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...It targets the RV64GC (i.e. 64-bit with general + compressed + floating point) instruction set and supports features such as virtual memory, caches, atomics, and IEEE-754 floating point. The design is parameterizable, meaning users can tune pipeline widths, buffer sizes, functional units, and other microarchitectural knobs to explore tradeoffs. It is capable of booting Linux and running standard benchmarks, and its performance (measured in CoreMarks/MHz) is competitive with commercial cores. The project is intended primarily for hardware/architecture research and teaching, rather than production silicon, and typically is used in conjunction with SoC frameworks (for example via Chipyard) to integrate BOOM into larger systems.

With the help of the ProgramNet the user can develop plug-ins(called units) which can be connected with other units forming a net. The net has a form of a flow diagram. The resulted net can be executed in the ProgramNet for testing purposes or independently in the target platform as a final release. In order to execute a net the ProgramNet uses the kernel. The kernel executes automatically each unit in a separate thread and manages the data exchange between the units.