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+[1.0.0] - 2019-10-11
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+This repository used to be "project-template", a template for Chisel-based project. Through tighter integration of multiple projects from the Berkeley Architecture Research group at UC Berkeley, this repository is re-released as Chipyard - a framework for agile hardware development of RISC-V based systems-on-chip.