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FPGA Optimization Guide for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits

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Document Table of Contents x
FPGA Optimization Guide for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits Introduction To FPGA Design Concepts Analyze Your Design Optimize Your Design FPGA Optimization Flags, Attributes, Pragmas, and Extensions Quick Reference Additional Information Document Revision History for the FPGA Optimization Guide for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
Introduction To FPGA Design Concepts x
FPGA Architecture Overview Concepts of FPGA Hardware Design Methods of Hardware Design How Source Code Becomes a Custom Hardware Datapath Scheduling Mapping Parallelism Models to FPGA Hardware Memory Types
FPGA Architecture Overview x
Adaptive Logic Module (ALM) Lookup Table (LUT) Register Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Block Random Access Memory (RAM) Blocks
Concepts of FPGA Hardware Design x
Maximum Frequency (fMAX) Latency Pipelining Throughput Datapath Control Path Occupancy
How Source Code Becomes a Custom Hardware Datapath x
Mapping Source Code Instructions to Hardware Mapping Arrays and Their Accesses to Hardware
Scheduling x
Dynamic Scheduling Clustering the Datapath Handshaking Between Clusters
Mapping Parallelism Models to FPGA Hardware x
Data Parallelism Task Parallelism
Data Parallelism x
Executing Independent Operations Simultaneously Pipelining
Memory Types x
Kernel Memory Global Memory
Analyze Your Design x
Analyze the FPGA Early Image Analyze the FPGA Image
Analyze the FPGA Early Image x
Review the FPGA Optimization Report Access HLD FPGA Reports in JSON Format
Review the FPGA Optimization Report x
Loop Analysis Bottlenecks Viewer Area Estimates System Viewer Kernel Memory Viewer Schedule Viewer
Analyze the FPGA Image x
Quartus (Static) Summary Intel® FPGA Dynamic Profiler for DPC++ System-level Profiling Using the Intercept Layer for OpenCL* Applications
Quartus (Static) Summary x
Timing Failures
Intel® FPGA Dynamic Profiler for DPC++ x
Measure Kernel Performance Instrument the Kernel Pipeline with Performance Counters (-Xsprofile) Obtain Profiling Data During Runtime Reduce Area Resource Use While Profiling Profiler Analyses of Example SYCL* Design Scenarios Limitations
Obtain Profiling Data During Runtime x
Invoke the Profiler Runtime Wrapper to Obtain Profiling Data Use Intel® VTune™ Profiler
Use Intel® VTune™ Profiler x
Interpret Performance Counter Data
System-level Profiling Using the Intercept Layer for OpenCL* Applications x
Set Up the Intercept Layer for OpenCL* Applications
Optimize Your Design x
Throughput Resource Use
Throughput x
Single Work-item Kernels NDRange Kernels Memory Accesses Pipes Host
Single Work-item Kernels x
Single Work-item Kernel Design Guidelines Loops Single-Cycle Floating-Point Accumulator for Single Work-Item Kernels
Loops x
Refactor the Loop-Carried Data Dependency Relax Loop-Carried Dependency Transfer Loop-Carried Dependency to Local Memory Minimize the Memory Dependencies for Loop Pipelining Unroll Loops Fuse Loops to Reduce Overhead and Improve Performance Optimize Loops With Loop Speculation Remove Loop Bottlenecks Shannonization to Improve FMAX/II Optimize Inner Loop Throughput Improve Loop Performance by Caching On-Chip Memory
Single-Cycle Floating-Point Accumulator for Single Work-Item Kernels x
Strategies for Inferring the Accumulator
Memory Accesses x
Load-Store Units Global Memory Accesses Optimization Perform Kernel Computations Using Local or Private Memory Local and Private Memory Accesses Optimization Annotating Unified Shared Memory Pointers Zero-Copy Memory Access Additional Recommendations
Load-Store Units x
Load-Store Unit Styles Load-Store Unit Modifiers Load-Store Unit Controls
Global Memory Accesses Optimization x
Global Memory Bandwidth Use Calculation Manual Partition of Global Memory Partitioning Buffers Across Different Memory Types (Heterogeneous Memory) Partitioning Buffers Across Memory Channels of the Same Memory Type Ignoring Dependencies Between Accessor Arguments Contiguous Memory Accesses Static Memory Coalescing
Host x
Multi-Threaded Host Application Utilizing Hardware Kernel Invocation Queue Double Buffering Host Utilizing Kernel Invocation Queue N-Way Buffering to Overlap Kernel Execution Prepinning Memory Simple Host-Device Streaming Buffered Host-Device Streaming
Double Buffering Host Utilizing Kernel Invocation Queue x
Applying Double-Buffering Using the Intercept Layer for OpenCL* Applications
Resource Use x
Data Types and Operations Kernel Variable Accesses
Data Types and Operations x
Optimize Floating-point Operation Avoid Expensive Functions Variable-Precision Integer and Floating-Point Support
Variable-Precision Integer and Floating-Point Support x
Advantages and Limitations of Arbitrary Precision Data Types Declare and Use the AC Data Types
Declare and Use the AC Data Types x
Declare the ac_int Data Type Declare the ac_fixed Data Type Declare the ac_complex Data Type Declare the ap_float Data Type
Declare the ap_float Data Type x
Conversion Rules for ap_float Operations with Explicit Precision Controls Comparison Operators Additional ap_float Functions Additional Data Types Provided by the ap_float.hpp Header File Quality of Results and the ap_float Data Type
FPGA Optimization Flags, Attributes, Pragmas, and Extensions x
Optimization Flags Optimization Targets Kernel Variables Kernel Attributes Memory Attributes Loop Directives Floating-Point Pragmas Latency Controls (Beta) FPGA Extensions
Optimization Flags x
Specify Schedule FMAX Target for Kernels (-Xsclock=<clock target>) Disable Burst-Interleaving of Global Memory (-Xsno-interleaving=<global_memory_type>) Force Ring Interconnect for Global Memory (-Xsglobal-ring) Force a Single Store Ring to Reduce Area (-Xsforce-single-store-ring) Force Fewer Read Data Reorder Units to Reduce Area (-Xsnum-reorder) Disable Hardware Kernel Invocation Queue (-Xsno-hardware-kernel-invocation-queue) Modify the Handshaking Protocol Between Clusters (-Xshyper-optimized-handshaking) Disable Automatic Fusion of Loops (-Xsdisable-auto-loop-fusion) Fuse Adjacent Loops With Unequal Trip Counts (-Xsenable-unequal-tc-fusion) Pipeline Loops in Non-task Kernels (-Xsauto-pipeline) Control Semantics of Floating-Point Operations (-fp-model=<value>) Modify the Rounding Mode of Floating-point Operations (-Xsrounding=<rounding_type>) Global Control of Exit FIFO Latency of Stall-free Clusters (-Xssfc-exit-fifo-type=<value>) Enable the Read-Only Cache for Read-Only Accessors (-Xsread-only-cache-size=<N>) Control Hardware Implementation of the Supported Data Types and Math Operations (-Xsdsp-mode=<option>)
Optimization Targets x
Minimum Latency Flow
Kernel Attributes x
Specify Schedule FMAX Target for Kernels Specify a Workgroup Size Specify Number of SIMD Work Items Omit Hardware that Generates and Dispatches Kernel IDs Omit Hardware to Support the no_global_work_offset Attribute in parallel_for Kernels Reduce Kernel Area and Latency
Loop Directives x
disable_loop_pipelining Attribute initiation_interval Attribute ivdep Attribute loop_coalesce Attribute max_concurrency Attribute max_interleaving Attribute speculated_iterations Attribute unroll Pragma Loop Fuse Functions and nofusion Attribute max_reinvocation_delay Attribute (Beta)
FPGA Extensions x
Pipes Extension System of Tasks Extension (task_sequence) device_global Extension (Beta)
Pipes Extension x
Key Properties of a Pipe Accessing Pipes The pipe Class and its Use I/O Pipes Characteristics of Pipes Restrictions of Pipes Guidelines for Designing Pipes Pipe and Atomic Fence
System of Tasks Extension (task_sequence) x
Task Functions task_sequence Use Cases
Quick Reference x
Algorithmic C Data Types Floating Point Pragmas FPGA Accessor Properties FPGA Extensions FPGA Kernel Attributes FPGA Local Memory Function Latency Control Properties (Beta) FPGA LSU Controls FPGA Loop Directives FPGA Memory Attributes FPGA Optimization Flags Pipe API
Document Revision History for the FPGA Optimization Guide for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits x
Notices and Disclaimers
FPGA Optimization Guide for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
Introduction To FPGA Design Concepts
Analyze Your Design
Optimize Your Design
FPGA Optimization Flags, Attributes, Pragmas, and Extensions
Quick Reference
Additional Information
Document Revision History for the FPGA Optimization Guide for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits

max_reinvocation_delay Attribute (Beta)

The loop reinvocation delay is the delay between launching the last iteration of a loop invocation and launching the first iteration of the next loop invocation. For interleaved loops, the loop reinvocation delay is redefined as the delay between launching the last iteration of a particular loop and launching the first iteration of the next loop invocation to enter the loop, which may not be the next loop invocation in the program order. This is due to interleaved loops having multiple invocations in the loop body, so the redefinition refers to when the loop body is fully occupied and when a loop invocation is exiting the loop body while a new loop invocation is ready to enter the loop body.

Use the max_reinvocation_delay attribute to direct the Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler to implement the loop that follows the attribute declaration with the specified maximum reinvocation delay value. This attribute restricts the maximum allowed delay between loop invocations for the implemented loop (without any stalls) and assumes a new invocation is ready to start executing.

Syntax

[[intel::max_reinvocation_delay(N)]]

The attribute parameter N is required and must be a positive constant expression of integer type. This parameter specifies the maximum number of clock cycles that you are willing to allow between launching the last iteration of a loop invocation and launching the first iteration of the next loop invocation. The higher the maximum reinvocation delay allowed, the longer the wait before the next loop invocation can start executing. However, the compiler can optimize the loop better if a high reinvocation delay is allowed in one of the following ways:

NOTE:
  • The extra latency between invocations for a loop can be a significant factor in overall performance if the trip count of the loop is very small. In this case, specify the N value as 1 to allow subsequent loop invocations to start immediately, but at the cost of larger II and/or lower fMAX to allow time to evaluate the exit condition. 
    for(int i = 0; i < maxI; i++) {
  int m = …
  [[intel::max_reinvocation_delay(1)]]
  while(m*m*m < N) {
    m += 1;
  }
  dst[i] = m;
}

    The inner loop in this example is implemented such that the first iteration of the (i+1)th invocation of the outer loop launches one cycle after the last iteration of the ith invocation of the outer loop.

  • The max_reinvocation_delay is a prototype loop attribute, and it currently supports only a value of N=1.
  • For hyper-optimized loops, the minimum reinvocation delay must be equal to the loop II. The compiler may be unable to implement the loop with an appropriate II for the currently supported values of max_reinvocation_delay attribute.
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