Webinar: Rapid Design Space Exploration of AI functions on Lattice FPGAs using Catapult High-Level Synthesis
The increasing demand for accelerated computing solutions calls for an agile hardware design methodology to be able to keep up with fast evolving landscape of algorithms. Traditional hardware design methodology has long development cycles involving defining architecture, doing microarchitecture development using RTL, and performing verification. An agile workflow requires being able to iterate through the architecture and implementation phases quickly to converge towards an efficient design. This is especially true for designing low footprint hardware accelerators on FPGAs, where architectural choices directly impact resource fit feasibility and performance.
Join us as we discuss architectural and microarchitectural design space exploration focusing on the SoftMax function—a key component in many neural networks. We showcase how SoftMax can be targeted on FPGA, balancing performance within tight area and resource budgets for edge deployments. We will use Catapult High-Level Synthesis as we discover its capabilities for data path-oriented hardware designs encountered in vision systems and edge inference engines.
Speakers:
Shreedutt Hedge
Senior ML RTL Engineer, Lattice Semiconductor
Technical lead on the FPGA acceleration of SensAI ML solution stack. Designing accelerated ML pipelines for low power edge devices, with focus on low resource footprint. Lead accelerator architecture study, own and develop RTL microarchitecture for implementing ML operators as soft logic in FPGA.
Work with the compiler team to support YOLO series CNN model on the accelerator.
Cameron Villone
High-Level Synthesis Technologist, Siemens EDA
Cameron Villone is a High-Level Synthesis Technologist working with the Catapult High-Level Synthesis product management and marketing team, focusing on AI hardware deployment. He previously worked as a product marketing engineer for PowerPro, Siemens’ power optimization and analysis product. He held previous roles at Texas Instruments and General Motors. Cameron studied and graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology, obtaining both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering, focusing on Robotics, Embedded Systems, and Computer Vision.
Sivasankar Palaniappan
High-Level Synthesis Technologist, Siemens EDA
Sivasankar currently works as a High-Level Synthesis Technologist in the Marketing division of the Catapult team. He joined Siemens in July 2020 as an Associate Rotation Engineer and migrated to the new role a year later. Sivasankar has a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, focusing on Computer Engineering from University of California San Diego.
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