SOFF SNU OpenCL Framework for FPGAs

Overview

SOFF is an open-source framework that enables OpenCL applications with data-parallel kernels to run on FPGAs. It consists of three components: an OpenCL-C-to-Verilog compiler (soff-compiler), a board support package (soff-hardware-*), and a runtime system (soff-runtime).

SOFF automatically synthesizes a datapath to execute many OpenCL kernel threads in a pipelined manner. It also synthesizes an efficient memory subsystem for the datapath based on the characteristics of OpenCL kernels. Unlike previous high-level synthesis techniques, SOFF adopts a formal way to handle variable-latency instructions, complex control flows, OpenCL barriers, and atomic operations that appear in real-world OpenCL kernels. SOFF is the first OpenCL framework that correctly compiles all applications in the SPEC ACCEL benchmark suite.

Publications

Please use the citation below to reference SOFF.

• [ISCA] Gangwon Jo, Heehoon Kim, Jeesoo Lee, and Jaejin Lee. SOFF: An OpenCL High-Level Synthesis Framework for FPGAs, to appear in ISCA '20: Proceedings of the 47th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Valencia, Spain, June 2020.

Download

Every component of SOFF can be downloaded from GitHub.

• soff-compiler: https://github.com/mcrl/soff-compiler
• soff-hardware-opae: https://github.com/mcrl/soff-hardware-opae
• soff-runtime: https://github.com/mcrl/soff-runtime

Manual

If you would like to download the SOFF user manual, please fill out the following form and click the download button. An email containing the download URL will be sent to the email address.

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Contributors

• Current: Gangwon Jo, Heehoon Kim, Jeesoo Lee, and Jaejin Lee

Contact and Bug Report

E-mail: soff@aces.snu.ac.kr

License

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Contact information:
	Center for Manycore Programming
	Department of Computer Science and Engineering
	Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
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Contributors:
	Gangwon Jo, Heehoon Kim, Jeesoo Lee, and Jaejin Lee