Blair Fort

770 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 495 citations indexed

About

Blair Fort is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Blair Fort has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 495 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 6 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 1 paper in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Blair Fort's work include Embedded Systems Design Techniques (11 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (9 papers) and Interconnection Networks and Systems (6 papers). Blair Fort is often cited by papers focused on Embedded Systems Design Techniques (11 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (9 papers) and Interconnection Networks and Systems (6 papers). Blair Fort collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Netherlands and Italy. Blair Fort's co-authors include Stephen D. Brown, Jongsok Choi, Jason H. Anderson, Andrew Canis, Yu Ting Chen, Răzvan Nane, Vlad-Mihai Sima, Fabrizio Ferrandi, Koen Bertels and Christian Pilato and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

In The Last Decade

Blair Fort

11 papers receiving 478 citations

Hit Papers

A Survey and Evaluation of FPGA High-Level Synthesis Tools 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A Survey and Evaluation of FPGA High-Level Synthesis Tools
    2015 342 citations Răzvan Nane, Vlad-Mihai Sima et al. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Blair Fort Canada 6 384 208 170 55 35 11 495
Hsuan Hsiao Canada 7 304 0.8× 177 0.9× 205 1.2× 74 1.3× 41 1.2× 12 460
Philippe Coussy France 10 267 0.7× 161 0.8× 179 1.1× 53 1.0× 29 0.8× 35 378
Răzvan Nane Netherlands 9 345 0.9× 176 0.8× 229 1.3× 104 1.9× 39 1.1× 20 547
Mariagiovanna Sami Italy 10 264 0.7× 222 1.1× 174 1.0× 45 0.8× 14 0.4× 24 394
Jens Hagemeyer Germany 10 206 0.5× 130 0.6× 170 1.0× 39 0.7× 36 1.0× 48 327
Victor Zhang Canada 6 524 1.4× 260 1.3× 221 1.3× 68 1.2× 60 1.7× 10 656
Shih-Hsu Huang Taiwan 13 305 0.8× 99 0.5× 472 2.8× 83 1.5× 28 0.8× 134 610
Jean-Philippe Diguet France 9 160 0.4× 161 0.8× 98 0.6× 79 1.4× 29 0.8× 59 313
Ralph Wittig United States 9 280 0.7× 213 1.0× 96 0.6× 28 0.5× 36 1.0× 17 364
Sunil Shukla United States 10 263 0.7× 205 1.0× 182 1.1× 73 1.3× 36 1.0× 41 447

Countries citing papers authored by Blair Fort

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Fields of papers citing papers by Blair Fort

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Blair Fort. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Blair Fort. The network helps show where Blair Fort may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Blair Fort

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Blair Fort. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Blair Fort based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Blair Fort. Blair Fort is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Nam, Kevin, Blair Fort, & Stephen D. Brown. (2017). FISH: Linux system calls for FPGA accelerators. 1–4. 2 indexed citations
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Nane, Răzvan, Vlad-Mihai Sima, Christian Pilato, et al.. (2015). A Survey and Evaluation of FPGA High-Level Synthesis Tools. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 35(10). 1591–1604. 342 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fort, Blair, Andrew Canis, Jongsok Choi, et al.. (2014). Automating the Design of Processor/Accelerator Embedded Systems with LegUp High-Level Synthesis. 120–129. 18 indexed citations
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Canis, Andrew, Jongsok Choi, Blair Fort, et al.. (2013). From software to accelerators with LegUp high-level synthesis. 18. 23 indexed citations
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Canis, Andrew, Jongsok Choi, Blair Fort, et al.. (2013). From software to accelerators with LegUp high-level synthesis. 1–9. 32 indexed citations
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Canis, Andrew, Jongsok Choi, Blair Fort, et al.. (2013). From C to Blokus Duo with LegUp high-level synthesis. 6. 486–489. 1 indexed citations
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Shannon, Lesley, et al.. (2006). Designing an FPGA SoC using a standardized IP block interface. 11172. 341–342. 1 indexed citations
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Fort, Blair, Davor Capalija, Z.G. Vranesic, & Stephen D. Brown. (2006). A Multithreaded Soft Processor for SoPC Area Reduction. 131–142. 49 indexed citations
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Fort, Blair, et al.. (2005). Experiences with Soft-Core Processor Design. 167b–167b. 19 indexed citations

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