Remove hardware IP block based filtering (#820)

* Analysis report block based filtering is the default now

* Update documentation

* Update CHANGELOG

* Fix tests
    * Replace hardware block based filtering tests with report block
      based filtering tests

src/argparser.py

@@ -178,50 +178,24 @@ Examples:
         help="\t\t\tDispatch ID filtering.",
     )
 
-    class AggregateDict(argparse.Action):
-        def __call__(self, parser, namespace, values, option_string=None):
-            aggregated_dict = getattr(namespace, self.dest, {})
-            if aggregated_dict is None:
-                aggregated_dict = {}
-            for key, value in values:
-                aggregated_dict[key] = value
-            setattr(namespace, self.dest, aggregated_dict)
-
     def validate_block(value):
         # Metric id regex, for example, 10, 4, 4.3, 4.32
         # Dont allow more than two digits after decimal point
         metric_id_pattern = re.compile(r"^\d+$|^\d+\.\d$|^\d+\.\d\d$")
-        # Allow only the following hardware blocks
-        hardware_block_pattern = re.compile(r"^(SQ|SQC|TA|TD|TCP|TCC|SPI|CPC|CPF)$")
         if metric_id_pattern.match(value):
-            return (str(value), "metric_id")
-        if hardware_block_pattern.match(value):
-            return (str(value), "hardware_block")
-        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(f"Invalid hardware block or metric id: {value}")
+            return value
+        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(f"Invalid metric id: {value}")
 
     profile_group.add_argument(
         "-b",
         "--block",
         type=validate_block,
-        action=AggregateDict,
         dest="filter_blocks",
         metavar="",
         nargs="+",
         required=False,
-        default={},
-        help="""\t\t\tSpecify metric id(s) from --list-metrics for filtering (e.g. 10, 4, 4.3).
-    \t\t\tCan provide multiple space separated arguments.
-    \t\t\tCan also accept Hardware blocks.
-    \t\t\tHardware block filtering (to be deprecated soon):
-    \t\t\t   SQ
-    \t\t\t   SQC
-    \t\t\t   TA
-    \t\t\t   TD
-    \t\t\t   TCP
-    \t\t\t   TCC
-    \t\t\t   SPI
-    \t\t\t   CPC
-    \t\t\t   CPF""",
+        default=[],
+        help="""\t\t\tSpecify metric id(s) from --list-metrics for filtering (e.g. 10, 4, 4.3).\n\t\t\tCan provide multiple space separated arguments.""",
     )
     profile_group.add_argument(
         "--list-metrics",