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Adopting FPGA as an accelerator in datacenters is becoming mainstream for customized computing, but the fact that FPGAs are hard to program creates a steep learning curve for software programmers. Even with the help of high-level synthesis…

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Designing and optimizing FPGA overlays is a complex and time-consuming process, often requiring multiple trial-and-error iterations to determine a suitable configuration. This paper presents an AI-driven approach to optimizing FPGA overlay…

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Recent trends in business and technology (e.g., machine learning, social network analysis) benefit from storing and processing growing amounts of graph-structured data in databases and data science platforms. FPGAs as accelerators for graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jonas Dann , Daniel Ritter , Holger Fröning

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have recently been increasingly used for highly-parallel processing of compute intensive tasks. This paper introduces an FPGA hardware platform architecture that is PC-based, allows for fast…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andreas Weisensee , Darran Nathan

FPGAs are well-suited for dataflow architectures that process data in a streaming or pipelined manner, thus satisfying the high computational and communication demands of emerging applications. However, manually implementing an efficient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Weichuang Zhang , Yiquan Wang , Xinzhou Zhang , Chi Zhang , Yu Feng , Xiaofeng Hou , Chao Li , Jieru Zhao , Minyi Guo

Neural Networks (NN) provide a solid and reliable way of executing different types of applications, ranging from speech recognition to medical diagnosis, speeding up onerous and long workloads. The challenges involved in their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Federico Manca , Francesco Ratto

Memory bandwidth is known to be a performance bottleneck for FPGA accelerators, especially when they deal with large multi-dimensional data-sets. A large body of work focuses on reducing of off-chip transfers, but few authors try to improve…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Corentin Ferry , Nicolas Derumigny , Steven Derrien , Sanjay Rajopadhye

The FPGA overlay architectures have been mainly proposed to improve design productivity, circuit portability and system debugging. In this paper, we address the use of overlay architectures for building fault tolerant SRAM-based FPGA…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Mihalis Psarakis

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are fundamental to deep learning, driving applications across various domains. However, their growing complexity has significantly increased computational demands, necessitating efficient hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Junye Jiang , Yaan Zhou , Yuanhao Gong , Haoxuan Yuan , Shuanglong Liu

FPGAs provide a flexible and efficient platform to accelerate rapidly-changing algorithms for computer vision. The majority of existing work focuses on accelerating image classification, while other fundamental vision problems, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Qijing Huang , Dequan Wang , Yizhao Gao , Yaohui Cai , Zhen Dong , Bichen Wu , Kurt Keutzer , John Wawrzynek

FPGAs are an attractive type of accelerator for all-purpose HPC computing systems due to the possibility of deploying tailored hardware on demand. However, the common tools for programming and operating FPGAs are still complex to use,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal , Nick Brown , Yuri Torres , Arturo Gonzalez-Escribano

Hardware acceleration of algorithms is an effective method for improving performance in high-demand computational tasks. However, developing hardware designs for such acceleration fundamentally differs from software development, as it…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mads Rosendahl , Maja H. Kirkeby

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provide an opportunity to co-design applications with hardware accelerators, yet they remain difficult to program. High-level synthesis (HLS) tools promise to raise the level of abstraction by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Rachit Nigam , Sachille Atapattu , Samuel Thomas , Zhijing Li , Theodore Bauer , Yuwei Ye , Apurva Koti , Adrian Sampson , Zhiru Zhang

Specialized hardware accelerators are becoming important for more and more applications. Thanks to specialization, they can achieve high performance and energy efficiency but their design is complex and time consuming. This problem is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Stephanie Soldavini , Christian Pilato

FPGAs are increasingly being deployed in the cloud to accelerate diverse applications. They are to be shared among multiple tenants to improve the total cost of ownership. Partial reconfiguration technology enables multi-tenancy on FPGA by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ahsan Javed Awan , Fidan Aliyeva

FPGA-based heterogeneous architectures provide programmers with the ability to customize their hardware accelerators for flexible acceleration of many workloads. Nonetheless, such advantages come at the cost of sacrificing programmability.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Jason Cong , Zhenman Fang , Yuchen Hao , Peng Wei , Cody Hao Yu , Chen Zhang , Peipei Zhou

Today, artificial neural networks are one of the major innovators pushing the progress of machine learning. This has particularly affected the development of neural network accelerating hardware. However, since most of these architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Simon Pfenning , Philipp Holzinger , Marc Reichenbach

Domain-specific accelerators are used in various computing systems ranging from edge devices to data centers. Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) represent an architectural midpoint between the flexibility of an FPGA and the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Taeyoung Kong , Kalhan Koul , Priyanka Raina , Mark Horowitz , Christopher Torng

This research introduces an FPGA-based hardware accelerator to optimize the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Fast Fourier transform (FFT) operations in AI models. The proposed design aims to improve processing speed and reduce…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hong Ding , Chia Chao Kang , SuYang Xi , Zehang Liu , Xuan Zhang , Yi Ding

Image processing and machine learning applications benefit tremendously from hardware acceleration, but existing compilers target either FPGAs, which sacrifice power and performance for flexible hardware, or ASICs, which rapidly become…