Last Updated: 26 November 2020

ARM EDUCATION

EDUCATION KIT END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT

1. These terms are displayed for you to read prior to use of the particular education kit and any related documentation and materials (“Materials”) made available to you by Arm Limited (“Arm”). If you choose not to agree with these terms, do not use or access the Materials.

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3. You acknowledge that the Materials are specifically designed and licensed only for non-commercial, educational purposes.

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5. LICENCE. Subject to your compliance with this Agreement and unless otherwise specified in Clause 13, Arm hereby grants to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free, licence under its copyright subsisting in the Materials to use, copy and modify the Materials (and if and only if you are a current member of an educational institution, make the Materials available to others within your academic institution) upon the terms of this Agreement, solely for non-commercial educational purposes. For the purposes of these terms, “educational purposes” means internal use in taught classes and related projects at educational institutions delivering accredited degrees and diplomas, but “educational purposes” excludes research that is intended to be published or otherwise made available to third parties or the public (including, without limitation, PhD research).

Unless otherwise specified in Clause 13: (a) you may refer to and cite the Materials in publications provided that you give a full citation referencing Arm as the author and owner of the Materials; (b) you may not use the Materials for any commercial purpose; (c) you may not remove any proprietary notice(s) contained in the Materials; and (d) you may not use the Materials to design to manufacture Arm-based processors. You may not use the Materials for any unlawful purpose, you may not (except as far as permitted by applicable law) reverse engineer or decompile the Materials, and you may not use the Materials in any way that may damage Arm’s reputation or bring Arm into disrepute. The licence granted by Arm pursuant to this Clause 5 is effective until terminated. Without prejudice to any other rights, Arm may terminate this Agreement and your right to use the Materials if you are in material breach of any of these terms or if you do anything that infringes Arm’s intellectual property rights. Termination will be effective immediately on the service of Arm’s notice of termination to you. In the event of termination, you shall destroy all copies of the Materials, including all portions and derivatives of them, and cease all use of the Materials immediately. Clauses impliedly or expressly intended to survive termination shall continue in full force and effect.

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11. UPDATES. Arm may update this Agreement from time to time. Updates will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. If you do not agree with an update, you should cease use of the Materials.

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13. SPECIAL CONDITIONS. The provisions of this Clause 13 shall take precedence in the event of any conflict with the remainder of this Agreement.

(i) Use of the pedagogical processor model provided with the Introduction to Computer Architecture Education Kit (the "Arm Education Core") is subject to the following special conditions:

(a) you may only refer to or publish the Arm Education Core, or any modifications you make to the Arm Education Core or any results you obtain from its use, in whole or in part if you have first obtained Arm's specific prior written consent by emailing us at the address specified in Clause 12 above;

(b) you may use the Arm Education Core to synthesize and implement an SoC on FPGA or for an ASIC implementation of the SoC for non-commercial educational purposes (as defined in Clause 5 above);

(c) you may not make any claims about the Arm Education Core's functionality or otherwise other than those published by Arm. The Arm Education Core is not representative of any commercially available Arm processors and you may not make any statements that indicate or imply the contrary.