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Vitamin-V is a 2023-2025 Horizon Europe project that aims to develop a complete RISC-V open-source software stack for cloud services with comparable performance to the cloud-dominant x86 counterpart and a powerful virtual execution…

Among the key contributions of Vitamin-V (2023-2025 Horizon Europe project), we develop a complete RISC-V open-source software stack for cloud services with comparable performance to the cloud-dominant x86 counterpart. In this paper, we…

A range of RISC-V based accelerators are available and coming to market, and there is strong potential for these to be used for High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. However, such accelerators tend to provide bespoke programming…

Cryptographic operations are critical for securing IoT, edge computing, and autonomous systems. However, current RISC-V platforms lack efficient hardware support for comprehensive cryptographic algorithm families and post-quantum…

The proliferation of edge devices necessitates efficient computational architectures for lightweight tasks, particularly deep neural network (DNN) inference. Traditional NPUs, though effective for such operations, face challenges in power,…

Confidential computing plays an important role in isolating sensitive applications from the vast amount of untrusted code commonly found in the modern cloud. We argue that it can also be leveraged to build safer and more secure…

The rapid development of RISC-V instruction set architecture presents new opportunities and challenges for software developers. Is it sufficient to simply recompile high-performance software optimized for x86-64 onto RISC-V CPUs? Are…

In recent years, computers based on the RISC-V architecture have raised broad interest in the high-performance computing (HPC) community. As the RISC-V community develops the core instruction set architecture (ISA) along with ISA…

Virtualization technology is nowadays adopted in security-critical embedded systems to achieve higher performance and more design flexibility. However, it also comes with new security threats, where attackers leverage timing covert channels…

The evolution of 5G and the emergence of 6G wireless communication systems impose higher demands for computing capabilities and lower power consumption in the front-end and processing circuitry. Furthermore, the incorporation of Artificial…

Open-source hardware (OSHW) is rapidly gaining traction in academia and industry. The availability of open RTL descriptions, EDA tools, and even PDKs enables a fully auditable supply chain for end-to-end (RTL to layout) open-source silicon,…

RISC-V is gaining popularity for its adaptability and cost-effectiveness in processor design. With the increasing adoption of RISC-V, the importance of implementing robust security verification has grown significantly. In the state of the…

The emergence and rapid development of the open RISC-V instruction set architecture opens up new horizons on the way to efficient devices, ranging from existing low-power IoT boards to future high-performance servers. The effective use of…

In this paper, we propose a high-performance RISC-V soft processor with an efficient fetch unit supporting the compressed instructions targeting on FPGA. The compressed instruction extension in RISC-V can reduce the program size by about…

The Sophon SG2042 is the world's first commodity 64-core RISC-V CPU for high performance workloads and an important question is whether the SG2042 has the potential to encourage the HPC community to embrace RISC-V. In this paper we…

This paper presents an automated approach for designing processors that support a subset of the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) for a new class of applications at Extreme Edge. The electronics used in extreme edge applications…

This work presents the first design, integration, and evaluation of the standard RISC-V extensions for Control-Flow Integrity (CFI). The Zicfiss and Zicfilp extensions aim at protecting the execution of a vulnerable program from…

Safety-critical domains, such as automotive, space, and robotics, are adopting increasingly powerful multicores with abundant hardware shared resources for higher performance and efficiency. However, mutual interference due to parallel…

Multi- and many-core processors are becoming increasingly popular in embedded systems. Many of these processors now feature hardware virtualization capabilities, such as the ARM Cortex A15, and x86 processors with Intel VT-x or AMD-V…

Today's microprocessors have grown significantly in complexity and functionality. Most of today's processors provide at least three levels of memory hierarchy, are heavily pipelined, and support some sort of cache coherency protocol. These…