Faust2FPGA for Ultra-Low Audio Latency: Preliminary work in the Syfala project

Tanguy Risset (1) , Romain Michon (2) , Yann Orlarey (2) , Stéphane Letz (2) , Gero Müller (1) , Adeyemi Gbadamosi (1)

1 SOCRATE - Software and Cognitive radio for telecommunications
2 GRAME - Centre national de création musicale [Lyon]

FPGAs are increasingly present in every field of computer science. The generalization of High Level Synthesis (HLS) improves the productivity of the FPGA programmer. However, even with HLS, FPGA configuration requires advanced engineering. This paper investigates the use of FPGA in the context of very low latency (less than 500µs) audio digital signal processing. We propose a methodology to compile FAUST programs on FPGA platforms towards ultra-low latency. We expose the challenges it raises and report about the first steps of a future faust2FPGA compiler.

Domains: Computer science

Tanguy Risset, Romain Michon, Yann Orlarey, Stéphane Letz, Gero Müller, et al.. Faust2FPGA for Ultra-Low Audio Latency: Preliminary work in the Syfala project. IFC 2020 - Second International Faust Conference, Dec 2020, Paris, France. pp.1-9. ⟨hal-03116958⟩