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Nina Drozd05c1c5a2023-08-22 12:41:55 +0100[diff] [blame]1Changes in 23.08
2 * Support for 23.08 NPU components and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.9.0, CMSIS, CMSIS-NN and TensorFlow Lite Micro).
3 * Update Python package requirements for compatibility reasons.
Nina Drozd9263b512023-09-05 17:38:30 +0100[diff] [blame^]4 * Increase minimum requirements of Armclang to 6.19
Nina Drozd05c1c5a2023-08-22 12:41:55 +0100[diff] [blame]5
Richard Burtondf88c5d2023-05-30 17:40:39 +0100[diff] [blame]6Changes in 23.05
7 * Support for 23.05 NPU components and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.8.0, CMSIS, CMSIS-NN and TensorFlow Lite Micro).
8 * Minor updates to CMSIS-pack dependencies.
9 * Update Python package requirements for compatibility reasons.
10 * Increase minimum requirements of Python to 3.9
11
Kshitij Sisodia26bc9232023-03-10 16:33:23 +0000[diff] [blame]12Changes in 23.02
13 * Support for 23.02 NPU components and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.7.0, CMSIS, CMSIS-DSP, CMSIS-NN and TensorFlow Lite Micro).
14 * Improvement to PMU counters - reducing cache maintenance burden for Arm Cortex-M55 CPUs when NPU is used.
15 * Inclusive language updates.
16 * Documentation updates including adding links to AN555 resources.
17 * Updates to Python requirements file for virtual environment.
18
Kshitij Sisodia7ac0a3a2022-11-09 14:12:08 +0000[diff] [blame]19Changes in 22.11
Richard Burton71f282e2022-12-01 12:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]20 * Support for 22.11 NPU components and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.6.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite Micro)
21 * CMSIS-NN is added as a new dependency due to it moving out of the core CMSIS repository.
Kshitij Sisodia7ac0a3a2022-11-09 14:12:08 +0000[diff] [blame]22 * Updates for Arm® Corstone™-310 platform.
23 * Formal support for CMake presets.
24 * Support for the new Arm Compiler 6.19
25 * Published CMSIS-Pack under `resources` and related updates.
26 * Bug fix for building with NPU disabled.
27
Kshitij Sisodia01334f92022-08-12 11:53:45 +0100[diff] [blame]28Changes in 22.08
Richard Burton71f282e2022-12-01 12:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]29 * Support for 22.08 NPU component and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.5.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite Micro).
Kshitij Sisodia01334f92022-08-12 11:53:45 +0100[diff] [blame]30 * Formal support for Arm® Corstone-310 Arm Virtual Hardware and FPGA implementations.
31 * Added CMake presets.
32 * Bug fix for Arm® Ethos-U65 NPU's default AXI burst length.
33 * Provision to allow platform-agnostic use case API to be packaged as CMSIS pack.
34 * Documentation updates.
35
Richard Burton5dd18382022-06-01 10:26:46 +0100[diff] [blame]36Changes in 22.05
Richard Burton71f282e2022-12-01 12:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]37 * Support for 22.05 NPU component and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.4.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite Micro).
Richard Burton5dd18382022-06-01 10:26:46 +0100[diff] [blame]38 * Restructuring of repository sources to allow generation of CMSIS packs.
Kshitij Sisodiad088e522022-08-17 09:35:09 +0100[diff] [blame]39 * Added support for Arm Cortex-M85, Armclang 6.18 is required
Richard Burton5dd18382022-06-01 10:26:46 +0100[diff] [blame]40 * Reduce minimum requirements of Python to 3.7 to align with Vela 3.4.0.
41 * Increase minimum requirements of CMake to 3.21.0
42 * Documentation updates.
43 * Various bug fixes.
44
Richard Burtonb4123fd2022-03-04 09:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]45Changes in 22.02
Richard Burton71f282e2022-12-01 12:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]46 * Support for 22.02 NPU component and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.3.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite Micro).
Richard Burtonb4123fd2022-03-04 09:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]47 * Added Object Detection use case.
48 * Replace DSCNN with MicroNet for KWS and KWS_ASR use cases.
Kshitij Sisodiad088e522022-08-17 09:35:09 +0100[diff] [blame]49 * Increase minimum requirements of CMake to 3.15.6, Armclang to 6.16 and Python to 3.8
Richard Burtonb4123fd2022-03-04 09:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]50 * Initial restructuring of repository sources.
51 * Documentation updates.
52 * Various minor bug fixes.
53
Isabella Gottardi118f73e2021-09-16 17:54:35 +0100[diff] [blame]54Changes in 21.11
Richard Burton71f282e2022-12-01 12:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]55 * Support for 21.11 NPU component and dependencies (core-software, core-driver, Vela 3.2.0, CMSIS, TensorFlow Lite Micro).
Isabella Gottardi118f73e2021-09-16 17:54:35 +0100[diff] [blame]56 * Added dynamic load support for FVP for inference runner use-case.
Isabella Gottardi84f702d2021-11-11 17:06:12 +0000[diff] [blame]57 * Added support for different memory modes: Shared_Sram, Dedicated_Sram and Sram_Only.
58 * Added Noise Reduction use case.
59 * Updated support for Arm GNU Embedded Toolchain 10.3-2021.07 and Arm Compiler 6.17.
Isabella Gottardi118f73e2021-09-16 17:54:35 +0100[diff] [blame]60 * Documentation updates.
Kshitij Sisodia661959c2021-11-24 10:39:52 +0000[diff] [blame]61 * Changes to support AN552 design - the new Arm® Corstone™-300 implementation.
Isabella Gottardi118f73e2021-09-16 17:54:35 +0100[diff] [blame]62
Isabella Gottardic5d8bda2021-07-21 10:35:08 +0100[diff] [blame]63Changes in 21.08
Richard Burton71f282e2022-12-01 12:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]64 * Support for 21.05 NPU component (core-software, core-driver, Vela 3.0.0).
Isabella Gottardic5d8bda2021-07-21 10:35:08 +0100[diff] [blame]65 * TensorFlow submodule changed to https://github.com/tensorflow/tflite-micro (tested with TensorFlow Lite Micro commit hash: f510d38d0eaa3195ce3af66e3f32648740f08afb).
66 * Image classification model changed (from uint8 to int8 datatype).
Richard Burton71f282e2022-12-01 12:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]67 * Documentation updates, added support to Corstone-300 + Arm® Ethos-U65.
Isabella Gottardic5d8bda2021-07-21 10:35:08 +0100[diff] [blame]68 * Various scripts improvements.
Isabella Gottardi118f73e2021-09-16 17:54:35 +0100[diff] [blame]69 * Added Visual Wake Word use case.
Isabella Gottardic5d8bda2021-07-21 10:35:08 +0100[diff] [blame]70
Isabella Gottardi2181d0a2021-04-07 09:27:38 +0100[diff] [blame]71Changes in 21.05
72 * Added script to download and optimize default models.
73 * Added script to run default build flow.
74 * Added a model for Anomaly Detection use case.
Isabella Gottardic5d8bda2021-07-21 10:35:08 +0100[diff] [blame]75 * Added support for build with Arm GNU Embedded Toolchain (10.2.1).
76 * Deprecated support for target subsystem SSE-200.
Isabella Gottardi2181d0a2021-04-07 09:27:38 +0100[diff] [blame]77
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +0000[diff] [blame]78Changes in 21.03
Isabella Gottardic5d8bda2021-07-21 10:35:08 +0100[diff] [blame]79 * Simple platform support added.
80 * Model conditioning examples added.
81 * Documentation updated.
82 * Build changed to use sources of the dependency libraries.
83 * Tests for native platform added.
84 * Anomaly detection use-case added.
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +0000[diff] [blame]85
86Changes in 20.11
87 * SSE-200 and SSE-300 system support was added.
Richard Burton71f282e2022-12-01 12:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]88 * Support for simple fixed virtual platform for Arm® Ethos-U55 and Arm® Cortex-M55 removed.
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +0000[diff] [blame]89 * Build cmake parameters changed: TARGET_SUBSYSTEM was added, TARGET_PLATFORM accepted values were changed.
90 * Models with multiple output tensors support was added.
91 * Generic inference runner use-case added.
92 * ASR triggered by KWS added in the same use case (kws_asr). This also shows how to re-use tensor arena with two models using the same memory pool.
93
94Changes in 20.09 release:
95 * Support for TensorFlow Lite Micro version > 2.3.0 (tested with TensorFlow Lite Micro 2.4.0 commit hash: 5bbb8a2bd1def6865b1510175a3da5fd12387e10)
96 * Added speech recognition use case example.
Richard Burton71f282e2022-12-01 12:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]97 * Updated NPU Fastmodel version to r0p2-00eac0-rc4
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +0000[diff] [blame]98
99Changes in 20.08 release:
100 * Added keyword spotting use case example.
101 * Added person detection use case example.
102Known issues:
Conor Kennedy5cf8e742023-02-13 10:50:40 +0000[diff] [blame]103 * telnet connection to FastModel environment may stop responding after some period of inactivity.
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +0000[diff] [blame]104
105Changes in 20.05 release:
106 * FastModel environment was built with FastModel Tools v11.10.22.
107 * Mps3 FPGA build support was added.
108 * Configurable timing-adaptor.
109 * Added Active and Idle cycle counts for NPU and CPU profiling report.
110 * Source code structure and build scripts refactored to support multiple ML use-cases.
Richard Burton71f282e2022-12-01 12:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]111 * Used EAC NPU software model and drivers.
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +0000[diff] [blame]112 * Windows support for build scripts.
113Known issues:
Conor Kennedy5cf8e742023-02-13 10:50:40 +0000[diff] [blame]114 * telnet connection to FastModel environment may stop responding after some period of inactivity.