@article{pelton2024wavefront,
author = {Pelton, Blake and Sapek, Adam and Eguro, Ken and Lo, Daniel and Forin, Alessandro and Humphrey, Matt and Xi, Jinwen and Cox, David and Karandikar, Rajas H. and Licht, Johannes de Fine and Babin, Evgeny and Caulfield, Adrian and Burger, Doug},
title = {Wavefront Threading Enables Effective High-Level Synthesis},
year = {2024},
month = {May},
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. This paper describes 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.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/wavefront-threading-enables-effective-high-level-synthesis/},
pages = {1066-1090},
journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages},
volume = {8},
}