OmpSs@FPGA release 4.0.1

Release 4.0.1

2023-03-03

• ait
  • Bump version to 6.5.3
  • Added support for alveo_u280 and alveo_u280_hbm boards
  • Fixed not being able to correctly run AIT from synthesis or implementation step
  • Fixed timing constraints
  • Changed default target language to verilog
  • Correctly check Vivado naming conventions
• Picos OmpSs Manager (POM)
  • Bump version to 6.1
  • Disable dependencies, reverse offload and task creation by default

OmpSs@FPGA release 4.0.0

Release 4.0.0

2023-01-24

• ait

• Bump version to 6.4.1

  • Versioning now follows SemVer specification
  • Unified hardware runtimes into Picos OmpSs Manager (POM) v6.0
    • Supports all the features previously supported by Fast OmpSs Manager (FOM) and Smart OmpSs Manager (SOM)
    • Automatically detect required hwruntime features and enable them accordingly
    • Deprecated --hwruntime argument
  • Added --interconnect_priorities argument to enable priorities on memory interconnects
  • Added support for OmpSs@FPGA accelerator wrapper v13, which depends on the new_task_spawner IP
  • Added support for Vitis HLS
  • Internal refactor to follow Python packages structure in order to distribute AIT through PyPI
  • Several bug fixes and improvements

• mcxx

  • Implemented support for accelerator wrapper v13
  • Fixed lock field of AIT json to mark which accelerators use locking features
  • Added needs_deps field in AIT json to mark which accelerators have data dependencies

• nanox

  • Fixed configuration and installation on newer linux versions
  • Use xtasks multidevice API
  • Adapted data structures to accelerator wrapper v13

• xtasks

  • Bump version to 14.3
  • Added support for multiple FPGAs
  • Flipped managed_reset polarity
  • Fixed buffer overflow bugs

• xdma

  • Bump version to 4.2
  • Added support for multiple FPGAs
  • Renamed euroexa_testbed2 backend to euroexa_maxilink
  • Split large copies into smaller chunks on qdma backend to avoid a kernel out-of-memory error

• Picos OmpSs Manager (POM)

  • Bump version to 6.0
  • Take into account current task in execution when optimizing data copies

OmpSs@FPGA release 3.3.1

Release 3.3.1

2022-05-27

• ait
  • Bump version to 5.20
  • Check for invalid stride values when using memory interleaving feature
  • Compress IPs
  • Fix euroexa_maxilink and euroexa_maxilink_quad DDR part number
• xtasks
  • Bump version to 13.1
  • Fix bus error on arm64 when using qdma backend
• xdma
  • Bump version to 3.18
  • Fixed missing return status on qdma backend functions

OmpSs@FPGA release 3.3.0

Release 3.3.0

2022-05-06

• ait
  • Bump version to 5.19
  • Updated bitInfo to v9
  • Added --disable_spawn_queues argument to disable the instantiation of HWR spawn queues
  • Added --bitinfo_note argument to add a user-defined note to the bitInfo
  • Added euroexa_maxilink and euroexa_maxilink_quad boards
  • Enabled over temperature automatic shutdown on all boards
  • Enabled bitstream compression
  • Set randomly generated BITSTREAM_USERID on compilation time to identify bitstream files
  • Generate .bit.bin file for Zynq7000 boards when possible
  • Fixed zcu102 DDR DIMM configuration problem
  • Default number of Vivado jobs now depends on node's current available memory
  • Time is now formatted as human-readable
  • Improved error and information messages
  • Several bug fixes
• mcxx
  • Fix wideport memcpy functions on C code
• nanox
  • Modified FPGA lost events warning message
  • Added new paraver configs to generate histograms of FPGA events
  • General spell-checking
• xtasks
  • Bump version to 13.0
  • Dropped support for already deprecated alpha_data board
  • Updated bitInfo v9 device paths
• xdma
  • Bump version to 3.17
  • Fixed copies larger than 2GB
  • Correctly handle no DMA device operations available
• Kernel module
  • Updated module for kernel >5.xx
  • Dropped support for DMA devices on kernel >5.xx
  • Added devices to read new fields introduced in bitInfo v9

Known issues

• HWR only supports tasks with up to 15 arguments despite xTasks supports 30