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Spatial computing architectures pose an attractive alternative to mitigate control and data movement overheads typical of load-store architectures. In practice, these devices are rarely considered in the HPC community due to the steep…
Customized accelerators have revolutionized modern computing by delivering substantial gains in energy efficiency and performance through hardware specialization. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) play a crucial role in this paradigm,…
PDDL+ planning has its semantics rooted in hybrid automata (HA) and recent work has shown that it can be modeled as a network of HAs. Addressing the complexity of nonlinear PDDL+ planning as HAs requires both space and time efficient…
Floating point arithmetic remains expensive on FPGA platforms due to wide datapaths and normalization logic, motivating alternative representations that preserve dynamic range at lower cost. This work introduces the Hybrid Residue Floating…
Optical flow estimation is a fundamental and long-standing visual task. In this work, we present a novel method, dubbed HMAFlow, to improve optical flow estimation in challenging scenes, particularly those involving small objects. The…
Hardware faults on the regular 2-D computing array of a typical deep learning accelerator (DLA) can lead to dramatic prediction accuracy loss. Prior redundancy design approaches typically have each homogeneous redundant processing element…
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) refers to a set of encryption schemes that allow computations to be applied directly on encrypted data without requiring a secret key. This enables novel application scenarios where a client can safely…
Many modern video processing pipelines rely on edge-aware (EA) filtering methods. However, recent high-quality methods are challenging to run in real-time on embedded hardware due to their computational load. To this end, we propose an…
High-level synthesis (HLS) accelerates FPGA design by rapidly generating diverse implementations using optimization directives. However, even with cycle-accurate C/RTL co-simulation, the reported clock cycles often differ significantly from…
High-Level Synthesis (HLS) brings FPGAs to audiences previously unfamiliar to hardware design. However, achieving the highest Quality-of-Results (QoR) with HLS is still unattainable for most programmers. This requires detailed knowledge of…
Floating point arithmetic is costly on FPGA platforms due to wide datapaths, normalization, and carry propagation, motivating alternative numerical representations that improve throughput and efficiency. This paper presents the Hybrid…
High-level synthesis (HLS) accelerates hardware design by enabling the automatic translation of high-level descriptions into efficient hardware implementations. However, debugging HLS code is a challenging and labor-intensive task,…
Hydra is a header-only, templated and C++11-compliant framework designed to perform the typical bottleneck calculations found in common HEP data analyses on massively parallel platforms. The framework is implemented on top of the C++11…
Multi-die FPGAs are widely adopted to deploy large hardware accelerators. Two factors impede the performance optimization of HLS designs implemented on multi-die FPGAs. On the one hand, the long net delay due to nets crossing die-boundaries…
Many modern embedded systems have end-to-end (EtoE) latency constraints that necessitate precise timing to ensure high reliability and functional correctness. The combination of High-Level Synthesis (HLS) and Design Space Exploration (DSE)…
Recent years have seen an increased interest in large-scale analytical dataflows on non-relational data. These dataflows are compiled into execution graphs scheduled on large compute clusters. In many novel application areas the predominant…
Driven by the increasing demand for low-latency and real-time processing, machine learning applications are steadily migrating toward edge computing platforms, where Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are widely adopted for their energy…
Implementing image processing algorithms using FPGAs or ASICs can improve energy efficiency by orders of magnitude over optimized CPU, DSP, or GPU code. These efficiency improvements are crucial for enabling new applications on mobile…
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) relies heavily on the Number Theoretic Transform (NTT), making NTT a major performance bottleneck due to its intensive polynomial computations. Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption (HHE), which integrates…
High-throughput imaging workflows, such as Parallel Rapid Imaging with Spectroscopic Mapping (PRISM), generate data at rates that exceed conventional real-time processing capabilities. We present a scalable FPGA-based preprocessing pipeline…