Bohm Agostini, N;
Curzel, S;
Zhang, J;
Limaye, A;
Tan, C;
Amatya, V;
Minutoli, M;
... Tumeo, A; + view all
(2022)
Bridging Python to Silicon: The SODA Toolchain.
IEEE Micro
10.1109/MM.2022.3178580.
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Abstract
Systems performing scientific computing, data analysis, and machine learning tasks have a growing demand for application-specific accelerators that can provide high computational performance while meeting strict size and power requirements. However, the algorithms and applications that need to be accelerated are evolving at a rate that is incompatible with manual design processes based on hardware description languages. Agile hardware design tools based on compiler techniques can help by quickly producing an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) accelerator starting from a high-level algorithmic description. We present the SODA Synthesizer, a modular and open-source hardware compiler that provides automated end-to-end synthesis from high-level software frameworks to ASIC implementation, relying on multi-level representations to progressively lower and optimize the input code. Our approach does not require the application developer to write register-transfer level code, and it is able to reach up to 364 GFLOPS/W efficiency (32-bit precision) on typical convolutional neural network operators.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Bridging Python to Silicon: The SODA Toolchain |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/MM.2022.3178580 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2022.3178580 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Hardware , Optimization , Synthesizers , Codes , Hardware design languages , Kernel , Field programmable gate arrays |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10150659 |
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