AE: updated README

Author: Tiziano De Matteis

evaluation/individual_modules/Makefile

@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ BLASFLAGS = -lopenblas
 CXXFLAGS= -std=c++11 -O3 -pthread
 #Change if you need another board
 BOARD 	= p520_max_sg280l
-# Seed used for hardware compilation. Change it for different result
-SEED = 4
 AOCXXFLAGS  = -board=$(BOARD) -fp-relaxed -fpc -no-interleaving=default
 AOCL_COMPILE_CONFIG := $(shell aocl compile-config)
 AOCL_LINK_CONFIG := $(shell aocl link-config)
@@ -41,8 +39,9 @@ BIN_DIR=bin
 	rm -f $*gemm_codegen_files/*
 	mkdir -p $*gemm_codegen_files
 	$(HOST_GEN) $*gemm.json -output_dir=$*gemm_codegen_files
-	$(AOCXX) $(AOCXXFLAGS) $*gemm_codegen_files/*$*gemm*cl -report -seed=$(SEED)
-	mv *$*gemm*.aocx $*gemm_hardware.aocx || true
+	$(AOCXX) $(AOCXXFLAGS) $*gemm_codegen_files/*$*gemm*cl -report
+	mv *$*gemm.aocx $*gemm_hardware.aocx || true
+	mv *$*gemm $*gemm_hardware || true
 	@echo "Generated file $*gemm_hardware.aocx"
 
 %_emulator:

evaluation/individual_modules/README.md

@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ commands can be used:
 
 To execute a program:
 - for emulating a design, set the environment variable ` CL_CONTEXT_EMULATOR_DEVICE_INTELFPGA=1` as suggested by Intel
-- execute the host program locate under `bin/` by passing the suggested parameters (execute the program without argument to obtain a list). Note: for GEMM
-    it will require the json file automatically generated and located under `<s/d>gemm_codegen_files/generated_routines.json`
+- execute the host program locate under `bin/` by passing the suggested parameters (execute the program without argument to obtain a list). Note: for GEMM it will require the json file automatically generated and located under `<s/d>gemm_codegen_files/generated_routines.json`
 
 Every host program accepts, among the other, the number of runs to execute and produces the averaged execution time,
 as well as confidence intervals.
@@ -37,4 +36,6 @@ $ make gemv_host
 #execute for emulation, 5 runs. The program takes in input sizes (n,m), alpha and beta multipliers (a,b) and tile sizes (k,j) as defined in the json description
 $ env CL_CONTEXT_EMULATOR_DEVICE_INTELFPGA=1  bin/gemv_host -b sgemv.aocx -n 2048 -m 1024 -a 2 -c 1 -k 1024 -j 1024 -r 1 -p single  
 
-```
+```
+
+Note: for GEMM, changing the compilation seed (by adding the `-seed=<number>` at the end of compilation command) could result in higher/lower synthesis frequency.

evaluation/individual_modules/host_gemm.cpp

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ using namespace std;
 void singlePrecision(std::string program_path, std::string json_path, int n, int k, int m, timestamp_t &fpga_time, float alpha, float beta){
 
     cout << "-------------------------------------------------------------------------"<<endl;
-    cout << "Executing single precision GEMM: "<<n<<endl;
+    cout << "Executing single precision GEMM: "<<n<< "x" << m <<endl;
     cout << "-------------------------------------------------------------------------"<<endl;
 
     FBLASEnvironment fb =FBLASEnvironment (program_path,json_path);
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ void singlePrecision(std::string program_path, std::string json_path, int n, int
 void doublePrecision(std::string program_path, std::string json_path, int n, int k, int m, timestamp_t &fpga_time, double alpha, double beta){
 
     cout << "-------------------------------------------------------------------------"<<endl;
-    cout << "Executing double precision GEMM: "<<n<<endl;
+    cout << "Executing double precision GEMM: "<<n<< "x" << m <<endl;
     cout << "-------------------------------------------------------------------------"<<endl;
 
     FBLASEnvironment fb =FBLASEnvironment (program_path,json_path);