LightningSim Benchmark Projects

This dataset consists of 33 High-Level Synthesis projects for AMD/Xilinx Vitis HLS 2021.1, which were used in the evaluation of LightningSim: Fast and Accurate Trace-Based Simulation for High-Level Synthesis. These benchmark projects come from several sources: Projects whose names contain “basic_examples_vhls” are derived from Xilinx Vitis HLS Introductory Examples, version 2021.1. Projects whose names contain “pp4fpgas” are derived from the examples from Kastner et al.’s Parallel Programming for FPGAs book. Projects whose names contain “flowgnn” are derived from Sarkar et al.’s “FlowGNN: A Dataflow Architecture for Universal Graph Neural Network Inference via Multi-Queue Streaming.” All projects were modified to ensure that the “setup.tcl” script inside each project directory can be used to setup a Vitis HLS project with name “project” containing a solution with name “solution1” which is able to be synthesized and co-simulated under AMD/Xilinx Vitis HLS 2021.1.