Course Description

After completing this comprehensive training, you will have the necessary skills to:

• Describe how Vitis can be used to implement HLS modules
• Describe Vitis support for OpenCL design flow
• Use Vitis to migrate existing SDSoC applications
• Describe how the FPGA architecture lends itself to parallel computing
• Identity candidate functions for hardware acceleration
• Explain how the Vitis development environment helps software developers to focus on applications
• Examine the OpenCL API execution model
• Analyze the OpenCL API memory model
• Create kernels from C, C++, OpenCL, or RTL IP
• Apply host code optimization and kernel optimization techniques
• Move data efficiently between kernel and global memory
• Profile and debug OpenCL API code

Course Outline

• Introduction to the Vitis Environment and OpenCL Framework {Lecture}
• Vitis Tools Overview {Lecture, Lab}
• Makefile Flow {Lecture, Lab}
• Introduction to FPGAs {Lecture}
• Alveo Product Overview {Lecture}
• Alveo Partner Ecosystem Solutions Overview {Lecture}
• Introduction to Nimbix Cloud {Lecture}
• Vitis Execution Model & XRT {Lecture}
• Vitis Execution Model & XRT (2) {Lecture, Lab}
• Synchronization {Lecture, Lab}

Day 2

• Introduction to NDRanges {Lecture}
• Working with NDRanges {Lecture, Lab}
• Profiling {Lecture}
• Debugging {Lecture}
• C-Based Kernels {Lecture}
• C-Based Kernel Optimization {Lecture}
• Optimization Methodologies {Lecture}
• Memory Transfer Optimization Techniques {Lecture}
• Kernel Optimization Techniques {Lecture, Lab}
• xfOpenCV Libraries via Github {Lecture, Lab}
• Custom Platform {Lecture, Lab}