Introduction

The XRT.jl package provides support for simple, user-friendly, yet accurate and fine-grained communication with Xilinx FPGA devices from within Julia. The usage of this package is largely similar to other well-known Julia packages, which are used to communicate with other hardware accelerators. Therefore, the package provides abstraction layers and custom functions, which simplify the appliance. The following documentation is intended to provide users with an insight and a guide to FPGA use with Julia.

Contents

• Introduction
• • Contents
• Installation
• • Package installation
  • Using xrt_jll v2.16
  • Use native XRT installation
  • Emulation mode
  • Usage on HPC cluster
• The XilinxDevice Type
• The Xclbin Type
• • Visualize XCLBIN Streams
  • Custom XCLBIN Parser
  • Loading an Xclbin onto a Device
• The Kernel Type
• • The Run Type
  • The IP Type
• Buffer Objects
• • The BOArray Type
  • Restricting Synchronization Direction
• Command-Line Tools
• • xbutil
  • xclbinutil
  • xbmgmt
• Miscellaneous
• • Configuration file
  • Enum types
• Testing of XRT.jl
• Troubleshooting