Changes in 23.11 * Support for 23.11 NPU components and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.10.0, CMSIS, CMSIS-NN and TensorFlow Lite Micro). * Increase minimum requirements of Python to 3.10 * Update Python files to conform to Pylint * Adding support for Arm Cortex-M85 with GCC * Updates to documentation Changes in 23.08 * Support for 23.08 NPU components and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.9.0, CMSIS, CMSIS-NN and TensorFlow Lite Micro). * Update Python package requirements for compatibility reasons. * Increase minimum requirements of Armclang to 6.19 Changes in 23.05 * Support for 23.05 NPU components and dependencies (core-driver, core-platform, Vela 3.8.0, CMSIS, CMSIS-NN and TensorFlow Lite Micro). * Minor updates to CMSIS-pack dependencies. * Update Python package requirements for compatibility reasons. * Increase minimum requirements of Python to 3.9 Changes in 23.02 * 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). * Improvement to PMU counters - reducing cache maintenance burden for Arm Cortex-M55 CPUs when NPU is used. * Inclusive language updates. * Documentation updates including adding links to AN555 resources. * Updates to Python requirements file for virtual environment. 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 * Published CMSIS-Pack under `resources` and related updates. * Bug fix for building with NPU disabled. Changes in 22.08 * 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. * Provision to allow platform-agnostic use case API to be packaged as CMSIS pack. * Documentation updates. Changes in 22.05 * 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. * Increase minimum requirements of CMake to 3.21.0 * Documentation updates. * Various bug fixes. Changes in 22.02 * 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 * Initial restructuring of repository sources. * Documentation updates. * Various minor bug fixes. Changes in 21.11 * 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. * Updated support for Arm GNU Embedded Toolchain 10.3-2021.07 and Arm Compiler 6.17. * Documentation updates. * Changes to support AN552 design - the new Arm® Corstone™-300 implementation. Changes in 21.08 * 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 + Arm® Ethos-U65. * Various scripts improvements. * Added Visual Wake Word use case. Changes in 21.05 * Added script to download and optimize default models. * Added script to run default build flow. * Added a model for Anomaly Detection use case. * Added support for build with Arm GNU Embedded Toolchain (10.2.1). * Deprecated support for target subsystem SSE-200. Changes in 21.03 * Simple platform support added. * Model conditioning examples added. * Documentation updated. * Build changed to use sources of the dependency libraries. * Tests for native platform added. * Anomaly detection use-case added. Changes in 20.11 * SSE-200 and SSE-300 system support was added. * 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. * 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. 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 NPU Fastmodel version to r0p2-00eac0-rc4 Changes in 20.08 release: * Added keyword spotting use case example. * Added person detection use case example. Known issues: * telnet connection to FastModel environment may stop responding after some period of inactivity. Changes in 20.05 release: * FastModel environment was built with FastModel Tools v11.10.22. * Mps3 FPGA build support was added. * 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 NPU software model and drivers. * Windows support for build scripts. Known issues: * telnet connection to FastModel environment may stop responding after some period of inactivity.