diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.rst b/RELEASE_NOTES.rst index 18406a93c..aee3f614a 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.rst +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.rst @@ -9,12 +9,15 @@ ARTIQ-6 Highlights: * 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 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 - 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): - Multidimensional arrays are now available on the core device, using NumPy syntax. Elementwise operations (e.g. ``+``, ``/``), matrix multiplication (``@``) and @@ -41,7 +44,7 @@ Highlights: with the default arguments). - The Applets dock now has a context menu command to quickly close all open 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 communication CPU panic occurs. * NumberValue accepts a ``type`` parameter specifying the output as ``int`` or ``float``