Intel® High Level Synthesis Compiler Standard Edition: Reference Manual

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Date 12/18/2019
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Document Table of Contents

4.9. Reset Behavior

For your HLS component, the reset assertion can be asynchronous but the reset deassertion must be synchronous.

The reset assertion and deassertion behavior can be generated from an asynchronous reset input by using a reset synchronizer, as described in the following example Verilog code:
reg [2:0] sync_resetn;
always @(posedge clock or negedge resetn) begin
  if (!resetn) begin
    sync_resetn <= 3'b0;
  end else begin
    sync_resetn <= {sync_resetn[1:0], 1'b1};
  end
end
This synchronizer code is used in the example Intel® Quartus® Prime project that is generated for your components included in an i++ compile.

When the reset is asserted, the component holds its busy signal high and its done signal low. After the reset is deasserted, the component holds its busy signal high until the component is ready to accept the next invocation. All component interfaces (slaves, masters, and streams) are valid only after the component busy signal is low.

Simulation Component Reset

You can check the reset behavior of your component during simulation by using the ihc_hls_sim_reset API. This API returns 1 if the reset was exercised (that is, if the reset is called during hardware simulation of the component). Otherwise, the API returns 0.

Call the API as follows:
int ihc_hls_sim_reset(void);

During x86 emulation of your component, the ihc_hls_sim_reset API always returns 0. You cannot reset a component during x86 emulation.