Hey everyone! I’m curious about what experiences everyone has here using Vivado HLS with a Zynq-based board. Would you share yours? - If you haven’t used Vivado HLS, why not? E.g. didn’t like the IDE, didn’t like the languages, hard to learn, too low level (I like nicer programming environments), too high level (I’m fine with VHDL/Verilog). - If you have used Vivado HLS, what did you dislike? E.g. didn’t like the IDE, didn’t like the languages, hard to learn, hard to debug. We’re doing this for our company, researching whether to come up with a new, programmer-focused HLS tool for Zynq owners. Driven more like out of curiosity than a particular business case. If you’d like to be kept in the loop add “yes PM” to the end of your message and I’ll get in touch with you via a private message.
Hello Zóltan, I am a frequent user of Vivado HLS and also some of the other high-level tools that Xilinx provides. I personally find HLS very attractive in how it works. What I like is that it creates IP-blocks for easy further processing in the Xilinx devices, i.e. in Vivado. What I dislike, however that is just the nature of the beast, it can only do one single clock-domain. For Zynq especially also the SDSoC-approach is pretty strong where one has the "Main-Loop" running on the processor and then having the possibility to bring over functions into the fabric. Debugging I find relatively intuitive, however that may be coming with experience. The Debugging is on HLS itself in the code or once in a blue moon also on HW using ChipScope. Cheers Moadl
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Zoltán L. wrote: > We’re doing this for our company, researching this is no serious research but fishing in the dark you will only get false information by unskilled persons like this one: Moadl K. wrote: > What I dislike, however that is just the nature > of the beast, it can only do one single clock-domain. this is wrong like your first senntence too
Thank you for your valuable insights Moadl! Bonzo: I only called it "research" because it's shorter, but let's call it "fishing in the dark" instead :).
Bonzo wrote: > Zoltán L. wrote: >> We’re doing this for our company, researching > > this is no serious research but fishing in the dark > > you will only get false information by unskilled persons like this one: > > Moadl K. wrote: >> What I dislike, however that is just the nature >> of the beast, it can only do one single clock-domain. > this is wrong like your first senntence too Thanks a lot for your judgement on my skills, I feel slightly amused now... So what makes you think that my statement about the clock-domains is wrong? Ever worked von Vivado HLS? You know about ap_clk and what it is used for? Amused greetings...
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