This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Spark parallelizing
high-level synthesis software tool with an example. Through the
tutorial, you will learn how to invoke Spark, how to sometimes
modify C code to make it synthesizable by Spark.
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The Spark framework was developed by Sumit Gupta with major
contributions to the underlying framework by Nick Savoiu. Mehrdad
Reshadi and Sunwoo Kim also contributed to the code base. Professors
Rajesh Gupta, Nikil Dutt and Alex Nicolau led the Spark project.
This project was funded by Semiconductor Research Corporation and
Intel Incorporated.
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