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RELEASE_NOTES: update ARTIQ-6 section

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Sebastien Bourdeauducq 2021-02-17 15:50:26 +08:00
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Highlights: Highlights:
* New hardware support: * New hardware support:
- Phaser, a quad channel 1GS/s RF generator card with dual IQ upconverter and dual 5MS/s
ADC and FPGA.
- Zynq SoC core devices, enabling kernels to run on 1 GHz CPU core with a floating-point - Zynq SoC core devices, enabling kernels to run on 1 GHz CPU core with a floating-point
unit for faster computations. This currently requires an external unit for faster computations. This currently requires an external
repository (https://git.m-labs.hk/m-labs/artiq-zynq) and only supports the ZC706. repository (https://git.m-labs.hk/m-labs/artiq-zynq).
- Mirny 4-channel wide-band PLL/VCO-based microwave frequency synthesiser - Mirny 4-channel wide-band PLL/VCO-based microwave frequency synthesiser
- Fastino 32-channel, 3MS/s per channel, 16-bit DAC EEM - Fastino 32-channel, 3MS/s per channel, 16-bit DAC EEM
- Kasli 2.0 - Kasli 2.0, an improved core device with 12 built-in EEM slots, faster FPGA, 4 SFPs, and
high-precision clock recovery circuitry for DRTIO (to be supported in ARTIQ-7).
* ARTIQ Python (core device kernels): * ARTIQ Python (core device kernels):
- Multidimensional arrays are now available on the core device, using NumPy syntax. - Multidimensional arrays are now available on the core device, using NumPy syntax.
Elementwise operations (e.g. ``+``, ``/``), matrix multiplication (``@``) and Elementwise operations (e.g. ``+``, ``/``), matrix multiplication (``@``) and
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with the default arguments). with the default arguments).
- The Applets dock now has a context menu command to quickly close all open - The Applets dock now has a context menu command to quickly close all open
applets (shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-W). applets (shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-W).
* Experiment results are now always saved to HDF5, even if run() fails. * Experiment results are now always saved to HDF5, even if ``run()`` fails.
* Core device: ``panic_reset 1`` now correctly resets the kernel CPU as well if * Core device: ``panic_reset 1`` now correctly resets the kernel CPU as well if
communication CPU panic occurs. communication CPU panic occurs.
* NumberValue accepts a ``type`` parameter specifying the output as ``int`` or ``float`` * NumberValue accepts a ``type`` parameter specifying the output as ``int`` or ``float``