- Bug: In CellWidget, correct the slightly off position of Labels references.
- New: In ControllerWidget, new TabSettings tab to hold the configuration
settings of the various Coriolis tools. The TabSettings is a tab itself.
- New: In buildCoriolis.py, adds a "--rm-build" option which removes the
tool's build directory before building it. A very crude way to ensure
that nothing obsolete form a previous build will gets in the way...
- Bug: In PaletteWidget, do not derive from QScrollArea. Instead uses it
as a child widget. This solves the refreshing problem of the Palette.
As a rule now: never derives from anything other than QWidget.
- New: GotoWidget, not having this feature finally unverved me enough for
beeing implemented. You can specify an (x,y) on which the view will
be centered and an aperture which gives the size of the view smallest
side. It's a way of specifying the zoom level (as the zoom is not
meaningful for users). An aperture of "zero" disable that feature,
that is, zoom remains unchanged. The coordinates are integer which
are implicitly expressed in the current mode used by the viewer
(Symbolic, Grid, or Physical in micro-meters).
- Change: Big rewrite of how the Symbolic/Grid/Physical modes are sets
to/from the CellWidget. Impacted widgets are CellWidget &
DisplayFilterWidget.
Main changes are that there is no more "individual" setter/getter for
modes (setSymbolic(), setGrid(), setPhysical(DbU::UnitPower)) but one
with two arguments:
setDbuMode(int mode,DbU::UnitPower)
Signals & slots of the widgets also evolves into:
dbuModeChanged(int mode,DbU::UnitPower)
changeDbuMode (int mode,DbU::UnitPower)
- Change: In TrackFixedSegment, when the source/target coordinates of the
fixed segment are outside the grid (i.e. the Cell Abutment Box) truncate
them.
- Change: In GCell::addTrackSegment, when looking for overlap between the
to be inserted TrackSegment and Blockage segment, shrink the Blockage
span by one DbU to avoid false overlap when they are just edges connexes.
- Bug: In RoutingEvent::slackenTopology, in the local segment FSM, looping
on the MaximumSlack state. Now also checks the state count.
- Change: In TrackSegment::canMoveUp() & canPivotUp() adds the "reserve"
parameter and uses it in RoutingEvent to prevent over saturated GCells.
- Change: In Configuration, parameters adjustements: expandStep increased to
0.40. Makes RoutingSets biggers but no noticeable slow down.
- Change: In Grid/BaseGrid, add an Abutment Box attribute (to facilitate
segment truncation in Kite::TrackFixedSegment.
- Change: In Grid/BaseGrid::Axis, when computing a row/column index using
the graduation table, if the coordinate is exactly on the last
graduation, return the last GCell instead of "out of bound".
- Change: In GCell::hasFreeTrack(), AutoSegment::canMoveUp() &
AutoSegment::canPivotUp() adds a "reserve" parameter to modify the
amount of wirelength to remains free after the insertion.
- Bug: In MatrixVertex::getLineIndex() and getColumnIndex(), in regular
mode, when the Y/X coordinate is exactly on the upper right angle,
return the inferior index (instead of superior which is out of bounds).
- Change: In MatrixVertex, RoutingGrid & KnikEngine, replace the _lowerLeftX &
_lowerLeftY by a complete copy of the Cell's abutment box. Makes
easier for getLineIndex() to find out of bound coordinates.
- Change: In KnikEngine & LoadSolution add a time/memory measurement,
for Kite statistics.
- New: In AllianceFramework, getInstancesCount() to count the number of
instances in a Cell. The count can be recursive or not or ignore or
not feed cells. This could be viewed as a very simple query, and has
to be implemented here because we only new Feed Cell from the CATAL
of the Alliance Framework.
- Bug: In RoutingEvent::Manipulator::forceToTrack(), wrong return code,
was always return true, blocking the explorations of least good
Track.
- Bug: In RoutingEvent::_processNegociate(), must reset the "insert state"
while looping on candidate. This bug was having the same effect as
(and masking) the previous one!
- Bug: In TrackSegment::moveUp(), reset the ripup count after the move
up...
- Change: At various DebugSession opening points, sets the debug level to
200 to avoid extraneous debugging output.
- New: KiteEngine::dumpMeasures() to create a data file for later uses
by gnuplot. In interactive mode, this function is called in the
"finalize layout" stage.
- New: Adds measurments "algo", "fin" & "Segs".
- Bug: In GCell, bad cast between <size_t> and <unsigned int>, showed only
under 64 bits.
- New: In KatabaticEngine::printMeasures(), adds a support for measurments,
both time and memory size in Mb are stored for each tag.
- New: Adds measurements "Gates", "GCells", "load" & "assign".
- New: The Measure extension (on any DBo) that allows to save measurement
and print them later into a file. Mainly to supply gnuplot with datas.
Obsoletes the "statsExtract.py" script from statistics, and much
more reliable.
- New: In Reference, adds a type to differentiate between "Labels" and
"Position". Labels are strings that we wants to display, and position
are specific points with a name attached to it.
- New: In CellWidget, specific display for the two kind of references
(Label & Display).
- Change: In TrackSegment, _postDogLeg() & _postModify(), add segments to
"Ring" if they are directly connected to a RoutingPad. To maintain the
"border effect" after a topological slackening.
- Change: In GraphicKiteEngine, in the global routing relateds menus, suppress
the mention of "solution" as it might be unclear for an average user.
(just "Save Global Routing" or "Load Global Routing").
- Change: In RoutingEvent, conflictSolve1() tries to move up "other" blocking
segment before trying to break "self".
- Bug: In TrackSegment::reschedule(), remove from Track segments that are
now in a greater order than the current one. This bug was shown in the
TrackSegment::_postModify() method after a desalignate.
It was causing overlaps and/or routing completion false reports.
- New: In GCell & LayerAssign, adds a supplemental desaturation steps when
a GCell containts too many (more than 7) RoutingPads in M1. This is
especially useful for the eFPGA matrix with it's custom made cells.
- Change: In ToolEngine, adds a static method "destroyAll()" that must be
called *before* the Hurricane database destruction. This is to avoid
a mis-oredering in destruction.
ToolEngines are stored in a property, property are part of the DBo
base object so are destroyed *after* the Cell derived object has been.
Thus ToolEngine are deleted *after* the Cell components and if they
still refers to it, we are doomed.
- Change: In display.xml, color support for displaying references.
Name, Rule, Arule and Techno objects has been ported, so it is possible to read a dtr xml file from disk to get a techno and then rules' values.
DTRException object still need to be ported.
Since there is a new project that need to parse DTR xml file we've decided to set a standalone parser.
This parser will be extended with a python API (I'm gonna have a look at boost ^^)
- New: In Query, add support for Markers, although they are Go's, are stored
in a separate QuadTree directly at Cell level. In a very similar fashion
to the ExtensionGos. Sometimes should look if thoses mecanism could be
unified.
* ./hurricane/src/viewer:
- New: In CellWidget, add support for displaying References. Uses the Marker
Query. For now labels are displayed centered on the reference point,
making that point hard to see. That behavior may be changed later if
needs to be.
- Bug: In InspectorWidget, the History::push() wasn't updating the ComboBox
index. The line was strangely commented out (?).
- Bug: In buildCoriolis.py, when multiple projects where given on the command
line, only the latest was processed. Now all projects are processeds.
(in the order given on the command line so watch out!)
- Cleanup: In GCell, remove the DyKeyQueue support as it's been moved
to Katabatic level.
- Change: In NegociateWidow, increase the event stop thresold to 4M events
to be able to process the eFPGA matrix 16x16 (150K gates).
- Change: In Cyclop, now uses the GtkStyle when not under OSX and Qt is
newer or equal to Qt 4.5.0.
- Change: In the various Qt Model Table, do the rowHeigh bug correction.
- Bug: In InspectorWidget/NetlistModel, when browsing through the records
tree, the records were generated twice at each slot change. This
was due to the History ComboBox sending a index change signal then
the InspectorWidget setting the slot *again*.
When trying to explore a Slot, but this Slot is empty (like an
empty vector, for instance) do not gut the RecordModel. Because
as we find out that the new Slot is empty we go back and restore
the previous contents. Potentially slow if we comes from a Slot
with lots of records. Now we dump the contents only if there is
something to explore.
* ./hurricane/src/hurricane:
- Bug: In Record, the slots where stored in a list container, which was
making indexed accesses very very slow. This slowdown was also
affecting the destructor of Record (this is the explanation why
the RecordWidget was slow, even when *leaving* the net IntrusiveSet).
Now implemented in term of STL vector.
- Bug: In Slot/Common, still some adjustements to make the Inspection
mechanism work with all types. Correct the "IntrusiveMap<>" not
working with the NetMap. Related to templates not using the same
constness.
- Change: In Entity/DBo/Cell, Some more adjustements on Slot/Records.
- Bug: In buildCoriolis.py, io tool was both declared as belonging to io
and hurricane project. Removed from Hurricane.
- Bug: In buildCoriolis.py, exctract correctly the return status of a
command to return it to the parent process. See Python documentation
about os.wait() & os.waitpid().
- Bug: In NetlistWidget/NetlistModel, suppress the "forceRowHeight()"
method which was terribly slowing down the table display. Instead
uses the "setDefaultSectionSize()" of the vertical header to setup
the row height (much more compact display).
- Bug: In NetlistModel, strangely, although we have a "data()" and a
"headerData()" method, the "data()" is also called for the headers
potentially erasing any previous setting done with "headerData()".
This was occuring for the fonts settings. Don't known if it is
a bug or a feature of Qt...
- Thoses changes has to be ported to the others widgets some times...
- Change: Uses a map instead of a sorted vector in the layer assignment
steps. It was used to order GCells by density, and causing terrific
slowdown on big examples. Namely the eFPGA 16x16 took 1h20, now it's
down to 21 seconds...
Devellop a new object <DyKeyQueue> to handle map with elements
whose key *can* change. Next step is to normalize the key caching
mechanism and to templatize.
- Change: In LayerAssign, account the number of globals AutoSegments
moved up.
- Change: In builCoriolis.py, expand the '~' in the root path if needed.
- Bug: Do not stop if the "--no-cache" option is given but the
CMakeCache doesn't exists.
- Change: <PROJECT>_SEARCH_PATH are put back into the *first* tool of
a project.
- Bug: In HURRICANE_CHECK_MACRO(), the quiet flag was not correctly
implemented. User ARGV instead of argv (case sensitivity!).
Jean-Paul Chaput
The Coriolis Project
Ramy Iskander