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Migrating to AMD Vitis™ Unified IDE for HLS Development
AMD· 2025-08-10 04:54
Key Features of AMD Vitis Unified IDE - AMD Vitis Unified IDE utilizes Eclipse Theia framework, offering a modern and responsive GUI to enhance user experience [2] - The IDE supports a bottom-up design flow, enabling the development of system components like AI Engine graphs, C/C++ sourced HLS components, RTL kernels, and software applications [2] - It provides integrated revision control using Git and Python, along with a Tcl script-based interface for command-line component management [3] HLS Component Development - HLS component development is streamlined through a bottom-up design flow managed with a configuration file [3] - The IDE facilitates independent building, simulation, analysis, and debugging of HLS components [3] - Tools like component cloning allow for design optimization exploration, while component comparison provides insights into performance and resource utilization [4] - Code analyzer offers capabilities for architectural refinement [4] Migration Flows from Classic Vitis HLS - Migration from classic Vitis HLS designs to the Unified IDE is possible via GUI, command-line, and scripting [4] - In GUI, specify the hls app file from the classic Vitis HLS project when creating an HLS component [5] - For Tcl scripting, replace `open_project` with `open_component` and remove `open_solution`; specify `-flow_target` as either `vivado` or `vitis` [6] - Python APIs are available for creating and managing HLS components, with configuration specified in a file or directly in the script [8]