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High-Level Synthesis Made Easy

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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.

  1. Chapter : Introduction to HLS
  2. Chapter: Hardware Platforms: From ASIC to FPGA
  3. Chapter: HLS. Learn the principles behind HLS
  4. Chapter: Verification of HLS designs. From untimed to cycle-accurate verification
  5. Chapter: HLS optimizations.
  6. Chapter: HLS design space exploration
  7. Chapter: Input Languages: From Matlab to C, C++ and SystemC
  8. Chapter: SystemC
  9. Chapter: Commercial HLS tools

GLSVLSI Best Paper Award

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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.