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== Detailed Developer notes ==
== Detailed Developer notes ==


This article is an overview of Bennett and it's technical details. For the latest developer documentation, please see [https://gitlab.cs.man.ac.uk/cadtools/bennett/-/blob/master/README.md?ref_type=heads https://gitlab.cs.man.ac.uk/cadtools/bennett/-/blob/master/README.md]
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?ref_type=heads https://gitlab.cs.man.ac.uk/cadtools/bennett/-/blob/master/README.md]


== Development ==
== Development ==

Revision as of 13:15, 11 September 2025

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.

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.