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Recently, machine learning has been successfully applied to model-based left ventricle (LV) segmentation. The general framework involves two stages, which starts with LV localization and is followed by boundary delineation. Both are driven…
We propose a new fixed latency scheme for Xilinx gigabit transceivers that will be used in the upgrade of the ATLAS forward muon spectrometer at the Large Hadron Collider. The fixed latency scheme is implemented in a 4.8 Gbps link between a…
Real-time, energy-efficient inference on edge devices is essential for graph classification across a range of applications. Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) is a brain-inspired computing paradigm that encodes input features into…
This document reports the design, implementation and testing of a small silicon resource usage, very flexible arbitrary percentile finding scheme called the Tiny Median Filter. It can be used not only as a median filter in image processing…
Contemporary field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are predestined for the application of finite impulse response (FIR) filters. Their embedded digital signal processing (DSP) blocks for multiply-accumulate operations enable efficient…
In this paper, we propose a mixed-precision convolution unit architecture which supports different integer and floating point (FP) precisions. The proposed architecture is based on low-bit inner product units and realizes higher precision…
General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is a fundamental operation widely used in scientific computations. Its performance and accuracy significantly impact the performance and accuracy of applications that depend on it. One such application…
A multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation is the main computation unit for DSP applications. DSP blocks are one of the efficient solutions to implement MACs in FPGA's. However, since the DSP blocks have wide multiplier and adder blocks, MAC…
This paper describes an optimized implementation of a Forward Propagating Classification Neural Network which has been previously trained. The implementation described highlights a novel means of using Python scripts to generate a Verilog…
Multiplication is a core operation in modern neural network (NN) computations, contributing significantly to energy consumption. The linear-complexity multiplication (L-Mul) algorithm is specifically proposed as an approximate…
This paper presents a new distributed-memory algorithm called FastSV for finding connected components in an undirected graph. Our algorithm simplifies the classic Shiloach-Vishkin algorithm and employs several novel and efficient hooking…
A fault-tolerant quantum computer must decode and correct errors faster than they appear to prevent exponential slowdown due to error correction. The Union-Find (UF) decoder is promising with an average time complexity slightly higher than…
The geometric multigrid method (GMG) is one of the most efficient solving techniques for discrete algebraic systems arising from elliptic partial differential equations. GMG utilizes a hierarchy of grids or discretizations and reduces the…
This paper presents a novel and fast approach for ground plane segmentation in a LiDAR point cloud, specifically optimized for processing speed and hardware efficiency on FPGA hardware platforms. Our approach leverages a channel-based…
Large-scale (or massive) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is expected to be one of the key technologies in next-generation multi-user cellular systems, based on the upcoming 3GPP LTE Release 12 standard, for example. In this work, we…
We present a parallel computing strategy for a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) nested geometric multigrid (GMG) solver. Parallel GMG solvers require a combination of coarse-grain and fine-grain parallelism to improve time to…
Iterative solvers are frequently used in scientific applications and engineering computations. However, the memory-bound Sparse Matrix-Vector (SpMV) kernel computation hinders the efficiency of iterative algorithms. As modern hardware…
The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly the Large Language Models (LLMs), have profoundly affected our daily work and communication forms. However, it is still a challenge to deploy LLMs on resource-constrained…