Third-Party Notices

Unless otherwise noted, original TALOS-V2 source code, RTL, scripts, configuration, and documentation are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. The following files and directories include third-party material, generated artifacts, or tool/vendor generated outputs that may be subject to separate terms.

Intel / Altera FPGA IP and Generated Files

The rtl/ip/jtag_microgpt_bridge/ directory contains Intel/Altera Platform Designer/Qsys IP outputs and related generated files. Several files in this directory carry Intel Corporation or Altera Corporation copyright notices and state that use is subject to Intel FPGA tool and IP license agreements.

These files are not relicensed by TALOS-V2. Preserve their notices and comply with the applicable Intel FPGA/Quartus license terms.

The following project/report files are also generated by or for Intel Quartus Prime flows and may contain Intel notices or tool-output restrictions:

rtl/de1_soc_microgpt_rtl.pin
rtl/de1_soc_microgpt_rtl.qpf
rtl/de1_soc_microgpt_rtl.qsf
rtl/de1_soc_microgpt_rtl.sdc
rtl/c5_pin_model_dump.txt
rtl/docs/c5_pin_model_dump.txt

Andrej Karpathy microGPT Reference Material

This project implements an FPGA RTL inference path inspired by Andrej Karpathy's microGPT work and includes reference material for comparison and documentation.

Known related paths:

rtl/microgpt/microgpt.py
rtl/docs/description.md
rtl/docs/microgpt.txt
rtl/python/karpathy_exact_reference.py
rtl/python/reference_equivalence.py
rtl/python/test_reference_equivalence.py

The copied reference article/text and the original microGPT-style Python source are attributed to Andrej Karpathy. They are included for reference and validation context and are not relicensed by TALOS-V2 unless their upstream license explicitly permits that use.

makemore Names Dataset

The microGPT reference code downloads or uses the names dataset from Andrej Karpathy's makemore project. The repository-local dataset and trained weights are related to that reference workflow:

rtl/microgpt/names.txt
rtl/microgpt/weights_only.npy
rtl/microgpt/model_weights_init.npy
rtl/microgpt/model_weights_init_flat.npy
rtl/generated/*.hex

Treat these data and generated model artifacts as separate from the original TALOS-V2 implementation license unless you have verified the upstream dataset and model-artifact permissions for your intended use.