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SUMMARY:Brown bag: Zhiru Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Title: Towards Reconfigurable Computing for Mainstream
	 Programmers\nSpeaker: Zhiru Zhang\nAbstract: Over the last two decades\,
	 FPGAs have evolved from a small chip with a few thousand logic blocks to
	 heterogeneous system-on-chips containing hardened DSP blocks\, embedded
	 memories\, and billions of transistors. These advances have made FPGAs
	 an attractive hardware device for high-performance reconfigurable
	 computing. However\, there is still a considerable productivity gap
	 between register-transfer level FPGA design and traditional software
	 design. Enabling high-level programming of FPGAs is a critical step in
	 bridging this gap and pushing FPGAs further into the computing space. \n
	 \nIn this talk we give an introduction to FPGAs and modern high-level
	 synthesis (HLS) tools. We present case studies which motivate the need
	 for HLS tools\, as well as explore their benefits and limitations. We
	 further introduce novel scheduling and mapping algorithms to improve the
	 quality of synthesized designs.
LOCATION:Gates 122
UID:2014-11-25
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART:20141125T170000Z
DTEND:20141125T180000Z
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonathan Shi:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jshi/brownbag/
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