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Next-generation mixed-criticality Systems-on-chip (SoCs) for robotics, automotive, and space must execute mixed-criticality AI-enhanced sensor processing and control workloads, ensuring reliable and time-predictable execution of critical…

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For years, the open-source RISC-V instruction set has been driving innovation in processor design, spanning from high-end cores to low-cost or low-power cores. After a decade of evolution, RISC architectures are now as mature as the CISC…

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Architectural simulators help in better understanding the behaviour of existing architectures and the design of new architectures. Virtualization has regained importance and this has put a pressing demand for the simulation of virtualized…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Swapneel C. Mhatre , Priya Chandran

Large-scale distributed computing infrastructures such as the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) require comprehensive simulation tools for evaluating performance, testing new algorithms, and optimizing resource allocation strategies.…

The pace of RISC-V adoption continues to grow rapidly, yet for the successes enjoyed in areas such as embedded computing, RISC-V is yet to gain ubiquity in High Performance Computing (HPC). The Sophon SG2044 is SOPHGO's next generation…

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The unprecedented growth in data demand from emerging applications has turned virtual memory (VM) into a major performance bottleneck. Researchers explore new hardware/OS co-designs to optimize VM across diverse applications and systems. To…

Emerging applications in the IoT domain require ultra-low-power and high-performance end-nodes to deal with complex near-sensor-data analytics. Domains such as audio, radar, and Structural Health Monitoring require many computations to be…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Mattia Sinigaglia , Luca Bertaccini , Luca Valente , Angelo Garofalo , Simone Benatti , Luca Benini , Francesco Conti , Davide Rossi

This project focuses on making a RISC-V CPU Core using the Logisim software. RISC-V is significant because it will allow smaller device manufacturers to build hardware without paying royalties and allow developers and researchers to design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Siddesh D. Patil , Premraj V. Jadhav , Siddharth Sankhe

Real-time systems, particularly those used in domains like automated driving, are increasingly adopting neural networks. From this trend arises the need for high-performance hardware exhibiting predictable timing behavior. While…

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The rapidly growing popularity and scale of data-parallel workloads demand a corresponding increase in raw computational power of GPUs (Graphics Processing Units). As single-GPU systems struggle to satisfy the performance demands, multi-GPU…

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The burgeoning RISC-V ecosystem necessitates efficient verification methodologies for complex processors. Traditional approaches often struggle to concurrently evaluate functional correctness and performance, or balance simulation speed…

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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…

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High-Level Synthesis (HLS) is increasingly popular for hardware design using C/C++ instead of Register-Transfer Level (RTL). To express concurrent hardware behavior in a sequential language like C/C++, HLS tools introduce constructs such as…

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Detailed timing models are indispensable tools for the design space exploration of Multiprocessor Systems on Chip (MPSoCs). As core counts continue to increase, the complexity in memory hierarchies and interconnect topologies is also…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-14 José Cubero-Cascante , Niko Zurstraßen , Jörn Nöller , Rainer Leupers , Jan Moritz Joseph

Whilst RISC-V has grown phenomenally quickly in embedded computing, it is yet to gain significant traction in High Performance Computing (HPC). However, as we move further into the exascale era, the flexibility offered by RISC-V has the…

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A wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications require powerful, energy-efficient and flexible end-nodes to acquire data from multiple sources, process and distill the sensed data through near-sensor data analytics algorithms, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Pasquale Davide Schiavone , Davide Rossi , Alfio Di Mauro , Frank Gurkaynak , Timothy Saxe , Mao Wang , Ket Chong Yap , Luca Benini

Achieving high performance, energy efficiency, and cost-effectiveness while maintaining architectural flexibility is a critical challenge in the development and deployment of edge AI devices. Monolithic SoC designs struggle with this…

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