Target Audience and Major Features - 2023.2 English

Target audience of L3 API are users who just want to link a shared library and call the API to accelerate part of execution plan on FPGA cards.

The major feature of L3 API are:

1. Generalized execution. L3 API pre-defined operator combinations like gunzip_csv, its flow is “decompress + csv parser + filter + format output”. More generalized execution will be provided in the future.
2. Automatic card management. As soon as program created a instance, it will scan the machine and find all qualified Xilinx FPGA cards by their shell name. It will load the cards with the xclbins, management buffers and schedule tasks.
3. Parallel Accelerate. Reasonably schedule Send Thread, Kernel Run and Receive Thread, and improve End-to-End performance.