Documentation:

Heracles 3.0 will support RISC-V cores.

Refer to the Heracles 2.0 paper for detailed functionality and usability (pdf).

Heracles Designer GUI for quick system configurations is now available under Downloads, here is the USER'S MANUAL (pdf).

IAP 2012 class website 6.S918.

HPCA 2011 HAsim paper using Heracles (pdf).

FPL 2011 Heracles paper (pdf).

If you use Heracles in your research, we would appreciate the following citation in any publications to which it has contributed:

Michel A. Kinsy, Michael Pellauer, and Srinivas Devadas: "Heracles: A Tool for Fast RTL-Based Design Space Exploration of Multicore Processors." In Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), February 2013 [bib]