Team

Principal Investigators: Prof. Peipei Zhou (Brown University), https://peipeizhou-eecs.github.io/, Prof. Zhiru Zhang (Cornell University), https://zhang.ece.cornell.edu/

Ph.D. Students: Jinming Zhuang (Student Lead), Shaojie Xiang (Student Lead), Hongzheng Chen, Niansong Zhang, Zhuoping Yang, Tony Mao

ARIES: An Agile MLIR-Based Compilation Flow for Reconfigurable Devices with AI Engines (FPGA'25)

Installation Guide

Prerequisites

python 3.12.x
AMD Vitis 2023.2
clang
lld
ninja

0. Install prerequisites on Ubuntu 20.04 (Since "sudo" is required, it is highly recommended to use a clean and isolated environment)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
sudo apt install graphviz
sudo apt install clang lld ninja-build
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libidn11

Install Python3.12 (See here if python3.12 is not found: Python3.12 Setup)

sudo apt-get install python3.12-dev
sudo apt install python3.12-venv

1. Download Aries & Submodules

git clone --recursive https://github.com/arc-research-lab/Aries.git
cd Aries

2. Setup Python Virtual Environment

source utils/setup_python_packages.sh

3. Build LLVM & MLIR Projects

source utils/build-llvm.sh

4. Build MLIR-AIE Project

AIE License is required:

(1) please view the steps here: https://riallto.ai/prerequisites-aie-license.html
(2) Additionally, hostname can be found by running:

hostname

(3) After "Xilinx.lic" is generated, save it to the correct PATH (~/.Xilinx).

Need to specify using local cmake instead of Vitis cmake inside "utils/build-mlir-aie.sh" (In this script, it is set to the default PATH which should work if following the CMAKE installation before)

source /tools/Xilinx/Vitis/2023.2/settings64.sh
source utils/build-mlir-aie.sh

5. Build Aries Project

source utils/build-aries.sh
export PATH=$PATH:$PWD/build/bin
source aries/bin/activate

Run ARIES on VCK190

Follow the on-board execution flow in "example_new"

cd example_new

Publications

For more details, please refer to our FPGA'25 paper (Best paper nominee). Please use the following bibtex to cite ARIES:

@inproceedings{aries2025fpga,
author = {Zhuang, Jinming and Xiang, Shaojie and Chen, Hongzheng and Zhang, Niansong and Yang, Zhuoping and Mao, Tony and Zhang, Zhiru and Zhou, Peipei},
title = {ARIES: An Agile MLIR-Based Compilation Flow for Reconfigurable Devices with AI Engines},
year = {2025},
isbn = {9798400713965},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3706628.3708870},
doi = {10.1145/3706628.3708870},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays},
pages = {92–102},
numpages = {11},
keywords = {aie architecture, compiler, hardware accelerator, mlir},
location = {Monterey, CA, USA},
series = {FPGA '25}
}

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