OC-Accel Transprecision Framework

OpenCAPI Transprecision Acceleration Framework, abbreviated as OC-Accel-TP, is a framework that helps you implement your FPGA acceleration solutions with OpenCAPI technology.

The framework is a fork of OC-Accel Framework, that also includes some examples with transprecision capabilities. The concept of transprecision computing is an initiative of OPRECOMP H2020 project.

Documentation

https://opencapi.github.io/oc-accel-doc/

Dependencies

• On a X86 server:
  • Install Xilinx tools (tested with Vivado 2019.2) with the desired fpga family (used by the card you want to test).
  • set XILINX_ROOT and XILINXD_LICENSE_FILE accordingly and source Xilinx setting shell:

  export XILINX_ROOT=/opt/Xilinx/xxxx.y   # setup your xilinx tools install dir. eg xxxx.y = 2019.2
  export [email protected]	# Vivado license
  . $XILINX_ROOT/settings64.sh

• On a POWER9 server:
  • Install lib-ocxl on server:

    sudo apt-get install libocxl-dev # for Ubuntu
    sudo yum install libocxl-devel   # for RHEL

Quick Start, Step 1: Simulate and Build FPGA on x86:

• Clone OpenCAPI Simulation Engine and OC-Accel framework

  git clone https://github.com/OpenCAPI/ocse.git
  git clone https://github.com/OpenCAPI/oc-accel.git
  cd oc-accel
  make snap_config  ## this uses an opensource Kconfig menu

• In the menu:
  • Select a card and an example (eg: hls_helloworld_1024) to test (use space bar)
  • Exit the menu
• Now run a simulation on X86 with default xsim simulator

  make sim     ## (or make sim_tmux if no xterm available)

• In the terminal run:

  snap_helloworld_1024 # the default help will propose the simulation example 

• Run the proposed test and check it passes ok
• To generate the flash content run:

  make image

This produces a .bin file (it is the full description of the FPGA content) to be loaded in memory of the chosen OC card plugged in a POWER9 server. File is located in ~/oc-accel/hardware/build/Images/

Quick Start, Step 2: Program and Test on POWER9 server:

• Card flash programming:
  • Card is new : Check card supplier procedure. Some allow PCIe flash programming, other require JTAG probe.
  • Card is already programmed with a previous OC binary:
    • Transfer the .bin file into the POWER server by any mean (scp, ftp, ...)
    • Use OpenCAPI Utils tools to load the oc_date_XX_hls_helloworld_1024_YY_OC-card_YY.bin file.

      sudo git clone https://github.ibm.com/OC-Enablement/oc-utils.git
      sudo make install # default installation

    • Flash the card memory.

      sudo oc-flash-script oc_date_XX_hls_helloworld_1024_YY_OC-card_YY.bin

• Install oc-accel on the POWER server and compile code:

  git clone https://github.com/OpenCAPI/oc-accel.git
  cd oc-accel
  make all

• Run the default test:

  ./actions/hls_helloworld_1024/tests/hw_test.sh

• Check results

Contributing

This is an open-source project. We greatly appreciate your contributions and collaboration. Before contributing to this project, please read and agree to the rules in

• CONTRIBUTING.md

To simplify the sign-off, you may want to create a ".gitconfig" file in you home by executing:

$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email [email protected]

Then, for every commit, use git commit -s to add the "Signed-off by ..." message.

By default the git repository is read-only. Users can fork the snap repository, make the changes there and issue a pull request. Even members with write access to this repository can't commit directly into the protected master branch. To contribute changes, please create a branch, make the changes there and issue a pull request.

Pull requests to merge into the master branch must be reviewed before they will be merged.