ECE Special Seminar - Yun Eric Liang, Professor, Peking University

Friday, November 1, 2024
11:00 a.m.
2460 A.V. Williams
Darcy Long
301 405 3114
dlong123@umd.edu

Title: AHS: Agile Hardware Specialization

Abstract: Compared to software design, hardware design is more expensive and time-consuming. This is partly because software community has developed a rich set of modern tools to help software programmers to get projects started and iterated easily and quickly. However, the tools are seriously antiquated and lacking for hardware design. In this talk, I will introduce AHS: An EDA toolbox for Agile Chip Front-end Design, which includes various EDA tools for both chip design and verification. From the design perspective, AHS present three ways that use different programming interfaces, including 1) a multi-level hardware intermediate representation based high-level synthesis flow, 2) an embedded hardware description language; 3) a large language model (LLM)-powered hardware design flow. These three different methodologies exhibit different trade-offs in productivity and PPA (performance, power, and area) for chip design. From the verification perspective, I will present agile simulation and debugging tools, which can check the functional and performance behaviors of the hardware.

Bio: Prof. Yun Eric Liang is currently an Endowed Boya Distinguished Professor in the School of Integrated Circuit and School of EECS at Peking University. His research interest is at the hardware-software interface with work spanning electronic design automation (EDA), reconfigurable computing, computer architecture. He has authored over 100 scientific publications in the leading international journals and conferences. His research has been recognized with four Best Paper Awards and six Best Paper Award Nominations. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) and ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS). He is the program chair of International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT) 2022 and International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architecture and Processors (ASAP) 2019. He also serves in the program committees in the premier conferences including DAC, ICCAD, FPGA, FCCM, HPCA, MICRO, PPoPP, DATE, ASPDAC, SysML, etc. 

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