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High-Level Synthesis (HLS) is a pivotal electronic design automation (EDA) technology that enables the generation of hardware circuits from high-level language descriptions. A critical step in HLS is Design Space Exploration (DSE), which…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lei Xu , Shanshan Wang , Chenglong Xiao

High-level synthesis (HLS) has significantly advanced the automation of digital circuits design, yet the need for expertise and time in pragma tuning remains challenging. Existing solutions for the design space exploration (DSE) adopt…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ping Chang , Tosiron Adegbija , Yuchao Liao , Claudio Talarico , Ao Li , Janet Roveda

The design of efficient hardware accelerators for high-throughput data-processing applications, e.g., deep neural networks, is a challenging task in computer architecture design. In this regard, High-Level Synthesis (HLS) emerges as a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Lorenzo Ferretti , Andrea Cini , Georgios Zacharopoulos , Cesare Alippi , Laura Pozzi

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) frameworks allow to easily specify a large number of variants of the same hardware design by only acting on optimization directives. Nonetheless, the hardware synthesis of implementations for all possible…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Lorenzo Ferretti , Jihye Kwon , Giovanni Ansaloni , Giuseppe Di Guglielmo , Luca Carloni , Laura Pozzi

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

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

High-level synthesis (HLS) is an automated design process that transforms high-level code into hardware designs, enabling the rapid development of hardware accelerators. HLS relies on pragmas, which are directives inserted into the source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yunsheng Bai , Atefeh Sohrabizadeh , Zijian Ding , Rongjian Liang , Weikai Li , Ding Wang , Haoxing Ren , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) Design Space Exploration (DSE) is essential for generating hardware designs that balance performance, power, and area (PPA). To optimize this process, existing works often employs message-passing neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Lei Xu , Shanshan Wang , Emmanuel Casseau , Chenglong Xiao

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) design space exploration (DSE) seeks Pareto-optimal designs within expansive pragma configuration spaces. To accelerate HLS DSE, graph neural networks (GNNs) are commonly employed as surrogates for HLS tools to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Lei Xu , Shanshan Wang , Chenglong Xiao

In recent years, hardware accelerators based on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been widely adopted, thanks to FPGAs' extraordinary flexibility. However, with the high flexibility comes the difficulty in design and optimization.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Mang Yu , Sitao Huang , Deming Chen

High-level synthesis (HLS) is a design flow that leverages modern language features and flexibility, such as complex data structures, inheritance, templates, etc., to prototype hardware designs rapidly. However, exploring various design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Md Rubel Ahmed , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Ye Wang

To efficiently support large-scale NNs, multi-level hardware, leveraging advanced integration and interconnection technologies, has emerged as a promising solution to counter the slowdown of Moore's law. However, the vast design space of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Huanyu Qu , Weihao Zhang , Junfeng Lin , Songchen Ma , Hongyi Li , Luping Shi , Chengzhong Xu

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) Design Space Exploration (DSE) is a widely accepted approach for efficiently exploring Pareto-optimal and optimal hardware solutions during the HLS process. Several HLS benchmarks and datasets are available for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yuchao Liao , Tosiron Adegbija , Roman Lysecky , Ravi Tandon

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) 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

High-level synthesis (HLS) enhances digital hardware design productivity through a high abstraction level. Even if the HLS abstraction prevents fine-grained manual register-transfer level (RTL) optimizations, it also enables automatable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Giovanni Brignone , Mihai T. Lazarescu , Luciano Lavagno

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

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

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

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
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