US AHEAD bootcamp

9 Jun 2025, 02:30 → 13 Jun 2025, 12:30 US/Eastern

This is a training tutorial centered around how to use High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools to program FPGAs. The US ATLAS HLS Education and Development (AHEAD) Bootcamp will be held at BNL and will be targeted toward senior US ATLAS graduate students and all levels of US ATLAS postdocs. 

The tutorial will include a brief introduction to digital design, how to make best use of HLS tools and understand what HLS code is doing. Participants will do on-hands on exercises to solidify the new concepts. 

The event will take place in Building 510, see a map here:

https://www.bnl.gov/maps/510map.php

The workshop is co-organized by

Jahred Adelman (NIU)
Haider Abidi (BNL)
Antonio Boveia (OSU)
Marcos Oliveira (BNL)
Akshay Malige (BNL)
Alexander Paramonov (ANL)

Monday 9 June

Welcome: Hi! Introduction

1 Intro to the introduction

Speaker: Haider Abidi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

USAhead workshop 2024 - Welcome to BNL (1).pdf

2 Why are we here? And some icebreakers!

Speaker: Jahred Adelman (Northern Illinois University)

Intro

3 How to connect to a computer - VNC guide

Speaker: Akshay Malige (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

VNC instructions

4 We struggle with computer connections

Coffee Break - Elixir of Life

Digital Design

5 Intro to digital design

Speaker: Alexander Paramonov (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

2025_06_02_Introduction_to_digital_design_US_AHEAD.pdf

6 Lunch

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Digital Design

7 Vivado Live Demo

Speaker: Alexander Paramonov (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

Coffee Break - Elixir of Life

FPGA

8 Crash course on everything FPGAs

Speaker: Jahred Adelman (Northern Illinois University)

FPGA Intro

9 Deep Breath & Break

10 Dinner++

Tuesday 10 June

Show & Tell

11 An ATLAS project

Speaker: Marcos Vinicius Silva Oliveira (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

20250610 - ATLAS LATOME HLS.pdf

Silva Oliveira - Public defense Low-Latency High-Bandwidth Circuit and System Design for Trigger Systems in High Energy Physics.pdf

12 EF tracking

Speaker: Haider Abidi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

EF tracking

Coffee Break - Elixir of Life

Show & Tell

13 How to load Vitis

Loading Vadd example and how to run it, and find reports

Speaker: Akshay Malige (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

AHEAD_2025 tutorial

14 We practice running Vitis

and pull our hairs out as a team

15 Lunch

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Serious Lectures

16 Intro to HLS and live demos

Speaker: Marcos Vinicius Silva Oliveira (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

Starting with HLS

Starting with HLS

Coffee Break - Elixir of Life

Lets Exercise

17 Time to test your skills

Go through the functions @ https://github.com/US-AHEAD/2025/tree/main/simple_functions
Make vitis projects, find timing and resource usage for each one of them

Develop plots that show threads for latency, resources when you change
- Change N
- Change data types, int/float/longs/char/….boolean
- ….

18 Break and deep breaths

19 Dinner++

Wednesday 11 June

Serious Lectures

20 Pragmas

Why we love and hate them

Speaker: Jahred Adelman (Northern Illinois University)

Link to slides on git

Coffee Break - Elixir of Life

Lets Exercise

21 Time to test your skills - Part 2

Go through the functions @ https://github.com/US-AHEAD/2025/tree/main/simple_functions

Make vitis projects, find timing and resource usage for each one of them, but add pragmas this time to see what changes from your results from before

22 Lunch

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Projects - Gahhhhh!

23 Walkthrough of project optimization

Speaker: Marcos Vinicius Silva Oliveira (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

24 Walkthrough of potential projects

Speaker: Haider Abidi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

Lets Exercise

25 Work on projects

Coffee Break - Elixir of Life

Lets Exercise

26 Project time

Final project discussion

Final projects, URL on git

USAHEAD_ HLS example projects.pdf

27 Deep Breaths

28 Dinner++

We go to Curry Club https://curryclubatsaghar.com/

Thursday 12 June

Lets Exercise

29 Working time for projects

30 Lunch

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31 Lab Tours

Lets Exercise

32 Working time for projects and presentation

with coffee breaks in the middle

33 Dinner++

Friday 13 June

Final Presentations

34 Punit+Sahibjeet

Speakers: Punit Sharma (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Dr Sahibjeet Singh (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

Connecting two Kernels.pdf

35 Julianne+Walker

Speakers: Julianne Starzee, Walker William Sundquist (University of Massachusetts (US))

Edge_Detection.pdf

36 Break for Caffeine and the potty

37 Daniela+Jochen

Speakers: Daniela Koeck (University of Oregon), Jochen Jens Heinrich (University of Oregon (US))

TAUS_AHEAD.pdf

38 Abdullah+Maya

Speakers: Abdullah Sayed (Brandeis University (US)), Maya Nicole Mancini (Brandeis University (US))

39 Lubos + Jae Jin

Speakers: Jae Jin Hong (Indiana University (US)), Lubos Vozdecky (University of Oklahoma)

Array Sorting.pdf

40 Break for caffeine + potty + sugar

41 Hayden + Roxani

Speakers: Hayden Michael Shaddix (Northern Illinois University (US)), Roxani Lazaridou (University of California Irvine (US))

kernel_profiling_presentation.pdf

42 Osip+Alex

Speakers: Alex Gekow (Ohio State University (US)), Joseph Philip Surdutovich (Ohio State University (US))

FPGA MET.pdf

43 Break for caffine + potty + sugar + leg-stretching

44 Anthony+Natalie

Speakers: Anthony Maurel Carroll (University of Oregon (US)), Natalie Ellen Gray (University of Texas at Austin (US))

HAMSTER.pdf

45 Jammel

Speaker: Ashley Brooks (Indiana University)

46 Lunch (quick?) and depart

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