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Agile hardware development requires fast and accurate circuit quality evaluation from early design stages. Existing work of high-level synthesis (HLS) performance prediction usually needs extensive feature engineering after the synthesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Nan Wu , Hang Yang , Yuan Xie , Pan Li , Cong Hao

High-level synthesis (HLS) has freed the computer architects from developing their designs in a very low-level language and needing to exactly specify how the data should be transferred in register-level. With the help of HLS, the hardware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Atefeh Sohrabizadeh , Yunsheng Bai , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

In recent years, domain-specific accelerators (DSAs) have gained popularity for applications such as deep learning and autonomous driving. To facilitate DSA designs, programmers use high-level synthesis (HLS) to compile a high-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zongyue Qin , Yunsheng Bai , Atefeh Sohrabizadeh , Zijian Ding , Ziniu Hu , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

High-level synthesis (HLS) performs well for simple memory access patterns, such as for sequential accesses that can be turned into bursts, or for memory accesses into small datasets that can be stored in scratchpads. This limits HLS to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-25 David Metz , Magnus Själander

There have been several recent works proposed to utilize model-based optimization methods to improve the productivity of using high-level synthesis (HLS) to design domain-specific architectures. They would replace the time-consuming…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zijian Ding , Atefeh Sohrabizadeh , Weikai Li , Zongyue Qin , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

High-level synthesis (HLS) is a powerful tool for developing efficient hardware accelerators that rely on specialized memory systems to achieve sufficient on-chip data reuse and off-chip bandwidth utilization. However, even with HLS,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Izumi Tanaka , Ken Sakayori , Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki , Naoki Kobayashi

High-level synthesis (HLS) is a process that automatically translates a software program in a high-level language into a low-level hardware description. However, the hardware designs produced by HLS tools still suffer from a significant…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jianyi Cheng , Samuel Coward , Lorenzo Chelini , Rafael Barbalho , Theo Drane

High-level synthesis (HLS) transforms an algorithmic description of hardware from a higher abstraction (e.g., C/C++) into a register-transfer level (RTL) design, offering reduced development time and greater flexibility in design space…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Xiaofeng Zhou , Linfeng Du , Guangyu Hu , Sharad Sinha , Hongce Zhang , Wei Zhang

Embedded systems continue to rapidly proliferate in diverse fields, including medical devices, autonomous vehicles, and more generally, the Internet of Things (IoT). Many embedded systems require application-specific hardware components to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yuchao Liao , Tosiron Adegbija , Roman Lysecky

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) compiles algorithmic C/C++ descriptions into hardware, with Quality of Results (QoR) -- latency and resource utilization -- critically governed by pragma configurations and code structure. Existing LLM-based HLS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Qingyun Zou , Feng Yu , Hongshi Tan , Yao Chen , Bingsheng He , WengFai Wong

Despite the great success of High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools, we observe several unresolved challenges: 1) the high-level abstraction of programming styles in HLS sometimes conceals optimization opportunities; 2) existing HLS tools do not…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Nan Wu , Yuan Xie , Cong Hao

This paper introduces Natural-Level Synthesis, an innovative approach for generating hardware using generative artificial intelligence on both the system level and component-level. NLS bridges a gap in current hardware development…

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High-level synthesis (HLS) refers to the automatic translation of a software program written in a high-level language into a hardware design. Modern HLS tools have moved away from the traditional approach of static (compile time) scheduling…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Aditya Rajagopal , Diederik Adriaan Vink , Jianyi Cheng , Yann Herklotz

Training robust supervised deep learning models for many geospatial applications of computer vision is difficult due to dearth of class-balanced and diverse training data. Conversely, obtaining enough training data for many applications is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Xuerong Xiao , Swetava Ganguli , Vipul Pandey

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) enables hardware design from C/C++ kernels but requires extensive transformations, such as restructuring code, inserting pragmas, adapting data types, and repairing non-synthesizable constructs, to achieve…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Qingyun Zou , Nuo Chen , Yao Chen , Bingsheng He , WengFei Wong

High-Level Synthesis enables the rapid prototyping of hardware accelerators, by combining a high-level description of the functional behavior of a kernel with a set of micro-architecture optimizations as inputs. Such optimizations can be…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Stéphane Pouget , Louis-Noël Pouchet , Jason Cong

An ideal synthetic population, a key input to activity-based models, mimics the distribution of the individual- and household-level attributes in the actual population. Since the entire population's attributes are generally unavailable,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-03 Eui-Jin Kim , Prateek Bansal

Training robust supervised deep learning models for many geospatial applications of computer vision is difficult due to dearth of class-balanced and diverse training data. Conversely, obtaining enough training data for many applications is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xuerong Xiao , Swetava Ganguli , Vipul Pandey

Large language models (LLMs) have catalyzed an upsurge in automatic code generation, garnering significant attention for register transfer level (RTL) code generation. Despite the potential of RTL code generation with natural language, it…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Chenwei Xiong , Cheng Liu , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li