News

2012-10-12: The prsim-engine-rewrite branch has been merged to master. This branch contains a complete rewrite of the event queue management in the prsim simulator. The new code is a lot simpler, comprehensible, and easier to maintain. The rewrite also happened to fix numerous corner case bugs that were previously mishandled. This is the future.

2012-10-11: The clangification branch has been merged to master. Sources have been tested against clang-3.1-release on i386-redhat-linux, and x86_64-apple-darwin11-clang (4.1, from Xcode 4.5.1).

2011-06-23: The CVS repository has been replaced with a git repository, instructions for read-only checkout here.

2011-05-03: New interactive physics-driven placement engine tool, ipple.

2010-04-06: The latest release is massively scalable to enormous designs, thanks to complete hierarchical structuring.

2009-08-28: New netlist generator tool, hacknet [alpha-release].

2009-03-26: Read-only CVS access is now online! See the Source page for instructions.

2008-11-20: Carlos Tadeo Ortega Otero has announced his work on the Eclipse GUI for HACKT (video demos only).

2008-11-05: Search engines have picked up this project page for the first time. "I, for one, welcome our new web-crawling overlords."

2008-10-26: This home page was born. First public distributions made available.

ChangeLog

A complete ChangeLog is distributed with the source code. Here is the src/ChangeLog [780k]