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 This code was previously hosted in the [Snitch monorepo](https://github.com/pulp-platform/snitch) and was spun off into its own repository to simplify maintenance and dependency handling. Note that our Snitch-based manycore system [Occamy](https://github.com/pulp-platform/occamy) has also moved.
 
-## Tool Requirements
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-* `verilator >= v4.1`
-* `bender >= v0.27.0`
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 ## License
 
 Snitch is being made available under permissive open source licenses.