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High Level Synthesis (HLS) tools, like the Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL, improve design productivity and enable efficient design space exploration guided by simple program directives (pragmas), but may sometimes miss important optimizations…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Adel Ejjeh , Vikram Adve , Rob Rutenbar

FPGAs provide highly parallel and customizable hardware solutions but are traditionally programmed using low-level Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) like VHDL and Verilog. These languages have a low level of abstraction and require…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Hendrik Folmer

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

Hardware synthesis is a general term used to refer to the processes involved in automatically generating a hardware design from its specification. High-level synthesis (HLS) could be defined as the translation from a behavioral description…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Issam Damaj

Accessible machine learning algorithms, software, and diagnostic tools for energy-efficient devices and systems are extremely valuable across a broad range of application domains. In scientific domains, real-time near-sensor processing can…

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

Although high-level synthesis (HLS) tools have significantly improved programmer productivity over hardware description languages, developing for FPGAs remains tedious and error prone. Programmers must learn and implement a large set of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Johannes de Fine Licht , Tiziano De Matteis , Tal Ben-Nun , Andreas Kuster , Oliver Rausch , Manuel Burger , Carl-Johannes Johnsen , Torsten Hoefler

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) Design Space Exploration (DSE) is a widely accepted approach for efficiently exploring Pareto-optimal and optimal hardware solutions during the HLS process. Several HLS benchmarks and datasets are available for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yuchao Liao , Tosiron Adegbija , Roman Lysecky , Ravi Tandon

The electronic design automation (EDA) community has been actively exploring machine learning (ML) for very large-scale integrated computer-aided design (VLSI CAD). Many studies explored learning-based techniques for cross-stage prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Zhuomin Chai , Yuxiang Zhao , Yibo Lin , Wei Liu , Runsheng Wang , Ru Huang

High-level synthesis (HLS) has received significant attention in recent years, improving programmability for FPGAs. PolyMage is a domain-specific language (DSL) for image processing pipelines that also has a HLS backend to translate the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Vinamra Benara , Ziaul Choudhury , Suresh Purini , Uday Bondhugula

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

High-level synthesis (HLS) is an automated design process that transforms high-level code into hardware designs, enabling the rapid development of hardware accelerators. HLS relies on pragmas, which are directives inserted into the source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yunsheng Bai , Atefeh Sohrabizadeh , Zijian Ding , Rongjian Liang , Weikai Li , Ding Wang , Haoxing Ren , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

The algorithm-to-hardware High-level synthesis (HLS) tools today are purported to produce hardware comparable in quality to handcrafted designs, particularly with user directive driven or domains specific HLS. However, HLS tools are not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Vinay B. Y. Kumar , Pinalkumar Engineer , Mandar Datar , Yatish Turakhia , Saurabh Agarwal , Sanket Diwale , Sachin B. Patkar

Various studies have shown the advantages of using Machine Learning (ML) techniques for analog and digital IC design automation and optimization. Data scarcity is still an issue for electronic designs, while training highly accurate ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Prasha Srivastava , Pawan Kumar , Zia Abbas

FPGAs are increasingly adopted in datacenter environments for their reconfigurability and energy efficiency. High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools have eased FPGA programming by raising the abstraction level from RTL to untimed C/C++, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Neha Prakriya , Zijian Ding , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) is emerging as a mainstream design methodology, allowing software designers to enjoy the benefits of a hardware implementation. Significant work has led to effective compilers that produce high-quality hardware…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Jeffrey Goeders , Steven J. E. Wilton

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is one of the past decade's most important tools for enabling biology scientists and researchers to explore human health and diseases. However, due to the computation complexity of the MD algorithm, it…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Jason Cong , Zhenman Fang , Hassan Kianinejad , Peng Wei

FPGAs excel in low power and high throughput computations, but they are challenging to program. Traditionally, developers rely on hardware description languages like Verilog or VHDL to specify the hardware behavior at the register-transfer…

Real time data acquisition systems in nuclear science often rely on high-speed logic designs to reach the fast data rate requirements. They are mostly coded in a hardware description language (HDL). However, in recent years, high level…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-29 Tétrault Marc-André

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) frameworks allow to easily specify a large number of variants of the same hardware design by only acting on optimization directives. Nonetheless, the hardware synthesis of implementations for all possible…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Lorenzo Ferretti , Jihye Kwon , Giovanni Ansaloni , Giuseppe Di Guglielmo , Luca Carloni , Laura Pozzi