[OPAE] Open Programmable Acceleration Engine 0.13.0 released

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Hi .*,

we are excited to announce the next release of the Open Programmable Accele=
ration Engine (OPAE) today.

Please find the full text of the 0.13.0 release notes as well as links to t=
he source code and a list of changes at:

       https://github.com/OPAE/opae-sdk/releases/tag/0.13.0

The Open Programmable Acceleration Engine is a software framework for manag=
ing and accessing programmable accelerators (FPGAs). Its main parts are:

      * The OPAE Software Development Kit (OPAE SDK),
      * the OPAE Linux driver for Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU with FPGAs, and
      * the Basic Building Block (BBB) library for accelerating AFU develop=
ment (not part of this release, but pre-release code is available on GitHub=
: https://github.com/OPAE/intel-fpga-bbb

OPAE is under active development to extend to more hardware platforms, as w=
ell as to build up the software stack with additional abstractions to enabl=
e more software developers.

The OPAE SDK is a collection of libraries and tools to facilitate the devel=
opment of software applications and accelerators using OPAE. It provides a =
library implementing the OPAE C API for presenting a streamlined and easy-t=
o-use interface for software applications to discover, access, and manage F=
PGA devices and accelerators using the OPAE software stack. The OPAE SDK al=
so includes the AFU Simulation Environment (ASE) for end-to-end simulation =
of accelerator RTL together with software applications using the OPAE C API.

OPAE's goal is to accelerate FPGA adoption. It is a community effort to sim=
plify the development and deployment of FPGA applications, so we explicitly=
 welcome discussions and contributions! The OPAE SDK source, unless otherwi=
se noted, is released under a BSD 3-clause license.

More information about OPAE can be found at:

       http://01.org/OPAE

Please do not hesitate to ask questions about the release or OPAE in genera=
l, either on this mailing list or at https://github.com/OPAE.

Thank you
- Enno Luebbers



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