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Things I learned from my teaching assistant experience in ECE2300 SP24. On December 11th, 2023, at precisely 3:02 PM, I received a message from my advisor: “Can we chat a bit this week about the 2300 TAship, say Friday a…

This tutorial presents how to set up a Quartus compilation flow with UTM on Apple Silicon Macs. IntroductionWhy would you want to program Intel FPGAs on an Apple Silicon Mac? Maybe you are a student/TA who needs to run s…

My experience attending and presenting at CVPR22 The IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) is a premier international conference held every year in the US. The 2022 CVPR is held in New Orlean…

A blog digest of the paper Efficient path profiling by Ball, Thomas, and James R. Larus. Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture. MICRO 29. IEEE, 1996. Efficient Path Profilin…

A tutorial to setup VNC server on linux machines for remote GUI desktop access. First of all, what is VNC? In computing, Virtual Network Computing is a graphical desktop-sharing system that uses the Remote Frame Buffer p…

SystemC is a system-level modeling language, often applied to high-level synthesis. Overview Loosely speaking, SystemC allows a user to write a set of C++ functions (processes) that are executed under control of a schedu…

Gumbel-Softmax is a reparameterization trick to make the sampling process from categorical distribution differentiable. Why are we interested in Gumbel-Softmax?Gumbel-Softmax makes categorical sampling differentiable. Wh…

Deep learning methods for 3D scene understanding, particularly focused unsupervised methods. 3D DatasetsData Representations Multiview images: multiple 2D images of the same object from different angles. Depth map Voxel:…

A reading diary to keep track of papers that I read. Virtualizing FPGAs in the CloudAuthors: Yue Zha, Jing LiVenue: ASPLOS 20Institution: University of Pennsylvania Point-Voxel CNN for Efficient 3D Deep LearningAuthors: …

Loop optimization in Vivado HLS. What is II?II means initiation interval. For a function, II is the number of clock cycles before it could accept new inputs and is generally the most critical performance metric in any sy…

HeteroCL is a software-defined reconfigurable computing framework. It is composed of a Python-based DSL (Domain-Specific Language) and an FPGA compilation flow. Welcome to my notes on HeteroCL. How do we install HeteroCL…

Knowledge and methods for Neural Architecture Search and Automated Deep Learning. OverviewNeural Architecture Search, or NAS, can be seen as a subtask of AutoML. It tries to automate the designing process of neural netwo…

“All I mean is that I was very young in New York, and that at some point the golden rhythm was broken, and I am not that young anymore.”
— Joan Didion