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Applications with irregular data structures, data-dependent control flows and fine-grained data transfers (e.g., real-world graph computations) perform poorly on cache-based systems. We propose the UpDown accelerator that supports…

This paper introduces a computer architecture, where part of the instruction set architecture (ISA) is implemented on small highly-integrated field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Small FPGAs inside a general-purpose processor (CPU) can…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Philippos Papaphilippou , Myrtle Shah

Mixed-precision neural networks (MPNNs) that enable the use of just enough data width for a deep learning task promise significant advantages of both inference accuracy and computing overhead. FPGAs with fine-grained reconfiguration…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Erjing Luo , Haitong Huang , Cheng Liu , Guoyu Li , Bing Yang , Ying Wang , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Edge computing devices inherently face tight resource constraints, which is especially apparent when deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNN) with high memory and compute demands. FPGAs are commonly available in edge devices. Since these…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Jude Haris , Perry Gibson , José Cano , Nicolas Bohm Agostini , David Kaeli

In view of the large amount of calculation and long calculation time of convolutional neural network (CNN), this paper proposes a convolutional neural network hardware accelerator based on field programmable logic gate array (FPGA). First,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xiong Jun

Deep learning (DL) is becoming the cornerstone of numerous applications both in datacenters and at the edge. Specialized hardware is often necessary to meet the performance requirements of state-of-the-art DL models, but the rapid pace of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Andrew Boutros , Aman Arora , Vaughn Betz

Numerical simulations can help solve complex problems. Most of these algorithms are massively parallel and thus good candidates for FPGA acceleration thanks to spatial parallelism. Modern FPGA devices can leverage high-bandwidth memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Stephanie Soldavini , Karl F. A. Friebel , Mattia Tibaldi , Gerald Hempel , Jeronimo Castrillon , Christian Pilato

High-Performance Computing (HPC) processors are nowadays integrated Cyber-Physical Systems demanding complex and high-bandwidth closed-loop power and thermal control strategies. To efficiently satisfy real-time multi-input multi-output…

Heterogeneous systems have become one of the most common architectures today, thanks to their excellent performance and energy consumption. However, due to their heterogeneity they are very complex to program and even more to achieve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Raúl Nozal , Jose Luis Bosque , Ramón Beivide

Subgraph matching is a basic operation widely used in many applications. However, due to its NP-hardness and the explosive growth of graph data, it is challenging to compute subgraph matching, especially in large graphs. In this paper, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xin Jin , Zhengyi Yang , Xuemin Lin , Shiyu Yang , Lu Qin , You Peng

Many important computational problems require utilization of high performance computing (HPC) systems that consist of multi-level structures combining higher and higher numbers of devices with various characteristics. Utilizing full power…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Paweł Rościszewski

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

The increase in open-source availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled users to deploy them on more and more resource-constrained edge devices to reduce reliance on network connections and provide more privacy. However, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Jude Haris , Rappy Saha , Wenhao Hu , José Cano

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) based accelerators are being widely used for acceleration of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to their potential in improving the performance and reconfigurability for specific application…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Martin Ferianc , Hongxiang Fan , Ringo S. W. Chu , Jakub Stano , Wayne Luk

In an effort to lower the barrier to the adoption of FPGAs by a broader community, today major FPGA vendors offer compiler toolchains for OpenCL code. While using these toolchain allows porting existing code to FPGAs, ensuring performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Mostafa Eghbali Zarch , Michela Becchi

In a context of ever-growing worldwide communication traffic, cloud service providers aim at deploying scalable infrastructures to address heterogeneous needs. Part of the network infrastructure, FPGAs are tailored to guarantee low-latency…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Jean Bruant , Pierre-Henri Horrein , Olivier Muller , Frédéric Pétrot

C is the lingua franca of programming and almost any device can be programmed using C. However, programming mod-ern heterogeneous architectures such as multi-core CPUs and GPUs requires explicitly expressing parallelism as well as…

The state-of-the-art driving automation system demands extreme computational resources to meet rigorous accuracy and latency requirements. Though emerging driving automation computing platforms are based on ASIC to provide better…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Yuqiong Qi , Yang Hu , Haibin Wu , Shen Li , Haiyu Mao , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan , Ninghui Sun

High-performance computing systems are more and more often based on accelerators. Computing applications targeting those systems often follow a host-driven approach in which hosts offload almost all compute-intensive sections of the code…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-15 E. Calore , A. Gabbana , S. F. Schifano , R. Tripiccione

Automated design of neural network architectures tailored for a specific task is an extremely promising, albeit inherently difficult, avenue to explore. While most results in this domain have been achieved on image classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Vladimir Nekrasov , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid