Bennett/Technical Documentation
Overview
Bennett is a hardware monitor application developed in house at the University of Manchester Computer Science department. It's used in several undergraduate course units investigating hardware design and microcontrollers. It acts as a ‘front-end’ both for simulated (COMP15111) and physical (COMP22712, COMP32211 …) RISC-V systems.
Bennett has been written in primarily C/C++ and uses the CMake build system.
Detailed Developer notes
This article is an overview of Bennett and its technical details. For the latest developer documentation, please see https://gitlab.cs.man.ac.uk/cadtools/bennett/-/blob/master/README.md
Development
The source code for Bennett is available from https://gitlab.cs.man.ac.uk/cadtools/bennett
Releases
Latest releases of Bennett are available at https://gitlab.cs.man.ac.uk/cadtools/bennett/-/releases
CI/CD Pipeline
Bennett uses a CI/CD pipeline to run automated tests, and automatically deploy the latest version.
New versions of Bennett are automatically built and deployed to the cadtools server.
/cadtools5/bennett/version/<GIT_TAG>
Debian packages are available at
/cadtools5/bennett/version/<GIT_TAG>
The pipeline additional collates required documentation and builds an output document.