January 2026 monthly summary for the pulp-platform/croc project. Delivered PDK modernization and design flow enhancements to support standard cells, including seal and metal filling steps to improve design efficiency, compatibility, and output quality. Updated the PDK to the latest version and adapted the chip design flow to standard cells (r0.1.3). Patched PDK, cleaned def2stream, and integrated seal and metal filling steps to reduce integration risk and prepare the flow for standard-cell libraries.

December 2025: Implemented Annotated Module Outlines Export for croc, enabling annotated module outlines in SVG, PNG, and PDF to improve visualization and documentation of designs. This feature supports faster design reviews, clearer handoffs, and better cross-team collaboration. Primary focus was feature delivery with CI-quality improvements; no major bugs fixed this month.

Concise monthly summary for 2025-06 focusing on hardware feature delivery and engineering impact for the Cheshire repository.

March 2025 monthly summary for pulp-platform/croc: Delivered the ArtistIC Interactive Map Deployment to GitHub Pages, introducing an interactive HTML map interface and CI workflow changes to build, render, and deploy map tiles and assets for visualization of design layers and spatial relationships. This work enhances design exploration, review, and stakeholder communication by providing a live, accessible visualization of ArtistIC designs. No major bugs were reported this period. Key impact includes improved deployment reliability and faster feedback cycles for map assets.

February 2025: Implemented full-flow CI integration for the ArtistIC repository within the pulp-platform/croc project. This work enables end-to-end automation: checkout of ArtistIC, installation of tools (Inkscape, ImageMagick), customization and rendering of the logo, merging the logo with the chip GDS, and preparing, analyzing, and rendering the chip design, followed by uploading artifacts (renders, logs, and formats). Key commit involved: eddba423d7677ffe9c9bbb288c582d92501a9479 (CI: add ArtistIC to the full-flow CI).

November 2024 monthly summary focusing on enabling FPGA-based hardware flow for Genesys2 on the Croc platform. Delivered a basic Genesys2 FPGA flow, updated the build system to include Genesys2 hardware files, and added automation scripts for synthesis and implementation to streamline hardware bring-up and testing with Xilinx toolchains.