Wavefront Threading Enables Effective High-Level Synthesis
Abstract
Digital systems are growing in importance and computing hardware is growing more heterogeneous. Hardware design, however, remains laborious and expensive, in part due to the limitations of conventional hardware description languages (HDLs) like VHDL and Verilog. A longstanding research goal has been programming hardware like software, with high-level languages that can generate efficient hardware designs. This paper describes Kanagawa, a language that takes a new approach to combine the programmer productivity benefits of traditional High-Level Synthesis (HLS) approaches with the expressibility and hardware efficiency of Register-Transfer Level (RTL) design. The language's concise syntax, matched with a hardware design-friendly execution model, permits a relatively simple toolchain to map high-level code into efficient hardware implementations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2405.19514,
title = {Wavefront Threading Enables Effective High-Level Synthesis},
author = {Blake Pelton and Adam Sapek and Ken Eguro and Daniel Lo and Alessandro Forin and Matt Humphrey and Jinwen Xi and David Cox and Rajas Karandikar and Johannes de Fine Licht and Evgeny Babin and Adrian Caulfield and Doug Burger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.19514},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
Accepted to PLDI'24