Description
This directive collects the data fields of a struct into a single wide
scalar. Any arrays declared within the struct and Vitis HLS performs a
similar operation as
syn.directive.array_reshape,
and completely partitions and reshapes the array into a wide scalar and packs it
with other elements of the struct.Tip: Arrays of structs are restructured as arrays of
aggregated elements. The optimization does not support structs that contain
other structs.
The bit alignment of the resulting new wide-word can be inferred from the declaration order of the struct elements. The first element takes the least significant sector of the word and so forth until all fields are mapped.
Syntax
syn.directive.aggregate=[OPTIONS] <location> <variable>-
<location>is the location (in the formatfunction[/label]) which contains the variable which will be packed. -
<variable>is the struct variable to be packed.
Options
-
compact=[bit | byte | none | auto] - Specifies the alignment of the aggregated struct. Alignment can be on the bit-level (packed), the byte-level (padded), none, or automatically determined by the tool which is the default behavior.
Examples
The following example aggregates the variable AB which is a struct pointer containing three 8-bit fields (typedef struct {unsigned char R, G, B;}pixel) in
function func, into a new 24-bit pointer, aligning
data at the bit-level.
syn.directive.aggregate=func AB compact=bit