Target Configuration Arm Virtual Hardware

Supported Platforms

The MLEK templates support multiple virtual Arm Cortex-M platforms with Ethos-U NPU acceleration:

Platform	Processor	NPU Options	Reference Application Support
Corstone-300	Cortex-M55	Ethos-U55, Ethos-U65, No NPU	All
Corstone-310	Cortex-M85	Ethos-U55, Ethos-U65, No NPU	All
Corstone-315	Cortex-M85	Ethos-U65	All
Corstone-320	Cortex-M85	Ethos-U85	All

These targets are preconfigured in the solution and allow to run the applications without hardware.

Using VS Code

Open the Manage Solution dialog from the CMSIS Solution Extension window (see user guide for details).

You can select an arbitrary FVP platform. Refer to the the above table, to find out which Cortex-M CPU core and which Ethos-U NPU will be simulated.

Select the Build Types *-Data_Array to create an application image that includes test data for the model.

A run configuration will automatically be created, so you can start the model and the application in the internal VSCode terminal, with the Run feature.