Specifying the Device ID and Loading the XCLBIN - 2024.1 English

To use the Xilinx Runtime (XRT) environment properly, the software application needs to identify the accelerator card, or target platform, and the device ID that the kernel will run on. Then it needs to load the device binary (.xclbin) into the device to program the PL kernels.

#include <xrt/xrt_device.h>
#include <experimental/xrt_xclbin.h>

The following code snippet creates a device object by specifying the device ID from the target platform, and then loads the .xclbin into the device, returning the UUID for the program.

//Setup the Environment
unsigned int device_index = 0;
std::string binaryFile = parser.value("kernel.xclbin");
std::cout << "Open the device" << device_index << std::endl;
auto device = xrt::device(device_index);
std::cout << "Load the xclbin " << binaryFile << std::endl;
auto uuid = device.load_xclbin(binaryFile);