The vector_executive example will eventually evolve into the Vector Executive, which is the bare-metal program running on the vector core that executes models.
Currently the vector_executive example shows an example of a vector multiply, add, and a test to ensure correctness.
m shodan_test_sw_vector_executive
qemu-system-riscv32 -s -nographic -cpu rv32,x-v=true,vlen=256,vext_spec=v1.0 -M opentitan -kernel out/shodan/build-out/sw_shodan/device/examples/vector_executive/vector_executive_sim_verilator.elf -bios out/shodan/build-bin/sw/device/boot_rom/boot_rom_fpga_nexysvideo.elf