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+title = "Testing for stability in current HLS tools"
+date = "2022-10-04"
+author = "Yann Herklotz"
+tags = []
+categories = []
+backlinks = ["3c8"]
+forwardlinks = []
+zettelid = "3c8a"
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+One thing that might be useful to motivate the work above would be to
+test existing HLS tools for stability by changing the metrics that
+measured at the output of the HLS tools. For this, one would have to
+reuse the script from Zewei and change the conditions that trigger a
+bug. It should be expected that the size and latency of the designs
+would change quite a lot though.
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+For example, synthesis tools already change quite a lot because of the
+randomness that is introduced in the various stages. This can make
+designs fluctuate by 10-15%, which means that optimisations that do not
+add significantly more performance or area improvements might actually
+not be contributing significantly.