This effort develops the first rich suite of analog and mixed-signal benchmark of various sizes and domains, intended for use with contemporary analog and mixed-signal designs and synthesis tools. Benchmarking enables analog-digital co-design exploration ...

As the massive usage of artificial intelligence techniques spreads in the economy, researchers are exploring new techniques to reduce the energy consumption of Neural Network (NN) applications, especially as the complexity of NNs continues to increase. ...

Numerous approximate computing (AC) techniques have been developed to reduce the design costs in error-resilient application domains, such as signal and multimedia processing, data mining, machine learning, and computer vision, to trade-off computation ...

Vertebrate retinas are highly-efficient in processing trivial visual tasks such as detecting moving objects, which still represent complex challenges for modern computers. In vertebrates, the detection of object motion is performed by specialised retinal ...

Quantum computers will be a revolutionary extension of the heterogeneous computing world. They consist of many quantum bits (qubits) and require a careful design of the interface between the classical computer architecture and the quantum processor. For ...

Exploiting computational and data reuse in CNNs is crucial for the successful design of resource-constrained platforms. In image recognition applications, high levels of input locality and redundancy present in CNNs have become the golden goose for ...

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are increasingly being used in data centers and the cloud due to their potential to accelerate certain workloads as well as for their architectural flexibility, since they can be used as accelerators, smart-NICs, or ...

As the size of data generated every day grows dramatically, the computational bottleneck of computer systems has shifted toward storage devices. The interface between the storage and the computational platforms has become the main limitation due to its ...

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are used in large numbers in data centers around the world. They are used for cloud computing and computer networking. The most common type of FPGA used in data centers are re-programmable SRAM-based FPGAs. These ...

Emerging three-dimensional (3D) memory technologies, such as the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), provide high-bandwidth and massive memory-level parallelism. With the growing heterogeneity and complexity of computer systems (...

In this article, we present a novel type of medium-grained reconfigurable architecture that we term the Field Programmable Operation Array (FPOA). This device has been designed specifically for the implementation of HLS-generated circuitry. At the core ...

Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are widely used in applications that require the measurement of the time interval between events. In previous designs using a feedback loop and an extended delay line, process-voltage-temperature (PVT) variation often ...

To improve computing performance in real-time applications, modern embedded platforms comprise hardware accelerators that speed up the task’s most compute-intensive parts. A recent trend in the design of real-time embedded systems is to integrate field-...

The modern processor landscape is a varied and diverse community. As such, developers need a way to quickly and fairly compare various devices for use with particular applications. This article expands the authors’ previously published computational-...

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems typically use orthogonal-triangular (QR) decomposition. In this article, we present an enhanced systolic array architecture to realize QR decomposition ...

Although custom (and reconfigurable) computing can provide orders-of-magnitude improvements in energy efficiency and performance for many numeric, data-parallel applications, performance on nonnumeric, sequential code is often worse than conventional ...

The Conventional Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer (CORDIC) algorithm has been widely used in many applications, particularly in Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizers (DDS) and Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT). However, CORDIC is constrained by the ...

We demonstrate circuits that generate set and integer partitions on a set S of n objects at a rate of one per clock. Partitions are ways to group elements of a set together and have been extensively studied by researchers in algorithm design and theory. ...

With the widespread availability of broadband Internet, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can get remote updates in the field. This provides hardware and software updates, and enables issue solving and upgrade ability without device modification. ...

As FPGA capacity increases, a growing challenge is connecting ever-more components with the current low-level FPGA interconnect while keeping designers productive and on-chip communication efficient. We propose augmenting FPGAs with networks-on-chip (...