Setting Up Kernels - 2023.2 English

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

Document ID
UG1393
Release Date
2023-12-13
Version
2023.2 English

After setting up the runtime environment, such as identifying devices, creating the context, command queue, and program, the host application should identify the kernels that will execute on the device, and set up the kernel arguments.

The OpenCL API clCreateKernel should be used to access the kernels contained within the .xclbin file (the "program"). The cl_kernel object identifies a kernel in the program loaded into the FPGA that can be run by the host application. The following code example identifies two kernels defined in the loaded program.

kernel1 = clCreateKernel(program, "<kernel_name_1>", &err);            
kernel2 = clCreateKernel(program, "<kernel_name_2>", &err);  // etc