C2HLSC: Can LLMs Bridge the Software-to-Hardware Design Gap?
<|reference_start|>C2HLSC: Can LLMs Bridge the Software-to-Hardware Design Gap?: High Level Synthesis (HLS) tools offer rapid hardware design from C code, but their compatibility is limited by code constructs. This paper investigates Large Language Models (LLMs) for refactoring C code into HLS-compatible formats. We present several case studies by using an LLM to rewrite C code for NIST 800-22 randomness tests, a QuickSort algorithm and AES-128 into HLS-synthesizable c. The LLM iteratively transforms the C code guided by user prompts, implementing functions like streaming data and hardware-specific signals. This evaluation demonstrates the LLM's potential to assist hardware design refactoring regular C code into HLS synthesizable C code.<|reference_end|>
@article{collini2024c2hlsc:,
    title={C2HLSC: Can LLMs Bridge the Software-to-Hardware Design Gap?},
    author={Luca Collini, Siddharth Garg, Ramesh Karri},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.09233},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.09233},
    primaryClass={cs.AR}
}