Establish Overall Acceleration Goals - 2020.2 English

Vitis Unified Software Platform Documentation: Application Acceleration Development (UG1393)

Document ID
UG1393
Release Date
2021-03-22
Version
2020.2 English

Determining acceleration goals early in the development is necessary because the ratio between the acceleration goal and the baseline performance will drive the analysis and decision-making process.

Acceleration goals can be hard or soft. For example, a real-time video application could have the hard requirement to process 60 frames per second. A data science application could have the soft goal to run 10 times faster than an alternative implementation.

Either way, domain expertise is important for setting obtainable and meaningful acceleration goals.