FireSim 1.17.0 Release

Support for several new local FPGA boards added: Xilinx VCU118 (w/XDMA), Xilinx Alveo U250/U280 (w/XDMA, in addition to previous Vitis support), RHSResearch NiteFury II (w/XDMA). FireSim now also supports Xcelium for metasims.

Added

• Manager support for custom TARGET_PROJECT by @sagark in #1495
• Bare Xilinx U250/U280 shell support by @bgottschall @davidmetz @abejgonzalez in #1497
• Buildbitstream CI by @abejgonzalez in #1458
• FireSim Support for Xilinx VCU118 by @sagark in #1507
• add mcs command to implementation script for u250 by @kevindna in #1518
• Xcelium + Verilog-as-Top by @abejgonzalez in #1527
• Add U250/VCU118 bitstream builds to CI by @abejgonzalez in #1522
• Support building U280 in CI by @abejgonzalez in #1544
• FireSim Support for RHSResearch Nitefury II + various fixes by @sagark in #1525

Changed

• Update Makefile to be non-parallel by @abejgonzalez in #1488
• Dedup CI uartlog checking | Add more checks by @abejgonzalez in #1489
• Bump to chisel3.5.6/latest rocketchip by @jerryz123 in #1476
• Clear screen before prompt by @abejgonzalez in #1491
• Update sample_config_hwdb.yaml for Gemmini build by @abejgonzalez in #1490
• Create separate security group for build/run farm instances that is only accessible from within the firesim VPC by @sagark in #1492
• Bump Verilator to 5.006 by @abejgonzalez in #1471
• Rename SerialBridge to TSIBridge by @jerryz123 in #1500
• bump aws-fpga for fix when using exactly 3 of 4 mem channels by @sagark in #1505
• EC2 AMI update by @joey0320 in #1517
• Split buildbitstream tag into two tags by @abejgonzalez in #1528
• Update CI workflow to use login shell | Misc. cleanup by @abejgonzalez in #1532
• Update xclbin(s) for PR #1530 (bumprc-bitstream) by @github-actions in #1533
• Bump to latest rocketchip by @jerryz123 in #1526
• Use fat jar to reduce SBT invocations instead of cached classpath by @abejgonzalez in #1529
• Update AGFI(s) for PR #1536 (revert-tv-wide) by @github-actions in #1538
• Touch *.jar assembly files by @abejgonzalez in #1540
• conda-lock=1.4, Loosen/restrict conda req. specs by @abejgonzalez in #1539
• Update AGFI(s) for PR #1525 (nitefury_ii) by @github-actions in #1545
• Update AGFI(s) for PR #1543 (rename-scripts) by @github-actions in #1546
• Rename sourceme-f1-manager.sh to sourceme-manager.sh by @sagark in #1543
• Update local bitstream(s) for PR #1525 (nitefury_ii) by @github-actions in #1548
• fix fased useHardwareDefaults setting bug by @PKUZHOU in #1499
• Revert "Expand TracerV to support more than 7 IPC (#1383)" by @abejgonzalez in #1536
• Misc. CI Cleanup - Local Cleanup Parallelism + Clobbered Buildbitstream PRs by @abejgonzalez in #1551
• Update AGFI(s) for PR #1525 (nitefury_ii) by @github-actions in #1553
• Update local bitstream(s) for PR #1525 (nitefury_ii) by @github-actions in #1554

Fixed

• Fix conda lockfile docs / make lockfile generation easier by @t14916 in #1478
• Dedup CI uartlog checking | Add more checks by @abejgonzalez in #1489
• Fix open files only on sudo by @abejgonzalez in #1493
• update assert in timingmodel to allow BURST_FIXED w/len=0 by @sagark in #1496
• Fix first-time-user setup docs by @sagark in #1498
• Fix Scala test on machines with multiple simulators by @abejgonzalez in #1474
• fix main.o build dependency on generated const.h by @sagark in #1504
• Fix buildbitstream CI issues + Add xclbin bitstream generation by @abejgonzalez in #1508
• Misc. U250/U280 FPGA Fixes by @abejgonzalez in #1502
• Various Fixes by @abejgonzalez in #1521
• Misc. Fixes (Downgrade cryptography package, pin packages, fix non-firesim make project compilation) by @abejgonzalez in #1534
• Bump CY by @abejgonzalez in #1555
• automatically try newer hotfix versions of AMI in manager by @sagark in #1559
• Local FPGA managerinit QoL Fixes by @sagark in #1561
• changed mmap to xdma_user instead of pci resource by @cyyself in #1564