English
Related papers

Related papers: RapidLayout: Fast Hard Block Placement of FPGA-opt…

200 papers

We present a very simple and fast algorithm for the numerical solution of viscoplastic flow problems without prior regularisation. Compared to the widespread alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM / ALG2), the new method features…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Timm Treskatis , Miguel A. Moyers-Gonzalez , Chris J. Price

The acceleration of deep-learning kernels in hardware relies on matrix multiplications that are executed efficiently on Systolic Arrays (SA). To effectively trade off deep-learning training/inference quality with hardware cost, SA…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-11 D. Filippas , C. Peltekis , G. Dimitrakopoulos , C. Nicopoulos

Offloading compute intensive nested loops to execute on FPGA accelerators have been demonstrated by numerous researchers as an effective performance enhancement technique across numerous application domains. To construct such accelerators…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Cheng Liu , Ho-Cheung Ng , Hayden Kwok-Hay So

Increasing development in embedded systems, VLSI and processor design have given rise to increased demands from the system in terms of power, speed, area, throughput etc. Most of the sophisticated embedded system applications consist of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Bhavana Mehta , Jonti Talukdar , Sachin Gajjar

Recent focus on robustness to adversarial attacks for deep neural networks produced a large variety of algorithms for training robust models. Most of the effective algorithms involve solving the min-max optimization problem for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Yasaman Esfandiari , Aditya Balu , Keivan Ebrahimi , Umesh Vaidya , Nicola Elia , Soumik Sarkar

Edge-AI applications demand high-throughput, low-latency inference on FPGAs under tight resource and power constraints. This survey provides a comprehensive review of two key architectural decisions for FPGA-based neural network…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Richie Li

Edge AI deployment faces critical challenges balancing computational performance, energy efficiency, and resource constraints. This paper presents FPGA-accelerated RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) extensions for efficient neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arya Parameshwara , Santosh Hanamappa Mokashi

Implementing a digital circuit on an FPGA fabric requires clustering technology-mapped netlist primitives into coarser-granularity blocks that can be directly mapped to the physical resources available on the FPGA. As the architecture of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Milo Liebster , Amin Mohaghegh , Andrew Boutros

As IoT and edge inference proliferate,there is a growing need to simultaneously optimize area and delay in lookup-table (LUT)-based multipliers that implement large numbers of low-bitwidth operations in parallel. This paper proposes a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Misaki Kida , Shimpei Sato

Field Programmable Gate Arrays(FPGA) exceed the computing power of software based implementations by breaking the paradigm of sequential execution and accomplishing more per clock cycle by enabling hardware level parallelization at an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Gurshaant Malik , Krishna Gupta , Raunak Dharani , K Madhava Krishna

Edge inference for large language models (LLM) offers secure, low-latency, and cost-effective inference solutions. We emphasize that an edge accelerator should achieve high area efficiency and minimize external memory access (EMA) during…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Chun-Ting Chen , HanGyeol Mun , Jian Meng , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , Jae-sun Seo

This paper presents the novel idea of multi-placement structures, for a fast and optimized placement instantiation in analog circuit synthesis. These structures need to be generated only once for a specific circuit topology. When used in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Raoul F. Badaoui , Ranga Vemuri

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used in deep learning applications, e.g. visual systems, robotics etc. However, existing software solutions are not efficient. Therefore, many hardware accelerators have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sasindu Wijeratne , Sandaruwan Jayaweera , Mahesh Dananjaya , Ajith Pasqual

Guidance commands of flight vehicles are a series of data sets with fixed time intervals, thus guidance design constitutes a sequential decision problem and satisfies the basic conditions for using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Xiao Hu , Tianshu Wang , Min Gong , Shaoshi Yang

The computation and memory-intensive nature of DNNs limits their use in many mobile and embedded contexts. Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) hardware accelerators employ matrix multiplication units (such as the systolic arrays)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Ruiqi Sun , Yinchen Ni , Xin He , Jie Zhao , An Zou

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, but their inference efficiency remains a critical bottleneck due to rapidly growing parameters. Recent advances in dynamic computation…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zicheng He , Anhao Zhao , Xiaoyu Shen , Chen Wu , Lei He

Flexibility and customization are key strengths of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) when compared to other computing devices. For instance, FPGAs can efficiently implement arbitrary-precision arithmetic operations, and can perform…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Junius Pun , Xilai Dai , Grace Zgheib , Mahesh A. Iyer , Andrew Boutros , Vaughn Betz , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

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

Using FPGAs to accelerate ConvNets has attracted significant attention in recent years. However, FPGA accelerator design has not leveraged the latest progress of ConvNets. As a result, the key application characteristics such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Yifan Yang , Qijing Huang , Bichen Wu , Tianjun Zhang , Liang Ma , Giulio Gambardella , Michaela Blott , Luciano Lavagno , Kees Vissers , John Wawrzynek , Kurt Keutzer

Robust fine-tuning aims to achieve competitive in-distribution (ID) performance while maintaining the out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness of a pre-trained model when transferring it to a downstream task. Recently, projected gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Junjiao Tian , Yen-Cheng Liu , James Seale Smith , Zsolt Kira