History

September 1, 2012

Creation of DARClab

The Design Automation and Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory is created at the EIE Department of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University [PolyU].

September 1, 2012
May 1, 2012

First PhD candidate joins the lab

The first graduate students joins that lab.
We release the open-source Synthesizable SystemC Benchmarks suite S2CBench.

May 1, 2012
January 1, 2014

Social Media content added

Twitter and YouTube accounts are created to quickly disseminate the work done at the lab.

January 1, 2014
September 1, 2015

AS2CBench release

FPGA accelerated S2Cbench benchmarks (AS2Cbench) open-source benchmarks released.

September 1, 2015
September 1, 2016

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].

September 1, 2016
June 1, 2017

First PhD student graduates

 DARClab graduates first PhD student.

June 1, 2017
January 1, 2018

S2CBench v.2.0 released.

Version 2.0 of more benchmarks designs is released.

January 1, 2018
January 1, 2019

High-Level Synthesis DSE framework released

HLS DSE framework released (DSEframe v1.0) [Github]

January 1, 2019
March 1, 2020

COVID

The lab moves online due to COVID, but continues with the work

March 1, 2020
January 1, 2023

Three major milestones accomplished

10 PhD students graduated;
100 peer reviewed publications; 1,000 citations reached.

January 1, 2023
September 1, 2022

Promotion to Associate Professor

DARClab director is promoted to associated professor.

September 1, 2022
June 1, 2022

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].

June 1, 2022
January 1, 2023

highX Technologies starts

highX technologies startup from DARClab founded.

January 1, 2023
April 1, 2023

High-Level Synthesis Made Easy Book published

Free HLS book is published [HLSbook].

April 1, 2023
January 1, 2025

New milestone achieved

We published our 100th conference paper!

January 1, 2025