High-Performance Big Data Analytics (HPDA) applications are characterized by huge
volumes of distributed and heterogeneous data that require efficient computation for …

In this paper we present a set of techniques that enable the synthesis of efficient custom
accelerators for memory intensive, irregular applications. To address the challenges of …

The design of specialized accelerators is essential to the success of many modern Systems-
on-Chip. Electronic system-level design methodologies and high-level synthesis tools are …

High Level Synthesis (HLS) provides a way to significantly enhance the productivity of
embedded system designers, by enabling the automatic or semiautomatic generation of …

Variable Latency Adders are attracting strong interest for increasing performance at a low
cost. However, most of the literature is focused on achieving a good area-delay tradeoff. In …

Classical techniques for register allocation and binding require the definition of the program
execution order, since a partial ordering relation between operations must be induced to …

Heterogeneous architectures are becoming an increasingly relevant component for High-
Performance Computing: they combine the computational power of multi-core processors …

Specialized accelerators can exploit spatial parallelism on both operations and data thanks
to a dedicated microarchitecture with a better use of the hardware resources. Designers …

(57) ABSTRACT A technique for scheduling processing tasks having different latencies is
provided. The technique involves identifying one or more available requests in a request …

This paper proposes an extension of distributed control, which enables efficient run-time
scheduling of variable latency operations, to multiple dataflow graphs. Conventional high …