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The field of edge computing has witnessed remarkable growth owing to the increasing demand for real-time processing of data in applications. However, challenges persist due to limitations in performance and power consumption. To overcome…

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The increasing diversity and complexity of transformer workloads at the edge present significant challenges in balancing performance, energy efficiency, and architectural flexibility. This paper introduces NX-CGRA, a programmable hardware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Rohit Prasad

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

With their widespread availability, FPGA-based accelerators cards have become an alternative to GPUs and CPUs to accelerate computing in applications with certain requirements (like energy efficiency) or properties (like fixed-point…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tom Vander Aa , Tom Haber , Thomas J. Ashby , Roel Wuyts , Wilfried Verachtert

A fundamental question lies in almost every application of deep neural networks: what is the optimal neural architecture given a specific dataset? Recently, several Neural Architecture Search (NAS) frameworks have been developed that use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Weiwen Jiang , Xinyi Zhang , Edwin H. -M. Sha , Lei Yang , Qingfeng Zhuge , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) based accelerators are being widely used for acceleration of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to their potential in improving the performance and reconfigurability for specific application…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Martin Ferianc , Hongxiang Fan , Ringo S. W. Chu , Jakub Stano , Wayne Luk

Extreme edge-AI systems, such as those in readout ASICs for radiation detection, must operate under stringent hardware constraints such as micron-level dimensions, sub-milliwatt power, and nanosecond-scale speed while providing clear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shubha R. Kharel , Prashansa Mukim , Piotr Maj , Grzegorz W. Deptuch , Shinjae Yoo , Yihui Ren , Soumyajit Mandal

Efficiently finding subgraph embeddings in large graphs is crucial for many application areas like biology and social network analysis. Set intersections are the predominant and most challenging aspect of current join-based subgraph query…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Jonas Dann , Tobias Götz , Daniel Ritter , Jana Giceva , Holger Fröning

Neural architectures and hardware accelerators have been two driving forces for the progress in deep learning. Previous works typically attempt to optimize hardware given a fixed model architecture or model architecture given fixed…

This paper presents the High-Performance computing efforts with FPGA for the accelerated pulsar/transient search for the SKA. Case studies are presented from within SKA and pathfinder telescopes highlighting future opportunities. It reviews…

FPGA-level emulation is a key step in pre-silicon chip design validation. However, emulating large-scale multi-core systems increasingly exceed the hardware resource capacity of a single FPGA, limiting the feasibility of full-system…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Alexander Kropotov , Miquel Moreto , Behzad Salami

Improving the efficiency of edge detection in embedded applications, such as UAV control, is critical for reducing system cost and power dissipation. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) are a good platform for making improvements because…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Jamie Schiel , Andrew Bainbridge-Smith

In view of the performance limitations of fully-decoupled designs for neural architectures and accelerators, hardware-software co-design has been emerging to fully reap the benefits of flexible design spaces and optimize neural network…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Bingqian Lu , Zheyu Yan , Yiyu Shi , Shaolei Ren

Path planning is critical for autonomous driving, generating smooth, collision-free, feasible paths based on perception and localization inputs. However, its computationally intensive nature poses significant challenges for…

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FPGAs are increasingly gaining traction in cloud and edge computing environments due to their hardware flexibility, low latency, and low energy consumption. However, the existing hardware stack of FPGA and the host-FPGA connectivity does…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) demand substantial computational resources, resulting in high energy consumption on GPUs. To address this challenge, we focus on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) as an effective alternative that…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Takuto Ando , Yu Eto , Ayumu Takeuchi , Yasuhiko Nakashima

FPGAs are an attractive type of accelerator for all-purpose HPC computing systems due to the possibility of deploying tailored hardware on demand. However, the common tools for programming and operating FPGAs are still complex to use,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal , Nick Brown , Yuri Torres , Arturo Gonzalez-Escribano

The rapid advancement of neural network applications necessitates hardware that not only accelerates computation but also adapts efficiently to dynamic processing requirements. While processing-in-pixel has emerged as a promising solution…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Zihan Yin , Akhilesh Jaiswal

Recent researches on neural network have shown significant advantage in machine learning over traditional algorithms based on handcrafted features and models. Neural network is now widely adopted in regions like image, speech and video…

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