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With their widespread availability, FPGA-based accelerators cards have become an alternative to GPUs and CPUs to accelerate computing in applications with certain requirements (like energy efficiency) or properties (like fixed-point…
FPGAs offer high performance, low latency, and energy efficiency for accelerated computing, yet adoption in scientific and edge settings is limited by the specialized hardware expertise required. High-level synthesis (HLS) boosts…
Recent advances in reprogrammable hardware (e.g., FPGAs) and memory technology (e.g., DDR4, HBM) promise to solve performance problems inherent to graph processing like irregular memory access patterns on traditional hardware (e.g., CPU).…
High-level synthesis (HLS) accelerates FPGA design by rapidly generating diverse implementations using optimization directives. However, even with cycle-accurate C/RTL co-simulation, the reported clock cycles often differ significantly from…
Hardware acceleration of database query processing can be done with the help of FPGAs. In particular, they are partially reconfigurable during runtime, which allows for the runtime adaption of the hardware to a variety of queries.…
Path planning is critical for autonomous driving, generating smooth, collision-free, feasible paths based on perception and localization inputs. However, its computationally intensive nature poses significant challenges for…
Embedded system performances are bounded by power consumption. The trend is to offload greedy computations on hardware accelerators as GPU, Xeon Phi or FPGA. FPGA chips combine both flexibility of programmable chips and energy-efficiency of…
With the recent release of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) based FPGA boards, developers can now exploit unprecedented external memory bandwidth. This allows more memory-bounded applications to benefit from FPGA acceleration. However, we found…
In the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) design flow, one of the most time-consuming step is the routing of nets. Therefore, there is a need to accelerate it. In a recent paper by Hoo et. al., the authors have developed a Linear…
Machine Learning (ML) has been widely adopted in design exploration using high level synthesis (HLS) to give a better and faster performance, and resource and power estimation at very early stages for FPGA-based design. To perform…
Trends in hardware, the prevalence of the cloud, and the rise of highly demanding applications have ushered an era of specialization that quickly changes how data is processed at scale. These changes are likely to continue and accelerate in…
High-Level Synthesis enables the rapid prototyping of hardware accelerators, by combining a high-level description of the functional behavior of a kernel with a set of micro-architecture optimizations as inputs. Such optimizations can be…
While FPGA accelerator boards and their respective high-level design tools are maturing, there is still a lack of multi-FPGA applications, libraries, and not least, benchmarks and reference implementations towards sustained HPC usage of…
As the Moore's scaling era comes to an end, application specific hardware accelerators appear as an attractive way to improve the performance and power efficiency of our computing systems. A massively heterogeneous system with a large…
Recent researches on robotics have shown significant improvement, spanning from algorithms, mechanics to hardware architectures. Robotics, including manipulators, legged robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles, are now widely applied in…
Neural networks (NNs) have demonstrated their potential in a wide range of applications such as image recognition, decision making or recommendation systems. However, standard NNs are unable to capture their model uncertainty which is…
Modern multicore systems are migrating from homogeneous systems to heterogeneous systems with accelerator-based computing in order to overcome the barriers of performance and power walls. In this trend, FPGA-based accelerators are becoming…
The edge computing paradigm has emerged to handle cloud computing issues such as scalability, security and low response time among others. This new computing trend heavily relies on ubiquitous embedded systems on the edge. Performance and…
The use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to accelerate computational kernels has the potential to be of great benefit to scientific codes and the HPC community in general. With the recent developments in FPGA programming…