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Configurable software verification is a recent concept for expressing different program analysis and model checking approaches in one single formalism. This paper presents CPAchecker, a tool and framework that aims at easy integration of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-02-03 Dirk Beyer , M. Erkan Keremoglu

Compilers play a central role in translating high-level code into executable programs, making their correctness essential for ensuring code safety and reliability. While extensive research has focused on verifying the correctness of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Qiong Feng , Xiaotian Ma , Ziyuan Feng , Marat Akhin , Wei Song , Peng Liang

Programs with constraints are hard to debug. In this paper, we describe a general architecture to help develop new debugging tools for constraint programming. The possible tools are fed by a single general-purpose tracer. A tracer-driver is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ludovic Langevine , Mireille Ducasse

As quantum computers continue to improve and support larger, more complex computations, smart control hardware and compilers are needed to efficiently leverage the capabilities of these systems. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Folkert de Ronde , Alexander Knapen , Stephan Wong , Sebastian Feld

To understand and improve DRAM performance, reliability, security and energy efficiency, prior works study characteristics of commodity DRAM chips. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art open source infrastructures capable of conducting such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ataberk Olgun , Hasan Hassan , A. Giray Yağlıkçı , Yahya Can Tuğrul , Lois Orosa , Haocong Luo , Minesh Patel , Oğuz Ergin , Onur Mutlu

Programmable packet-processing pipelines are a core building block of modern SmartNICs and switches, yet their design requires navigating intertwined trade-offs among program feasibility, hardware cost, and system-level performance.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Artem Ageev , Antoine Kaufmann

Developing multithreaded software is an extremely challenging task, even for experienced programmers. The challenge does not end after the code is written. There are other tasks associated with a development process that become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Evgeny Vainer , Amiram Yehudai

For several decades, the CPU has been the standard model to use in the majority of computing. While the CPU does excel in some areas, heterogeneous computing, such as reconfigurable hardware, is showing increasing potential in areas like…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Carl-Johannes Johnsen , Alberte Thegler , Kenneth Skovhede , Brian Vinter

Is it possible to patch software bugs in P4 programs without human involvement? We show that this is partially possible in many cases due to advances in software testing and the structure of P4 programs. Our insight is that runtime…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Apoorv Shukla , Kevin Hudemann , Zsolt Vági , Lily Hügerich , Georgios Smaragdakis , Stefan Schmid , Artur Hecker , Anja Feldmann

The increasing diversity and complexity of transformer workloads at the edge present significant challenges in balancing performance, energy efficiency, and architectural flexibility. This paper introduces NX-CGRA, a programmable hardware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Rohit Prasad

Deep learning compilers help address the difficulties of deploying deep learning models on diverse types of hardware. Testing deep learning compilers is highly crucial, because they are impacting countless AI applications that use them for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Luyao Ren , ZiHeng Wang , Yingfei Xiong , Li Zhang , Guoyue Jiang , Tao Xie

The emergence of P4, a domain specific language, coupled to PISA, a domain specific architecture, is revolutionizing the networking field. P4 allows to describe how packets are processed by a programmable data plane, spanning ASICs and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Thomas Luinaud , Thibaut Stimpfling , Jeferson Santiago da Silva , Yvon Savaria , J. M. Pierre Langlois

Compared to fixed-function switches, the flexibility of programmable switches comes at a cost, as programmer mistakes frequently result in subtle bugs in the network data plane. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Nofel Yaseen , Liangcheng Yu , Caleb Stanford , Ryan Beckett , Vincent Liu

SystemC-based virtual prototypes have emerged as widely adopted tools to test software ahead of hardware availability, reducing the time-to-market and improving software reliability. Recently, fuzzing has become a popular method for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Chiara Ghinami , Jonas Winzer , Nils Bosbach , Lennart M. Reimann , Lukas Jünger , Simon Wörner , Rainer Leupers

Compiler optimization techniques are inherently complex, and rigorous testing of compiler optimization implementation is critical. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of testing approaches for uncovering incorrect optimization bugs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jingwen Wu , Jiajing Zheng , Zhenyu Yang , Zhongxing Yu

This paper proposes an adaptive neural-compilation framework to address the problem of efficient program learning. Traditional code optimisation strategies used in compilers are based on applying pre-specified set of transformations that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Rudy Bunel , Alban Desmaison , Pushmeet Kohli , Philip H. S. Torr , M. Pawan Kumar

There is an increasing need to bring machine learning to a wide diversity of hardware devices. Current frameworks rely on vendor-specific operator libraries and optimize for a narrow range of server-class GPUs. Deploying workloads to new…

In recent years, heterogeneous computing has emerged as the vital way to increase computers? performance and energy efficiency by combining diverse hardware devices, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Field Programmable Gate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Michail Papadimitriou , Juan Fumero , Athanasios Stratikopoulos , Foivos S. Zakkak , Christos Kotselidis

Software development for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is challenging due to characteristics of sensor nodes and the environment they are deployed in. Testing software in a real WSN testbed allows users to get reliable test results.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Sain Saginbekov , Chingiz Shakenov

Problem Statement: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) circuits play a significant role in major recent embedded process control designs. However, exploiting these platforms requires deep hardware conception skills and remains an important…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Ahmed Ben Achballah , Slim Ben Othman , Slim Ben Saoud