HLS Analysis Tools

This project aims to analyse synthesisable HLS code by extracting relevant information from loops (e.g nesting level, tripcount), array declarations (e.g dimensions, size of each dimension) and total operations (LLVM operations during execution of a given top-level function). Analysis is performed by using various components from the LLVM toolchain, such as clang/clang++ to compile to LLVM IR, opt to extract information from LLVM IR and libclang to locate points of interest in a given source code.

Installation

Setting up the environment is easy through docker

docker build -t hls_analysis_tools .

This will setup the necessary build tools, libraries and compile LLVM from source inside an Ubuntu docker image.

Navigate to the HLSAnalysisTools directory and start the docker image by running

docker run -it -v $(pwd):/tool hls_analysis_tools

Compile the libclang parser by typing

cd tool
make -f makefiles/makefile_libclang_parser parser

Give the scripts execution privileges by typing

chmod +x analysis_tool.sh
chmod +x llvm_setup.sh

The setup is now complete.

Note: The makefiles in this project make heavy use of the Xilinx header files and libraries. These may need to be modified to point to new directories if their location differs from the one specified in the makefiles.

Execution

Start the docker image and mount the required Xilinx libraries by typing

docker run -it -v $(pwd):/tool hls_analysis_tools -v /opt/xilinx:/opt/xilinx -v /opt/Xilinx:/opt/Xilinx -v /tools/Xilinx:/tools/Xilinx

You can also mount any necessary external volumes at this point. Then copy the required files and recompile LLVM by typing

./llvm_setup.sh
cd /llvm-project/build
make -j 4

Example

A given code can by analysed by typing

./analysis_tool.sh <filename> <top_level_function>

For example, analyse the given example in examples/example0.c by typing

./analysis_tool.sh examples/example0.c top_level_function

Once analysis is complete the files examples/kernel_info.txt and examples/src_info.json will be created.

Publication

If you find our project useful, please consider citing our paper: