Digital signal processing

Ahsan Mehmood

Intern (former), Information Science Lab
Visiting student at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Designing, Synthesizing, and Automating Domain-Specific Accelerators

Jian Weng, PhD student, Computer Science Department, UCLA

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KAUST

In this talk, I will first discuss how my research democratizes the accelerator designs and unifies the hardware/software innovations by automating the accelerator design process under a unified programming paradigm. By taking advantage of the compiler’s awareness of the program behaviors that profit from hardware specialization, accelerators can be automatically synthesized by searching through a well-defined design space. These automatically designed accelerators achieve comparable cost/performance efficiency compared with prior handcrafted designs. In the rest of the talk, I will also cover how this work inspires me to develop techniques to accelerate emerging application domains by orders-of-magnitude speedup, including digital signal processing and DNN inference, and how I take advantage of this work to revolutionize the FPGA programming paradigm.

Abdulwahab Felemban

Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering CEMSE, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST),completed MSc under the supervision of Prof. Tareq Al-Naffouri.