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Radio Resource Management (RRM) in 5G mobile communication is a challenging problem for which Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) have shown promising results. Accelerating the compute-intensive RNN inference is therefore of utmost importance.…

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It has always been difficult to balance the accuracy and performance of ISSs. RTL simulators or systems such as gem5 are used to execute programs in a cycle-accurate manner but are often prohibitively slow. In contrast, functional…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xuan Guo , Robert Mullins

The growing adoption of RISC-V in high-performance and scientific computing has increased the need for performance-portable code targeting the RISC-V Vector (RVV) extension. However, current compiler infrastructures provide limited…

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Computing-in-memory (CIM) is renowned in deep learning due to its high energy efficiency resulting from highly parallel computing with minimal data movement. However, current SRAM-based CIM designs suffer from long latency for loading…

Wireless baseband processing (WBP) serves as an ideal scenario for utilizing vector processing, which excels in managing data-parallel operations due to its parallel structure. However, conventional vector architectures face certain…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Limin Jiang , Yi Shi , Yihao Shen , Shan Cao , Zhiyuan Jiang , Sheng Zhou

Integrating cryptographic accelerators into modern CPU architectures presents unique microarchitectural challenges, particularly when extending instruction sets with complex and multistage operations. Hardware-assisted cryptographic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Alperen Bolat , Sakir Sezer , Kieran McLaughlin , Henry Hui

RC4 can be made more secured if an additional RC4-like Post-KSA Random Shuffing (PKRS) process is introduced between KSA and PRGA. It can also be made significantly faster if RC4 bytes are processed in a FPGA embedded system using multiple…

Applications · Statistics 2016-09-21 Rourab Paul , Hemanta Dey , Amlan Chakrabarti , Ranjan Ghosh

RISC-V is an emerging technology, with applications ranging from embedded devices to high-performance servers. Therefore, more and more security-critical workloads will be conducted with code that is compiled for RISC-V. Well-known…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Jan Wichelmann , Christopher Peredy , Florian Sieck , Anna Pätschke , Thomas Eisenbarth

Recently, RISC-V has contributed to the development of IoT devices, requiring architectures that balance energy efficiency, compact area, and integrated security. However, most recent RISC-V cores for IoT prioritize either area footprint or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Christian Ewert , Tim Hardow , Melf Fritsch , Leon Dietrich , Henrik Strunck , Rainer Buchty , Mladen Berekovic , Saleh Mulhem

This article presents an electron tunneling noise programmable random variate accelerator for accelerating the sampling stage of Monte Carlo simulations. We used the LiteX framework to generate a FemtoRV imfc RISC-V instruction set soft…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-09 James T. Meech , Vasileios Tsoutsouras , Phillip Stanley-Marbell

In this paper, the ByoRISC (Build your own RISC) configurable application-specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) family is presented. ByoRISCs, as vendor-independent cores, provide extensive architectural parameters over a baseline…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-27 Nikolaos Kavvadias , Spiridon Nikolaidis

Merge sort as a divide-sort-merge paradigm has been widely applied in computer science fields. As modern reduced instruction set computing architectures like the fifth generation (RISC-V) regard multiple registers as a vector register group…

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The paper describes the design and hardware implementation of 32-bit encrypted MIPS processor based on MIPS pipeline architecture. The organization of pipeline stages in such a way that pipeline can be clocked at high frequency. Encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Kirat Pal Singh , Dilip Kumar

Accurate branch prediction is a critical part of high performance instruction stream processing. In this paper, I present a hardware implementation of branch prediction for a RV32IM CPU, starting with static decode stage predictions and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Alex Saveau

While microprocessors are used in various applications, they are precluded from the use in high-energy physics applications due to the harsh radiation present. To overcome this limitation a microprocessor design must withstand high doses of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Alexander Walsemann , Michael Karagounis , Alexander Stanitzki , Dietmar Tutsch

Modern high-performance computing architectures (Multicore, GPU, Manycore) are based on tightly-coupled clusters of processing elements, physically implemented as rectangular tiles. Their size and aspect ratio strongly impact the achievable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Gianna Paulin , Matheus Cavalcante , Paul Scheffler , Luca Bertaccini , Yichao Zhang , Frank Gürkaynak , Luca Benini

Graphics processing units (GPUs) excel at parallel processing, but remain largely unexplored in ultra-low-power edge devices (TinyAI) due to their power and area limitations, as well as the lack of suitable programming frameworks. To…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Simone Machetti , Pasquale Davide Schiavone , Lara Orlandic , Darong Huang , Deniz Kasap , Giovanni Ansaloni , David Atienza

Heterogeneous, multicore SoC architectures are a critical component of today's computing landscape. However, supporting both increasing heterogeneity and multicore execution are significant design challenges. Meanwhile, the growing RISC-V…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Joseph Zuckerman , Paolo Mantovani , Davide Giri , Luca P. Carloni

High-Performance Computing (HPC) processors are nowadays integrated Cyber-Physical Systems demanding complex and high-bandwidth closed-loop power and thermal control strategies. To efficiently satisfy real-time multi-input multi-output…

Neural Networks (NNs) have been widely adopted due to their outstanding efficacy and adaptability across computer vision and deep learning applications. The optimization of NNs is necessary to enable their deployment on energy constrained…

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