FPGA Acceleration

Technique

FPGA acceleration is a hardware acceleration technique that uses Field-Programmable Gate Arrays to speed up computationally intensive workloads. The provided evidence focuses specifically on its use in accelerating hardware verification flows (functional verification of Chisel-built processor models and FPGA-accelerated fuzzing frameworks such as HWFuzz for RISC-V processor verification), where it shortens verification cycles by moving stimulus generation, execution, and coverage collection onto programmable logic.

First seen 7/11/2026

Last seen 8/6/2026

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FPGA Acceleration

FPGA acceleration refers to the use of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to accelerate compute- or verification-intensive tasks that would otherwise run more slowly on general-purpose processors. Within the scope of the supplied evidence, the technique is discussed chiefly as a means to accelerate hardware design verification workflows.

Use in Processor Model Verification (Chisel / ARM)

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HWFuzz ← uses 100% 2e

HWFuzz uses FPGA acceleration to speed up the verification process.

Research on functional verification method processor model built by Chisel ← uses 100% 1e

The paper uses FPGA acceleration to verify large-scale applications and shorten the verification cycle.

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[1] FPGA acceleration is used to accelerate verification of large-scale application programs for a Chisel-built ARM V4 processor model, shortening the verification cycle. Research on functional verification method processor model built by Chisel

[2] HWFuzz is an FPGA-accelerated fuzzing framework for RISC-V processor verification that uses the Zynq UltraScale+ PL/PS architecture to host the fuzzer IP and DUT on PL while the software reference model runs on PS. HWFuzz: An FPGA-Accelerated Fuzzing Framework for Efficient RISC-V Processor Verification

[3] The HWFuzz hardware fuzzer IP operates in random and mutation modes to perform coverage-directed stimulus generation, with stimuli and corresponding DUT coverage stored in a hardware-side corpus. HWFuzz: An FPGA-Accelerated Fuzzing Framework for Efficient RISC-V Processor Verification

[4] HWFuzz can automatically instrument fine-grained synthesizable coverpoints into the DUT during compilation so coverage information is collected directly from the FPGA at runtime. HWFuzz: An FPGA-Accelerated Fuzzing Framework for Efficient RISC-V Processor Verification