Machine Learning on FPGAs: Demonstration of HLS4ML Framework

[@wuhutroy8267]

great video ! thanks a lot ,professor.🍻

[@abuali5513]

Have you deployed in fpga board? Is it safely feasible to transfer the whole model to fpga? Thanks professor

[@marcowinzker3682]

We have not done that. The design flow showed that the methodology is feasible, but we found it (at the time of production of the video) not yet mature enough for deployment on an FPGA board.

[@herojitloitongbam1783]

hi, can i use this on a windows environment, i am not able to create the project in Vivado HLS. How can i do this ?

[@marcowinzker3682]

As far as I understand, the environment is not ready for Windows. The project was carried out by a student, so, I regret, I can not give support.

[@gegerinkonsam1048]

Hi, i have installed hls4ml and Vivado 2019.2 on my ubuntu. I have also specified my path however when the jupyter notebook program is compiled it results in error: vivado installation not found . Please help me solve this issue ..

[@marcowinzker3682]

The project was carried out by a student, so, I regret, I can not give support.

[@gegerinkonsam1048]

@@marcowinzker3682 can you please share his contact details: email, linked in anything ?

[@kanishksharma8125]

I'm facing the same issue. Were you able to fix it? Thanks.

[@rezaforghani5986]

hi I want to have an implementation on Zinc that communicates with the CPU. Can I use this software?

[@marcowinzker3682]

We did not investitigate that.

[@salmaachaq44]

Hello, Did you try it ?

[@gegerinkonsam1048]

Please share the contact details of the presenter that did this hls4ml project. Email would be preferable

[@marcowinzker3682]

You find my email on the project page. Send me your email address and I forward it to the presenter.

[@Ali-wf9ef]

Would Vitis AI not be a better way of doing this?

[@marcowinzker3682]

We checked frameworks that are not specific a a manufacturer. Vitis AI is provided by Xilinx only for Xilinx. So, this could be a good choice. Xilinx provides excellent tools and FPGAs (like other manufacturers).

[@salmaachaq44]

Vitis AI is supported on some specific Xilinx boards, I am working with a zynq-7000 & it's not supported by Vtis-AI so I wonder if this could work for me...

[@lukasgroth544]

Great Video, thanks! Could you maybe also provide a link to the Code?

[@marcowinzker3682]

This video is a demonstration of the framework. We have not put together a release version of the code. So, sorry, I can not provide you a link.

[@Ali-wf9ef]

Your unchanged model needed too much resources, Your reduced model had a very low accuracy and none of them were deployable on the target FPGA. I think either the framework is not very usable or you could use a better test-case for the sake of the video.

[@marcowinzker3682]

Yes, the video is a general look at frameworks. The video is from the beginning of the year 2021 and the frameworks are still in development. They do not yet provide a perfect design flow, but there is potential.