Release 2026.02

Changes:

• [Adding] spicebind tool for SPICE simulator bindings in digital simulators.
• [Adding] gds2palace and setupEM for EM simulation workflow (x86_64 only for now).
• [Adding] libjson-glib as new dependency for gtkwave.
• [Update] openvaf with llvm18 feature enabled.
• [Update] various tool versions (OpenEMS, OpenROAD, Palace, GHDL, xschem, and others).
• [Re-Adding] pyopus circuit optimization framework.
• Full Changelog: 2025.12...2026.02

Release 2025.12

What's Changed

• README.md: fix typo in gf180 pdk name by @michaelk99 in #208
• MAGIC-PEX: run dir must be passed when invoking ext2sim by @martinjankoehler in #212

New Contributors

• @michaelk99 made their first contribution in #208

Full Changelog: 2025.11...2025.12

Release 2025.11

What's Changed

• Added keybindings for klayout: library-manager-plugin; updated ihp pdk install script to include via_stack pcell by @p-fath in #191
• Temporary solution of IHP PDK fixes deleted, as IHP PDK is now cloned from iic-jku by @p-fath in #195
• Add python formatter black by @phsauter in #196
• Split base layer into base and base-dev (to make final image smaller) by @hpretl in #199
• Palace integration (3D EM solver) by @hpretl in #200
• Update gf180 PDK to 1.0.552 by @Scafir in #203

New Contributors

• @Scafir made their first contribution in #203

Full Changelog: 2025.09...2025.11

Release 2025.09

For detailed release notes, see RELEASE_NOTES.md. This release is the target for the winter semester term 2025/2026 at JKU.

Full Changelog: 2025.07...2025.09

Release 2025.03

• ATTENTION: The symbol configuration of the LV- and HV-NMOS has changed in the IHP PDK in this release (drain and source have been swapped). Please adapt your existing IHP schematics accordingly!
• Changed Windows start_x.bat to use WSL integrated WSLg audio and visual subsystem instead of a third-party X-server.
• Changed Linux start_x.sh to support Wayland and provide more robust parameter handling.
• Adding mold and ccache to speed up verilator simulations.
• Add pygame for IIC-RALF.
• Add nevergrad for optimization (e.g., in Jupyter notebooks).
• Bump various tool versions.
• Store ORFS git hash in image (see KNOWN_ISSUES.md).

Release 2025.02

• Adding spicelib SPICE-simulator interaction from Python.
• Adding klayout-pex parasitic extraction tool.
• Adding a couple of useful Python packages (numpy, pandas, plotly, pygmid, schemdraw, scipy, sympy).
• Adapting to changed directory structure of IHP's PDK.
• Remove temporarily hdl21 and vlsirtools due to incompatibility with gdsfactory on pydantic.
• Build adms from source, compile xyce models with it.
• Bump various tool versions.
• Changed Windows start_x.bat to use WSL integrated WSLg audio and visual subsystem instead of a third-party X-server.

Release 2025.01

First release with upgrade base OS to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Release 2024.12

Wrapping up 2024, this is the final release of this year.