How to use Vivado HLS to accelerate FPGA algorithm development

This series of teaching videos will lead you from scratch to master Vivado HLS and UltraFAST design methods from scratch, step by step, helping you become a master of system design and algorithm acceleration! This course includes five topics: the design process of Vivado HLS, coding style when describing algorithms in C or C++, optimization methods of for loops, optimization methods of arrays, and implementation of input/output ports.

• Chapter 1：How should software engineers understand FPGA architecture? (10 minutes and 49 seconds)

• Chapter 2：HLS working mechanism (15 minutes and 43 seconds)

• Chapter 3：Vivado HLS design flow - introduction to basic concepts (9 minutes and 58 seconds)

• Chapter 4：Vivado HLS design flow--example demonstration (19 minutes and 58 seconds)

• Chapter 5：How to deal with arbitrary precision data types (10 minutes and 40 seconds)

• Chapter 6：Data type conversion (13 minutes and 26 seconds)

• Chapter 7：Understand composite data types in HLS (10 minutes and 42 seconds)

• Chapter 8：CC++ basic operations in Vivado HLS (9 minutes and 24 seconds)

• Chapter 9：Basic architecture of CC++ test platform under Vivado HLS (12 minutes and 21 seconds)

• Chapter 10：Describing an efficient C testbench: test incentives (12 minutes and 44 seconds)

• Chapter 11：Describing an efficient C testbench - output monitoring and format control (10 minutes and 51 seconds)

• Chapter 12：Interface synthesis - basic introduction (15 minutes and 11 seconds)

• Chapter 13：Interface synthesis - processing of arrays (7 minutes and 58 seconds)

• Chapter 14：Interface synthesis - other cases (11 minutes and 32 seconds)

• Chapter 15：FOR Loop Optimization—Basic Performance Metrics (12 minutes and 44 seconds)

• Chapter 16：for loop optimization—loop merging (10 minutes and 32 seconds)

• Chapter 17：FOR Loop—Data Flow (12 minutes and 40 seconds)

• Chapter 18：FOR Loop Optimization—Nested FOR Loops (12 minutes and 10 seconds)

• Chapter 19：FOR Loop Optimization - Other Optimization Methods (15 minutes and 32 seconds)

• Chapter 20：Array Optimization - Array Splitting (13 minutes and 31 seconds)

• Chapter 21：Array Optimization—Array Mapping and Reorganization (12 minutes and 12 seconds)

• Chapter 22：Array Optimization - Other Optimization Methods (6 minutes and 54 seconds)

• Chapter 23：Vivado HLS function-level optimization (10 minutes and 34 seconds)