Firtool Release 1.44.0

What's Changed

• [Reducer] Speed up OperationPruner by @maerhart in #5311
• [Pipeline] Fix use-after-free in StageSeparatorToStagePass. by @dtzSiFive in #5313
• [FIRRTL] Add Verif/LTL intrinsics by @fabianschuiki in #5310
• [OM] Bypass constant ops referencing symbols in ExportVerilog by @nandor in #5314
• [MapArith] Introduce --map-arith-to-comb pass by @mortbopet in #5297
• [IMCP] Speed up the bulk connection propagation, NFCI by @uenoku in #5290
• [NFC] LLVM bump by @darthscsi in #5317
• [FIRRTL] Add util support for refsub/open aggs by @dtzSiFive in #5315
• Enum const support by @trilorez in #5321
• Preserve const for getWidthlessType by @trilorez in #5328
• [Pipeline] Add integration test by @mortbopet in #5281
• [Capnp] Move the minimum CMake version logic to only run if capnp is found by @teqdruid in #5335
• [ETC] Extract registers and instances if not in design by @uenoku in #5331
• [OM] Use standard API for getting the base pointer from a vector. by @mikeurbach in #5338
• [Calyx to FSM]Fix the bug when calyx multi-component design lower to fsm. by @linuxlonelyeagle in #5341
• [Python] Add CMake for MacOS C++17 compatibility in wheel build. by @mikeurbach in #5343
• Update FIRRTLAnnotations.md to remove reference to tb_seq_mems.json [NFC] by @mwachs5 in #5342
• [FIRRTL] Make StringType buildable by @youngar in #5344
• [FIRRTL] Add StringConstantOp by @youngar in #5345
• [Comb] Canonicalize a + c1 + c2 into a + (c1 + c2) by @nandor in #5348
• [Comb][FIRRTL][Seq] Fix fusing locations to append not add as metadata. by @dtzSiFive in #5349
• [FIRRTL] Donot rename InstanceOp by @prithayan in #5352
• [SV][ETC] Fix perf bug removing from a SetVector of slice results. by @dtzSiFive in #5353
• [DependenceAnalysis] Check memref dependencies on each loop nest by @matth2k in #5287
• [Arc] Preserve extern modules as internal inputs/outputs by @fabianschuiki in #5069
• [ETC] Don't erase operations used by dead module instances by @uenoku in #5357
• [Pipeline] Refactor pipeline dialect to be block-based by @mortbopet in #5332
• [FIRRTL] Add property assign op instead of using connect by @youngar in #5361
• [FIRParser] Add support for parsing String types by @youngar in #5362
• [FIRParser] Parse PropAssignOps by @youngar in #5365
• [FIRRTL] Explicitly reject rwprobe of types containing const. by @dtzSiFive in #5367
• [FIRRTL][IMDCE] Remove dead operation from live set. by @dtzSiFive in #5369
• [FIRParser] Parse string constants by @youngar in #5368
• [FIRRTL][ExpandWhens] Support properties by @youngar in #5373
• [FIRRTL] Improve PropAssignOp verifiers by @youngar in #5375
• [FIRRTL] Add RefCastOp for reset/width/const differences in refs. by @dtzSiFive in #5372
• [FIRRTL][InferWidths] Skip over property types by @youngar in #5381
• [Pipeline] Add optional stall signal to pipelines by @mortbopet in #5278
• [Pipeline] Add pipeline.latency operation by @mortbopet in #5340
• [Pipeline] Remove LI notion from pipelines by @mortbopet in #5359
• [FIRRTL] Add utility for getting the assignment to a property value. by @mikeurbach in #5374
• [ExportFIRRTL] Implement C API by @SpriteOvO in #5300
• [LowerToHW] Lower clock gate intrinsic to Seq dialect by @fabianschuiki in #5363
• [FIRRTL][LowerXMR] Resolve through refcast operations. by @dtzSiFive in #5376
• [FIRRTL][IMCP] Skip over non-base types by @youngar in #5382
• [FIRRTL][InferWidths] Handle foreign and prop types uniformly by @youngar in #5392
• [FIRRTL][CheckCombLoops] Support property types by @youngar in #5383
• [FIRRTL] Add BigInt property type by @youngar in #5384
• [FIRRTL][LowerTypes] Support RefCast. by @dtzSiFive in #5377
• [FIRRTL][InferWidths] Support RefCastOp. by @dtzSiFive in #5378
• [FIRRTL][InferResets] Support RefCastOp. by @dtzSiFive in #5387
• [FIRParser] Add support for BigInt types by @youngar in #5385
• [FIRRTL] Add v2.4.0 Radix-specified Integer Literals by @seldridge in #5380
• [FIRRTL] Support const "source" in forces, insert refcast as needed. by @dtzSiFive in #5388
• [FIRRTL][FIRParser] Support define of non-identical refs via ref.cast. by @dtzSiFive in #5389
• [Seq] Add clock gate conversion to extern module by @fabianschuiki in #5364
• [FIRRTL] Add BigIntConstantOp by @youngar in #5397
• [FIRParser] Support BigInt constants by @youngar in #5398
• [FIRRTL] Remove getBaseTypeOrNull by @youngar in #5393
• [OM] Simplify the Python instantiate API to just return Objects. by @mikeurbach in #5400
• [FIRRTL][InferWidths] Fix back-prop, fix ref equality, fix upper bound. by @dtzSiFive in #5403
• [FIRRTL] Use preferred cast style, NFC by @uenoku in #5401
• [FIRRTL] Initial pass to extract OM classes from FIRRTL modules. by @mikeurbach in #5394
• [FIRRTL] Introduce a helper ODS class for type declaration, NFC by @uenoku in #5399
• [HW] Fix type casts for nested type alias by @uenoku in #5339
• [FIRRTL] Replace deprecated casts in tablegen, NFC by @uenoku in #5406
• [FIRRTL][InferWidths] Restore back-prop constraint for strictconnect. by @dtzSiFive in #5409
• [FIRRTL] Delete CheckCombCycles, remove -use-old-check-comb-cycles. by @dtzSiFive in #5410
• [OM] Get the field names from an Object by @prithayan in #5402

New Contributors

• @linuxlonelyeagle made their first contribution in #5341

Full Changelog: firtool-1.43.0...firtool-1.44.0