Allo Documentation

Allo is an Accelerator Design Language (ADL) and compiler that facilitates the construction of large-scale, high-performance hardware accelerators in a modular and composable manner.

Getting Started

• Installation

Tutorials

• Getting Started
• Vivado/Vitis HLS Backend

Deep Dive

• Frontend Syntax Guide
• Dataflow Programming
• Data Types and Type Casting
• Template Kernels
• Kernel Composition
• IP Integration
• PyTorch Integration
• Equivalence Checking
• Other Features

Backends

• LLVM (CPU)
• AMD Vitis HLS (FPGA)
• Siemens Catapult HLS (FPGA)
• RapidStream TAPA (FPGA)
• Google XLS (ASIC)
• Multi-Threaded Simulator (CPU)
• AMD MLIR-AIE (AI Engine)

Developer Guide

• Developer Setup
• IR Builder Walkthrough
• MLIR Translation Guide

Python API

• Schedule Primitives
• Data Types