The aim of this group is to do significant research in the areas of VLSI Design Automation and Reconfigurable Computing. Our goal is finding important problems, formulating the problems systematically, and solving them effectively. The target of our optimizations covers both hardware and software. This includes but is not limited to Electronic Design Automation (EDA) problems such as hardware synthesis problems (from system down to circuit level) and embedded software (compiler, operating system) optimization problems. One of the key aspects of our lab is that we only use high-level languages to build hardware circuits. The ultimate goal of the lab is to fully move away from low-level hardware description languages like Verilog or VHDL and only use C/C++, SystemC, Python or Matlab.
We do put a big emphasis on the demonstration of the solutions and aim at releasing the software and hardware implementation to the community. For this we relay heavily on FPGAs, thus, the name of our lab.
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GLSVLSI 2025 Best Poster Award
We won ACM GLSVLSI 2025 best poster award!
ECE Doctoral Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Imtiaz for receiving the ECE Doctoral Dissertation Award and congratulations on starting a…
ICCD 2025 Conference
The DARClab will organize the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2025) here…
Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students (REU)
The ECE department offers every semester opportunities for undergraduate students to join a research lab…
DoD SMART News
Congratulations to Victoria for being offered the DoD Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART)…
High-Level Synthesis: Applications
A new book covering applications of HLS has just been published. The book can be…
ConTex scholarships for Mexican Students- Becas para estudiantes Mexicanos
Mexican students interested in pursuing PhD studies in the area of reconfigurable computing, computer architecture…
High-Level Synthesis Made Easy
On April 2023 we published a free High-Level Synthesis Book entitled: High-Level Synthesis Made Easy….
highX technologies startup founded
Today we announce the creation of highX Technologies, a spin-off the DARClab that builds upon the…
GLSVLSI Best Paper Award
We won the best paper award at the 2022 ACM ACM Great Lakes Symposium on…