MLECO-3620 MLECO-3619: Update to 22.11 dependencies
* CMSIS-NN is now a seperate dependency
* Added inclusive language commitment
* TensorFlow Lite Micro dependency is moved ahead of 22.11 to fix compilation issue
Change-Id: I60e3311ff7da2ce064cbcdca054a86bdd1f620d8
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@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
Changes in 22.11
+ * Support for 22.11 NPU components and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.6.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite Micro)
+ * CMSIS-NN is added as a new dependency due to it moving out of the core CMSIS repository.
* Updates for Arm® Corstone™-310 platform.
* Formal support for CMake presets.
* Support for the new Arm Compiler 6.19
@@ -6,7 +8,7 @@
* Bug fix for building with NPU disabled.
Changes in 22.08
- * Support for 22.08 Ethos-U component and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.5.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite Micro).
+ * Support for 22.08 NPU component and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.5.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite Micro).
* Formal support for Arm® Corstone-310 Arm Virtual Hardware and FPGA implementations.
* Added CMake presets.
* Bug fix for Arm® Ethos-U65 NPU's default AXI burst length.
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@
* Documentation updates.
Changes in 22.05
- * Support for 22.05 Ethos-U component and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.4.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite Micro).
+ * Support for 22.05 NPU component and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.4.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite Micro).
* Restructuring of repository sources to allow generation of CMSIS packs.
* Added support for Arm Cortex-M85, Armclang 6.18 is required
* Reduce minimum requirements of Python to 3.7 to align with Vela 3.4.0.
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@
* Various bug fixes.
Changes in 22.02
- * Support for 22.02 Ethos-U component and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.3.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite Micro).
+ * Support for 22.02 NPU component and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.3.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite Micro).
* Added Object Detection use case.
* Replace DSCNN with MicroNet for KWS and KWS_ASR use cases.
* Increase minimum requirements of CMake to 3.15.6, Armclang to 6.16 and Python to 3.8
@@ -32,7 +34,7 @@
* Various minor bug fixes.
Changes in 21.11
- * Support for 21.11 Ethos-U component and dependencies (core-software, core-driver, Vela 3.2.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite).
+ * Support for 21.11 NPU component and dependencies (core-software, core-driver, Vela 3.2.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite Micro).
* Added dynamic load support for FVP for inference runner use-case.
* Added support for different memory modes: Shared_Sram, Dedicated_Sram and Sram_Only.
* Added Noise Reduction use case.
@@ -41,10 +43,10 @@
* Changes to support AN552 design - the new Arm® Corstone™-300 implementation.
Changes in 21.08
- * Support for 21.05 Ethos-U component (core-software, core-driver, Vela 3.0.0).
+ * Support for 21.05 NPU component (core-software, core-driver, Vela 3.0.0).
* TensorFlow submodule changed to https://github.com/tensorflow/tflite-micro (tested with TensorFlow Lite Micro commit hash: f510d38d0eaa3195ce3af66e3f32648740f08afb).
* Image classification model changed (from uint8 to int8 datatype).
- * Documentation updates, added support to Corstone-300 + Ethos-U65.
+ * Documentation updates, added support to Corstone-300 + Arm® Ethos-U65.
* Various scripts improvements.
* Added Visual Wake Word use case.
@@ -65,7 +67,7 @@
Changes in 20.11
* SSE-200 and SSE-300 system support was added.
- * Support for simple fixed virtual platform for Ethos-U55 and Cortex-M55 removed.
+ * Support for simple fixed virtual platform for Arm® Ethos-U55 and Arm® Cortex-M55 removed.
* Build cmake parameters changed: TARGET_SUBSYSTEM was added, TARGET_PLATFORM accepted values were changed.
* Models with multiple output tensors support was added.
* Generic inference runner use-case added.
@@ -74,7 +76,7 @@
Changes in 20.09 release:
* Support for TensorFlow Lite Micro version > 2.3.0 (tested with TensorFlow Lite Micro 2.4.0 commit hash: 5bbb8a2bd1def6865b1510175a3da5fd12387e10)
* Added speech recognition use case example.
- * Updated Ethos-U55 Fastmodel version to r0p2-00eac0-rc4
+ * Updated NPU Fastmodel version to r0p2-00eac0-rc4
Changes in 20.08 release:
* Added keyword spotting use case example.
@@ -88,7 +90,7 @@
* Configurable timing-adaptor.
* Added Active and Idle cycle counts for NPU and CPU profiling report.
* Source code structure and build scripts refactored to support multiple ML use-cases.
- * Used EAC Ethos-U55 software model and drivers.
+ * Used EAC NPU software model and drivers.
* Windows support for build scripts.
Known issues:
* telnet connection to FastModel environment may hang after some period of inactivity.