Automating application-driven customization of ASIPs: A survey

E Hussein, B Waschneck, C Mayr - Journal of Systems Architecture, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid advancements and stringent requirements of modern embedded computing
systems have led to a surge in the demand for customized processors that can efficiently …

Towards a comprehensive benchmark for high-level synthesis targeted to FPGAs

Y Bai, A Sohrabizadeh, Z Qin, Z Hu… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
High-level synthesis (HLS) aims to raise the abstraction layer in hardware design, enabling
the design of domain-specific accelerators (DSAs) like field-programmable gate arrays …

Graph neural networks: A powerful and versatile tool for advancing design, reliability, and security of ICs

L Alrahis, J Knechtel, O Sinanoglu - Proceedings of the 28th Asia and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have pushed the state-of-the-art (SOTA) for performance in
learning and predicting on large-scale data present in social networks, biology, etc. Since …

Ai-assisted synthesis in next generation eda: Promises, challenges, and prospects

N Wu, Y Xie, C Hao - 2022 IEEE 40th International Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the great advance achieved by electronic design automation (EDA) tools, there is
still a long way towards hardware agile development, whose ultimate goal is to reduce chip …

Robust GNN-based representation learning for HLS

A Sohrabizadeh, Y Bai, Y Sun… - 2023 IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The efficient and timely optimization of microarchitecture for a target application is hindered
by the long evaluation runtime of a design candidate, creating a serious burden. To tackle …

Gnnbuilder: An automated framework for generic graph neural network accelerator generation, simulation, and optimization

S Abi-Karam, C Hao - 2023 33rd International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There are plenty of graph neural network (GNN) accelerators being proposed. However,
they highly rely on users' hardware expertise and are usually optimized for one specific GNN …

Efficient task transfer for HLS DSE

Z Ding, A Sohrabizadeh, W Li, Z Qin, Y Sun… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
There have been several recent works proposed to utilize model-based optimization
methods to improve the productivity of using high-level synthesis (HLS) to design domain …

REPAIRS: Gaussian mixture model-based completion and optimization of partially specified systems

P Terway, NK Jha - ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Most system optimization techniques focus on finding the values of the system components
to achieve the best performance. Searching over all component values gives the search …

Automatic Hardware Pragma Insertion in High-Level Synthesis: A Non-Linear Programming Approach

S Pouget, LN Pouchet, J Cong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.12304, 2024 - arxiv.org
High-level synthesis, source-to-source compilers, and various Design Space Exploration
techniques for pragma insertion have significantly improved the Quality of Results of …

Reinforcement Learning for Selecting Custom Instructions under Area Constraint

S Wang, C Xiao - IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extensible processors, which combine programmability and efficiency, are emerging as a
promising approach in the field of embedded computing. Automated synthesis of custom …