Frameworks

This page cover other software and frameworks that may be useful to generate or to deploy your designs. If you would like to contribute your framework to this page, please follow the contribution guidelines

PYNQ

PYNQ is an open-source project from AMD that makes it easier to use Adaptive Computing platforms. Using the Python language and libraries, designers can exploit the benefits of programmable logic and to build more capable and exciting electronic systems. PYNQ can be used with Zynq, Zynq UltraScale+, Zynq RFSoC, Alveo accelerator cards and AWS-F1 to create high performance applications. PYNQ is available by default on the ETH HACC. Find out more in the pynq.io page

Machine Learning

FINN

Fast, Scalable Quantized Neural Network Inference on FPGAs. Explore deep neural network inference on FPGAs. It specifically targets quantized neural networks, with emphasis on generating dataflow-style architectures customized for each network. Find out more in the finn repository

Networking

ACCL

ACCL: Alveo Collective Communication Library. ACCL is a Vitis kernel and associated XRT drivers which together provide MPI-like collectives for Xilinx FPGAs. ACCL is designed to enable compute kernels resident in FPGA fabric to communicate directly under host supervision but without requiring data movement between the FPGA and host. Find out more in the ACCL repository

Aurora HLS

Aurora HLS is a ready-to-link implementation of 100 Gbps point-to-point network channels based on the AMD Aurora 64B/66B IP core. It can easily be integrated into HLS designs and provides features such as CRC error detection and flow control. Find out more in the Aurora HLS repository

EasyNet

This framework is ideal to scale out your application without CPU intervention, full TCP/IP support in the Alveo card. ETH Zurich provides example designs with TCP/IP support at 100 Gbps in Vitis. Find out more in the Vitis 100Gbps TCP/IP repository

OpenNIC

The OpenNIC project provides an FPGA-based NIC platform for the open source community. It consists of multiple components: a NIC shell, a Linux kernel driver, and a DPDK driver. The NIC shell contains the RTL sources and design files for targetting several of the AMD-Xilinx Alveo boards featuring UltraScale+ FPGAs. Find out more in the OpenNIC repository

VNx

This framework is ideal to scale out your application without CPU intervention. Note that UDP is lightweight but no reliable. AUP provides example designs with UDP support at 100 Gbps in Vitis, this repository is also tightly coupled with the PYNQ project and provides support for distributed Alveo configuration on top of Dask. Find out more in the VNx repository

Programming Frameworks

AutoBridge

Floorplanning and pipelining tool for Vivado HLS dataflow designs. AutoBridge repository

AutoSA

Polyhedral-Based Systolic Array Auto-Compilation. AutoSA repository

TAPA

A floorplan-integrated extension to high-level synthesis (HLS) C++ for task-parallel programs. TAPA repository

RapidStream

Parallel Physical Implementation of FPGA HLS Designs. RapidStream repository

Vivado-hls-broadcast-optimization

Analysis and Optimization of the Implicit Broadcasts in FPGA HLS to Improve Maximum Frequency. Vivado-hls-broadcast-optimization repository

Soda Compiler

Stencil with Optimized Dataflow Architecture Compiler. Soda Compiler repository

SPLAG

Accelerating SSSP for power-law graphs using an FPGA. SPLAG respository

AutoDSE

Enabling Software Programmers to Design Efficient FPGA Accelerators. AutoDSE repository

spMM

An FPGA accelerator for general-purpose Sparse-Matrix Dense-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM). SpMM repository

Coyote

Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Architecture Framework aiming to provide operating system abstractions. Coyote repository

DaCe

Data-Centric Parallel Programming compiles code in various programming languages and paradigms (Python/Numpy, MATLAB, TensorFlow) and maps it efficiently to CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs with high utilization, on par with the state-of-the-art. Find out more in the DaCe repository

Fletcher

Allows easy kernel development and integration with various popular Big Data analytics frameworks based on Apache Arrow. Fletcher will generate all the interfaces and provide the kernel designer with simple and easy to understand interface corresponding to the data types of their application. This raises the abstraction to records and tables instead of buffers and bytes. Fletcher has platform support for Alveo

Fortran-HLS

A tool that enables Fortran in the AMD Vitis ecosystem by adapting the LLVM IR to be compliant with the requirements of the Vitis backend. It adds support to the HLS constructs in Fortran. Legacy Fortran codes can now be run on FPGA and optimised directly in the native language without the costly manual conversion to C++. Fortran-HLS repository

hlslib

A collection of extensions for Vitis to improve developer quality of life, including CMake integration, better vectorization support, support for simulating dataflow kernels with feedback dependencies. hlslib repository

ThunderGP

HLS-based Graph Processing Framework on FPGAs. ThunderGP repository

ScaleHLS

ScaleHLS is a next-generation HLS compilation flow, on top of a multi-level compiler infrastructure called MLIR. ScaleHLS repository

PyLog

An Algorithm-Centric FPGA Programming and Synthesis Flow. PyLog repository

Scheduling & Distributed

InAccel

Fully integrated framework that allows to speedup your C/C++, Python, Java and Scala applications with zero code changes. InAccel Coral is a framework that allows the distributed acceleration of large data sets across clusters of FPGA resources using simple programming models. The InAccel framework is available by default on the ETH HACC. Find out more InAccel.

Universities can also access to InAccel technology InAccel University

OctoRay

OctoRay is a Python framework which allows the user to easily scale up any FPGA application to multiple FPGAs using Dask. It supports at the moment all FPGA boards that are supported by PYNQ, so all PYNQ boards and Alveo cards. OctoRay repository