Const - 2023.2 English

Vitis High-Level Synthesis User Guide (UG1399)

Document ID
UG1399
Release Date
2023-12-18
Version
2023.2 English

A const type specifies that the value of the variable is never updated. The variable is read but never written to and therefore must be initialized. For most const variables, this typically means that they are reduced to constants in the RTL design. Vitis HLS performs constant propagation and removes any unnecessary hardware).

In the case of arrays, the const variable is implemented as a ROM in the final RTL design (in the absence of any auto-partitioning performed by Vitis HLS on small arrays). Arrays specified with the const qualifier are (like statics) initialized in the RTL and in the FPGA bitstream. There is no need to reset them, because they are never written to.