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All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

##[2.2.0] -09-11-2023

## added

- Provide two solutions for having multiple physical NoCs with different configurations

##[2.1.0] -26-03-2022

## added

- Multicast/Broadcast support

- SynFull traffic model is Integrated to NoC simulator

##[2.0.0] -15-10-2020

## added

- SMART, single cycle multi-hop bypass

- Selfloop support

- gui for UART terminal

- gui for a runtime memory controller

- Support Xilinx FPFAs

- Software Auto-generation using CAL language (CAL2C)

- Support multi threading in Verilator-based NoC simulator

- Integrated Netrace to NoC simulator

- add new topologies: Fmesh

- gui for custom NoC topology generation

- GTK3 support

## changed

- NoC codes are changing to systemVerilog. Now it uses struct for router connection interface.

##[1.9.1] -24-07-2019

## changed

- Some bugs are fixed in jtag interface.

##[1.9.0] -30-04-2019

## Added

- add single flit sized packet support

- add new topologies: Fattree, tree, concentrated mesh (Cmesh)

- Topology Diagram Viewer

## changed

- The endpoint and router addresses format has been changed to support different topologies.

##[1.8.2] -13-12-2018

## Added

- add latency standard deviation to simulation results graphs

- add Simple message passing demo on 4×4 MPSoC

- add some error flags to NI

## changed

- fix some bugs in NI

- Enable Verilator simulation on MPSoC

##[1.8.1] - 30-7-2018

## Added

-  GUI for setting Linux variables

## changed

-  Support NoC Simulation for packet payload width larger than 32-bits and core number larger than 64.

##[1.8.1] - 30-7-2018

## Added

-  GUI for setting Linux variables

## changed

-  Support NoC Simulation for packet payload width larger than 32-bits and core number larger than 64.

##[1.8.0] - 16-5-2018

## Added

-  Support hard-built QoS/EoS support in NoC using weighted Round-Robin arbiter

-  Add real application task grah simulation support in NoC simulator

-  add new

-  Add two new (OpenRISC) softprocessors: Or1200 & Mor1kx

-  Add documentation for timer, ni-master, ni-slave, memory, and dma IP cores.

-  Add User manual file

-  Add USB blaster II support in JTAG controller

-  Add GUI for adding new Altera FPGA boards.

-  The simulator/ emulator now can provide additional simulation results

        (a) Average latency per average desired flit injection ratio

        (b) Average throughput per average desired flit injection ratio

        (c) send/received packets number for each router at different injection ratios

        (d) send/received worst-case delay for each router at different injection ratios

        (e) Simulation execution clock cycles

## changed

-  Fixed the bug in NoC that halts the simulation when B is defined as 2.

-  Support Burst Type Extension for Incrementing and Decrementing bursts in RAM controller

##[1.7.0] - 15-7-2017

## Added

-  Software compilation text-editor

-  Processing tile Diagram Viewer

-  Modelsim/Verilator/QuartusII GUI compilation assist

-  Multi-chanel DMA

## changed

-  New multi-chanel DMA-based NI

##[1.6.0] - 6-3-2017

## Added

-  NoC GUI simulator (using Verilator)

##[1.5.2] - 22-2-2017

## changed

- Fixed bug in wishbone bus

##[1.5.1] - 3-2-2017

## changed

- src_c/jtag_main.c:  variable length memory support is added.

- NoC emulator:  Jtag tabs are reduced to total of 3. A 64 core 2-VC NoC emulation is successfully tested on DE4 FPGA board.

- ssa: Now can work with fully adaptive routing.

##[1.5.0] - 13-10-2016

### Added

- static straight allocator (SSA) which accelerates packets traversing to the same direction to the NoC router.

- NoC emulator.

- Jtag_wb: allow access to the wishbone bus slave ports via Jtag.

- Jtag_main: A C code which allows host PC to have access to the jtag_wb.

## changed

- Memory IP cores are categorized into two IPs: Single and double port.

- The access via jtag_wb or Altera In-System Memory Content Editor is added as optional via parameter setting for single port memory.

##[1.0.0] - 27-1-2016

### added

- ProNoC: new version with GUI generator

- Interface generator

- IP generator

- Processing tile generator

- NoC based MCSoC generator