VAST lab at UCLA
The VAST lab at UCLA investigates cutting-edge research topics at the intersection of VLSI technologies, design automation, architecture and compiler optimization at multiple scales, from micro-architecture building blocks, to heterogeneous compute nodes, and scalable data centers. Current focuses include architecture and design automation for emerging technologies, customizable domain-specific computing with applications to multiple domains, such as imaging processing, bioinformatics, data mining and machine learning.
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Prof. Cong has been selected to receive the 2025 ISPD Lifetime Achievement Award, to be presented at the International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) in Austin, TX, on March 16-19, 2025. This award is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of physical...
Congratulations to Atefeh for receiving the 2024 Computer Science Graduate Student Award
In the past few decades, HLS tools were introduced to raise the abstraction level and free designers from delving into architecture details at the circuit level. While HLS can significantly reduce...
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Our Projects
Domain-specific accelerators (DSAs) have shown to offer significant performance and energy efficiency over general-purpose CPUs to meet the ever increasing performance needs. However, it is well-known that the DSAs in field-programmable gate-arrays (FPGAs) or application specific integrated...
Description:
- Compilation in quantum computing (QC)
- Benchmarks - what quantum algorithm we compile?
- Optimality study - how far are we from optimal?
- Optimal quantum layout synthesis
- Exploring architecture design with layout synthesis...
Heterogeneous computing with extensive use of accelerators, such as FPGAs and GPUs, has shown great promise to bring in orders of magnitude improvement in computing efficiency for a wide range of applications. The latest advances in industry have led to highly integrated heterogeneous hardware...
Direction 1: Real-Time Neural Signal Processing for Closed-Loop Neurofeedback Applications.
The miniaturized fluorescence microscope (Miniscope) and the tetrodes assembly are emerging techniques in observing the activity of a large population of neuros in vivo. It opens up new research...
In the Big Data era, the volume of data is exploding, putting forward a new challenge to existing computer systems. Traditionally, the computer system is designed to be computing-centric, in which the data from IO devices is transferred and then processed by the CPU. However, this data movement...
In this project, we explore efficient algorithms and architectures for state-of-the-art deep learning based applications. In the first set of works, we are exploring learning algorithms and acceleration techniques on graph learning algorithms. At their core, they deal with sparse...
In the era of big data, many applications present siginificant compuational challenges. For example, in the field of bio-infomatics, the computation demand for personalized cancer treatment is prohibitively high for the general-purpose computing technologies, as tumor heterogeneity...
To meet ever-increasing computing needs and overcome power density limitations, the computing industry has entered theera of parallelization, with tens to hundreds of computing cores integrated into a single...
Software Releases
https://github.com/UCLA-VAST/EBMF This project provides SMT solving method and a heuristic, row packing, for the exact binary matrix factorization (EBMF) problem. Additionally, we provide an SMT method to find fooling set size of a binary...
Optimal Layout Synthesizer of Quantum Circuits for Dynamically Field-Programmable Qubits Array. https://github.com/UCLA-VAST/DPQA