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Deep learning (DL) is becoming the cornerstone of numerous applications both in datacenters and at the edge. Specialized hardware is often necessary to meet the performance requirements of state-of-the-art DL models, but the rapid pace of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Andrew Boutros , Aman Arora , Vaughn Betz

In this paper we describe a single-node, double precision Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation of the Conjugate Gradient algorithm in the context of Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics. As a benchmark of our proposal we invert…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Grzegorz Korcyl , Piotr Korcyl

The implementation of convolutional neural networks in programmable logic, for applications in fast online event selection at hadron colliders is studied. In particular, an approach based on full event images for classification is studied,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-13 James Brooke , Emyr Clement , Maciej Glowacki , Sudarshan Paramesvaran , Jeronimo Segal

In recent years the computational capacity of single Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) devices as well as their versatility has increased significantly. Adding to that the High Level Synthesis frameworks allowing to program such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-22 G. Korcyl , P. Korcyl

We present a novel application of the machine learning / artificial intelligence method called boosted decision trees to estimate physical quantities on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). The software package fwXmachina features a new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-04-12 Benjamin Carlson , Quincy Bayer , Tae Min Hong , Stephen Roche

The electron-proton collider HERA is being upgraded to provide higher luminosity from the end of the year 2001. In order to enhance the selectivity on exclusive processes a Fast Track Trigger (FTT) with high momentum resolution is being…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-17 D. Meer , D. Muller , J. Muller , A. Schoning , Ch. Wissing

Deep neural network (DNN) inference relies increasingly on specialized hardware for high computational efficiency. This work introduces a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based dynamically configurable accelerator featuring systolic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Anastasios Petropoulos , Theodore Antonakopoulos

The challenges involved in executing neural networks (NNs) at the edge include providing diversity, flexibility, and sustainability. That implies, for instance, supporting evolving applications and algorithms energy-efficiently. Using…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Federico Manca , Francesco Ratto , Francesca Palumbo

Embedded Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (eFPGAs) allow for the design of hardware accelerators of edge Machine Learning (ML) applications at a lower power budget compared with traditional FPGA platforms. However, the limited eFPGA logic and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Tousif Rahman , Gang Mao , Bob Pattison , Sidharth Maheshwari , Marcos Sartori , Adrian Wheeldon , Rishad Shafik , Alex Yakovlev

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…

The operation of CMOS Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) at extremely cold environments as low as 4 K is demonstrated. Various FPGA and periphery hardware design techniques spanning from HDL design to improvements of peripheral…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Christopher Lewis , Drew Sellers , Michael Hamilton

Improvements in computer systems have historically relied on two well-known observations: Moore's law and Dennard's scaling. Today, both these observations are ending, forcing computer users, researchers, and practitioners to abandon the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Martin Karp , Artur Podobas , Niclas Jansson , Tobias Kenter , Christian Plessl , Philipp Schlatter , Stefano Markidis

This study presents advanced neural network architectures including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs), and Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) for enhanced ECG signal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kayode Inadagbo , Baran Arig , Nisanur Alici , Murat Isik

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

Real-time jet tagging is critical for identifying short-lived particle decays in the high-throughput detectors of the Large Hadron Collider, where real-time trigger systems responsible for deciding which collision events to store impose…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-22 Aaron Wang , Zihan Zhao , Alan Xia , Chang Sun , Abhijith Gandrakota , Jennifer Ngadiuba , Richard Cavanaugh , Javier Duarte

The rapid growth of data size and accessibility in recent years has instigated a shift of philosophy in algorithm design for artificial intelligence. Instead of engineering algorithms by hand, the ability to learn composable systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Griffin Lacey , Graham W. Taylor , Shawki Areibi

The exponential emergence of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) has accelerated the research of hardware implementation of Deep Neural Network (DNN). Among all DNN processors, domain specific architectures, such as, Google's Tensor…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Rourab Paul , Sreetama Sarkar , Suman Sau , Koushik Chakraborty , Sanghamitra Roy , Amlan Chakrabarti

Transformer neural networks (TNN) excel in natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and computer vision (CV) without relying on recurrent or convolutional layers. However, they have high computational and memory demands,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ehsan Kabir , Jason D. Bakos , David Andrews , Miaoqing Huang

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) efficiently on edge devices is often constrained by limited memory capacity and high power consumption. Low-bit quantization methods, particularly ternary quantization, have demonstrated significant…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Chenyang Yin , Zhenyu Bai , Pranav Venkatram , Shivam Aggarwal , Zhaoying Li , Tulika Mitra

Intensive computation is entering data centers with multiple workloads of deep learning. To balance the compute efficiency, performance, and total cost of ownership (TCO), the use of a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Xiaoyu Yu , Yuwei Wang , Jie Miao , Ephrem Wu , Heng Zhang , Yu Meng , Bo Zhang , Biao Min , Dewei Chen , Jianlin Gao