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AI Engine Application Development

To get started with AI Engine application development, we recommend that you look at the following tutorials:

• DSP Library Tutorial which will guide you to create an AI Engine using application using the AMD provided DSP library

• AIE DSPLib and Model Composer which will also guide you to create an AI Engine using application using the AMD provided DSP library but using the ModelComposer tool which enables easy designs through a MATLAB Simulink environment.

• Using GMIO with AIE which goes through using the GMIOs for connectivity between the AI Engine and the DDR (through the NoC)

• Implementing an IIR Filter on the AIE will guide you into custom kernel coding using a IIR application

The following tutorials describe some features of the AI Engine, which might be useful for your application:

• Runtime Parameter Reconfiguration

• Packet Switching

• Using Floating-Point in the AIE

AI Engine Application Debug and Optimization

After you have written your first AI Engine application you might want to verify the correct functionality of your graphs and kernels using x86 simulation and AI Engine simulation. In this regards, the following tutorials will be useful for you:

• Debug Walkthrough Tutorial will guide you to analyze the performance of your AI Engine application and help you with debugging functional issues.

• AIE Performance and Deadlock Analysis which introduces you to performance analysis and optimization methods, and shows you how synchronization works in graph execution.

• Python and C++ External Traffic Generators for AI Engine Simulation and Emulation Flows: This tutorial demonstrates how to create external traffic generators as Python scripts or C++ applications to exercise the AI Engine kernels in the x86 simulator, AI Engine simulator, and in hardware emulation.

System Integration

When your AI Engine Application meets your expectation (in terms of functionality and performances), it will be the right time to integrate it with the rest of the Versal System. At this stage, the following tutorials will be useful for you:

• AIE Versal Integration demonstrates creating a system design running on the AI Engine, PS, and Programmable Logic (PL).

• Versal System Design Clocking teaches clocking concepts for the Vitis compiler and how to define clocking for an ADF Graph, as well as PL kernels using clocking automation functionality.

• Versal Emulation Waveform Analysis demonstrates how you can use the AMD Vivado Design Suite logic simulator (XSIM) waveform GUI, and the Vitis analyzer to debug and analyze your design.