Self-adaptive and intelligent computing global leaders, Saulith, announced that VITIS (pronounced vī-tis) - this is a unified software platform that allows the majority of developers including software engineers and AI scientists to benefit from The advantage of hardware flexible strain. After five years, the total of 1000 workers have been put into the year. The VITIS unified software platform can automatically adapt and use the Sauli hardware architecture according to the software or algorithm code without the need for users to go deep into hardware expertise. In addition, the VITIS platform does not limit the use of a proprietary development environment, but can be inserted into a universal software development tool and utilize rich optimized open source libraries to enable developers to focus on the development of algorithms. VITIS is independent of Vivado? Design kit, the latter continues to support users who want to program with hardware code. However, VITIS can also improve the work efficiency of hardware developers by encapsulating hardware modules into software-callable functions.
President and CEO (CEO) Victor Peng said: "As the calculation demand is exponential growth, engineers and scientists are often limited by fixed chip performance. Sailive has created a superior design environment to make the disciplines The field programmer and engineers can use tools and frames they are familiar with and master to develop and optimize their hardware and software. This means that they can adjust the hardware architecture according to their own applications without requiring new chips. "
Vitis stack
The VITIS platform is built on the stack-based architecture, which can seamlessly insert into open source standard development systems and build environments, and most importantly, it contains a wide range of standard libraries.
The base layer is the VITIS target platform. This platform consists of a circuit board and pre-programming I / O. The second layer is called the VITIS core development kit, covering the open source Sailive Runtime Library to manage data move between different domains, including subsystems, the upcoming Versal ACAP? The AI engine and the necessary external host. In addition, this layer also provides core development tools such as compilers, analyzers and debuggers. Although Xili is a world-class design environment, these tools are designed to be seamlessly integrated with the industry's construction system and development environment.
At the third layer, 8 VIS libraries offer more than 400 optimized open source applications. These 8 libraries are: VITIS Basic Linear Agent subroutine (BLAS) library, VITIS solver library, VITIS security library, VITIS visual library, VITIS data compression library, VITIS metered financial library, VITIS database set, and Vitis Ai library. With these libraries, software developers can use standard Application Programming Interface (APIs) to implement hardware acceleration.
Vitis AI and specific field architecture
The 4th floor of the VITIS platform is also the most transformed layer is VITIS AI. It integrates a specific domain architecture (DSA). The DSA provides hardware implementation for the AI model, and developers can configure and program them using industry-leading frames including Tensorflow and Caffe. The tool chain provided by Vitis Ai can perform optimization, quantification, and compile operations within minutes, and efficiently run pre-training AI models on the Sauli device. In addition, it also provides a dedicated API from the deployment of the edge to the cloud to achieve first-class inferior performance and efficiency of the industry. Sauli will soon launch another DSA (Vitis Video), support from FFMPEG to directly encode and provide the same super simple and powerful end-to-end video solution. The DSA provided by partner companies includes: Illumina integrates with GATK for genetic analysis, with Elasticsearch BlacklyNX for big data analysis, and the current DSA currently used by our customers.
Vitis developer website
Xilinx also announced a launch of a developer website, convenient for developers to get examples, tutorials, and documents, as a space connected to the VIS developer community. It will be managed by Xilinx and VIS experts and enthusiasts and will provide VITIS related updates, prompts, and tips.
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