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Optimizing data movements is becoming one of the biggest challenges in heterogeneous computing to cope with data deluge and, consequently, big data applications. When creating specialized accelerators, modern high-level synthesis (HLS)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Stephanie Soldavini , Donatella Sciuto , Christian Pilato

High-Level Synthesis allows hardware designers to create complex RTL designs using C/C++. The traditional HLS workflow involves iterations of C/C++ simulation for partial functional verification and HLS synthesis for coarse timing…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Rishov Sarkar , Cong Hao

System Level Synthesis (SLS) parametrization facilitates controller synthesis for large, complex, and distributed systems by incorporating system level constraints (SLCs) into a convex SLS problem and mapping its solution to stable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Shih-Hao Tseng , Carmen {Amo Alonso} , SooJean Han

In recent years, there has been a surging demand for edge computing of image processing and machine learning workloads. This has reignited interest in the development of custom hardware accelerators that can deliver enhanced performance and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Kingshuk Majumder , Uday Bondhugula

Synchronization phenomena are pervasive in coupled nonlinear systems across the natural world and engineering domains. Understanding how to dynamically identify the parameter space (or network structure) of coupled nonlinear systems in a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Yong Wu , Qianming Ding , Weifang Huang , Tianyu Li , Dong Yu , Ya Jia

Regions of nested loops are a common feature of High Performance Computing (HPC) codes. In shared memory programming models, such as OpenMP, these structure are the most common source of parallelism. Parallelising these structures requires…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Adrian Jackson , Orestis Agathokleous

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) 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

The increasing demand of dedicated accelerators to improve energy efficiency and performance has highlighted FPGAs as a promising option to deliver both. However, programming FPGAs in hardware description languages requires long time and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Maria A. Dávila-Guzmán , Rubén Gran Tejero , María Villarroya-Gaudó , Darío Suárez Gracia

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

Automated front-end engineering drastically reduces development cycles and minimizes manual coding overhead. While Generative AI has shown promise in translating designs to code, current solutions often produce monolithic scripts, failing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Chong Liu , Ming Zhang , Fei Li , Hao Zhou , Xiaoshuang Chen , Ye Yuan

The increasing complexity of large-scale FPGA accelerators poses significant challenges in achieving high performance while maintaining design productivity. High-level synthesis (HLS) has been adopted as a solution, but the mismatch between…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jason Lau , Yuanlong Xiao , Yutong Xie , Yuze Chi , Linghao Song , Shaojie Xiang , Michael Lo , Zhiru Zhang , Jason Cong , Licheng Guo

High-level synthesis (HLS) tools have brought FPGA development into the mainstream, by allowing programmers to design architectures using familiar languages such as C, C++, and OpenCL. While the move to these languages has brought…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Johannes de Fine Licht , Torsten Hoefler

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) tools are widely adopted in FPGA-based domain-specific accelerator design. However, existing tools rely on fixed optimization strategies inherited from software compilations, limiting their effectiveness.…

Scientific applications consist of large and computationally-intensive loops. Dynamic loop scheduling (DLS) techniques are used to load balance the execution of such applications. Load imbalance can be caused by variations in loop iteration…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Ali Mohammed , Florina M. Ciorba

The growing proliferation of FPGAs and High-level Synthesis (HLS) tools has led to a large interest in designing hardware accelerators for complex operations and algorithms. However, existing HLS toolflows typically require a significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Benjamin Biggs , Ian McInerney , Eric C. Kerrigan , George A. Constantinides

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) compiles C/C++ into RTL, but exploring pragma-driven optimization choices remains expensive because each design point requires time-consuming synthesis. We propose \textbf{\DiffHLS}, a differential learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zedong Peng , Zeju Li , Qiang Xu , Jieru Zhao

High-level synthesis (HLS) is a widely used tool in designing Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). HLS enables FPGA design with software programming languages by compiling the source code into an FPGA circuit. The source code includes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Weikai Li , Ding Wang , Zijian Ding , Atefeh Sohrabizadeh , Zongyue Qin , Jason Cong , Yizhou Sun

In high-level synthesis (HLS), C/C++ programs with synthesis directives are used to generate circuits for FPGA implementations. However, hardware-specific and platform-dependent characteristics in these implementations can introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Kangwei Xu , Bing Li , Grace Li Zhang , Ulf Schlichtmann