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using Hast.Algorithms;
using Hast.Communication.Exceptions;
using Hast.Layer;
using Hast.Samples.Consumer.SampleRunners;
using Hast.Samples.FSharpSampleAssembly;
using Hast.Samples.SampleAssembly;
using Hast.Transformer.Vhdl.Abstractions.Configuration;
using Lombiq.Arithmetics;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.Immutable;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace Hast.Samples.Consumer
{
// In this simple console application we generate hardware from some sample algorithms. Note that the project also
// references other projects (and the sample assembly as well), so check out those too on hints which Hastlayer
// projects to reference from your own projects.
// Configure the whole sample project here or in command line arguments:
internal static class Configuration
{
/// <summary>
/// Which supported hardware device to use? If you leave this empty the first one will be used. If you're
/// testing Hastlayer locally then you'll need to use the "Nexys A7" or "Nexys4 DDR" devices; for
/// high-performance local or cloud FPGAs see the docs.
/// You can also provide this in the -device command line argument.
/// </summary>
public static string DeviceName = "Nexys A7";
/// <summary>
/// If you're running Hastlayer in the Client flavor, you need to configure your credentials here. Here the
/// name of your app.
/// You can also provide this in the -appname command line argument.
/// </summary>
public static string AppName = "appname";
/// <summary>
/// If you're running Hastlayer in the Client flavor, you need to configure your credentials here. Here the
/// app secret corresponding to of your app.
/// You can also provide this in the -appsecret command line argument.
/// </summary>
public static string AppSecret = "appsecret";
/// <summary>
/// Which sample algorithm to transform and run? Choose one. Currently the GenomeMatcher sample is not
/// up-to-date enough and shouldn't be really taken as good examples (check out the other ones).
/// You can also provide this in the -sample command line argument.
/// </summary>
public static Sample SampleToRun = Sample.Loopback;
/// <summary>
/// Specify a path here where the hardware framework is located. The file describing the hardware to be
/// generated will be saved there as well as anything else necessary. If the path is relative (like the
/// default) then the file will be saved along this project's executable in the bin output directory.
/// </summary>
public static string HardwareFrameworkPath = "HardwareFramework";
}
internal static class Program
{
private static async Task MainTask(string[] args)
{
/*
* On a high level these are the steps to use Hastlayer:
* 1. Create the Hastlayer shell.
* 2. Configure hardware generation and generate FPGA hardware representation of the given .NET code.
* 3. Generate proxies for hardware-transformed types and use these proxies to utilize hardware
* implementations. (You can see this inside the SampleRunners.)
*/
// Configuring the Hastlayer shell. Which flavor should we use? If you're unsure then you'll need the
// Client flavor: This will let you connect to a remote Hastlayer service to run the software to hardware
// transformation. In most cases the flavor defaults to the one you need.
// var hastlayerConfiguration = new HastlayerConfiguration { Flavor = HastlayerFlavor.Client };
var hastlayerConfiguration = new HastlayerConfiguration();
// Initializing a Hastlayer shell. Since this is non-trivial to do you can cache this shell object while
// the program runs and re-use it continuously. No need to always wrap it into a using() like here, just
// make sure to Dispose() it before the program terminates.
using var hastlayer = Hastlayer.Create(hastlayerConfiguration);
// Hooking into an event of Hastlayer so some execution information can be made visible on the
// console.
hastlayer.ExecutedOnHardware += (sender, e) =>
{
var netTime = e.HardwareExecutionInformation.HardwareExecutionTimeMilliseconds;
var grossTime = e.HardwareExecutionInformation.FullExecutionTimeMilliseconds;
Console.WriteLine(
$"Executing {e.MemberFullName} on hardware took {netTime:0.####} milliseconds (net), " +
$"{grossTime:0.####} milliseconds (all together).");
if (e.SoftwareExecutionInformation == null) return;
// This will be available in case we've set ProxyGenerationConfiguration.VerifyHardwareResults to true,
// see the notes below, or if the hardware execution was canceled.
var softwareTime = e.SoftwareExecutionInformation.SoftwareExecutionTimeMilliseconds;
Console.WriteLine($"The verifying software execution took {softwareTime:0.####} milliseconds.");
};
// A little helper for later.
var argsList = (IList<string>)args;
string GetArgument(string name)
{
name = "-" + name;
int index = argsList.IndexOf(name) + 1;
if (index <= 0) return null;
if (index == args.Length) index--; // if it's the last element just return the switch.
return args[index];
}
// We need to set what kind of device (FPGA/FPGA board) to generate the hardware for.
var devices = hastlayer.GetSupportedDevices()?.ToList();
if (devices == null || !devices.Any()) throw new Exception("No devices are available!");
// Let's just use the first one that is available unless it's specified.
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Configuration.DeviceName)) Configuration.DeviceName = devices.First().Name;
var targetDeviceName = GetArgument("device") ?? Configuration.DeviceName;
var selectedDevice = devices.FirstOrDefault(device => device.Name == targetDeviceName);
if (selectedDevice == null) throw new Exception($"Target device '{targetDeviceName}' not found!");
var configuration = new HardwareGenerationConfiguration(selectedDevice.Name, Configuration.HardwareFrameworkPath);
var proxyConfiguration = new ProxyGenerationConfiguration();
if (argsList.Contains("-verify")) proxyConfiguration.VerifyHardwareResults = true;
// If you're running Hastlayer in the Client flavor, you also need to configure some credentials:
var remoteClientConfiguration = configuration.RemoteClientConfiguration();
remoteClientConfiguration.AppName = GetArgument("appname") ?? Configuration.AppName;
remoteClientConfiguration.AppSecret = GetArgument("appsecret") ?? Configuration.AppSecret;
if (hastlayerConfiguration.Flavor == HastlayerFlavor.Client &&
remoteClientConfiguration.AppSecret == "appsecret")
{
throw new InvalidOperationException(
"You haven't changed the default remote credentials! Register on hastlayer.com to receive access if you don't have it yet.");
}
// If the sample was selected in the command line use that, or otherwise the default.
Configuration.SampleToRun = (Sample)Enum.Parse(
typeof(Sample),
GetArgument("sample") ?? Configuration.SampleToRun.ToString(),
ignoreCase: true);
// Letting the configuration of samples run. Check out those methods too!
ISampleRunner sampleRunner = Configuration.SampleToRun switch
{
Sample.Fix64Calculator => new Fix64CalculatorSampleRunner(),
Sample.FSharpParallelAlgorithm => new FSharpParallelAlgorithmSampleRunner(),
Sample.GenomeMatcher => new GenomeMatcherSampleRunner(),
Sample.ParallelAlgorithm => new ParallelAlgorithmSampleRunner(),
Sample.ImageProcessingAlgorithms => new ImageProcessingAlgorithmsSampleRunner(),
Sample.Loopback => new LoopbackSampleRunner(),
Sample.MemoryTest => new MemoryTestSampleRunner(),
Sample.MonteCarloPiEstimator => new MonteCarloPiEstimatorSampleRunner(),
Sample.ObjectOrientedShowcase => new ObjectOrientedShowcaseSampleRunner(),
Sample.PositCalculator => new PositCalculatorSampleRunner(),
Sample.Posit32AdvancedCalculator => new Posit32AdvancedCalculatorSampleRunner(),
Sample.Posit32Calculator => new Posit32CalculatorSampleRunner(),
Sample.Posit32FusedCalculator => new Posit32FusedCalculatorSampleRunner(),
Sample.PrimeCalculator => new PrimeCalculatorSampleRunner(),
Sample.RecursiveAlgorithms => new RecursiveAlgorithmsSampleRunner(),
Sample.SimdCalculator => new SimdCalculatorSampleRunner(),
Sample.UnumCalculator => new UnumCalculatorSampleRunner(),
_ => throw new Exception($"Unknown sample '{Configuration.SampleToRun}'.")
};
sampleRunner.Configure(configuration);
configuration.Label = GetArgument("name") ?? Configuration.SampleToRun.ToString();
if (GetArgument("replace") is { } replacement)
{
var parts = replacement.Split('=', 2);
configuration.GetOrAddReplacements()[parts[0]] = parts[1];
}
// The generated VHDL code will contain debug-level information, though it will be slower to create.
configuration.VhdlTransformerConfiguration().VhdlGenerationConfiguration = VhdlGenerationConfiguration.Debug;
Console.WriteLine("Hardware generation starts.");
// Generating hardware from the sample assembly with the given configuration. Be sure to use Debug
// assemblies!
var hardwareRepresentation = await hastlayer.GenerateHardware(
new[]
{
// Selecting any type from the sample assembly here just to get its Assembly object.
typeof(PrimeCalculator).Assembly,
typeof(Fix64).Assembly,
typeof(FSharpParallelAlgorithmContainer).Assembly,
// Note that the assemblies used by code to be transformed also need to be added
// separately. E.g. Posit is used by Hast.Samples.SampleAssembly which in turn also uses
// ImmutableArray.
typeof(Posit).Assembly,
typeof(ImmutableArray).Assembly,
},
configuration);
Console.WriteLine("Hardware generation finished.\n");
// Be sure to check out transformation warnings. Most of the time the issues noticed shouldn't cause
// any problems, but sometimes they can.
if (hardwareRepresentation.HardwareDescription.Warnings.Any())
{
Console.WriteLine("There were transformation warnings in the logs, which may hint on issues that can " +
"cause the hardware implementation to produce incorrect results.\n");
}
if (GetArgument("build") != null) Environment.Exit(0);
Console.WriteLine("Starting hardware execution.");
// Running samples.
try
{
await sampleRunner.Run(hastlayer, hardwareRepresentation, proxyConfiguration);
}
catch (AggregateException ex) when (ex.InnerException is HardwareExecutionResultMismatchException exception)
{
// If you set ProxyGenerationConfiguration.VerifyHardwareResults to true (when calling
// GenerateProxy()) then everything will be computed in software as well to check the hardware.
// You'll get such an exception if there is any mismatch. This shouldn't normally happen, but it's
// not impossible in corner cases.
var mismatches = exception
.Mismatches?
.ToList() ?? new List<HardwareExecutionResultMismatchException.Mismatch>();
var mismatchCount = mismatches.Count;
Console.WriteLine($"There {(mismatchCount == 1 ? "was a mismatch" : $"were {mismatchCount} mismatches")} between the software and hardware execution's results! Mismatch{(mismatchCount == 1 ? string.Empty : "es")}:");
foreach (var mismatch in mismatches)
{
Console.WriteLine("* " + mismatch);
}
}
}
private static async Task Main(string[] args)
{
// Wrapping the whole program into a try-catch here so it's a bit more convenient above.
try
{
await MainTask(args);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.Error.WriteLine(ex);
}
}
}
}