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𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗥𝗜-𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗣𝗚𝗔 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘥. Proud to share the results of our work on the ART-PIVOT project, in collaboration with UMC Utrecht and NWO (Dutch Research Council), focused on accelerating adaptive MRI-guided radiotherapy planning and reducing overall treatment planning time. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 UMC Utrecht’s MR-linac research pipeline runs entirely on CPU (MATLAB, FP64), where matrix–vector multiplication dominates compute time. With matrices reaching sizes of up to 3M × 25K, the goal was to offload the most demanding kernels to an FPGA accelerator—without compromising output quality. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 On the AMD Versal VCK190 (VC1902, 400 AIE tiles), we developed two accelerators targeting the primary bottlenecks: • A dense matrix–vector (GEMM) accelerator using an 8×23 AIE tile layout, combined with a custom sort engine and add engine in the programmable logic • A sparse matrix–vector (SpMM) accelerator featuring a novel compression scheme that eliminates zero-padding overhead and leverages the row-sparse structure of UMC Utrecht’s matrices 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁 Full-system VSS co-simulation shows a 4.16× speed-up over the MATLAB baseline for GEMM on a 3M-row workload. Interestingly, the main bottleneck was not compute, but DDR read bandwidth—highlighting that the AIE array still has headroom for further performance gains. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 AMD Versal with AIE tiles proves to be a strong fit for floating-point, compute-intensive medical imaging workloads. While DDR bandwidth remains the primary architectural constraint, there is significant opportunity to exploit parallelism within those limits. Curious how advanced compute architectures like FPGA and AI Engines can accelerate your most demanding workloads? At AimValley, we turn complex algorithms into efficient, high-performance implementations. Let’s connect and explore what’s possible. #umcu #nwo #mri #fpgaacceleration #fpgapower MathWorks #versal #AIengines AimValley is a Technolution Company!