High-level Synthesis using the Julia Language

Autor:	Biggs, Benjamin, McInerney, Ian, Kerrigan, Eric C., Constantinides, George A.
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Computer Science - Software Engineering Computer Science - Hardware Architecture
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	The growing proliferation of FPGAs and High-level Synthesis (HLS) tools has led to a large interest in designing hardware accelerators for complex operations and algorithms. However, existing HLS toolflows typically require a significant amount of user knowledge or training to be effective in both industrial and research applications. In this paper, we propose using the Julia language as the basis for an HLS tool. The Julia HLS tool aims to decrease the barrier to entry for hardware acceleration by taking advantage of the readability of the Julia language and by allowing the use of the existing large library of standard mathematical functions written in Julia. We present a prototype Julia HLS tool, written in Julia, that transforms Julia code to VHDL. We highlight how features of Julia and its compiler simplified the creation of this tool, and we discuss potential directions for future work. Comment: Presented at the 2nd Workshop on Languages, Tools, and Techniques for Accelerator Design (LATTE'22)
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11522 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv