FPGA AI Suite: SoC Design Example User Guide

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Date 7/31/2024
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7.4. MMD Layer Hardware Interaction Library

Runtime communication with CSR registers for the stream controller and for the FPGA AI Suite IP happens via the UIO driver. See The Userspace I/O HOWTO for more information on the UIO communication model.

FPGA AI Suite IP graph weights and instructions (from the AOT file) are transferred from host DDR memory to EMIF DDR memory (allocated to the FPGA FPGA AI Suite IP) via the mSGDMA-USERIO driver (a custom kernel driver, see Yocto Recipe: recipes-drivers/msgdma-userio/msgdma-userio.bb). This driver is also used to send microcode and images. Lastly, inference results are transferred into host DDR via the mSGDMA-USERIO driver.

The source files for the library are in runtime/coredla_device/mmd/hps_platform/. The files contain classes for managing and accessing the FPGA AI Suite IP, the stream controller, the layout transform module, and DMA by UIO and MSGDMA-USERIO drivers. The remainder of this section describes the key classes.