We won ACM GLSVLSI 2025 best poster award!
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ECE Doctoral Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Imtiaz for receiving the ECE Doctoral Dissertation Award and congratulations on starting a new job a Texas Instruments @TXInstruments.
ICCD 2025 Conference
The DARClab will organize the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2025) here at the University of Texas at Dallas from November 10th to 12th. You can find more information at www.iccd-conf.com
Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students (REU)
The ECE department offers every semester opportunities for undergraduate students to join a research lab and be exposed to their research activities.
This semester the DARClab has hosted Omar Abioye who was been working on the topic of approximate computing.
DoD SMART News
Congratulations to Victoria for being offered the DoD Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service award.
The SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program offers full tuition, annual stipends, internship, and guaranteed civilian employment with the Department of Defense for students pursuing undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral degrees in one of SMART’s 24 STEM disciplines.
Only 2 students at UT Dallas have received this award!
High-Level Synthesis: Applications
A new book covering applications of HLS has just been published. The book can be downloaded for free from www.hlsbook.com and a hardcopy can be purchased through the Amazon book store here.
The book contains 8 chapters as follows:
- Chapter: VLSI design overview.
- HLS: One description, infinite implementations.
- Low power design in High-Level Synthesis
- Temperature control in HLS: Is it even possible?
- Hardware security.
- Fault Tolerance.
- Modernizing Legacy Hardware design through HLS.
- Wrapping up.
Enjoy it!
ConTex scholarships for Mexican Students- Becas para estudiantes Mexicanos
Mexican students interested in pursuing PhD studies in the area of reconfigurable computing, computer architecture and EDA at the DARClab are invited to apply through the ConTex program.
Si estas interesado en estudiar en UT Dallas ponte en contacto conmigo para discutir como aplicar a una beca de ConTex (CONACYT y University of Texas).
High-Level Synthesis Made Easy
On April 2023 we published a free High-Level Synthesis Book entitled: High-Level Synthesis Made Easy.
The pdf version of the book is freely available at www.hlsbook.com and a printed hard copy can be purchased from Amazon. The book contain 9 chapters.
- Chapter : Introduction to HLS
- Chapter: Hardware Platforms: From ASIC to FPGA
- Chapter: HLS. Learn the principles behind HLS
- Chapter: Verification of HLS designs. From untimed to cycle-accurate verification
- Chapter: HLS optimizations.
- Chapter: HLS design space exploration
- Chapter: Input Languages: From Matlab to C, C++ and SystemC
- Chapter: SystemC
- Chapter: Commercial HLS tools
highX technologies startup founded
Today we announce the creation of highX Technologies, a spin-off the DARClab that builds upon the technology and expertise accumulated during the last 12 years at the lab. highX technologies is dedicated to making hardware design easier by providing Behavioral IPs written in ANSI C and SystemC optimized for High-Level Synthesis (HLS). The company also provides HLS and FPGA consulting and training courses. More information at highX services.
GLSVLSI Best Paper Award
We won the best paper award at the 2022 ACM ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI [GLSVLSI’22].
Md Imtiaz Rashid and B. Carrion Schafer, Fast Parallel High-Level Synthesis Design Space Explorer: Targeting FPGAs to accelerate ASIC Exploration
The paper basically covers how to quickly find the Pareto-optimal designs for a given ASIC technology, but using free FPGA HLS tools and then use machine learning to convert those results into ASIC equivalent.
