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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

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) serves as an agile hardware development tool that streamlines the circuit design by abstracting the register transfer level into behavioral descriptions, while allowing designers to customize the generated…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Runkai Li , Jia Xiong , Xi Wang

Real time data acquisition systems in nuclear science often rely on high-speed logic designs to reach the fast data rate requirements. They are mostly coded in a hardware description language (HDL). However, in recent years, high level…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-29 Tétrault Marc-André

High-level synthesis (HLS) enables designers to customize hardware designs efficiently. However, it is still challenging to foresee the correlation between power consumption and HLS-based applications at an early design stage. To overcome…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Zhe Lin , Jieru Zhao , Sharad Sinha , Wei Zhang

Hardware accelerators are key to the efficiency and performance of system-on-chip (SoC) architectures. With high-level synthesis (HLS), designers can easily obtain several performance-cost trade-off implementations for each component of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Luca Piccolboni , Paolo Mantovani , Giuseppe Di Guglielmo , Luca P. Carloni

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

The design of complex Systems-on-Chips implies to take into account communication and memory access constraints for the integration of dedicated hardware accelerator. In this paper, we present a methodology and a tool that allow the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Philippe Coussy , Gwenolé Corre , Pierre Bomel , Eric Senn , Eric Martin

Dynamically scheduled hardware enables high-level synthesis (HLS) for applications with irregular control flow and latencies, which perform poorly with conventional statically scheduled approaches. Since dynamically scheduled hardware is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-19 David Metz , Nico Reissmann , Magnus Själander

Machine Learning (ML) has been widely adopted in design exploration using high level synthesis (HLS) to give a better and faster performance, and resource and power estimation at very early stages for FPGA-based design. To perform…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Zhigang Wei , Aman Arora , Ruihao Li , Lizy K. John

Hyperspectral imaging is gathering significant attention due to its potential in various domains such as geology, agriculture, ecology, and surveillance. However, the associated processing algorithms, which are essential for enhancing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 El Mehdi Abdali , Daniele Picone , Mauro Dalla-Mura , Stéphane Mancini

In the domain of image processing, often real-time constraints are required. In particular, in safety-critical applications, such as X-ray computed tomography in medical imaging or advanced driver assistance systems in the automotive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Oliver Reiche , Konrad Häublein , Marc Reichenbach , Frank Hannig , Jürgen Teich , Dietmar Fey

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

The rapid scaling of large language model (LLM) training and inference has driven their adoption in semiconductor design across academia and industry. While most prior work evaluates LLMs on hardware description language (HDL) tasks,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Stefan Abi-Karam , Cong Hao

This article surveys the System Level Synthesis framework, which presents a novel perspective on constrained robust and optimal controller synthesis for linear systems. We show how SLS shifts the controller synthesis task from the design of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-04 James Anderson , John C. Doyle , Steven Low , Nikolai Matni

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) has transformed the development of complex Hardware IPs (HWIP) by offering abstraction and configurability through languages like SystemC/C++, particularly for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) accelerators in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Mukta Debnath , Animesh Basak Chowdhury , Debasri Saha , Susmita Sur-Kolay

High-level synthesis (HLS) shortens the development time of hardware designs and enables faster design space exploration at a higher abstraction level. Optimization of complex applications in HLS is challenging due to the effects of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Jieru Zhao , Tingyuan Liang , Sharad Sinha , Wei Zhang

As the complexity of digital circuits increases, High-Level Synthesis (HLS) is becoming a valuable tool to increase productivity and design reuse by utilizing relevant Electronic Design Automation (EDA) flows, either for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Amalia Artemis Koufopoulou , Kalliopi Xevgeni , Athanasios Papadimitriou , Mihalis Psarakis , David Hely

In many experiment-driven scientific domains, such as high-energy physics, material science, and cosmology, high data rate experiments impose hard constraints on data acquisition systems: collected data must either be indiscriminately…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Maksim Levental , Arham Khan , Ryan Chard , Kazutomo Yoshii , Kyle Chard , Ian Foster

In last two years, large language models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in code generation, including hardware design at register-transfer level (RTL). While their use in high-level synthesis (HLS) remains comparatively less mature,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 M Zafir Sadik Khan , Kimia Azar , Hadi Kamali