Tutorial: ARIES: Agile Programming on AI Engines in Python Interface and MLIR-based Compilation

Organizers: Peipei Zhou, Jinming Zhuang, Zhuoping Yang (Brown University)

🚀 Join us at the ARIES Tutorial at FCCM’25!

📅 May 7, 2025 | 🕘 9:00 AM–12:00 PM | 📍 Fayetteville, Arkansas

Prof. Peipei Zhou (Brown), Zhuoping Yang (Brown), and Jinming Zhuang (Brown) are excited to host a hands-on tutorial on ARIES — a novel programming model and MLIR-based compiler for AMD AI Engine (AIE) devices.

🛠️ ARIES is the result of our latest research at Prof. Zhou’s Research Group collaborated with Cornell Zhang Research Group and has been recognized as a Best Paper Nominee at ISFPGA’25!

This tutorial will cover an in-depth introduction to ARIES, live coding sessions, and on-board execution through Jupyter Notebook. Check out the agenda in the figure for the full list of topics — and don’t miss the chance to join us for a deep dive into the AIE programming!

🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/arc-research-lab/Aries
📄 Paper Reference: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3706628.3708870

*All times shown in the Arkansas local time, CDT (UTC-6)

Wednesday – May 7

	Session 1: Introduction & Presentation Session
9:00 – 9:10 am	Opening remarks by Peipei Zhou
9:10 – 9:50 am	ARIES Compilation Flow and Grammar Overview Jinming Zhuang (Brown University)
9:50 – 10:00 am	Break & Programming Environment Setup Jinming Zhuang (Brown University)
	Session 2: Hands-on Programming Session
10:00 – 10:20 am	First Example: Vector Addition Zhuoping Yang (Brown University)
10:20 – 10:50 am	Optimization Primitives for GEMM Jinming Zhuang (Brown University)
10:50 – 11:10 am	Coffee Break
11:10 – 11:25 am	Constructing Multi-Layer Overlays in ARIES Jinming Zhuang (Brown University)
11:25 – 11:40 am	Combining Programmable Logic and AIE with ARIES Jinming Zhuang (Brown University)
	Session 3: Closing Session
11:40 – 11:50 am	Future Work & Open Discussion on AIE Devices Jinming Zhuang (Brown University)
11:50 am – 12:00 pm	Closing remarks by Peipei Zhou