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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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In this paper, we propose a novel accuracy-reconfigurable stochastic computing (ARSC) framework for dynamic reliability and power management. Different than the existing stochastic computing works, where the accuracy versus power/energy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Shuyuan Yu , Han Zhou , Shaoyi Peng , Hussam Amrouch , Joerg Henkel , Sheldon X. -D. Tan

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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Takuto Kanamori , Hiromu Miyazaki , Kenji Kise

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

RISC-V processors encounter substantial challenges in deploying multi-precision deep neural networks (DNNs) due to their restricted precision support, constrained throughput, and suboptimal dataflow design. To tackle these challenges, a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Chuanning Wang , Chao Fang , Xiao Wu , Zhongfeng Wang , Jun Lin

This paper introduces BASIC_RV32s, an open-source framework providing a practical microarchitectural roadmap for the RISC-V RV32I architecture, addressing the gap between theoretical knowledge and hardware implementation. Following the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hyun Woo Kang , Ji Woong Choi

This paper addresses efficient hardware/software implementation approaches for the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm and describes the design and performance testing algorithm for embedded system. Also, with the spread of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Zine El Abidine Alaoui Ismaili , Ahmed Moussa

RISC-V ISA-based processors have recently emerged as both powerful and energy-efficient computing platforms. The release of the MILK-V Pioneer marked a significant milestone as the first desktop-grade RISC-V system. With increasing…

Unlike traditional PCIe-based FPGA accelerators, heterogeneous SoC-FPGA devices provide tighter integrations between software running on CPUs and hardware accelerators. Modern heterogeneous SoC-FPGA platforms support multiple I/O cache…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Seung Won Min , Sitao Huang , Mohamed El-Hadedy , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen , Wen-mei Hwu

Superconducting qubits provide a promising path toward building large-scale quantum computers. The simple and robust transmon qubit has been the leading platform, achieving multiple milestones. However, fault-tolerant quantum computing…

Embedded field programmable gate array (eFPGA) technology allows the implementation of reconfigurable logic within the design of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). This approach offers the low power and efficiency of an ASIC…

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Transformer-based foundation models have become crucial for various domains, most notably natural language processing (NLP) or computer vision (CV). These models are predominantly deployed on high-performance GPUs or hardwired accelerators…

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Managing energy and thermal profiles is critical for many-core HPC processors with hundreds of application-class processing elements (PEs). Advanced model predictive control (MPC) delivers state-of-the-art performance but requires solving…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Alessandro Ottaviano , Andrino Meli , Paul Scheffler , Giovanni Bambini , Robert Balas , Davide Rossi , Andrea Bartolini , 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

Reconfigurable architectures, such as FPGAs, enable the execution of code at the electronics level, avoiding the assumptions imposed by the general purpose black-box micro-architectures of CPUs and GPUs. Such tailored execution can result…

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Reconfigurable linear optical networks are a key component for the development of optical quantum information processing platforms in the NISQ era and beyond. We report the implementation of such a device based on an innovative design that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 A. Cavaillès , P. Boucher , L. Daudet , I. Carron , S. Gigan , K. Müller

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…

One of the biggest concerns in IoT is privacy and security. Encryption and authentication need big power budgets, which battery-operated IoT end-nodes do not have. Hardware accelerators designed for specific cryptographic operations provide…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Ömer Faruk Irmak , Arda Yurdakul

Modern physics experiments often utilize FPGA-based systems for real-time data acquisition. Integrated analog electronics demand for complex calibration routines. Furthermore, versatile configuration and control of the whole system is a key…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Nick Karcher , Richard Gebauer , Robin Bauknecht , Rainer Illichmann , Oliver Sander

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have given rise to transformative models, profoundly impacting our lives. These models demand massive volumes of data to operate effectively, exacerbating the data-transfer bottleneck inherent…

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