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This paper presents a unified framework for codifying and automating optimization strategies to efficiently deploy deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained hardware, such as FPGAs, while maintaining high performance, accuracy,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhiqiang Que , Jose G. F. Coutinho , Ce Guo , Hongxiang Fan , Wayne Luk

High-level synthesis (HLS) has been widely adopted as it significantly improves the hardware design productivity and enables efficient design space exploration (DSE). Existing HLS tools are built using compiler infrastructures largely based…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Hanchen Ye , Cong Hao , Jianyi Cheng , Hyunmin Jeong , Jack Huang , Stephen Neuendorffer , Deming Chen

Design space exploration (DSE) is critical for developing optimized hardware architectures, especially for AI workloads such as deep neural networks (DNNs) and large language models (LLMs), which require specialized acceleration. As model…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Arkapravo Ghosh , Abhishek Moitra , Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Ruokai Yin , Priyadarshini Panda

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) improves IC development productivity by enabling hardware design from C-like languages. However, strict coding constraints and design-specific optimizations limit its widespread adoption. While recent efforts…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Runkai Li , Jia Xiong , Xiuyuan He , Jieru Zhao , Jiaqi Lv , Haowen Fang , Lei Qi , Xi Wang

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) tools have provided significant productivity enhancements to the design flow of digital systems in recent years, resulting in highly-optimized circuits, in terms of area and latency. Given the evolution of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Amalia Artemis Koufopoulou , Athanasios Papadimitriou , Aggelos Pikrakis , Mihalis Psarakis , David Hely

Machine learning (ML) has been widely used to improve the predictability of EDA tools. The use of CAD tools that express designs at higher levels of abstraction makes machine learning even more important to highlight the performance of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Pingakshya Goswami , Dinesh Bhatia

FPGAs are increasingly adopted in datacenter environments for their reconfigurability and energy efficiency. High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools have eased FPGA programming by raising the abstraction level from RTL to untimed C/C++, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Neha Prakriya , Zijian Ding , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

Channel estimation (CE) is one of the critical signal-processing tasks of the wireless physical layer (PHY). Recent deep learning (DL) based CE have outperformed statistical approaches such as least-square-based CE (LS) and linear minimum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Animesh Sharma , Syed Asrar Ul Haq , Sumit J. Darak

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) plays a crucial role in modern hardware design by transforming high-level code into optimized hardware implementations. However, progress in applying machine learning (ML) to HLS optimization has been hindered by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zedong Peng , Zeju Li , Mingzhe Gao , Qiang Xu , Chen Zhang , 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

Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with Knowledge Graphs (KGs) results in complex systems with numerous hyperparameters that directly affect performance. While such systems are increasingly common in retrieval-augmented generation,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Vasilije Markovic , Lazar Obradovic , Laszlo Hajdu , Jovan Pavlovic

Logic synthesis is a crucial phase in the circuit design process, responsible for transforming hardware description language (HDL) designs into optimized netlists. However, traditional logic synthesis methods are computationally intensive,…

FPGA technology can offer significantly hi\-gher performance at much lower power consumption than is available from CPUs and GPUs in many computational problems. Unfortunately, programming for FPGA (using ha\-rdware description languages,…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Artur Gramacki , Marek Sawerwain , Jarosław Gramacki

High-level automation is increasingly critical in AI, driven by rapid advances in large language models (LLMs) and AI agents. However, LLMs, despite their general reasoning power, struggle significantly in specialized, data-sensitive tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jialiang Wang , Hanmo Liu , Shimin Di , Zhili Wang , Jiachuan Wang , Lei Chen , Xiaofang Zhou

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 incessant advent of online services demands high speed and efficient recommender systems (ReS) that can maintain real-time performance along with processing very complex user-item interactions. The present study, therefore, considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yushang Zhao , Haotian Lyu , Yike Peng , Aijia Sun , Feng Jiang , Xinyue Han

Even though high-level synthesis (HLS) tools mitigate the challenges of programming domain-specific accelerators (DSAs) by raising the abstraction level, optimizing hardware directive parameters remains a significant hurdle. Existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hanyu Wang , Xinrui Wu , Zijian Ding , Su Zheng , Chengyue Wang , Neha Prakriya , Tony Nowatzki , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

Reliable and fast channel estimation is crucial for next-generation wireless networks supporting a wide range of vehicular and low-latency services. Recently, deep learning (DL) based channel estimation has been explored as an efficient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Syed Asrar ul haq , Abdul Karim Gizzini , Shakti Shrey , Sumit J. Darak , Sneh Saurabh , Marwa Chafii

The channel estimation (CE) in wireless receivers is one of the most critical and computationally complex signal processing operations. Recently, various works have shown that the deep learning (DL) based CE outperforms conventional minimum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Syed Asrar ul haq , Varun Singh , Bhanu Teja Tanaji , Sumit Darak