How to: design an accelerator in SystemC (Mentor Catapult HLS)

Tutorial guide:

Guide

What you will learn

• Implement an accelerator for Mentor Catapult HLS in SystemC
  • load, compute_dataReq, compute, store_dataReq and store extended structure of an accelerator
  • Testbench
  • Catapult HLS synthesis scripts
  • Device driver
  • User-space application
  • Validation
• Integrate a new accelerator into an ESP instance and test it on FGPA

What you will need

• Prerequisites
  • How to: setup
  • How to: design a single-core SoC
• Equipment
  • One of the supported FPGA boards (see homepage)
  • (optional) An internet router

What you can read

Agile SoC Development with Open ESP
Paolo Mantovani, Davide Giri, Giuseppe Di Guglielmo, Luca Piccolboni, Joseph Zuckerman, Emilio G. Cota, Michele Petracca, Christian Pilato, Luca P. Carloni
(Invited) IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2020

PAPER

What you can contribute

The ESP team welcomes external contributions and collaborations on a variety of topics including but not limited to:

• Accelerator designs for a wide range of application domains

• Support for more HLS tools and libraries

Check out our contributing guidelines.