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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained widespread popularity in the field of computer vision and image processing. Due to huge computational requirements of CNNs, dedicated hardware-based implementations are being explored to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-06 Afzal Ahmad , Muhammad Adeel Pasha

This research studies an adaptive neural network with a Dynamic Classifier Selection framework on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The evaluations are conducted across three different datasets. By adjusting parameters, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Achraf El Bouazzaoui , Abdelkader Hadjoudja , Omar Mouhib

Transformers and vision-language models (VLMs) have emerged as dominant architectures in computer vision and multimodal AI, offering state-of-the-art performance in tasks such as image classification, object detection, visual question…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Safa Mohammed Sali , Mahmoud Meribout , Ashiyana Abdul Majeed

In this work, we present a learning-based approach to chip placement, one of the most complex and time-consuming stages of the chip design process. Unlike prior methods, our approach has the ability to learn from past experience and improve…

The use of high-level languages for designing hardware is gaining popularity since they increase design productivity by providing higher abstractions. However, one drawback of such abstraction level has been the difficulty of relating the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Oriol Arcas-Abella , Abhinav Agarwal

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are widely used in the central signal processing design of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) as acceleration hardware. The frequency domain acceleration search (FDAS) module is an important part of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Haomiao Wang , Prabu Thiagaraj , Oliver Sinnen

Increasingly FPGAs will be deployed at scale due to the need for increased need for power efficient computation and improved high level synthesis tool flows, creating a new category of device: data centre FPGAs. A method for using these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Gordon Inggs

Coarse-grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are domain-agnostic accelerators that enhance the energy efficiency of resource-constrained edge devices. The CGRA landscape is diverse, exhibiting trade-offs between performance, efficiency, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zhaoying Li , Pranav Dangi , Chenyang Yin , Thilini Kaushalya Bandara , Rohan Juneja , Cheng Tan , Zhenyu Bai , Tulika Mitra

The edge computing paradigm has emerged to handle cloud computing issues such as scalability, security and low response time among others. This new computing trend heavily relies on ubiquitous embedded systems on the edge. Performance and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Mohammad Hosseinabady , Mohd Amiruddin Bin Zainol , Jose Nunez-Yanez

FPGA is appropriate for fix-point neural networks computing due to high power efficiency and configurability. However, its design must be intensively refined to achieve high performance using limited hardware resources. We present an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Qingyang Yi , Heming Sun , Masahiro Fujita

Domain-specific accelerators are used in various computing systems ranging from edge devices to data centers. Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) represent an architectural midpoint between the flexibility of an FPGA and the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Taeyoung Kong , Kalhan Koul , Priyanka Raina , Mark Horowitz , Christopher Torng

Improving the efficiency of edge detection in embedded applications, such as UAV control, is critical for reducing system cost and power dissipation. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) are a good platform for making improvements because…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Jamie Schiel , Andrew Bainbridge-Smith

FPGA overlays are commonly implemented as coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures with a goal to improve designers' productivity through balancing flexibility and ease of configuration of the underlying fabric. To truly facilitate full…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Ho-Cheung Ng , Cheng Liu , Hayden Kwok-Hay So

The growing adoption of Deep Learning (DL) applications in the Internet of Things has increased the demand for energy-efficient accelerators. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) offer a promising platform for such acceleration due to…

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Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become essential in cloud computing due to their reconfigurability, energy efficiency, and ability to accelerate domain-specific workloads. As FPGA adoption grows, research into task scheduling…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arsalan Ali Malik , John Buchanan , Aydin Aysu

For Human Action Recognition tasks (HAR), 3D Convolutional Neural Networks have proven to be highly effective, achieving state-of-the-art results. This study introduces a novel streaming architecture based toolflow for mapping such models…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Petros Toupas , Alexander Montgomerie-Corcoran , Christos-Savvas Bouganis , Dimitrios Tzovaras

Flexibility and customization are key strengths of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) when compared to other computing devices. For instance, FPGAs can efficiently implement arbitrary-precision arithmetic operations, and can perform…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Junius Pun , Xilai Dai , Grace Zgheib , Mahesh A. Iyer , Andrew Boutros , Vaughn Betz , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

In natural language processing (NLP), the "Transformer" architecture was proposed as the first transduction model replying entirely on self-attention mechanisms without using sequence-aligned recurrent neural networks (RNNs) or convolution,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Bingbing Li , Santosh Pandey , Haowen Fang , Yanjun Lyv , Ji Li , Jieyang Chen , Mimi Xie , Lipeng Wan , Hang Liu , Caiwen Ding

Over the years, the DRAM latency has not scaled proportionally with its density due to the cost-centric mindset of the DRAM industry. Prior work has shown that this shortcoming can be overcome by reducing the critical length of DRAM access…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Chao-Hsuan Huang , Ishan G Thakkar

FPGAs are increasingly common in modern applications, and cloud providers now support on-demand FPGA acceleration in data centers. Applications in data centers run on virtual infrastructure, where consolidation, multi-tenancy, and workload…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Joshua Landgraf , Tiffany Yang , Will Lin , Christopher J. Rossbach , Eric Schkufza