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Theodore Bauer
dblp:262/6324
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2020
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Programming languages and type systems · 100% | |
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Electronic design automation · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Programming languages and type systems › type systems › substructural type systems
affine type system |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Predictable accelerator design with time-sensitive affine types · PLDI 2020 |
Electronic design automation
high-level synthesis |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Predictable accelerator design with time-sensitive affine types · PLDI 2020 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
type system design · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Predictable accelerator design with time-sensitive affine typesabstractField-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provide an opportunity to co-design applications with hardware accelerators, yet they remain difficult to program. High-level synthesis (HLS) tools promise to raise the level of abstraction by compiling C or C++ to accelerator designs. Repurposing legacy software languages, however, requires complex heuristics to map imperative code onto hardware structures. We find that the black-box heuristics in HLS can be unpredictable: changing parameters in the program that should improve performance can counterintuitively yield slower and larger designs. This paper proposes a type system that restricts HLS to programs that can predictably compile to hardware accelerators. The key idea is to model consumable hardware resources with a time-sensitive affine type system that prevents simultaneous uses of the same hardware structure. We implement the type system in Dahlia, a language that compiles to HLS C++, and show that it can reduce the size of HLS parameter spaces while accepting Pareto-optimal designs. Rachit Nigam, Sachille Atapattu, Zhijing Li 0002, Theodore Bauer, Yuwei Ye, Apurva Koti, Adrian Sampson, Zhiru Zhang |
PLDI | 5 |