Add repeat support for compute tiles

[AndraBisca]

Currently, a repeat value can be specified for Mem tiles via the objectfifo's memtile_repeat attribute. This PR extends it to compute tiles as well.

Specifically:

• the objectfifo attribute name is changed from memtile_repeat to repeat_count,
• this PR also changes the value that repeat_count represents for objectfifos: a repeat of 'n' means 'n' total copies of that data will be transferred including the first one,
• this PR ensures that if the repeat_count attribute of the objectfifo is set, the objectfifo lowering will always use DMAs,
• currently the objectfifo attribute is lowered to the repeat_count attribute of DMAStartOps for Mem tiles: this is added for compute tiles,
• currently a repeat value can also be specified using data layout transformation dimensions in the objectfifo for Mem tiles: this is removed as the repeat dimension is not actually exposed in mlir-aie and this features (wrongly) assumed the highest dimension was the repeat dimension.

TODO: add documentation to programming guide

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Created: 2024-10-30 11:26

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Filename	Function Coverage	Line Coverage	Region Coverage	Branch Coverage
IR/AIEDialect.cpp	89.63%	82.26%	84.70%	74.54%
Transforms/AIEObjectFifoStatefulTransform.cpp	100.00%	93.82%	91.64%	85.48%
Totals	92.09%	87.76%	87.19%	78.82%

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