Vitis DSP Library - 2025.1 English

Vitis Libraries

Release Date
2025-06-04
Version
2025.1 English

The AMD Vitis™ digital signal processing library (DSPLib) provides an implementation of different L1/L2/L3 elements for digital signal processing.

The DSPLib contains:

PL DSP Library

The AMD Vitis Programmable Logic (PL) DSP library consists of an implementation of a Discrete Fourier Transform using a fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm for acceleration on AMD Adaptive Engineering FPGAs. The library is planned to provide three types of implementations, namely L1 PL primitives, L2 PL kernels, and L3 software APIs. Those implementations are organized in hardware (hw) sub-directories of the corresponding L1, L2, and L3.

The L1 PL primitives can be leveraged by developers working on hardware design implementation or designing hardware kernels for acceleration. They are particularly suitable for hardware designers. The L2 PL kernels are HLS-based predesigned kernels that can be directly used for FPGA acceleration of different applications on integration with XRT. The L3 provides software APIs in C, C++, and Python which allow software developers to offload FFT calculation to FPGAs for acceleration. Before an FPGA can perform the FFT computation, the FPGA needs to be configured with a particular image called an overlay.

The Vitis PL DSP Library provides a fully synthesizable PL based Super Sample data Rate (SSR) FFT, as well as a 2-Dimensional FFT version. For detailed documentation, refer to 1-Dimensional(Line) SSR FFT L1 FPGA Module and 2-Dimensional(Matrix) SSR FFT L1 FPGA Module.

AI Engine DSP Library

The AMD Vitis AI Engine DSP library consists of designs of various DSP algorithms, optimized to take full advantage of the processing power of AMD Versal™ Adaptive SoC devices, which contain an array of AI Engines high-performance vector processors.

The library is organized into three parts:

  • L1 AI Engine kernels
  • L2 AI Engine graphs and VSS Makefiles
  • L3 software APIs

Currently, there are no L3 software APIs. The recommended entry point for all library elements is an L2 graph for designs that include only AI Engines and a vss Makefile for designs including both AI Engine and PL components.

For more information, refer to Introduction for AIE DSP library.

The Vitis AIE DSP Library includes a Fast Fourier transform (FFT), Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters, Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS), General Matrix Multiply (GeMM) implementation, as well as many others. For a full list of available DSP functions, refer to DSP Library Functions.

Introduction

L2 AIE DSP Library User Guide