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EPFL2024

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To achieve resource-efficient hardware designs, high-level synthesis (HLS) tools share (i.e., time-multiplex) functional units among operations of the same type. This optimization is typically performed in conjunction with operation scheduling to ensure th ...

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EPFL2023

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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

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DASS: Combining Dynamic & Static Scheduling in High-Level Synthesis

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A central task in high-level synthesis is scheduling: the allocation of operations to clock cycles. The classic approach to scheduling is static, in which each operation is mapped to a clock cycle at compile-time, but recent years have seen the emergence o ...

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MDPI2022

Uncooperative Rendezvous in Space: Design of an Electronic Architecture for High Performance Avionic with Multi Sensor Input and Intensive Data Rate

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EPFL2022

Resource Sharing in Dataflow Circuits

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To achieve resource-efficient hardware designs, HLS tools share (i.e., time-multiplex) functional units among operations of the same type. This optimization is typically performed together with operation scheduling to ensure the best possible unit usage at ...

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High-Level Synthesis of Dynamically Scheduled Circuits

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EPFL2021

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EPFL2021

Buffer Placement and Sizing for High-Performance Dataflow Circuits

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ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Combining Dynamic & Static Scheduling in High-level Synthesis

Paolo Ienne, Lana Josipovic

A central task in high-level synthesis is scheduling: the allocation of operations to clock cycles. The classic approach to scheduling is static, in which each operation is mapped to a clock cycle at compile-time, but recent years have seen the emergence o ...

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USENIX ASSOC2019

An Heterogeneous Compiler Of Dataflow Programs For Zynq Platforms

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FPGA-Assisted Deterministic Routing for FPGAs

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EPFL2019