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.
Latest News
Congratulations to Deming Chen, a former member of Prof. Cong's lab, for being elected to IEEE fellow "for contributions to FPGA high-level synthesis."
The IEEE is the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology for...
Prof. Cong delivered a keynote speech at the 2018 Computing in the 21st Century Conference (21CCC) & Asia Faculty Summit hosted by Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in junction with the MSRA 20-Year Anniversary Celebration on November 6, 2018...
The paper is co-authored by Zhe Chen, Andrew Howe, Hugh T. Blair, and Jason Cong with the title "CLINK: Compact LSTM Inference Kernel for Energy Efficient Neurofeedback Devices.” received the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on...
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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...
Recent work from this project got the Best Paper Award in ISLPED'18.
Moore’s law has driven the exponential growth of information technology for more than 50 years, during which the ever-...
In the Big Data era, the volume of data is exploding, putting forward a new challenge to the existing computer system. Traditionally, the computer system is designed to be computing-centric, in which the data from IO devices are transferred and then processed by the CPU. However, the data...
In this project, we explore efficient algorithms and architectures for state-of-the-art deep learning based applications. The first work, Caffeine, offers a uniformed framework to accelerate the full stack of convolutional neural networks (CNN), including both convolutional layers and...
Many applications in precision medicine present significant computational challenges. For example, the computation demand for personalized cancer treatment is prohibitively high for the general-purpose computing technologies, as tumor heterogeneity requires great sequencing depths,...
With the increasing of the system complexity, the needs of system level design automation becomes more and more urgent. The maturity of high-level synthesis pushes the desgin abstraction from register-transfer level (RTL) to software programming language like C/C++. However, the state-of-art...
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
Cloud-scale BWAMEM (CS-BWAMEM) is an ultrafast and highly scalable aligner built on top of cloud infrastructures, including Spark and Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS). It leverages the abundant computing resources in a public or private cloud to fully exploit the parallelism obtained from...
With the rapid evolution of CPU-FPGA heterogeneous acceleration platforms, it is critical for both platform developers and users to quantify the fundamental microarchitectural features of the platforms. We developed a set of microbenchmarks to evaluate mainstream CPU-FPGA platforms.
The...