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Streaming coarse-grained reconfgurable array (CGRA) is a promising architecture for data/computing-intensive applications because of its fexibility, high throughput and efcient memory system. However,when accelerating sparse CNNs, the…
Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) are domain-specific devices promising both the flexibility of FPGAs and the performance of ASICs. However, with restricted domains comes a danger: designing chips that cannot accelerate enough…
Boolean satisfiability (SAT) is a fundamental NP-complete problem with many applications, including automated planning and scheduling. To solve large instances, SAT solvers have to rely on heuristics, e.g., choosing a branching variable in…
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…
While coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) have emerged as promising programmable accelerator architectures, pipelining applications running on CGRAs is required to ensure high maximum clock frequencies. Current CGRA compilers…
Increasing demands for computing power also propel the need for energy-efficient SoC accelerator architectures. One class of such accelerators are so-called processor arrays, which typically integrate a two-dimensional mesh of…
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is being increasingly applied to the problem of resource allocation for emerging System-on-Chip (SoC) applications, and has shown remarkable promises. In this paper, we introduce SoCRATES (SoC Resource…
With increasing diversity in Deep Neural Network(DNN) models in terms of layer shapes and sizes, the research community has been investigating flexible/reconfigurable accelerator substrates. This line of research has opened up two…
The architecture of a coarse-grained reconfigurable array (CGRA) processing element (PE) has a significant effect on the performance and energy efficiency of an application running on the CGRA. This paper presents an automated approach for…
Coarse-grain reconfigurable architectures (CGRAs) are gaining traction thanks to their performance and power efficiency. Utilizing CGRAs to accelerate the execution of tight loops holds great potential for achieving significant overall…
The performance bottlenecks of graph applications depend not only on the algorithm and the underlying hardware, but also on the size and structure of the input graph. Programmers must try different combinations of a large set of techniques…
The demand for efficient machine learning (ML) accelerators is growing rapidly, driving the development of novel computing concepts such as resistive random access memory (RRAM)-based tiled computing-in-memory (CIM) architectures. CIM…
The well known method C-Slow Retiming (CSR) can be used to automatically convert a given CPU into a multithreaded CPU with independent threads. These CPUs are then called streaming or barrel processors. System Hyper Pipelining (SHP) adds a…
Stencils represent a class of computational patterns where an output grid point depends on a fixed shape of neighboring points in an input grid. Stencil computations are prevalent in scientific applications engaging a significant portion of…
This study evaluates AoS-to-SoA transformations over reduced-precision data layouts for a particle simulation code on several GPU platforms: We hypothesize that SoA fits particularly well to SIMT, while AoS is the preferred storage format…
Railway scheduling is a problem that exhibits both non-trivial discrete and continuous behavior. In this paper, we simulate train networks at a low level, where a number of timing and ordering constraints can appear. We model this problem…
The floorplanning of Systems-on-a-Chip (SoCs) and of chip sub-systems is a crucial step in the physical design flow as it determines the optimal shapes and locations of the blocks that make up the system. Simulated Annealing (SA) has been…
We propose a new modularity optimization method, Mod-CSA, based on stochastic global optimization algorithm, conformational space annealing (CSA). Our method outperforms simulated annealing in terms of both efficiency and accuracy, finding…
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