Intel® High Level Synthesis Accelerator Functional Unit Design Example User Guide

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1. About the HLS AFU Design Example 2. Building the HLS AFU Design Example 3. Customizing the HLS AFU 4. HLS AFU Design Example Description 5. Troubleshooting HLS AFU Designs 6. Document Revision History for the HLS AFU Design Example User Guide
1. About the HLS AFU Design Example x
1.1. HLS AFU Design Example Files 1.2. Acronyms in the HLS AFU Design Example User Guide
2. Building the HLS AFU Design Example x
2.1. HLS AFU Design Example Software Requirements 2.2. Compiling and Simulating the HLS Component with the i++ Command 2.3. Generating a Platform Designer Container for the HLS Component 2.4. Generating the ASE Testbench 2.5. Running the ASE Testbench 2.6. Compiling the AF Bitstream 2.7. Loading AF Bitstream and Running the Host Application
3. Customizing the HLS AFU x
3.1. Acceleration Stack Configuration Files
4. HLS AFU Design Example Description x
4.1. AFU Description 4.2. Host Application Description
4.1. AFU Description x
4.1.1. HLS AFU Container
4.1.1. HLS AFU Container x
4.1.1.1. HLS AFU Avalon-MM I/O Slave Interface 4.1.1.2. HLS AFU Avalon-MM Master Interfaces
5. Troubleshooting HLS AFU Designs x
5.1. Platform Designer Opens with an Error 5.2. The design unit was not found Error When Running the make sim Command 5.3. Verilog HDL Compilation Errors 5.4. Compilation Errors During ASE Testbench Generation 5.5. Incorrect Output During Simulation 5.6. AF Bitstream Compilation Fails 5.7. Verilog Files Not Found Errors
1. About the HLS AFU Design Example
2. Building the HLS AFU Design Example
3. Customizing the HLS AFU
4. HLS AFU Design Example Description
5. Troubleshooting HLS AFU Designs
6. Document Revision History for the HLS AFU Design Example User Guide

2.7. Loading AF Bitstream and Running the Host Application

To run the bitstream, ensure that your host system contains an Intel® FPGA PAC and that you have Acceleration Stack (including OPAE) installed and configured. For details, see Intel Acceleration Stack Quick Start Guide for Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA.
  1. Start a terminal session and navigate to the root of the project (the hls_afu directory).
  2. Configure your system to use appropriately sized hugepages: 
    $ sudo sh -c "echo 20 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages"
  3. Load the AF into the FPGA: 
    $ sudo fpgaconf hls_afu.gbs
  4. Navigate to the hls_afu/sw directory.
  5. Build and run the host application (do not specify USE_ASE=1). 
    $ make
$ sudo ./hls_afu_host
The expected output is: 
Using Avalon Slave at offset 0x40
No vector size specified. Default to size 64 floats! run ./hls_afu_host <vectorsize> to specify a vector size at runtime.
Using test vector of size 64.
Running Test
AFU DFH REG = 1000010000000000
AFU ID LO = 944028430b016f3d
AFU ID HI = 5fa7fd4b867c484c
AFU NEXT = 00000000
AFU RESERVED = 00000000
end of output memory before executing kernel:
    [62] - -6259853398707798016.000000 (0xdeadbeef)
    [63] - -6259853398707798016.000000 (0xdeadbeef)
    [64] - -6259853398707798016.000000 (0xdeadbeef)
    [65] - 0.000000 (0x0)
Interrupt enabled = 00000000
Interrupt enabled = 00000001
AFU Latency: 0.01600 milliseconds
Poll success. Return = 1
check output memory:
output memory OK!
sum: Expected 715.000000, calculated 715.000000.

The FPGA writes a full 512-bit word (64 bytes) to host memory, so if the size 
of your test vector (in bytes) is not a multiple of 64, the FPGA will 
overwrite some space at the end of output memory. fpgaPrepareBuffer() 
allocates your host memory in a buffer that is a multiple of 64 bytes, so the 
FPGA behavior will not affect your application. You should expect to see a 
single 0xdeadbeef at the end of the output memory if and only if the size of 
your test vector (determined by vector_size, and the datatype) is a multiple 
of 64 bytes (that is, if vector_size is a multiple of 16). 

end of output memory after executing kernel:
    [62] - 22.333334 (0x41b2aaab)
    [63] - 22.666666 (0x41b55555)
    [64] - -6259853398707798016.000000 (0xdeadbeef)
    [65] - 0.000000 (0x0)
Vector size is 64 (256 bytes), so expect memory output at [64] = 0xdeadbeef
Finished Running Test.
Test PASSED
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