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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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Nick Brown , Maurice Jamieson

Gaussian processes are widely used in machine learning domains but remain computationally demanding, limiting their efficient scalability across emerging hardware platforms. The GPRat library addresses these challenges using the HPX…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Alexander Strack , Patrick Diehl , Dirk Pflüger

The last few years have seen the emergence of IoT processors: ultra-low power systems-on-chips (SoCs) combining lightweight and flexible micro-controller units (MCUs), often based on open-ISA RISC-V cores, with application-specific…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Nazareno Bruschi , Germain Haugou , Giuseppe Tagliavini , Francesco Conti , Luca Benini , Davide Rossi

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…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Shubhendra Pal Singhal , M. Sridevi , N Sathya Narayanan , M J Shankar Raman

RISC-V allows for building general-purpose computing platforms with programmable accelerators around a single open-source ISA. However, leveraging heterogeneous SoCs within high-level applications is a tedious task. In this preliminary…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Cyril Koenig , Enrico Zelioli , Frank K. Gürkaynak , Luca Benini

This work presents Bio-RV, a compact and resource-efficient RISC-V processor intended for biomedical control applications, such as accelerator-based biomedical SoCs and implantable pacemaker systems. The proposed Bio-RV is a multi-cycle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Vijay Pratap Sharma , Annu Kumar , Mohd Faisal Khan , Mukul Lokhande , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

Edge AI deployment faces critical challenges balancing computational performance, energy efficiency, and resource constraints. This paper presents FPGA-accelerated RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) extensions for efficient neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arya Parameshwara , Santosh Hanamappa Mokashi

Flexible electronics offer unique advantages for conformable, lightweight, and disposable healthcare wearables. However, their limited gate count, large feature sizes, and high static power consumption make on-body machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Theofanis Vergos , Polykarpos Vergos , Mehdi B. Tahoori , Georgios Zervakis

FPGA-level emulation is a key step in pre-silicon chip design validation. However, emulating large-scale multi-core systems increasingly exceed the hardware resource capacity of a single FPGA, limiting the feasibility of full-system…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Alexander Kropotov , Miquel Moreto , Behzad Salami

Why do security cameras, sensors, and siri use cloud servers instead of on-board computation? The lack of very-low-power, high-performance chips greatly limits the ability to field untethered edge devices. We present the NV-1, a new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-01 W Hokenmaier , R Jurasek , E Bowen , R Granger , D Odom

Energy efficiency has become an increasingly important concern in computer architecture due to the end of Dennard scaling. Heterogeneity has been explored as a way to achieve better energy efficiency and heterogeneous microarchitecture…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Katie Lim , Jonathan Balkind , David Wentzlaff

This work introduces lightweight extensions to the RISC-V ISA to boost the efficiency of heavily Quantized Neural Network (QNN) inference on microcontroller-class cores. By extending the ISA with nibble (4-bit) and crumb (2-bit) SIMD…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Angelo Garofalo , Giuseppe Tagliavini , Francesco Conti , Luca Benini , Davide Rossi

Vortex, a newly proposed open-source GPGPU platform based on the RISC-V ISA, offers a valid alternative for GPGPU research over the broadly-used modeling platforms based on commercial GPUs. Similarly to the push originating from the RISC-V…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Giuseppe M. Sarda , Nimish Shah , Abubakr Nada , Debjyoti Bhattacharjee , Marian Verhelst

As RISC-V adoption accelerates, domains such as automotive, the Internet of Things (IoT), and industrial control are attracting growing attention. These domains are subject to stringent Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWaP-C) constraints,…

Open-source RISC-V cores are increasingly adopted in high-end embedded domains such as automotive, where maximizing instructions per cycle (IPC) is becoming critical. Building on the industry-supported open-source CVA6 core and its…

The MultiNoC system implements a programmable on-chip multiprocessing platform built on top of an efficient, low area overhead intra-chip interconnection scheme. The employed interconnection structure is a Network on Chip, or NoC. NoCs are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Aline Mello , Leandro Moller , Ney Calazans , Fernando Moraes

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer high energy efficiency and event-driven computation, ideal for low-power edge AI. Their hardware implementation on FPGAs, however, faces challenges due to heavy computation, large memory use, and limited…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mohammad Javad Sekonji , Ali Mahani , Maryam Mirsadeghi , Mahdi Taheri

The new generation of domain-specific AI accelerators is characterized by rapidly increasing demands for bulk data transfers, as opposed to small, latency-critical cache line transfers typical of traditional cache-coherent systems. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Tim Fischer , Michael Rogenmoser , Thomas Benz , Frank K. Gürkaynak , Luca Benini

This article describes the first public implementation and evaluation of the latest version of the RISC-V hypervisor extension (H-extension v0.6.1) specification in a Rocket chip core. To perform a meaningful evaluation for modern…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Bruno Sá , José Martins , Sandro Pinto

This paper presents the design and physical implementation of UET-RVMCU, a lightweight RISC-V microcontroller derived from the UETRV-PCore. Aimed at creating an accessible and flexible open-source RISC-V-based microcontroller, UET-RVMCU…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Abdullah Azhar , Uneeb Kamal , Wajid Ali , Saad Gillani , Dr Suleman Sami Qazi