Window Connection for Multi-Rate Processing - 2022.1 English

In some designs the size of the output window of a kernel can be different than the size of the input window of the next kernel. In that case, the connection declaration will contain the size of the output window and the one of the input window. For example:

connect< window<128> , window<192,32> > net0 ( kernel0.out[0] , kernel1.in[0] );

In this example, kernel0 writes 128 bytes and kernel1 expects that 192 bytes will be written to the memory, which causes an erroneous result. To prevent this, the AI Engine compiler performs an automatic multi-rate analysis. In this case, the AI Engine compiler will specify that kernel1 should run twice while kernel0 will run three times.

This automatic analysis can be disabled at compile time using the flag --disable-multirate in the aiecompiler command. In that case, you must specify the repetition count for these kernels in the graph:

repetition_count(kernel0) = 3;
repetition_count(kernel1) = 2;

Just as you can broadcast an output window to multiple input windows in the graph (automatic DMA insertion mechanism), you can also perform multi-rate processing in this specific use case:

connect< window<128> , window<64> > net0 ( kernel0.out[0] , kernel1.in[0] );
connect< window<128> , window<192> > net0 ( kernel0.out[0] , kernel2.in[0] );