FPGA HLS today: successes, challenges, and opportunities

J Cong, J Lau, G Liu, S Neuendorffer, P Pan… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The year 2011 marked an important transition for FPGA high-level synthesis (HLS), as it
went from prototyping to deployment. A decade later, in this article, we assess the progress …

Neural architecture search survey: A hardware perspective

KT Chitty-Venkata, AK Somani - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We review the problem of automating hardware-aware architectural design process of Deep
Neural Networks (DNNs). The field of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithm design …

Hardware/software co-exploration of neural architectures

W Jiang, L Yang, EHM Sha, Q Zhuge… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel hardware and software co-exploration framework for efficient neural
architecture search (NAS). Different from existing hardware-aware NAS which assumes a …

Confuciux: Autonomous hardware resource assignment for dnn accelerators using reinforcement learning

SC Kao, G Jeong, T Krishna - 2020 53rd Annual IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DNN accelerators provide efficiency by leveraging reuse of activations/weights/outputs
during the DNN computations to reduce data movement from DRAM to the chip. The reuse is …

FracBNN: Accurate and FPGA-efficient binary neural networks with fractional activations

Y Zhang, J Pan, X Liu, H Chen, D Chen… - The 2021 ACM/SIGDA …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Binary neural networks (BNNs) have 1-bit weights and activations. Such networks are well
suited for FPGAs, as their dominant computations are bitwise arithmetic and the memory …

Applications, databases and open computer vision research from drone videos and images: a survey

Y Akbari, N Almaadeed, S Al-Maadeed… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2021 - Springer
Analyzing videos and images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles or aerial drones is an
emerging application attracting significant attention from researchers in various areas of …

A comprehensive survey on hardware-aware neural architecture search

H Benmeziane, KE Maghraoui, H Ouarnoughi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been growing in popularity. These
techniques have been fundamental to automate and speed up the time consuming and error …

Co-exploration of neural architectures and heterogeneous asic accelerator designs targeting multiple tasks

L Yang, Z Yan, M Li, H Kwon, L Lai… - 2020 57th ACM/IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has demonstrated its power on various AI accelerating
platforms such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Graphic Processing Units …

SkyNet: a hardware-efficient method for object detection and tracking on embedded systems

X Zhang, H Lu, C Hao, J Li, B Cheng… - Proceedings of …, 2020 - proceedings.mlsys.org
Developing object detection and tracking on resource-constrained embedded systems is
challenging. While object detection is one of the most compute-intensive tasks from the …

AutoDNNchip: An automated DNN chip predictor and builder for both FPGAs and ASICs

P Xu, X Zhang, C Hao, Y Zhao, Y Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Recent breakthroughs in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have fueled a growing demand for
domain-specific hardware accelerators (ie, DNN chips). However, designing DNN chips is …