A package for machine learning inference in FPGAs. We create firmware implementations of machine learning algorithms using high level synthesis language (HLS). We translate traditional open-source machine learning package models into HLS that can be configured for your use-case!

Contact: hls4ml.help@gmail.com

Documentation & Tutorial

For more information visit the webpage: https://fastmachinelearning.org/hls4ml/

Detailed tutorials on how to use hls4ml's various functionalities can be found here.

Installation

pip install hls4ml

To install the extra dependencies for profiling:

pip install hls4ml[profiling]

Getting Started

Creating an HLS project

import hls4ml

#Fetch a keras model from our example repository
#This will download our example model to your working directory and return an example configuration file
config = hls4ml.utils.fetch_example_model('KERAS_3layer.json')

print(config) #You can print the configuration to see some default parameters

#Convert it to a hls project
hls_model = hls4ml.converters.keras_to_hls(config)

# Print full list of example models if you want to explore more
hls4ml.utils.fetch_example_list()

Building a project with Xilinx Vivado HLS (after downloading and installing from here)

Note: Vitis HLS is not yet supported. Vivado HLS versions between 2018.2 and 2020.1 are recommended.

#Use Vivado HLS to synthesize the model
#This might take several minutes
hls_model.build()

#Print out the report if you want
hls4ml.report.read_vivado_report('my-hls-test')