Reference Design
A Reference Design (RD) is a collection of resources to provide a representative view of typical compute subsystems that can be designed and implemented using specific generations of Arm IP.
Specifically, Neoverse reference designs provide resources with best practices on how to integrate a Neoverse compute subsystem within a larger SoC. These compute subsystems are targeted at addressing requirements for applications in the cloud-to-edge infrastructure markets.
Neoverse products are categorized as follows:
Neoverse V-Series: Maximum Performance
Neoverse N-Series: Scale Out Performance
Neoverse E-Series: Efficient Throughput
Refer to Arm Neoverse to learn more about the intendend use cases for this products.
The Neoverse reference designs are also available as fixed virtual platform models and when used with a software stack, they provide a way to explore the features available in the reference design compute subsystem through software.
We provide a companion software stack for each of the Neoverse reference designs and the source code can be found in Arm’s Gitlab repository, located at https://gitlab.arm.com/infra-solutions/reference-design
This documentation lists the available reference designs, the features each support and how to interact with them.
Note
A reference design is also referred to as platform.
Table below provides the user an overview of Neoverse reference designs, and their current status.
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Active |
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Active |
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Active |
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Maintenance |
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Maintenance |
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Maintenance |
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Maintenance |
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Maintenance |
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Legacy |
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Legacy |
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Legacy |
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Legacy |
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Legacy |
Visit the Getting Started chapter to learn how to setup an host machine to download, compile and execute a platform feature (i.e.: boot an OS), on a fixed virtual platform.
For questions about the Neoverse Reference Design platform software stack, write to support@arm.com.