Introduce SONIC core in CMSSW

[kpedro88]

PR description:

This PR introduces the core classes for SONIC as a new package in the HeterogeneousCore subsystem. This code is ported from https://github.com/hls-fpga-machine-learning/SonicCMS. Unit tests are included (based on the Acquire tests for ExternalWork in FWCore/Integration/test).

Documentation is provided in the package README, as well as in a presentation at the core software meeting.

This package will be supplemented by additional packages implementing concrete clients for different communication protocols as the needed externals become available. (A separate package for each communication protocol is foreseen in order to compartmentalize the different external dependencies.)

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[makortel]

assign heterogeneous

(until the new packages get added to categories_map.py, and I'd like to first agree on the naming)

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New categories assigned: heterogeneous

@makortel,@fwyzard you have been requested to review this Pull request/Issue and eventually sign? Thanks

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A new Pull Request was created by @kpedro88 (Kevin Pedro) for master.

It involves the following packages:

HeterogeneousCore/SonicCore

The following packages do not have a category, yet:

HeterogeneousCore/SonicCore
Please create a PR for https://github.com/cms-sw/cms-bot/blob/master/categories_map.py to assign category

@makortel, @cmsbuild, @fwyzard can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@makortel this is something you requested to watch as well.
@davidlange6, @silviodonato, @fabiocos you are the release manager for this.

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[kpedro88]

please test

[makortel]

(as I mentioned in person) I'm not super happy with the name "Sonic" because it is not very descriptive, but I don't have any better concise suggestions either, so to me it is good enough.

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Tested at: c67d250
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