS.
  • Allow custom container names in eda_server scripts.
  • Add a dedicated startup script for Jupyter notebooks called start_jupyter.bat.
  • Update various tool versions.

2023.04

  • Fix crashes of OpenLane and OpenLane2.
  • Update various tool versions.
  • Specify custom DNS in server scripts (see eda_server_conf.sh).
  • Add a dedicated startup script for Jupyter notebooks called start_jupyter.sh.

2023.03

  • Add newly released OpenLane2 flow.
  • Add IHP SG13G2 130nm SiGe:C BiCMOS open-source PDK.
  • Add firefox (again).
  • Add openram.
  • Add more examples into /foss/examples.
  • Improve EDA server scripts (eda_server_start.sh, eda_server_restart.sh, eda_server_stop.sh).
  • Update various tool versions.

2023.02

  • Fix noiseless SKY130 resistors (ngspice-39 plus setting a proper flag in .spiceinit).
  • Harmonize shell script text (using [INFO] and [ERROR] like in other scripts).
  • Improve the IIC-PEX script.
  • Fix the klayout error message ".lyp not found".
  • Update various tool versions.

2023.01

  • Added packages: fusesoc, jupyterlab, edalize, surf (browser).
  • Added support to run images for multiple users and implemented scripts for starting and stopping multiple instances.
  • Removed packages: firefox
  • Update base OS (Ubuntu) to 22.04 LTS.
  • Update various tool versions.
  • Fix screen lockup (timeout due to light-greeter) in VNC mode.