12-22-2022, 11:15 AM
Hello,
HERO (to the best of my knowledge) is still active. In the past few months we have been very busy with the Occamy tape-out and related projects which uses a relatively similar structure although it relies on Snitch clusters for computing and not the CV32E40P (RI5CY) cores that have been traditionally used in HERO. This would explain the 'low activity' on this repo. The solutions/additions that HERO relies on (OpenMP offloading, Address translation, AXI busses etc) from RV and ARM cores are actively being developed and improved. We should probably clean up some of the documentation in these repos and also probably see if the newest additions from these projects should necessitate an update of the HERO..
However, the current repo should work fine out of the box. Mapping to individual FPGAs (and Vitis/Vivado versions) is a bit tedious and we would be very happy to get contributions.
KGF
HERO (to the best of my knowledge) is still active. In the past few months we have been very busy with the Occamy tape-out and related projects which uses a relatively similar structure although it relies on Snitch clusters for computing and not the CV32E40P (RI5CY) cores that have been traditionally used in HERO. This would explain the 'low activity' on this repo. The solutions/additions that HERO relies on (OpenMP offloading, Address translation, AXI busses etc) from RV and ARM cores are actively being developed and improved. We should probably clean up some of the documentation in these repos and also probably see if the newest additions from these projects should necessitate an update of the HERO..
However, the current repo should work fine out of the box. Mapping to individual FPGAs (and Vitis/Vivado versions) is a bit tedious and we would be very happy to get contributions.
KGF
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