PhD Student

Youwei Xiao

Youwei Xiao

PhD Student | Core contributor

Youwei Xiao is a PhD student working on the APS framework, focusing on software techniques for both hardware synthesis and compiler stacks.

Research Areas

High-Level Synthesis
Hardware Description Languages
Processor Specialization
Retargetable Compiler

Publications

  • Aquas: Enhancing Domain Specialization through Holistic Hardware-Software Co-Optimization based on MLIR
    Yuyang Zou, Youwei Xiao, Yansong Xu, Chenyun Yin, Yuhao Luo, Yitian Sun, Ruifan Xu, Renze Chen, Yun Liang
    arXiv
    DOI
  • SkyEgg: Joint Implementation Selection and Scheduling for Hardware Synthesis using E-graphs
    Youwei Xiao, Yuyang Zou, Yun Liang
    arXiv
    DOI
  • Cement2: Temporal Hardware Transactions for High-Level and Efficient FPGA Programming
    Youwei Xiao, Zizhang Luo, Weijie Peng, Yuyang Zou, Yun Liang
    arXiv
    DOI
  • APS: Open-Source Hardware-Software Co-Design Framework for Agile Processor Specialization
    Youwei Xiao, Yuyang Zou, Yansong Xu, Yuhao Luo, Yitian Sun, Chenyun Yin, Ruifan Xu, Renze Chen, Yun Liang
    ICCAD 2025 Invited Paper
    DOI
  • Cement: Streamlining FPGA Hardware Design with Cycle-Deterministic eHDL and Synthesis
    Youwei Xiao, Zizhang Luo, Kexing Zhou, Yun Liang
    FPGA 2024
    DOI Code
  • Hector: Multi-Level Intermediate Representation for Hardware Synthesis
    Ruifan Xu, Youwei Xiao, Jin Luo, Yun Liang
    ICCAD 2022
    DOI Code

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