ROADMAP.md

Roadmap

• Roadmap
  • 1 - Real accelerator management
  • 2 - Comp4Drones application profiling
  • 3 - Accelerator implementation
  • 4 - Soil Segmentation app

1 - Real accelerator management

Sobel/roberts accelerator or AES256.

• Study of memory management
• Study of communication management (DMA)
  • Brief description of DMA and its interface
  • Vivado schematic
  • svg schematic
  • Custom ip block
  • AXIS interface
  • Creating a custom IP
  • Integrate IP and interface (make connections)
  • How to use the xdc + link xdc
  • Synth, Impl, Bitstream (.bin version, remember to check the setting option)
  • Create the C app to use DMA
  • Integrate the interface for AES256
• MDC backend MDC compatible with UltraScale+

2 - Comp4Drones application profiling

Profiling on the software part of the Sopil Segmentation heterogeneous system to decide what to implement for FPGA and what not.

• Running the software code on UltraScale+
  • Behavioural test on PC
  • Timing test on PC
  • Behavioural test on UltraScale+
  • Timing test on UltraScale+
• Latencies table of the different parts
• Identification of critical parts

3 - Accelerator implementation

The critical part should be the median filter.

• Extract the algorithm of Python function and make a C working implementation
• Hardware implementation

4 - Soil Segmentation app

App integration on the UltraScale+

• Reading camera integration (Software management)
• Depending on the application chosen, comparison of the image cores genrated by bitbake --> table of the different implementations: What changes? Why?