Release Notes

iris 1.3.0

Released on 2026-03-20 - GitHub - PyPI

The major changes compared to v1.2.0 are:

The full list of changes is:

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fastmachinelearning/hls4ml/compare/v1.2.0…v1.3.0

hyacinth 1.2.0

Released on 2025-11-03 - GitHub - PyPI

The major changes compared to v1.1.0 are:

The full list of changes is:

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fastmachinelearning/hls4ml/compare/v1.1.0…v.1.2.0

gladiolus 1.1.0

Released on 2025-03-17 - GitHub - PyPI

What’s Changed

The major changes compared to v1.0.0 are:

The full list of changes is:

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fastmachinelearning/hls4ml/compare/v1.0.0…v1.1.0

foxglove 1.0.0

Released on 2024-12-09 - GitHub - PyPI

What’s Changed

hls4ml v1.0.0 “foxglove” introduces several significant improvements:

The full list of other improvements and fixes is:

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fastmachinelearning/hls4ml/compare/v0.8.1…v1.0.0

edelweiss 0.8.1

Released on 2023-12-19 - GitHub - PyPI

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fastmachinelearning/hls4ml/compare/v0.8.0…v0.8.1

edelweiss 0.8.0

Released on 2023-11-16 - GitHub - PyPI

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fastmachinelearning/hls4ml/compare/v0.7.1…v0.8.0

edelweiss 0.8.0rc1

Released on 2023-11-08 - GitHub - PyPI

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fastmachinelearning/hls4ml/compare/v0.7.1…v0.8.0rc1

delphinium 0.7.1

Released on 2023-05-13 - GitHub - PyPI

What’s Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fastmachinelearning/hls4ml/compare/v0.7.0…v0.7.1

0.7.0: delphinium

Released on 2023-04-26 - GitHub - PyPI

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fastmachinelearning/hls4ml/compare/v0.6.0…v0.7.0

0.7.0rc1: delphinium rc1

Released on 2023-04-15 - GitHub - PyPI

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fastmachinelearning/hls4ml/compare/v0.6.0…v0.7.0rc1

0.6.0: coris

Released on 2021-11-12 - GitHub - PyPI

What’s Changed

  • VivadoAccelerator backend: target pynq-z2 and zcu102 boards directly from hls4ml by @nicologhielmetti

  • Updated PyTorch and ONNX converters by @Duchstf

  • line_buffer Conv2D implementation for io_stream: reduced resource usage and latency by @Keb-L, @violatingcp, @vloncar

  • Support QConv2DBatchnorm layer from QKeras by @nicologhielmetti

  • Improved profiling plots - easier to compare original vs hls4ml converted models by @maksgraczyk

  • Better derivation of data types for QKeras models by @jmduarte, @thesps

  • Improved CI by @thesps

  • More support for models with branches, skip connections, Merge and Concatenate layers by @jmduarte, @vloncar

  • Support for Dense layers over multi-dimensional tensors by @vloncar

  • Overall improvements by @vloncar, @jmduarte, @thesps, @jmitrevs & others

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fastmachinelearning/hls4ml/compare/v0.5.0…v0.6.0

0.5.0: bartsia

Released on 2021-03-05 - GitHub - PyPI

What’s new:

  • Streaming IO layer implementations, especially of Convolutional layers, accessed through the config with IOType: io_stream. Scales CNN support to much larger models than previously possible (see arXiv:2101.05108)

  • New documentation and API reference

  • Further optimizations for QKeras / quantization aware training. A ‘shift’ operation is now used for po2 quantizers

  • Allow redefinition of weights directory for standalone project compilation

  • profiling for PyTorch models

Deprecated:

  • IOType : io_serial is deprecated, and superceded by new IOType: io_stream

Bugfixes:

  • Fix to Initiation Interval and different min/max latency for Strategy: Resource

  • Fix warnings in hls4ml command line script flow

  • Write yml config from Python API - for mixed API / command line flow

0.5.0-beta

Released on 2021-01-18 - GitHub - PyPI

Pre-release of hls4ml version v0.5.0.

What’s new:

  • Streaming IO layer implementations, especially of Convolutional layers, accessed through the config with io_type: io_stream. Scales CNN support to much larger models than previously possible (see paper)

  • New documentation and API reference

  • Further optimizations for QKeras / quantization aware training. A ‘shift’ operation is now used for po2 quantizers

  • Allow redefinition of weights directory for standalone project compilation

0.4.0: aster

Released on 2020-10-30 - GitHub - PyPI

What’s new:

  • Support for GarNet layer (see paper)

  • Input layer precision added to config generator utility

  • New ‘SkipOptimizers’ config option. Now you can run all Optimizers by default (as in v0.3.0) but subtract any specified by ‘SkipOptimizers’ e.g. hls_config['SkipOptimizers'] = ['fuse_consecutive_batch_normalization']

  • Print out the latency report from Cosimulation

Bugfixes:

  • Fixes related to tensorflow 2.3: new Functional API, changes to handling of Input layer

  • Fix error with config generator utility and activation layers gor granularity='name'

  • Fix issue with reloading of emulation library after configuration change

  • Fix to handling of layers with use_bias=False and merged Dense and BatchNormalization

v0.3.0

Released on 2020-07-31 - GitHub - PyPI

What’s new:

  • API expansion:

    • Create configuration dictionary from model object

    • Run ‘C Simulation’ from Python with hls_model.predict(X)

    • Trace model layer output with hls_model.trace(X)

    • Write HLS project, run synthesis flow from Python

  • QKeras support: convert models trained using layers and quantizers from QKeras

  • Example models moved to separate repo, added as a submodule with an API to retrieve them

  • New Softmax implementations

  • Minor fixes: weights exported at higher precision, concatenate layer shape corrected

v0.2.0

Released on 2020-03-31 - GitHub - PyPI

What’s new:

  • tf_to_hls: convert tensorflow protobuf (.pb) models to HLS projects

  • Support for Keras model .h5 files (extending existing support for .json architecture + .h5 weights format)

  • Support larger Conv1D / 2D layers

  • Support for binary and ternary layers from QKeras

  • API enhancements for addition of custom layer and new backends

  • Keras and HLS model profiling tool

  • hls4ml report command to gather HLS build reports

  • hls4ml build -l command to run logic synthesis

  • Fused Batch Normalization and Dense layer optimization pass

v0.1.6

Released on 2020-02-10 - GitHub - PyPI

  • Support for larger Dense layers (enabled with Strategy: Resource in the configuration file)

  • Binary/Ternary NN refinements

  • Built-in optimization framework

  • Optional C/RTL validation

v0.1.5

Released on 2019-08-02 - GitHub - PyPI

v0.1.2

Released on 2018-03-20 - GitHub - PyPI

Update license

v0.1.1

Released on 2018-03-16 - GitHub - PyPI

second beta version: fixed README