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Version: Vitis 2022.2
AI Engine application development can start early in the system development stage. Little by little, the AI Engine development team and the hardware development team converge to an interface between the Adaptable Engine and the AI Engine array. At some point, this interface is fixed and should not be changed. This tutorial shows you how to modify an AI Engine application after the platform has been frozen while avoiding a complete Vivado® tool run, which can take a long time if timing closure requires specific attention.
There are two ways to perform this operation:
- Recompile the AI Engine application right after the link stage, using specific constraints to set the interface ports.
- Use the output
.xsa
file as a platform which embeds these constraints.
In the first case, you have to extract the constraints from the files generated by the AI Engine compiler and use them as input constraints when you run it for the second time.
In the second case, you use the .xsa
file generated during the link stage as the target platform which contains already the constraints on the AI Engine array interface specification. This tutorial explains the complete flow for these two cases.
This tutorial details all the steps to perform hardware emulation (hw_emu
), but it supports also the hardware implementation flow by changing the compilation target.
IMPORTANT: First, set up the Vitis™ unified software platform and install the VCK190 base platform. Follow the instructions in the Vitis Software Platform Release Notes (v2022.2).
Before you begin this tutorial, run the following steps:
- Set up your platform by running the
xilinx-versal-common-v2022.2/environment-setup-cortexa72-cortexa53-xilinx-linux
script as provided in the platform download. This script sets up theSDKTARGETSYSROOT
andCXX
variables. If the script is not present, you must runxilinx-versal-common-v2022.2/sdk.sh
. - Set up your ROOTFS to point to
xilinx-versal-common-v2022.2/rootfs.ext4
. - Set up your IMAGE to point to
xilinx-versal-common-v2022.2/Image
. - Set up your
PLATFORM_REPO_PATHS
environment variable based on where you downloaded the platform.
The sub-directory Files
contains all the source files necessary for this tutorial.
This tutorial contains the following labs:
Each lab is divided into the following phases:
- Creating an AI Engine application using the VCK190 platform with all necessary PL kernels added, and linking the complete system.
- Creating a new AI Engine application with interface location constraints (Lab 1) or with the previously created fixed platform (Labs 2), adding a PS application, and running hardware emulation.
This tutorial shows you how to modify an AI Engine application after the platform has been frozen. It demonstrates a Vitis Makefile flow.
Completing this tutorial should give you confidence to develop AI Engine designs based on a hardware/software platform, knowing that you can modify the AI Engine part and the processing system control application. The only limitation is that the hardware connection between the AI Engine array and the programmable logic (PL) must be kept fixed.
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