Bridging high-level synthesis and application-specific arithmetic: The case study of floating-point summations

Y Uguen, F de Dinechin… - 2017 27th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
FPGAs are well known for their ability to perform non-standard computations not supported
by classical microprocessors. Many libraries of highly customizable application-specific IPs …

Application-specific arithmetic in high-level synthesis tools

Y Uguen, FD Dinechin, V Lezaud… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
This work studies hardware-specific optimization opportunities currently unexploited by high-
level synthesis compilers. Some of these optimizations are specializations of floating-point …

Architectural Synthesis of Fixed‐Point DSP Datapaths Using FPGAs

G Caffarena, JA López, G Leyva… - International Journal …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We address the automatic synthesis of DSP algorithms using FPGAs. Optimized fixed‐point
implementations are obtained by means of considering (i) a multiple wordlength …

Simulated annealing‐based high‐level synthesis methodology for reliable and energy‐aware application specific integrated circuit designs with multiple supply …

S Dilek, S Tosun, A Cakin - International Journal of Circuit …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Integrated circuits have become more vulnerable to soft errors due to smaller transistor sizes
and lower threshold voltage levels. Energy reduction methods make circuits more error …

Architectural synthesis of DSP circuits under simultaneous error and time constraints

G Caffarena, C Carreras - … Conference on VLSI and System-on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the design tasks of wordlength optimization and architectural synthesis are
combined. The benefits in comparison to the traditional sequential application of these two …

High-level synthesis and arithmetic optimizations

Y Uguen - 2019 - hal.science
High-level synthesis (HLS) tools offer increased productivity regarding FPGA programming.
However, due to their relatively young nature, they still lack many arithmetic optimizations …

A fast interpolative wordlength optimization method for dsp systems

E Sedano, JA López, C Carreras - 2012 VIII Southern …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As Digital Signal Processing (DSP) systems grow in complexity, the classical simulation-
based approaches to the wordlength optimization (WLO) problem for fixed-point data …

Optimized architectural synthesis of fixed-point datapaths

G Caffarena, JA López, G Leyva… - 2008 International …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we address the time-constrained architectural synthesis of fixed-point DSP
algorithms using FPGA devices. Optimized fixed-point implementations are obtained by …

A Three-Axis Finger Force Sensor Using Single-layer and Disc-Shaped Sensitive Plate

M Zhu - 2010 International Conference on Measuring …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a three-axis finger force sensor with force-sensing part in the form of a thin disc-
shaped alloy plate is presented. Different from the traditional and bulky sensitive element …

A high-level synthesis approach optimizing accumulations in floating-point programs using custom formats and operators

Y Uguen, F de Dinechin, S Derrien - 2017 IEEE 25th Annual …, 2017 - hal.science
High-level synthesis (HLS) is a big step forward in terms of design productivity. However, it
restricts data-types and operators to those available in the C language supported by the …