FIFO Depth Evaluation - 2023.2 English

When the system is deadlocked, the aiecompiler provides a way to evaluate the FIFO depth that you should add to your design to avoid these locks.

The tool computes these FIFO lengths from an AI Engine simulation for you. You can compile your graph with aiecompiler using the --evaluate-fifo-depth flag.

After the code is compiled and the simulation is run, the simulation run summary can be viewed in the Vitis IDE. Additional FIFO depth columns are displayed in the Nets table.

Figure 1. Nets Table With the FIFO Depth

Table 1. FIFO Depth Columns

Column Name	Description
Estimated FIFO (Words)	FIFO depth that is recommended to be used in the graph to resolve the deadlock situation.
Peak FIFO (Words)	Maximum FIFO depth that is used to resolve the deadline situation. This is then used to compute the estimated FIFO.

fifo_depth(net) = value;