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Processor design and verification require a synergistic approach that combines instruction-level functional simulations with precise hardware emulations. The trade-off between speed and accuracy in the instruction set simulation poses a…

The Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines processor operations and serves as the interface between hardware and software. As an open ISA, RISC-V lowers the barriers to processor design and encourages widespread adoption, but also…

GPUs are playing an increasingly important role in general-purpose computing. Many algorithms require synchronizations at different levels of granularity in a single GPU. Additionally, the emergence of dense GPU nodes also calls for…

The Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is the contract between compilers and processors; proving this contract formally demands cross-level connection to existing mechanized compilers and hardware implementations. As an open, modular ISA…

Whilst the RISC-V Vector extension (RVV) has been ratified, at the time of writing both hardware implementations and open source software support are still limited for vectorisation on RISC-V. This is important because vectorisation is…

The strategy of using CUDA-compatible GPUs as a parallel computation solution to improve the performance of programs has been more and more widely approved during the last two years since the CUDA platform was released. Its benefit extends…

RISC-Vs growing traction leads to the release of new RISC-V cores on a near monthly basis. In this growing and diverse ecosystem, understanding the performance and other properties of a RISC-V core is of great importance since selecting the…

The RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years, however it still to gain popularity in HPC. Whilst adopting RISC-V CPU solutions in HPC might be some way off, RISC-V based PCIe accelerators offer…

eChronos is a formally verified Real Time Operating System(RTOS) designed for embedded micro-controllers. eChronos was targeted for tightly constrained devices without memory management units. Currently, eChronos is available on proprietary…

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…

A spectrum of new hardware has been studied to accelerate database systems in the past decade. Specifically, CUDA cores are known to benefit from the fast development of GPUs and make notable performance improvements. The state-of-the-art…

This document explains the basic concepts related to software and hardware licenses, and it summarizes the most popular licenses that are currently used for hardware projects. Two case studies of hardware projects at different levels of…

Modern graphics hardware is designed for highly parallel numerical tasks and provides significant cost and performance benefits. Graphics hardware vendors are now making available development tools to support general purpose high…

The heterogeneous computing paradigm has led to the need for portable and efficient programming solutions that can leverage the capabilities of various hardware devices, such as NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD GPUs. This study evaluates the…

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…

NVIDIA GPU Confidential Computing (GPU-CC) aims to provide secure execution for AI workloads. For end users, enabling GPU-CC is seamless and requires no modifications to existing applications. However, this ease of adoption relies on a…

Acceleration of cryptographic applications on massively parallel computing platforms, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), becomes a real challenge as their decreasing cost and mass production makes practical implementations…

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…

Side-channel attacks on microprocessors, like the RISC-V, exhibit security vulnerabilities that lead to several design challenges. Hence, it is imperative to study and analyze these security vulnerabilities comprehensively. In this paper,…

In the last decade, we have witnessed exponential growth in the complexity of control systems for safety-critical applications (automotive, robots, industrial automation) and their transition to heterogeneous mixed-criticality systems…