PLRAM Memory Access

This example shows the usage of PLRAM and how to use it with simple matrix multiplication (Row x Col).

KEY CONCEPTS: Vitis Memory Hierarchy, PLRAMs

KEYWORDS: PLRAM

This example demonstrates how PLRAM feature of the Vitis memory subsystem and how they integrate with the Vitis design process.

PLRAM is small shared memory which is built using the on-chip memory resources of the FPGA fabric. It is intended to provide a small amount of data storage that application kernels can share and access rapidly(lowest latency). PLRAM behaves just like the DDR memory resources managed by the Vitis memory subsystem.

PLRAM can be assigned to a buffer by using sp tags in the mmult.cfg file along with the port name and kernel name.

[connectivity]
sp=mmult_1.a:PLRAM[0]
sp=mmult_1.b:DDR[0]
sp=mmult_1.c:PLRAM[1]

EXCLUDED PLATFORMS:

  • Alveo U25 SmartNIC

  • Alveo U30

  • All Embedded Zynq Platforms, i.e zc702, zcu102 etc

  • All Versal Platforms, i.e vck190 etc

  • Alveo U50

  • Alveo U55

  • Samsung SmartSSD Computation Storage Drive

  • Samsung U.2 SmartSSD

  • X3 Compute Shell

  • All NoDMA Platforms, i.e u50 nodma etc

DESIGN FILES

Application code is located in the src directory. Accelerator binary files will be compiled to the xclbin directory. The xclbin directory is required by the Makefile and its contents will be filled during compilation. A listing of all the files in this example is shown below

src/host.cpp
src/mmult.cpp

Access these files in the github repo by clicking here.

COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS

Once the environment has been configured, the application can be executed by

./plram_access <mmult XCLBIN>