The year 2011 marked an important transition for FPGA high-level synthesis (HLS), as it
went from prototy** to deployment. A decade later, in this article, we assess the progress …

Read map** is a fundamental step in many genomics applications. It is used to identify
potential matches and differences between fragments (called reads) of a sequenced …

Genomics is transforming medicine and our understanding of life in fundamental ways.
Genomics data, however, is far outpacing Moore» s Law. Third-generation sequencing …

CPU-FPGA heterogeneous acceleration platforms have shown great potential for continued
performance and energy efficiency improvement for modern data centers, and have …

With slowing technology scaling, specialized accelerators are increasingly attractive
solutions to continue expected generational scaling of performance. However, in order to …

Genomics can transform health-care through precision medicine. Plummeting sequencing
costs would soon make genome testing affordable to the masses. Compute efficiency …

In genome sequencing, it is a crucial but time-consuming task to detect potential overlaps
between any pair of the input reads, especially those that are ultra-long. The state-of-the-art …

Innovations in genome sequencing techniques are enabling remarkably fast and low cost
production of raw genome data. As Moore's law tapers off, bottlenecks in genome …

With the end of CPU core scaling due to dark silicon limitations, customized accelerators on
FPGAs have gained increased attention in modern datacenters due to their lower power …