Using External I/O

Hardware accelerators generated in the SDSoC™ environment can communicate with system inputs and outputs either directly through hardware connections, or though memory buffers (e.g., a frame buffer). Examples of system I/O include analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, image, radar, LiDAR, and ultrasonic sensors, and HDMI™ multimedia streams. A platform exports stream connections in hardware that are accessed in software by calling plaform library functions as described in the following sections. Direct hardware connections are implemented over AXI4-Stream channels, and connections to memory buffers are realized through function calls implemented by the standard data movers supported in the SDSoC Environment. For information and examples that show how to create SDSoC platforms, refer toIntroduction.