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 ## Applications
 These applications are used to give an estimation of the computation performance of the CVA6 architecture.
 
+The Coremark score will be used to rank teams. All applications must run correctly to validate your results in the contest.
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 These software applications are compiled in baremetal using the **BSP (Board Support Package)** in the bsp directory.
 
 - **Coremark** : Complete  benchmark for testing the computing power of a processor. It generates a score called Coremark.
@@ -42,3 +44,5 @@ The **BSP** is a low-level software package that supports the hardware platform.
 - **Drivers**: it contains all peripheral driver. For now, there is only the UART driver.
 - **Hal**: Hardware Abstract Layer contains the runtime system interrupt vectors, system calls.
 
+As of Oct. 12<sup>th</sup>, 2020, applications and the BSP have been tested on a ZCU102 board, but not yet on the Z7-20 board.
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