Intel® High Level Synthesis Compiler Standard Edition: User Guide

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1. Intel® High Level Synthesis Compiler Standard Edition User Guide 2. Overview of the Intel® High Level Synthesis (HLS) Compiler Standard Edition 3. Creating a High-Level Synthesis Component and Testbench 4. Verifying the Functionality of Your Design 5. Optimizing and Refining Your Component 6. Simulating Your Design 7. Synthesize your Component with Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition 8. Integrating your IP into a System A. Reviewing the High Level Design Reports (report.html) B. Limitations of the Intel® HLS Compiler Standard Edition C. Intel® HLS Compiler Standard Edition User Guide Archives D. Document Revision History for Intel® HLS Compiler Standard Edition User Guide
2. Overview of the Intel® High Level Synthesis (HLS) Compiler Standard Edition x
2.1. High Level Synthesis Design Flow 2.2. The Project Directory
3. Creating a High-Level Synthesis Component and Testbench x
3.1. Intel® HLS Compiler Standard Edition Compiler-Defined Preprocessor Macros
6. Simulating Your Design x
6.1. Generation of the Verification Testbench Executable 6.2. Debugging during Verification 6.3. High-Throughput Simulation (Asynchronous Component Calls) Using Enqueue Function Calls
6.3. High-Throughput Simulation (Asynchronous Component Calls) Using Enqueue Function Calls x
6.3.1. Execution Model 6.3.2. Comparison of Explicit and Enqueued Function Calls
8. Integrating your IP into a System x
8.1. Adding the HLS Compiler-Generated IP into an Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition Project 8.2. Adding the HLS Compiler-Generated IP into a Platform Designer System
A. Reviewing the High Level Design Reports (report.html) x
A.1. High Level Design Report Layout A.2. Reviewing the Report Summary A.3. Reviewing Loop Information A.4. Reviewing Component Area Usage A.5. Viewing Component Design A.6. Reviewing Your Component Verification Results A.7. Accessing HLD FPGA Reports in JSON Format
A.3. Reviewing Loop Information x
A.3.1. Loop Analysis Example
A.4. Reviewing Component Area Usage x
A.4.1. Area Analysis Example
A.5. Viewing Component Design x
A.5.1. Reviewing Component Interfaces A.5.2. Reviewing Memory Replication and Stallable LSU Information A.5.3. Viewing Your Component Memory System
1. Intel® High Level Synthesis Compiler Standard Edition User Guide
2. Overview of the Intel® High Level Synthesis (HLS) Compiler Standard Edition
3. Creating a High-Level Synthesis Component and Testbench
4. Verifying the Functionality of Your Design
5. Optimizing and Refining Your Component
6. Simulating Your Design
7. Synthesize your Component with Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition
8. Integrating your IP into a System
A. Reviewing the High Level Design Reports (report.html)
B. Limitations of the Intel® HLS Compiler Standard Edition
C. Intel® HLS Compiler Standard Edition User Guide Archives
D. Document Revision History for Intel® HLS Compiler Standard Edition User Guide

6. Simulating Your Design

When compiling your component to RTL, the Intel® HLS Compiler Standard Edition links your design C++ testbench with an RTL-compiled version of your component that runs in an RTL simulator.

The Intel® HLS Compiler Standard Edition uses Mentor Graphics® ModelSim® software to simulate your design. You must have ModelSim* installed to use the Intel® HLS Compiler. For a list of supported versions of the ModelSim software, refer to the EDA Interface Information section in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Software and Device Support Release Notes.

To verify the functional correctness of your component with your C++ testbench, run the executable that the compiler generates by targeting the FPGA architecture. By default, the name of the executable is a.out (Linux) or a.exe (Windows).
Example command you might invoke for a simple single-file design:

Linux: i++ -march="Arria10" […] design.cpp && ./a.out

Windows: i++ -march="Arria10" […] design.cpp && a.exe

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