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Hardware.jl - An MLIR-based Julia HLS Flow (Work in Progress)

Software Engineering 2025-03-13 v1 Hardware Architecture Programming Languages

Abstract

Co-developing scientific algorithms and hardware accelerators requires domain-specific knowledge and large engineering resources. This leads to a slow development pace and high project complexity, which creates a barrier to entry that is too high for the majority of developers to overcome. We are developing a reusable end-to-end compiler toolchain for the Julia language entirely built on permissively-licensed open-source projects. This unifies accelerator and algorithm development by automatically synthesising Julia source code into high-performance Verilog.

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@article{arxiv.2503.09463,
  title  = {Hardware.jl - An MLIR-based Julia HLS Flow (Work in Progress)},
  author = {Benedict Short and Ian McInerney and John Wickerson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.09463},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted for presentation at the 5th Workshop on Languages, Tools, and Techniques for Accelerator Design (LATTE'25), March 30, 2025, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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