Vector Input - Vector Input - 2023.1 English

Vitis Libraries
Release Date
2023-12-20
Version
2023.1 English

The design of the primitive includes 3 modules:

  1. read: Read data from the input stream then output data by one stream whose width is lcm(Win, N * Wout) bits. Here, the least common multiple of Win and N * Wout is the inner buffer size in order to solve the different input width and output width.
  2. reduce: split the large width to a array of N elements of Wout bits.
  3. distribute: Read the array of elements, and distibute them to output streams which are not full yet.
design details of n streams to one distribution on load balance

Attention

Current implementation has the following limitations:

  • It uses a wide ap_uint as internal buffer. The buffer is as wide as the least common multiple (LCM) of input width and total output width. The width is limited by AP_INT_MAX_W, which defaults to 1024.
  • This library will try to override AP_INT_MAX_W to 4096, but user should ensure that ap_int.h has not be included before the library headers.
  • Too large AP_INT_MAX_W will significantly slow down HLS synthesis.

Important

The depth of output streams must be no less than 4 due to internal delay.