Xilinx® Runtime (XRT) Architecture

Xilinx® Runtime (XRT) is implemented as a combination of userspace and kernel driver components. XRT supports both PCIe based accelerator cards and MPSoC based embedded architecture provides standardized software interface to Xilinx® FPGA. The key user APIs are defined in xrt.h header file.

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Introduction

• Platform Overview
• System Requirements
• Building and Installing Software Stack
• Developer Build and Test Instructions

Use Model and Features

• Execution Model Overview
• Supported Kernel Execution Models
• Multi-Process Support
• PCIe Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Support
• Memory-to-Memory (M2M) Support
• XRT Streaming Platform Support
• Configuration File xrt.ini

Video Acceleration Using XMA

• Xilinx Media Accelerator (XMA)
• XMA 19.2 Migration

User API Library

• XRT Core Library
• Embedded Runtime Library
• XMA Core Library

XRT Developer's Space

• Linux Sys FileSystem Nodes
• Binary Formats
• XCLMGMT (PCIe Management Physical Function) Driver Interfaces
• XOCL (PCIe User Physical Function) Driver Interfaces
• ZOCL Driver Interfaces

Tools and Utilities

• xclbinutil
• xbutil
• xbmgmt

Building Platforms

• Yocto Recipes For Embedded Flow
• Developer Build and Test Instructions

Cloud Support

• Mailbox Subdevice Driver
• Mailbox Inter-domain Communication Protocol
• MSD/MPD and Plugins

Security

• Security of Alveo Platform

Debug and Faqs

• XRT/Board Debug FAQ

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For any questions on XRT please email runtime@xilinx.com