Towards a Methodology to Leverage Alveo Versal System Usability And Parallelization

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Federico Mansutti, Davide Ettori, Giuseppe Sorrentino, Marco Domenico Santambrogio, Davide Conficconi

Published: 2025, Last Modified: 25 Jan 2026IPDPS (Workshops) 2025EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Versal system arises to deliver an energy-efficient on-field reconfigurable fabric with the parallel floating-point computations of AI Engines (AIE). Despite the success of various implementations, the steep learning curve and the lack of a well-defined programming model make them inaccessible to non-experts. Therefore, we present a methodology and a parallelization strategy automatized through an automation framework. Applying the proposed methodologies to the case of similarity metrics computations, we attain over 13× speedup with respect to a single AI Engine-based solution, leading to 6× speedup and 8× energy efficiency improvement against software solutions.