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Jaco Naude
dblp:158/8009
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2015
—ORCID · unresolved
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Systems, architecture and hardware · 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.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Electronic design automation · 88% Reconfigurable computing and FPGAs · 12% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Electronic design automation
design space exploration |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | InTime: A Machine Learning Approach for Efficient Selection of FPGA CAD Tool Parameters · FPGA 2015 |
Electronic design automation › machine learning for EDA
machine learning-based tuning |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | InTime: A Machine Learning Approach for Efficient Selection of FPGA CAD Tool Parameters · FPGA 2015 |
Reconfigurable computing and FPGAs
FPGA design flow |
0.1 | 1 | 2015 | InTime: A Machine Learning Approach for Efficient Selection of FPGA CAD Tool Parameters · FPGA 2015 |
Electronic design automation › physical design
timing optimization |
0.1 | 1 | 2015 | InTime: A Machine Learning Approach for Efficient Selection of FPGA CAD Tool Parameters · FPGA 2015 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
statistical sampling · 0.2machine learning · 0.2
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | InTime: A Machine Learning Approach for Efficient Selection of FPGA CAD Tool ParametersabstractFPGA CAD tool parameters controlling synthesis optimizations, place and route effort, mapping criteria along with user-supplied physical constraints can affect timing results of the circuit by as much as 70% without any change in original source code. A correct selection of these parameters across a diverse set of benchmarks with varying characteristics and design goals is challenging. The sheer number of parameters and option values that can be selected is large (thousands of combinations for modern CAD tools) with often conflicting interactions. In this paper, we present InTime, a machine-learning approach supported by a cloud-based (or cluster-based) compilation infrastructure for automating the selection of these parameters effectively to minimize timing costs. InTime builds a database of results from a series of preliminary runs based on canned configurations of CAD options. It then learns from these runs to predict the next series of CAD tool options to improve timing results. Towards the end, we rely on a limited degree of statistical sampling of certain options like placer and synthesis seeds to further tighten results. Using our approach, we show 70% reduction in final timing results across industrial benchmark problems for the Altera CAD flow. This is 30% better than vendor-supplied design space exploration tools that attempts a similar optimization using canned heuristics. Nachiket Kapre, Harnhua Ng, Kirvy Teo, Jaco Naude |
FPGA | 4 |