Claudio Sansoe

Prof. Claudio Sansoe

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Academic Career Length

3Years (2024-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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18 November 2024 in arXiv
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GBGiovanni Brignone
Giovanni Brignone
RBRoberto Bosio
Roberto Bosio
FOFabrizio Ottati
Fabrizio Ottati
CSClaudio Sansoe
Claudio Sansoe
Luciano LavagnoLuciano Lavagno
Luciano Lavagno
High-level synthesis (HLS) aims at democratizing custom hardware acceleration with highly abstracted software-like descriptions. However, efficient accelerators still require substantial low-level hardware optimizations, defeating the HLS intent. In the context of field-programmable gate arrays, digital signal processors (DSPs) are a crucial resource that typically requires a significant optimization effort for its efficient utilization, especially when used for sub-word vectorization. This work proposes SILVIA, an open-source LLVM transformation pass that automatically identifies superword-level parallelism within an HLS design and exploits it by packing multiple operations, such as additions, multiplications, and multiply-and-adds, into a single DSP. SILVIA is integrated in the flow of the commercial AMD Vitis HLS tool and proves its effectiveness by packing multiple operations on the DSPs without any manual source-code modifications on several diverse state-of-the-art HLS designs such as convolutional neural networks and basic linear algebra subprograms accelerators, reducing the DSP utilization for additions by 70 % and for multiplications and multiply-and-adds by 50 % on average.