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High-level synthesis (HLS) performs well for simple memory access patterns, such as for sequential accesses that can be turned into bursts, or for memory accesses into small datasets that can be stored in scratchpads. This limits HLS to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-25 David Metz , Magnus Själander

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) enables rapid prototyping of complex hardware designs by translating C or C++ code to low-level RTL code. However, the testing and evaluation of HLS designs still typically rely on slow RTL-level simulators that…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Rishov Sarkar , Rachel Paul , Cong Hao

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC), utilizing a parallel computing paradigm and efficient learning algorithm, is well-suited for resource-constrained artificial intelligence (AI) applications, such as in edge devices. In-memory computing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Yi Huang , Alireza Jaberi Rad , Qiangfei Xia

High-level synthesis (HLS) aims at democratizing custom hardware acceleration with highly abstracted software-like descriptions. However, efficient accelerators still require substantial low-level hardware optimizations, defeating the HLS…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Giovanni Brignone , Roberto Bosio , Fabrizio Ottati , Claudio Sansoè , Luciano Lavagno

Software-hardware co-design is essential for optimizing in-memory computing (IMC) hardware accelerators for neural networks. However, most existing optimization frameworks target a single workload, leading to highly specialized hardware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Olga Krestinskaya , Mohammed E. Fouda , Ahmed Eltawil , Khaled N. Salama

High-level synthesis (HLS) is a widely used tool in designing Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). HLS enables FPGA design with software programming languages by compiling the source code into an FPGA circuit. The source code includes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Weikai Li , Ding Wang , Zijian Ding , Atefeh Sohrabizadeh , Zongyue Qin , Jason Cong , Yizhou Sun

Deep Learning models have experienced exponential growth in complexity and resource demands in recent years. Accelerating these models for efficient execution on resource-constrained devices has become more crucial than ever. Two notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Inas Bachiri , Hadjer Benmeziane , Smail Niar , Riyadh Baghdadi , Hamza Ouarnoughi , Abdelkrime Aries

Dataflow architectures are growing in popularity due to their potential to mitigate the challenges posed by the memory wall inherent to the Von Neumann architecture. At the same time, high-level synthesis (HLS) has demonstrated its efficacy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Hanchen Ye , Hyegang Jun , Deming Chen

This paper proposes a novel higher-order multi-scale (HOMS) computational method, which is highly targeted for efficient, high-accuracy and low-computational-cost simulation of hygro-thermo-mechanical (H-T-M) coupling problems in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Hao Dong , Yifei Ding , Jiale Linghu , Yufeng Nie , Yaochuang Han

High-level synthesis (HLS) has significantly advanced the automation of digital circuits design, yet the need for expertise and time in pragma tuning remains challenging. Existing solutions for the design space exploration (DSE) adopt…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ping Chang , Tosiron Adegbija , Yuchao Liao , Claudio Talarico , Ao Li , Janet Roveda

Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance across numerous tasks by using a diverse array of adaptation strategies. However, optimally selecting a model and adaptation strategy under resource constraints is challenging and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jiayu Wang , Aws Albarghouthi , Frederic Sala

High-level synthesis (HLS) is a process that automatically translates a software program in a high-level language into a low-level hardware description. However, the hardware designs produced by HLS tools still suffer from a significant…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jianyi Cheng , Samuel Coward , Lorenzo Chelini , Rafael Barbalho , Theo Drane

Customized accelerators have revolutionized modern computing by delivering substantial gains in energy efficiency and performance through hardware specialization. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) play a crucial role in this paradigm,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Stéphane Pouget , Michael Lo , Louis-Noël Pouchet , Jason Cong

Polyhedral optimisation, a methodology that views nested loops as polyhedra and searches for their optimal transformation regarding specific objectives (parallelism, locality, etc.), sounds promising for mitigating difficulties in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ruizhe Zhao , Jianyi Cheng

Specialized hardware accelerators have been extensively used for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to provide power/performance benefits. These accelerators contain specialized hardware that supports DNN operators, and scratchpad memory for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yi Li , Aarti Gupta , Sharad Malik

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) Design Space Exploration (DSE) is essential for generating hardware designs that balance performance, power, and area (PPA). To optimize this process, existing works often employs message-passing neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Lei Xu , Shanshan Wang , Emmanuel Casseau , Chenglong Xiao

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) compiles algorithmic C/C++ descriptions into hardware, with Quality of Results (QoR) -- latency and resource utilization -- critically governed by pragma configurations and code structure. Existing LLM-based HLS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Qingyun Zou , Feng Yu , Hongshi Tan , Yao Chen , Bingsheng He , WengFai Wong

The use of deep learning has grown at an exponential rate, giving rise to numerous specialized hardware and software systems for deep learning. Because the design space of deep learning software stacks and hardware accelerators is diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhan Shi , Chirag Sakhuja , Milad Hashemi , Kevin Swersky , Calvin Lin

High-level synthesis (HLS) has enabled the rapid development of custom hardware circuits for many software applications. However, developing high-performance hardware circuits using HLS is still a non-trivial task requiring expertise in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Suhail Basalama , Jason Cong

High-level synthesis (HLS) enhances digital hardware design productivity through a high abstraction level. Even if the HLS abstraction prevents fine-grained manual register-transfer level (RTL) optimizations, it also enables automatable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Giovanni Brignone , Mihai T. Lazarescu , Luciano Lavagno