user: Help me write some HLS source code to create a FPGA hardware accelerator for a streaming-based linear layer acclerator. Please use the Vitis HLS libaraies including `hls_math.h`, `hls_stream.h`, and `ap_fixed.h`. The inputs to the kernel is one stream for the input vector, and two fixed arrays for the weights and bias. Everything uses fixed point types of `ap_fixed<32,10>`.

assistant: Sure, here is a sample code for a FPGA hardware accelerator for a streaming-based linear layer accelerator using Vitis HLS libraries
```
#include "hls_math.h"
#include "hls_stream.h"
#include "ap_fixed.h"

// Define the data types
typedef ap_fixed<32,10> fixed_type;
typedef hls::stream<fixed_type> stream_type;

// Define the linear layer function
void linear_layer(stream_type& input_stream, fixed_type weight[], fixed_type bias[], stream_type& output_stream) {
    // Set the number of input and output values
    const int N = 1024;

    // Perform the linear layer computation
    for(int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
        fixed_type input_value = input_stream.read();
        fixed_type weighted_sum = 0;
        for(int j = 0; j < N; j++) {
            weighted_sum += input_value * weight[i * N + j];
        }
        fixed_type output_value = hls::tanh(weighted_sum + bias[i]);
        output_stream.write(output_value);
    }
}

// Top-level function for the accelerator
void linear_accelerator(stream_type& input_stream, fixed_type weight[], fixed_type bias[], stream_type& output_stream) {
    #pragma HLS INTERFACE axis port=input_stream
    #pragma HLS INTERFACE axis port=output_stream
    #pragma HLS INTERFACE m_axi port=weight offset=slave bundle=gmem
    #pragma HLS INTERFACE m_axi port=bias offset=slave bundle=gmem

    // Call the linear layer function
    linear_layer(input_stream, weight, bias, output_stream);```

user: Rewrite the code to use an 8 bit fixed point type and code a RELU nonlinearity after the linear layer.

assistant: To use an 8-bit fixed-point type, we can define a new typedef as follows:

typedef ap_fixed<8,3> fixed_type;

This defines a signed 8-bit fixed-point type with 3 bits after the decimal point. We can also add a RELU nonlinearity after the linear layer by replacing the tanh function call with a simple conditional statement:

fixed_type output_value = weighted_sum + bias[i];
if (output_value < 0) {
    output_value = 0;
}
output_stream.write(output_value);
The complete code with these changes is shown below:

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#include "hls_math.h"
#include "hls_stream.h"
#include "ap_fixed.h"

// Define the data types
typedef ap_fixed<8,3> fixed_type;
typedef hls::stream<fixed_type> stream_type;

// Define the linear layer function with RELU nonlinearity
void linear_layer(stream_type& input_stream, fixed_type weight[], fixed_type bias[], stream_type& output_stream) {
    // Set the number of input and output values
    const int N = 1024;

    // Perform the linear layer computation with RELU nonlinearity
    for(int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
        fixed_type input_value = input_stream.read();
        fixed_type weighted_sum = 0;
        for(int j = 0; j < N; j++) {
            weighted_sum += input_value * weight[i * N + j];
        }
        fixed_type output_value = weighted_sum + bias[i];
        if (output_value < 0) {
            output_value = 0;
        }
        output_stream.write(output_value);
    }
}

// Top-level function for the accelerator
void linear_accelerator(stream_type& input_stream, fixed_type weight[], fixed_type bias[], stream_type& output_stream) {
    #pragma HLS INTERFACE axis port=input_stream
    #pragma HLS INTERFACE axis port=output_stream
    #pragma HLS INTERFACE m_axi port=weight offset=slave bundle=gmem
    #pragma HLS INTERFACE m_axi port=bias offset=slave bundle=gmem

    // Call the linear layer function with RELU nonlinearity
    linear_layer(input_stream, weight, bias, output_stream);
}

Note that we have also updated the function name in the linear_accelerator function to reflect the new implementation with RELU nonlinearity.