Zubair Wadood

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Zubair Wadood is a technical marketing engineer at Silexica GmbH. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Leuven, Belgium in 2014. His interests include embedded systems and high-performance computing. Before joining Silexica, he worked with Mentor Graphics and u-blox.

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Using HLS To Improve Algorithms

By Zubair Wadood - 24 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

Can an HLS optimization tool outperform expert-level hand-optimizations? A recently published white paper examines how SLX FPGA is used to optimize a secure hash algorithm. T the results are compared to a competition-winning hand-optimized HLS implementation of the same algorithm. This approach provides a nearly 400x speed-up over the unoptimized implementation and even outperforms the hand ... » read more

Optimize MATLAB C/C++ Code For HLS

By Zubair Wadood - 25 Jul, 2019 - Comments: 0

A common use case for high-level synthesis (HLS) is taking 3rd party generated or legacy C/C++ algorithms and converting the algorithm to a hardware implementation using an HLS compiler. This can present many challenges to the developer since there is little insight or understanding of the underlying code. In a recently published white paper, we examine how SLX FPGA is used to take a MATLAB... » read more