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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are fundamental to deep learning, driving applications across various domains. However, their growing complexity has significantly increased computational demands, necessitating efficient hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Junye Jiang , Yaan Zhou , Yuanhao Gong , Haoxuan Yuan , Shuanglong Liu

Implementing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has emerged as a promising alternative to GPUs, offering lower latency, greater power efficiency and greater flexibility. However, this development…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Philippe Magalhães , Virginie Fresse , Benoît Suffran , Olivier Alata

This paper introduces an effort to incorporate reconfigurable logic (FPGA) components into a software programming model. For this purpose, we have implemented a hardware engine for remote memory communication between hardware computation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-22 Ruediger Willenberg , Paul Chow

The increasing demand of dedicated accelerators to improve energy efficiency and performance has highlighted FPGAs as a promising option to deliver both. However, programming FPGAs in hardware description languages requires long time and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Maria A. Dávila-Guzmán , Rubén Gran Tejero , María Villarroya-Gaudó , Darío Suárez Gracia

Designing and optimizing FPGA overlays is a complex and time-consuming process, often requiring multiple trial-and-error iterations to determine a suitable configuration. This paper presents an AI-driven approach to optimizing FPGA overlay…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Rasha Karakchi

Image processing and machine learning applications benefit tremendously from hardware acceleration, but existing compilers target either FPGAs, which sacrifice power and performance for flexible hardware, or ASICs, which rapidly become…

FPGA-based heterogeneous architectures provide programmers with the ability to customize their hardware accelerators for flexible acceleration of many workloads. Nonetheless, such advantages come at the cost of sacrificing programmability.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Jason Cong , Zhenman Fang , Yuchen Hao , Peng Wei , Cody Hao Yu , Chen Zhang , Peipei Zhou

This paper presents an FPGA runtime framework that demonstrates the feasibility of using dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR) for time-sharing an FPGA by multiple realtime computer vision pipelines. The presented time-sharing runtime…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Marie Nguyen , James C. Hoe

One of the factors that limits the scale, performance, and sophistication of distributed applications is the difficulty of concurrently executing them on multiple distributed computing resources. In part, this is due to a poor understanding…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Matteo Turilli , Feng Liu , Zhao Zhang , Andre Merzky , Michael Wilde , Jon Weissman , Daniel S. Katz , Shantenu Jha

FPGAs are now ubiquitous in cloud computing infrastructures and reconfigurable system-on-chip, particularly for AI acceleration. Major cloud service providers such as Amazon and Microsoft are increasingly incorporating FPGAs for specialized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jayeeta Chaudhuri , Hassan Nassar , Dennis R. E. Gnad , Jorg Henkel , Mehdi B. Tahoori , Krishnendu Chakrabarty

In order to make full use of heterogeneous hardware, it is necessary to have a technical skill of hardware such as OpenCL, and the current situation is that the barrier is high. Based on this background, I have proposed environment-adaptive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yoji Yamato

In this paper, we present a software compilation approach for microprocessor/FPGA platforms that partitions a software binary onto custom hardware implemented in the FPGA. Our approach imposes less restrictions on software tool flow than…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Greg Stitt , Frank Vahid

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

The ability to express a program as a hierarchical composition of parts is an essential tool in managing the complexity of software and a key abstraction this provides is to separate the representation of data from the computation. Many…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-10-04 James Hanlon , Simon J. Hollis , David May

Hardware-based acceleration is an extensive attempt to facilitate many computationally-intensive mathematics operations. This paper proposes an FPGA-based architecture to accelerate the convolution operation - a complex and expensive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Trung Dinh Pham , Bao Gia Bach , Lam Trinh Luu , Minh Dinh Nguyen , Hai Duc Pham , Khoa Bui Anh , Xuan Quang Nguyen , Cuong Pham Quoc

Despite the increasing adoption of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in compute clouds, there remains a significant gap in programming tools and abstractions which can leverage network-connected, cloud-scale, multi-die FPGAs to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Neha Prakriya , Yuze Chi , Suhail Basalama , Linghao Song , Jason Cong

This paper explores advances in reconfiguration properties of SRAM-based FPGAs, namely Partial Dynamic Reconfiguration, to improve the resilience of critical systems that take advantage of this technology. Commercial of-the-shelf…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Jose Luis Nunes

Datacenter servers are increasingly heterogeneous: from x86 host CPUs, to ARM or RISC-V CPUs in NICs/SSDs, to FPGAs. Previous works have demonstrated that migrating application execution at run-time across heterogeneous-ISA CPUs can yield…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Edson Horta , Ho-Ren Chuang , Naarayanan Rao VSathish , Cesar Philippidis , Antonio Barbalace , Pierre Olivier , Binoy Ravindran

In this paper, the acceleration of algorithms using a design of a field programmable gate array (FPGA) as a prototype of a static dataflow architecture is discussed. The static dataflow architecture using operators interconnected by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Jorge Luiz e Silva , Joelmir Jose Lopes , Bruno de Abreu Silva , Antonio Carlos Fernandes da Silva

As AI systems grow increasingly specialized and complex, managing hardware heterogeneity becomes a pressing challenge. How can we efficiently coordinate and synchronize heterogeneous hardware resources to achieve high utilization? How can…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chengyue Wang , Xiaofan Zhang , Jason Cong , James C. Hoe