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Heterogeneous systems increasingly rely on RISC-V cores as orchestration engines to manage data movement, synchronization, and scheduling across accelerators and reconfigurable fabrics. Conventional performance metrics, such as FLOPs,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Dave Ojika , Projjal Gupta , Preethi Budi , Herman Lam , Shreya Mehrotra

Unlike other accelerators, FPGAs are capable of supporting cache coherency, thereby turning them into a more powerful architectural option than just a peripheral accelerator. However, most existing deployments of FPGAs are either non-cache…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Abishek Ramdas , Michael Giardino , Runbin Shi , Adam Turowski , David Cock , Gustavo Alonso , Timothy Roscoe

While embedded FPGAs are attractive platforms for DNN acceleration on edge-devices due to their low latency and high energy efficiency, the scarcity of resources of edge-scale FPGA devices also makes it challenging for DNN deployment. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Cong Hao , Xiaofan Zhang , Yuhong Li , Sitao Huang , Jinjun Xiong , Kyle Rupnow , Wen-mei Hwu , Deming Chen

In this paper, we describe the algorithms we implemented in FDPS to make efficient use of accelerator hardware such as GPGPUs. We have developed FDPS to make it possible for many researchers to develop their own high-performance parallel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Masaki Iwasawa , Daisuke Namekata , Keigo Nitadori , Kentaro Nomura , Long Wang , Miyuki Tsubouchi , Junichiro Makino

Attacks based on side-channel analysis (SCA) pose a severe security threat to modern computing platforms, further exacerbated on IoT devices by their pervasiveness and handling of private and critical data. Designing SCA-resistant computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Davide Zoni , Andrea Galimberti , Davide Galli

We present a new efficient OpenCL-based Accelerator for large scale Convolutional Neural Networks called Fast Inference on FPGAs for Convolution Neural Network (FFCNN). FFCNN is based on a deeply pipelined OpenCL kernels architecture. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 F. Keddous , H-N. Nguyen , A. Nakib

With the growing demands of consumer electronic products, the computational requirements are increasing exponentially. Due to the applications' computational needs, the computer architects are trying to pack as many cores as possible on a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Farhad Merchant , Dominik Sisejkovic , Lennart M. Reimann , Kirthihan Yasotharan , Thomas Grass , Rainer Leupers

In this work, we propose a configurable many-core overlay for high-performance embedded computing. The size of internal memory, supported operations and number of ports can be configured independently for each core of the overlay. The…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-25 Mário Véstias , Horácio Neto

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on those resource-constrained edge platforms is hindered by their substantial computation and storage demands. Quantized multi-precision DNNs, denoted as MP-DNNs, offer a promising solution for these…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Chuanning Wang , Chao Fang , Xiao Wu , Zhongfeng Wang , Jun Lin

The current challenges in technology scaling are pushing the semiconductor industry towards hardware specialization, creating a proliferation of heterogeneous systems-on-chip, delivering orders of magnitude performance and power benefits…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Fares Elsabbagh , Blaise Tine , Priyadarshini Roshan , Ethan Lyons , Euna Kim , Da Eun Shim , Lingjun Zhu , Sung Kyu Lim , Hyesoon kim

The current over-provisioned heterogeneous multi-cores require effective run-time optimization strategies, and the run-time power monitoring subsystem is paramount for their success. Several state-of-the-art methodologies address the design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Andrea Galimberti , Michele Piccoli , Davide Zoni

This paper presents a novel System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture for accelerating complex deep learning models for edge computing applications through a combination of hardware and software optimisations. The hardware architecture tightly…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Vineet Kumar , Ajay Kumar M , Yike Li , Shreejith Shanker , Deepu John

In view of the large amount of calculation and long calculation time of convolutional neural network (CNN), this paper proposes a convolutional neural network hardware accelerator based on field programmable logic gate array (FPGA). First,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xiong Jun

Mixed-precision neural networks (MPNNs) that enable the use of just enough data width for a deep learning task promise significant advantages of both inference accuracy and computing overhead. FPGAs with fine-grained reconfiguration…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Erjing Luo , Haitong Huang , Cheng Liu , Guoyu Li , Bing Yang , Ying Wang , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Direct-attached accelerators, where application accelerators are directly connected to the datacenter network via a hardware network stack, offer substantial benefits in terms of reduced latency, CPU overhead, and energy use. However, a key…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Katie Lim , Matthew Giordano , Theano Stavrinos , Irene Zhang , Jacob Nelson , Baris Kasikci , Tom Anderson

Datacenter servers are increasingly heterogeneous: from x86 host CPUs, to ARM or RISC-V CPUs in NICs/SSDs, to FPGAs. Previous works have demonstrated that migrating application execution at run-time across heterogeneous-ISA CPUs can yield…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Edson Horta , Ho-Ren Chuang , Naarayanan Rao VSathish , Cesar Philippidis , Antonio Barbalace , Pierre Olivier , Binoy Ravindran

A variety of computing platform like Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and multicore Central Processing Unit (CPU) in data centers are suitable for acceleration of data-intensive workloads. Especially,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Rourab Paul , Marco Danelutto

FPGAs are increasingly common in modern applications, and cloud providers now support on-demand FPGA acceleration in data centers. Applications in data centers run on virtual infrastructure, where consolidation, multi-tenancy, and workload…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Joshua Landgraf , Tiffany Yang , Will Lin , Christopher J. Rossbach , Eric Schkufza

IoT applications are one of the driving forces in making systems energy and power-efficient, given their resource constraints. However, because of security, latency, and transmission, we advocate for local computing through multi-processor…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Anderson I. Silva , Altamiro Susin , Fernanda L. Kastensmidt , Antonio Carlos S. Beck , Jose Rodrigo Azambuja

Transformer neural networks (TNN) excel in natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and computer vision (CV) without relying on recurrent or convolutional layers. However, they have high computational and memory demands,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ehsan Kabir , Jason D. Bakos , David Andrews , Miaoqing Huang