Case Study of High Level Synthesis on Path Planning Algorithm

LAI Liyang; ZHENG Peijun; LIANG Haicheng; LI Huawei

doi:10.11999/JEIT240210

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LAI Liyang, ZHENG Peijun, LIANG Haicheng, LI Huawei. Case Study of High Level Synthesis on Path Planning Algorithm[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology. doi: 10.11999/JEIT240210

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LAI Liyang, ZHENG Peijun, LIANG Haicheng, LI Huawei. Case Study of High Level Synthesis on Path Planning Algorithm[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology. doi: 10.11999/JEIT240210

LAI Liyang, ZHENG Peijun, LIANG Haicheng, LI Huawei. Case Study of High Level Synthesis on Path Planning Algorithm[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology. doi: 10.11999/JEIT240210

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LAI Liyang, ZHENG Peijun, LIANG Haicheng, LI Huawei. Case Study of High Level Synthesis on Path Planning Algorithm[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology. doi: 10.11999/JEIT240210

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Case Study of High Level Synthesis on Path Planning Algorithm

doi: 10.11999/JEIT240210

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Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China
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State key Laboratory of Computer Architecture, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China(62090024), The Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2022A1515011084), Guangdong Province Yangfan Program for Shortage and Top-notch Talents (140-14600602), Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture (CARCH201912, 140-15220011)

Received Date: 2024-03-27
Rev Recd Date: 2024-06-15

Available Online: 2024-06-19

Abstract

Abstract

With the advancement of robot automatic navigation technology, software-based path planning algorithms can no longer satisfy the needs in scenarios of many real-time applications. Fast and efficient hardware customization of the algorithm is required to achieve low-latency performance acceleration. In this work, High Level Synthesis (HLS) of classic A* algorithm is studied. Hardware-oriented data structure and function optimization, varying design constraints are explored to pick the right architecture, which is then followed by FPGA synthesis. Experimental results show that, compared to the conventional Register Transfer Level (RTL) method, the HLS-based FPGA implementation of the A* algorithm can achieve better productivity, improved hardware performance and resource utilization efficiency, which demonstrates the advantages of high level synthesis in hardware customization in algorithm-centric applications.
- Automatic navigation,
- Path panning algorithm,
- High Level Synthesis(HLS),
- Hardware acceleration

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