Area Information - 2021.2 English

Vitis Unified Software Platform Documentation: Application Acceleration Development (UG1393)

Document ID
UG1393
Release Date
2022-03-29
Version
2021.2 English

Although the FPGA can be thought of as a blank computational canvas, there are a limited number of fundamental building blocks available in each FPGA. These fundamental blocks (FF, LUT, DSP, block RAM) are used by the Vitis compiler to generate the custom logic for each CU in the design. The quantity of fundamental resources needed to implement the custom logic for a single CU determines how many CUs can be simultaneously loaded into the FPGA fabric. The following example shows the area information reported for a single CU:

Area Information
Compute Unit  Kernel Name  Module Name  FF     LUT    DSP   BRAM  URAM
------------  -----------  -----------  -----  -----  ----  ----  ----
mmult_1       mmult        mmult        81378  35257  1036  2     0
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