In this example, the kernel is created solely for host code optimization. It is designed to be static throughout this tutorial, which allows you to see the effects of your optimizations on the host code.
The C++ kernel has one input and one output port. These ports are 512-bits wide to optimally use the AXI bandwidth. The number of elements consumed by kernel per execution is configurable through the numInputs parameter. Similarly, the processDelay parameter can be used to alter the latency of the kernel. The algorithm increments the input value by the value for ProcessDelay. However, this increment is implemented by a loop executing processDelay times incrementing the input value by one each time. Because this loop is present within the kernel implementation, each iteration will end up requiring a constant amount of cycles, which can be multiplied by the processDelay number.
The kernel is also designed to enable AXI burst transfers. The kernel contains a read and a write process, executed in parallel with the actual kernel algorithm (exec) towards the end of the process. The read and the write process initiates the AXI transactions in a simple loop and writes the received values into internal FIFOs or reads from internal FIFOs and writes to the AXI outputs. The Vitis compiler implements these blocks as concurrent parallel processes, because the DATAFLOW pragma was set on the surrounding pass_dataflow function.