Programming difficulty is a key challenge to the adoption of FPGAs as a general high-
performance computing platform. In this paper we present CMOST, an open-source
automated compilation flow that maps C-code to FPGAs for acceleration. CMOST
establishes a unified framework for the integration of various system-level optimizations and
for different hardware platforms. We also present several novel techniques on integrating
optimizations in CMOST, including task-level dependence analysis, block-based data …