Automatic creation of high-level language callable library for a hardware core

US10755013B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• XILINX, INC. · US

Inventors

• Zhenman Fang · Campbell, US
• James L. Hwang · Portola Valley, US
• Samuel A. Skalicky · Cupertino, US
• Tom Shui · Mountain View, US
• Michael Gill · Ipswich, GB
• Welson Sun · San Jose, US
• Alfred Huang · Fremont, US
• Jorge Ernesto Carrillo · San Jose, US
• Chen-Yang Pan · Hsinchu, TW

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 13, 2018
• Grant date: Aug 25, 2020
• Expiry date: Nov 13, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2115/02
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Creating a high-level language (HLL) callable library for a hardware core can include automatically querying, using computer hardware, a metadata description of a core to determine a plurality of available ports of the core, automatically determining, using the computer hardware, an argument of a first function specified in a header file corresponding to the core, mapping, using the computer hardware, the argument to a first port of the plurality of available ports, and automatically generating and storing, using the computer hardware, an HLL library specifying a mapping of the argument to the first port of the core. The HLL library is configured for inclusion with a user application during compilation.