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DB4HLS: A Database of High-Level Synthesis Design Space Explorations

Ferretti, Lorenzo
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Kwon, Jihye
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Ansaloni, Giovanni  
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December 1, 2021
Ieee Embedded Systems Letters

High-level synthesis (HLS) frameworks allow to easily specify a large number of variants of the same hardware design by only acting on optimization directives. Nonetheless, the hardware synthesis of implementations for all possible combinations of directive values is impractical even for simple designs. Addressing this shortcoming, many HLS design space exploration (DSE) strategies have been proposed to devise directive settings leading to high-quality implementations while limiting the number of synthesis runs. All these works require considerable efforts to validate the proposed strategies and/or to build the knowledge base employed to tune abstract models, as both tasks mandate the syntheses of large collections of implementations. Currently, such data gathering is performed ad hoc: 1) leading to a lack of standardization, hampering comparisons between DSE alternatives; and 2) posing a very high burden to researchers willing to develop novel DSE strategies. Against this backdrop, we here introduce DB4HLS, a database of exhaustive HLS explorations comprising more than 100 000 design points collected over four years equivalent of synthesis time. The open structure of DB4HLS allows the incremental integration of new DSEs, which can be easily defined with a dedicated domain-specific language. We think that of our database, available at https://www.db4hls.inf.usi.ch/,https://www.db4hls.inf.usi.ch/, will be a valuable tool for the research community investigating automated strategies for the optimization of HLS-based hardware designs.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/LES.2021.3066882
Web of Science ID

WOS:000721999200015

Author(s)
Ferretti, Lorenzo
Kwon, Jihye
Ansaloni, Giovanni  
Di Guglielmo, Giuseppe
Carloni, Luca
Pozzi, Laura
Date Issued

2021-12-01

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
Ieee Embedded Systems Letters
Volume

13

Issue

4

Start page

194

End page

197

Subjects

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

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Computer Science, Software Engineering

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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Computer Science

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Engineering

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big data

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databases

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design space exploration (dse)

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high-level synthesis (hls)

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machine learning

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December 18, 2021
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