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Recent advances in code generation have illuminated the potential of employing large language models (LLMs) for general-purpose programming languages such as Python and C++, opening new opportunities for automating software development and…

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High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools offer rapid hardware design from C code, but their compatibility is limited by code constructs. This paper investigates Large Language Models (LLMs) for automatically refactoring C code into HLS-compatible…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Luca Collini , Siddharth Garg , Ramesh Karri

Despite recent advancements in large language models (LLMs), their performance on complex reasoning problems requiring multi-step thinking and combining various skills is still limited. To address this, we propose a novel framework HDFlow…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Wenlin Yao , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu

We establish data-driven versions of the System Level Synthesis (SLS) parameterization of achievable closed-loop system responses for a linear-time-invariant system over a finite-horizon. Inspired by recent work in data-driven control that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Anton Xue , Nikolai Matni

We present Calyx, a new intermediate language (IL) for compiling high-level programs into hardware designs. Calyx combines a hardware-like structural language with a software-like control flow representation with loops and conditionals.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Rachit Nigam , Samuel Thomas , Zhijing Li , Adrian Sampson

This paper proposes ISDC, a novel feedback-guided iterative system of difference constraints (SDC) scheduling algorithm for high-level synthesis (HLS). ISDC leverages subgraph extraction-based low-level feedback from downstream tools like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hanchen Ye , David Z. Pan , Chris Leary , Deming Chen , Xiaoqing Xu

Many modern embedded systems have end-to-end (EtoE) latency constraints that necessitate precise timing to ensure high reliability and functional correctness. The combination of High-Level Synthesis (HLS) and Design Space Exploration (DSE)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yuchao Liao , Tosiron Adegbija , Roman Lysecky

We introduce a new approach to take into account the memory architecture and the memory mapping in High- Level Synthesis for data intensive applications. We formalize the memory mapping as a set of constraints for the synthesis, and defined…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Gwenolé Corre , Nathalie Julien , Eric Senn , Eric Martin

In High-Level Synthesis (HLS), converting a regular C/C++ program into its HLS-compatible counterpart (HLS-C) still requires tremendous manual effort. Various program scripts have been introduced to automate this process. But the resulting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Kangwei Xu , Grace Li Zhang , Xunzhao Yin , Cheng Zhuo , Ulf Schlichtmann , Bing Li

Efficient GPU programming is crucial for achieving high performance in deep learning (DL) applications. The performance of GPU programs depends on how data is parallelized across threads and arranged within memory subsystems. The mapping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiao Zhang , Yaoyao Ding , Bolin Sun , Yang Hu , Tatiana Shpeisman , Gennady Pekhimenko

Although High-Level Synthesis (HLS) has attracted considerable interest in hardware design, it has not yet become mainstream due to two primary challenges. First, current HLS hardware design benchmarks are outdated as they do not cover…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Andy Wanna , Hanqiu Chen , Cong Hao

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provide an opportunity to co-design applications with hardware accelerators, yet they remain difficult to program. High-level synthesis (HLS) tools promise to raise the level of abstraction by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Rachit Nigam , Sachille Atapattu , Samuel Thomas , Zhijing Li , Theodore Bauer , Yuwei Ye , Apurva Koti , Adrian Sampson , Zhiru Zhang

Efficiency is essential to support responsiveness w.r.t. ever-growing datasets, especially for Deep Learning (DL) systems. DL frameworks have traditionally embraced deferred execution-style DL code that supports symbolic, graph-based Deep…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Tatiana Castro Vélez , Raffi Khatchadourian , Mehdi Bagherzadeh , Anita Raja

Hybrid Solid-State Drives (SSDs), which integrate several types of flash cells (e.g., single-level cell (SLC) and multiple-level cell (MLC)) in a single drive and enable them to convert between each other, are designed to deliver both high…

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Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) enable breakthroughs in reasoning and parallel decoding but suffer from prohibitive quadratic computational complexity and memory overhead during inference. Current caching techniques accelerate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yuerong Song , Xiaoran Liu , Ruixiao Li , Zhigeng Liu , Zengfeng Huang , Qipeng Guo , Ziwei He , Xipeng Qiu

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

The performance of the code generated by a compiler depends on the order in which the optimization passes are applied. In high-level synthesis, the quality of the generated circuit relates directly to the code generated by the front-end…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Ameer Haj-Ali , Qijing Huang , William Moses , John Xiang , Ion Stoica , Krste Asanovic , John Wawrzynek

In the era of diminishing returns from Moores Law, heterogeneous computing systems have emerged as a vital approach to enhance computational efficiency. This paper introduces a novel MLIR-based dialect, named hyper, designed to optimize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhiyuan Tan , Liutong Han , Mingjie Xing , Yanjun Wu

The ever-growing popularity of large language models (LLMs) has resulted in their increasing adoption for hardware design and verification. Prior research has attempted to assess the capability of LLMs to automate digital hardware design by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Sneha Swaroopa , Rijoy Mukherjee , Anushka Debnath , Rajat Subhra Chakraborty

The future of computing systems is inevitably embracing a disaggregated and composable pattern: from clusters of computers to pools of resources that can be dynamically combined together and tailored around applications requirements.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Christian Pinto , Dong Li , Thaleia Dimitra Doudali , Christina Giannoula , Jie Ren