[CI] Add FTD to CI pipeline

[Jiahui17]

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[Jiahui17]

@AyaElAkhras @QinYuan2000 I wanted to add Matvec with FTD as well, but it doesn't work in the current main. Could you please take a look?

[AyaElAkhras]

Thanks @Jiahui17 for reporting! I checked from my side and the current main crashes because of some wrong casting. I need some time to identify the recent commit to the main that resulted in this.

[AyaElAkhras]

This is the commit 1567b7c that results in this error. I will dig further into the commit to figure out the issue.

[Jiahui17]

@AyaElAkhras Any progress on this?

[AyaElAkhras]

@AyaElAkhras Any progress on this?
We are currently working on the fix I was mentioning here #666, but we have not fully resolved all MLIR issues yet.

[AyaElAkhras]

Thanks, @Jiahui17, for bringing this back to life! Could you also add the --straight-to-queue flag? It goes hand in hand with FTD.

The flag essentially removes the network of CMerges by implementing the approach from my FPGA'23 paper: if there is an LSQ, it replaces the CMerge network accordingly; if the function is void, it leaves the network unchanged; and if the function is non-void, it removes the network entirely.

[Jiahui17]

Thanks, @Jiahui17, for bringing this back to life! Could you also add the --straight-to-queue flag? It goes hand in hand with FTD.

The flag essentially removes the network of CMerges by implementing the approach from my FPGA'23 paper: if there is an LSQ, it replaces the CMerge network accordingly; if the function is void, it leaves the network unchanged; and if the function is non-void, it removes the network entirely.

does it make sense to always switch that flag on if we have --fast-token-delivery?

[AyaElAkhras]

Thanks, @Jiahui17, for bringing this back to life! Could you also add the --straight-to-queue flag? It goes hand in hand with FTD.
The flag essentially removes the network of CMerges by implementing the approach from my FPGA'23 paper: if there is an LSQ, it replaces the CMerge network accordingly; if the function is void, it leaves the network unchanged; and if the function is non-void, it removes the network entirely.

does it make sense to always switch that flag on if we have --fast-token-delivery?

Yes, this works, thanks!

[Jiahui17]

Could you make sure that the new added units also work in verilog?