Stencil computation is one of the most important kernels in many application domains such
as image processing, solving partial differential equations, and cellular automata. Many of …

Despite the great success of high-level synthesis (HLS) tools, we observe several
unresolved challenges: 1) the high-level abstraction of HLS programming styles sometimes …

Many applications, such as medical imaging, generate intensive data traffic between the
FPGA and off-chip memory. Significant improvements in the execution time can be achieved …

Despite the great success of High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools, we observe several
unresolved challenges: 1) the high-level abstraction of programming styles in HLS conceals …

Previous research has used program transformation to introduce parallelism and to exploit
data locality. Unfortunately, these two objectives have usually been considered …

CPU-FPGA heterogeneous architectures feature flexible acceleration of many workloads to
advance computational capabilities and energy efficiency in today's datacenters. This …

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Memory partitioning is widely adopted to efficiently increase the memory bandwidth by using
multiple memory banks and reducing data access conflict. Previous methods for memory …

High level synthesis (HLS) is an important enabling technology for the adoption of hardware
accelerator technologies. It promises the performance and energy efficiency of hardware …

FPGAs offer attractive power and performance for many applications, especially relative to
traditional sequential architectures. In spite of these advantages, FPGAs have been …