Software Ecosystem

This CPU emulator can be used as either a standalone functional emulator of Prodigy ISA or as part of cross-mode GDB allowing to debug Prodigy user mode application on any other host platform.

QEMU is a generic and opensource machine emulator and virtualizer. It supports both User-mode emulation and Full-system emulation.

The GNU Binutils are a collection of binary tools to manipulate object files. Main tools in the collections are ld (linker) and as (assembler, known as GAS – GNU Assembler), but there are many more smaller tools like objdump (dump information about object files).

GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on “inside” another program while it executes or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed.

With GDB, a Prodigy application can be debugged in various scenarios: as a part of cross-toolchain using either functional simulator or QEMU as execution engine on non-Prodigy host; connecting to GDB server running on native or full-system-mode-emulation Linux/BSD kernel, from any supported host; or as a native Linux/BSD debugger.

“Open On-Chip Debugger” allows to connect to a target using low-level JTAG interface to help facilitate system bring-up and initial stages of very low-level debugging.

JTAG is more than debugging and programming. Processors use JTAG to provide access to their debug/emulation functions and all FPGAs and CPLDs use JTAG to provide access to their programming functions.

The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Ada, Go, and D, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++,…).

Existing since 1987, this compiler is a de-facto standard for almost every major CPU platform.

The GNU C Library project provides the core libraries for the GNU system and GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux as the kernel. These libraries provide critical APIs including ISO C11, POSIX.1-2008, BSD, OS-specific APIs and more. These APIs include such foundational facilities as open, read, write, malloc, printf, getaddrinfo, dlopen, pthread_create, crypt, login, exit and more.

The GNU C Library is designed to be a backwards compatible, portable, and high-performance ISO C library. It aims to follow all relevant standards including ISO C11, POSIX.1-2008, and IEEE 754-2008.

The project was started circa 1988 and is almost 30 years old.

Musl is a C standard library implementation for Linux. Some of musl’s major advantages over glibc and uClibc/uClibc-ng are its size, correctness, static linking support, and clean code.

The Linux kernel is a free and open-source, monolithic, Unix-like operating system kernel. It is deployed on a wide variety of computing systems, from personal computers, mobile devices, mainframes, and supercomputers[6] to embedded devices, such as routers, wireless access points, private branch exchanges, set-top boxes, FTA receivers, smart TVs, personal video recorders, and NAS appliances. Its availability, continuous development, and ongoing support have spawned a plethora of operating system distributions, commonly also called Linux.

The Yocto Project (YP) is an open-source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems regardless of the hardware architecture.

The project provides a flexible set of tools and a space where embedded developers worldwide can share technologies, software stacks, configurations, and best practices that can be used to create tailored Linux images for embedded and IOT devices, or anywhere a customized Linux OS is needed.

Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation.

Can handle everything: Cross-compilation toolchain, root filesystem generation, kernel image compilation and bootloader compilation.

Thanks to its kernel-like menuconfig, gconfig and xconfig configuration interfaces, building a basic system with Buildroot is easy and typically takes 15-30 minutes.

Benchmark suites developed by The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).

Test suite consists of 12 benchmark programs, designed to test exclusively the integer performance of the system.

Test suite contains 17 benchmark programs, designed to evaluate the floating-point operations performance of the system.

Test is organized in 2 suites: SPECrate 2017 Floating Point and SPECspeed 2017 Floating Point containing in total 23 benchmark programs, designed to evaluate the floating-point operations performance of the system.

The BLAS, Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms are routines that provide standard building blocks for performing basic vector and matrix operations.

Static and dynamic loss scaling.

• Magnitude based block pruning

• Lottery Ticket

Implemented in standard and low precision modes.

• Resnet: Residual Networks.

• MobileNet: Model designed to be used in mobile applications.

• ShuffleNet: An extremely efficient convolutional neural network for mobile devices.

Implemented in standard and low precision modes.

• YOLO: A clever convolutional neural network (CNN) for doing object detection in real-time.

• SSD

• MaskRCNN: A deep neural network aimed to solve instance segmentation problem in machine learning or computer vision.

Implemented in standard and low precision modes utilizing compression and sparsity.

• BERT: Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers is a Transformer-based machine learning technique for NLP pre-training developed by Google.

• Sparse Transformer: Transformer based architecture which utilises sparse factorizations of the attention matrix.

• Neural ODE: Neural Ordinary Differential Equations.

• Graph Neural ODE: A counterpart to GNNs (graph neural networks) where the input-output relationship is determined by a continuum of GNN layers, blending discrete topological structures and differential equations.

• Neural PDE: Neural partial differential equation.

Similarly to GNU Binutils, LLVM collection serves the same purpose but implemented within a scope of another open-source project.

The Clang project provides a language front-end and tooling infrastructure for languages in the C language family (C, C++, Objective C/C++, OpenCL, CUDA, and RenderScript) for the LLVM project.

Clang is considered to be a production quality C, Objective-C, C++ and Objective-C++ compiler. As example, Clang is used in production to build performance-critical software like Chrome or Firefox.

Newlib is a C library intended for use on embedded systems. It is a conglomeration of several library parts, all under free software licenses that make them easily usable on embedded products.

UEFI stands for “Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.” The UEFI Specification defines a new model for the interface between personal-computer operating systems and platform firmware. The interface consists of data tables that contain platform-related information, plus boot and runtime service calls that are available to the operating system and its loader. Together, these provide a standard environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications.

Coreboot is an extended firmware platform that delivers a lightning fast and secure boot experience on modern computers and embedded systems.

LinuxBoot is a firmware for modern servers that replaces specific firmware functionality like the UEFI DXE phase with a Linux kernel and runtime.

Improves boot reliability by replacing lightly-tested firmware drivers with hardened Linux drivers.

Improves boot time by removing unnecessary code.

Allows customization of the initrd runtime to support site-specific needs (both device drivers as well as custom executables).

Das U-Boot (subtitled “the Universal Boot Loader” and often shortened to U-Boot) is an open-source, primary boot loader used in embedded devices to package the instructions to boot the device’s operating system kernel.

The OpenBMC project is a Linux Foundation collaborative open-source project whose goal is to produce an open-source implementation of the Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) Firmware Stack. OpenBMC is a Linux distribution for BMCs meant to work across heterogeneous systems that include enterprise, high-performance computing (HPC), telecommunications, and cloud-scale data centers.

FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms. A large community has continually developed it for more than thirty years. Its advanced networking, security, and storage features have made FreeBSD the platform of choice for many of the busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices.

A specification for a set of compiler directives, library routines, and environment variables that can be used to specify high-level parallelism in Fortran and C/C++ programs. OpenMP is managed by the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (OpenMP ARB).

• Quantum Espresso

• DeepMD

• LAMMPS

• LongFormer

• BigBird

• Performer

• DistilBERT

• Q8BERT

• Vision Transformer

• EfficientDet

• DETR