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This article presents a pioneering approach to real-time spacecraft pose estimation, utilizing a mixed-precision quantized neural network implemented on the FPGA components of a commercially available Xilinx MPSoC, renowned for its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Julien Posso , Guy Bois , Yvon Savaria

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are widely used in the central signal processing design of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) as acceleration hardware. The frequency domain acceleration search (FDAS) module is an important part of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Haomiao Wang , Prabu Thiagaraj , Oliver Sinnen

We propose a new fixed latency scheme for Xilinx gigabit transceivers that will be used in the upgrade of the ATLAS forward muon spectrometer at the Large Hadron Collider. The fixed latency scheme is implemented in a 4.8 Gbps link between a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-28 Jinhong Wang , Xueye Hu , Thomas Schwarz , Junjie Zhu , J. W. Chapman , Tiesheng Dai , Bing Zhou

A typical VLSI design flow is divided into separated front-end logic synthesis and back-end physical design (PD) stages, which often require costly iterations between these stages to achieve design closure. Existing approaches face…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Hongyang Pan , Cunqing Lan , Yiting Liu , Zhiang Wang , Li Shang , Xuan Zeng , Fan Yang , Keren Zhu

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

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

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

Approximate computing is a promising approach to reduce the power, delay, and area in hardware design for many error-resilient applications such as machine learning (ML) and digital signal processing (DSP) systems, in which multipliers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhen Li , Hao Zhou , Lingli Wang

We present a design space exploration for synthesizing optimized, high-throughput implementations of multiple multi-dimensional tridiagonal system solvers on FPGAs. Re-evaluating the characteristics of algorithms for the direct solution of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Kamalavasan Kamalakkannan , Istvan Z. Reguly , Suhaib A. Fahmy , Gihan R. Mudalige

A 3.8ps root mean square (RMS) time synchronization implemented in a 20nm fabrication process ultrascale kintex Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is presented. The multichannel high-speed serial transceivers (e.g. GTH) play a key role in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-12 Hong-Bo Xie , Yang Li , Qi Shen , Sheng-Kai Liao , Cheng-Zhi Peng

FPGA overlays are commonly implemented as coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures with a goal to improve designers' productivity through balancing flexibility and ease of configuration of the underlying fabric. To truly facilitate full…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Ho-Cheung Ng , Cheng Liu , Hayden Kwok-Hay So

The increasing demand for larger and higher fidelity simulations has made Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) and unstructured mesh techniques essential to focus compute effort and memory cost on just the areas of interest in the simulation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Xuan Huang , Will Usher , Valerio Pascucci

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is widely used in acceleration of deep learning applications because of its reconfigurability, flexibility, and fast time-to-market. However, conventional FPGA suffers from the tradeoff between chip area…

This paper presents a heuristic approach for solving the placement of Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits. Placement is a crucial step in the physical design of integrated circuits. During this step, designers choose the position…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Josef Grus , Zdeněk Hanzálek

Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) rely heavily on intensive matrix multiplications for attention and feed-forward layers, with the Q, K, and V linear projections in the Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHA) module constituting a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Richie Li , Sicheng Chen

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become essential in cloud computing due to their reconfigurability, energy efficiency, and ability to accelerate domain-specific workloads. As FPGA adoption grows, research into task scheduling…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arsalan Ali Malik , John Buchanan , Aydin Aysu

Hardware accelerators, such as those based on GPUs and FPGAs, offer an excellent opportunity to efficiently parallelize functionalities. Recently, modern embedded platforms started being equipped with such accelerators, resulting in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Daniel Casini , Paolo Pazzaglia , Alessandro Biondi , Marco Di Natale

Fully-partitioned fixed-priority scheduling (FP-FPS) multiprocessor systems are widely found in real-time applications, where spin-based protocols are often deployed to manage the mutually exclusive access of shared resources.…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Shuai Zhao , Hanzhi Xu , Nan Chen , Ruoxian Su , Wanli Chang

Partial Reconfiguration (PR) is a technique that allows reconfiguring the FPGA chip at runtime. However, current design support tools require manual floorplanning of the partial modules. Several approaches have been proposed in this field,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Norbert Deak , Octavian Creţ , Horia Hedeşiu

Current soft processor architectures for FPGAs do not utilize the potential of the massive parallelism available. FPGAs now support many thousands of embedded floating point operators, and have similar computational densities to GPGPUs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Martin Langhammer , George A. Constantinides