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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

Dynamically scheduled high-level synthesis (HLS) achieves higher throughput than static HLS for codes with unpredictable memory accesses and control flow. However, excessive dataflow scheduling results in circuits that use more resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Robert Szafarczyk , Syed Waqar Nabi , Wim Vanderbauwhede

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) serves as an agile hardware development tool that streamlines the circuit design by abstracting the register transfer level into behavioral descriptions, while allowing designers to customize the generated…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Runkai Li , Jia Xiong , Xi Wang

Machine learning (ML) is shown to predict new alloys and their performances in a high dimensional, multiple-target-property design space that considers chemistry, multi-step processing routes, and characterization methodology variations. A…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-12 Sen Liu , Branden B. Kappes , Behnam Amin-ahmadi , Othmane Benafan , Xiaoli Zhang , Aaron P. Stebner

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

High-level synthesis (HLS) has been widely adopted as it significantly improves the hardware design productivity and enables efficient design space exploration (DSE). Existing HLS tools are built using compiler infrastructures largely based…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Hanchen Ye , Cong Hao , Jianyi Cheng , Hyunmin Jeong , Jack Huang , Stephen Neuendorffer , Deming Chen

In the domain of image processing, often real-time constraints are required. In particular, in safety-critical applications, such as X-ray computed tomography in medical imaging or advanced driver assistance systems in the automotive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Oliver Reiche , Konrad Häublein , Marc Reichenbach , Frank Hannig , Jürgen Teich , Dietmar Fey

This paper introduces a novel end-to-end framework that efficiently integrates data quality assessment with machine learning (ML) model operations in real-time production environments. While existing approaches treat data quality assessment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Firas Bayram , Bestoun S. Ahmed , Erik Hallin

Embedded systems continue to rapidly proliferate in diverse fields, including medical devices, autonomous vehicles, and more generally, the Internet of Things (IoT). Many embedded systems require application-specific hardware components to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yuchao Liao , Tosiron Adegbija , Roman Lysecky

As machine learning (ML) is increasingly implemented in hardware to address real-time challenges in scientific applications, the development of advanced toolchains has significantly reduced the time required to iterate on various designs.…

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based Software-Defined Radio (SDR) is well-suited for experimenting with advanced wireless communication systems, as it allows to alter the architecture promptly while obtaining high performance.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Thijs Havinga , Xianjun Jiao , Wei Liu , Ingrid Moerman

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

Heuristic design upholds modern electronic design automation (EDA) tools, yet crafting effective placement, routing, and scheduling strategies entails substantial expertise. We study how large language models (LLMs) can systematically…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Shiva Ahir , Alex Doboli

To fully exploit the physics potential of current and future high energy particle colliders, machine learning (ML) can be implemented in detector electronics for intelligent data processing and acquisition. The implementation of ML in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-19 Haoyi Jia , Abhilasha Dave , Julia Gonski , Ryan Herbst

C/C++/OpenCL-based high-level synthesis (HLS) becomes more and more popular for field-programmable gate array (FPGA) accelerators in many application domains in recent years, thanks to its competitive quality of results (QoR) and short…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Yuze Chi , Licheng Guo , Jason Lau , Young-kyu Choi , Jie Wang , Jason Cong

With the increasing demand for computing capability given limited resource and power budgets, it is crucial to deploy applications to customized accelerators like FPGAs. However, FPGA programming is non-trivial. Although existing high-level…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Weichuang Zhang , Jieru Zhao , Guan Shen , Quan Chen , Chen Chen , Minyi Guo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in hardware front-end design using hardware description languages (HDLs). However, their inherent tendency toward hallucination often introduces functional errors into the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kangwei Xu , Grace Li Zhang , Ulf Schlichtmann , Bing Li

Contemporary hardware design benefits from the abstraction provided by high-level logic gates, streamlining the implementation of logic circuits. Logic Synthesis Optimization (LSO) operates at one level of abstraction within the Electronic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Raika Karimi , Faezeh Faez , Yingxue Zhang , Xing Li , Lei Chen , Mingxuan Yuan , Mahdi Biparva

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) is a pivotal electronic design automation (EDA) technology that enables the generation of hardware circuits from high-level language descriptions. A critical step in HLS is Design Space Exploration (DSE), which…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lei Xu , Shanshan Wang , Chenglong Xiao

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) plays a crucial role in modern hardware design by transforming high-level code into optimized hardware implementations. However, progress in applying machine learning (ML) to HLS optimization has been hindered by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zedong Peng , Zeju Li , Mingzhe Gao , Qiang Xu , Chen Zhang , Jieru Zhao