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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

High-level synthesis (HLS) is a key component for the hardware acceleration of applications, especially thanks to the diffusion of reconfigurable devices in many domains, from data centers to edge devices. HLS reduces development times by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Christian Pilato , Francesco Regazzoni

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) aspires to raise the level of abstraction in hardware design without sacrificing hardware efficiency. It has so far been successfully employed in signal and video processing but has found only limited use in other…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-25 Kimon Karras , Michaela Blott , Kees Vissers

Machine Learning (ML) has been widely adopted in design exploration using high level synthesis (HLS) to give a better and faster performance, and resource and power estimation at very early stages for FPGA-based design. To perform…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Zhigang Wei , Aman Arora , Ruihao Li , Lizy K. John

Mathematical reasoning remains challenging for LLMs due to complex logic and the need for precise computation. Existing methods enhance LLM reasoning by synthesizing datasets through problem rephrasing, but face issues with generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Lei Xu , Sirui Chen , Yuxuan Huang , Chaochao Lu

The increasing complexity and demand for faster, energy-efficient hardware designs necessitate innovative High-Level Synthesis (HLS) methodologies. This paper explores the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline or replace…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yuchao Liao , Tosiron Adegbija , Roman Lysecky

Automated front-end engineering drastically reduces development cycles and minimizes manual coding overhead. While Generative AI has shown promise in translating designs to code, current solutions often produce monolithic scripts, failing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Chong Liu , Ming Zhang , Fei Li , Hao Zhou , Xiaoshuang Chen , Ye Yuan

In this paper, we introduce SynthAI, a new method for the automated creation of High-Level Synthesis (HLS) designs. SynthAI integrates ReAct agents, Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting, web search technologies, and the Retrieval-Augmented…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Seyed Arash Sheikholeslam , Andre Ivanov

System development often involves decisions about how a high-level design is to be implemented using primitives from a low-level platform. Certain decisions, however, may introduce undesirable behavior into the resulting implementation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Eunsuk Kang , Stephane Lafortune , Stavros Tripakis

Implementing an application on a FPGA remains a difficult, non-intuitive task that often requires hardware design expertise in a hardware description language (HDL). High-level synthesis (HLS) raises the design abstraction from HDL to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Janarbek Matai , Dustin Richmond , Dajung Lee , Ryan Kastner

Spatial computing architectures promise a major stride in performance and energy efficiency over the traditional load/store devices currently employed in large scale computing systems. The adoption of high-level synthesis (HLS) from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Johannes de Fine Licht , Maciej Besta , Simon Meierhans , Torsten Hoefler

In this paper, we propose a multi-stage and high-resolution model for image synthesis that uses fine-grained attributes and masks as input. With a fine-grained attribute, the proposed model can detailedly constrain the features of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Pengyang Li , Donghui Wang

We present a novel characterization of the mapping of multiple parallelism forms (e.g. data and model parallelism) onto hierarchical accelerator systems that is hierarchy-aware and greatly reduces the space of software-to-hardware mapping.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Ningning Xie , Tamara Norman , Dominik Grewe , Dimitrios Vytiniotis

Dynamic High-Level Synthesis (HLS) uses additional hardware to perform memory disambiguation at runtime, increasing loop throughput in irregular codes compared to static HLS. However, most irregular codes consist of multiple sibling loops,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Robert Szafarczyk , Syed Waqar Nabi , Wim Vanderbauwhede

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

Despite the stride made by machine learning (ML) based performance modeling, two major concerns that may impede production-ready ML applications in EDA are stringent accuracy requirements and generalization capability. To this end, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Nan Wu , Jiwon Lee , Yuan Xie , Cong Hao

Machine learning (ML) techniques have been applied to high-level synthesis (HLS) flows for quality-of-result (QoR) prediction and design space exploration (DSE). Nevertheless, the scarcity of accessible high-quality HLS datasets and the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Stefan Abi-Karam , Rishov Sarkar , Allison Seigler , Sean Lowe , Zhigang Wei , Hanqiu Chen , Nanditha Rao , Lizy John , Aman Arora , Cong Hao

Embedded systems continue to rapidly proliferate in diverse fields, including medical devices, autonomous vehicles, and more generally, the Internet of Things (IoT). Many embedded systems require application-specific hardware components to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yuchao Liao , Tosiron Adegbija , Roman Lysecky

Many constraint satisfaction problems involve synthesizing subgraphs that satisfy certain reachability constraints. This paper presents programs in Picat for four problems selected from the recent LP/CP programming competitions. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Neng-Fa Zhou