Creation of DARClab
The Design Automation and Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory is created at the EIE Department of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University [PolyU].
First PhD candidate joins the lab
The first graduate students joins that lab.
We release the open-source Synthesizable SystemC Benchmarks suite S2CBench.
AS2CBench release
FPGA accelerated S2Cbench benchmarks (AS2Cbench) open-source benchmarks released.
DARClab moves to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)
The lab moves to the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas [UTD].
First PhD student graduates
DARClab graduates first PhD student.
S2CBench v.2.0 released.
Version 2.0 of more benchmarks designs is released.
High-Level Synthesis DSE framework released
HLS DSE framework released (DSEframe v1.0) [Github]
COVID
The lab moves online due to COVID, but continues with the work
Three major milestones accomplished
10 PhD students graduated;
100 peer reviewed publications; 1,000 citations reached.
Promotion to Associate Professor
DARClab director is promoted to associated professor.
GLSVLSI Best Paper Award
Md Imtiaz Rashid and B. Carrion Schafer, Fast Parallel High-Level Synthesis Design Space Explorer: Targeting FPGAs to accelerate ASIC Exploration, wins the best paper award at the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI [GLSVLSI’22].
New milestone achieved
We published our 100th conference paper!