Kanagawa: How Wavefront Threading Enables Effective High-Level Synthesis
- đ¤ Speaker: Daniel Lo, Microsoft Research
- đ Date & Time: Friday 21 June 2024, 11:00 - 12:00
- đ Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Computer Science & Technology, 15 JJ Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FD
Abstract
Digital systems are growing in importance and computing hardware is growing more heterogeneous. Hardware design, however, remains laborious and expensive, in part due to the limitations of conventional hardware description languages (HDLs) like VHDL and Verilog. A longstanding research goal has been programming hardware like software, with high-level languages that can generate efficient hardware designs. In this talk, we will present Kanagawa, a language that takes a new approach to combine the programmer productivity benefits of traditional High-Level Synthesis (HLS) approaches with the expressibility and hardware efficiency of Register-Transfer Level (RTL) design. The language’s concise syntax, matched with a hardware design-friendly execution model, permits a relatively simple toolchain to map high-level code into efficient hardware implementations.
Series This talk is part of the Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting series.
Included in Lists
- All Talks (aka the CURE list)
- bld31
- Cambridge talks
- Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting
- Department of Computer Science and Technology talks and seminars
- Interested Talks
- Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Computer Science & Technology, 15 JJ Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FD
- Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Computer Science & Technology, 15 JJ Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FD
- School of Technology
- Trust & Technology Initiative - interesting events
- yk449
Note: Ex-directory lists are not shown.
![[Talks.cam]](/static/images/talkslogosmall.gif)

Daniel Lo, Microsoft Research
Friday 21 June 2024, 11:00-12:00