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Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Muhammed Yildirim , Ozcan Ozturk

High-fidelity control of the thousands to millions of programmable qubits needed for utility-scale quantum computers presents a formidable challenge for control systems. In leading atomic systems, control is optical: UV-NIR beams must be…

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

Application specific simulation is challenging task in various real time high performance embedded devices. In this study specific application is implemented with the help of Xilinx. Xilinx provides SDK and XPS tools, XPS tools used for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-02 Ravi Khatwal , Manoj Kumar Jain

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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Juliette Pottier , Thomas Nieddu , Bertrand Le Gal , Sébastien Pillement , Maria Méndez Real

In the "Big Data" era, a lot of data must be processed and moved between processing and memory units. New technologies and architectures have emerged to improve system performance and overcome the memory bottleneck. The memristor is a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Seyed Erfan Fatemieh , Samane Asgari , Mohammad Reza Reshadinezhad

Compared to the first generation of deep neural networks, dominated by regular, compute-intensive kernels such as matrix multiplications (MatMuls) and convolutions, modern decoder-based transformers interleave attention, normalization, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Max Wipfli , Gamze İslamoğlu , Navaneeth Kunhi Purayil , Angelo Garofalo , Luca Benini

Neuromorphic architectures have been introduced as platforms for energy efficient spiking neural network execution. The massive parallelism offered by these architectures has also triggered interest from non-machine learning application…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Joshua Mack , Ruben Purdy , Kris Rockowitz , Michael Inouye , Edward Richter , Spencer Valancius , Nirmal Kumbhare , Md Sahil Hassan , Kaitlin Fair , John Mixter , Ali Akoglu

The paper presents investigations on the implementation and performance of the finite element numerical integration algorithm for first order approximations and three processor architectures, popular in scientific computing, classical CPU,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Krzysztof Banaś , Filip Krużel , Jan Bielański

Modern high-performance computing architectures (Multicore, GPU, Manycore) are based on tightly-coupled clusters of processing elements, physically implemented as rectangular tiles. Their size and aspect ratio strongly impact the achievable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Gianna Paulin , Matheus Cavalcante , Paul Scheffler , Luca Bertaccini , Yichao Zhang , Frank Gürkaynak , Luca Benini

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

We present Versa, an energy-efficient processor with 36 systolic ARM Cortex-M4F cores and a runtime-reconfigurable memory hierarchy. Versa exploits algorithm-specific characteristics in order to optimize bandwidth, access latency, and data…

Processors using the open RISC-V ISA are finding increasing adoption in the embedded world. Many embedded use cases have real-time constraints and require flexible, predictable, and fast reactive handling of incoming events. However, RISC-…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Robert Balas , Alessandro Ottaviano , Luca Benini

Digital Signal Processing functions are widely used in real time high speed applications. Those functions are generally implemented either on ASICs with inflexibility, or on FPGAs with bottlenecks of relatively smaller utilization factor or…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Amitabha Sinha , Soumojit Acharyya , Suranjan Chakraborty , Mitrava Sarkar

Whilst numerous areas of computing have adopted the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) wholesale in recent years, it is yet to become widespread in HPC. RISC-V accelerators offer a compelling option where the HPC community can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Nick Brown , Jake Davies , Felix LeClair

This paper presents a pipeline stage resolved timing characterization of a 32-bit RISC V processor implemented on a 20 nm FPGA and a 7 nm FinFET ASIC platform. A unified analysis framework is introduced that decomposes timing paths into…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Mostafa Darvishi

The escalating challenges of managing vast sensor-generated data, particularly in audio applications, necessitate innovative solutions. Current systems face significant computational and storage demands, especially in real-time applications…

Now a days, power has become a primary consideration in hardware design, and is critical in computer systems especially for portable devices with high performance and more functionality. Clock-gating is the most common technique used for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2010-09-10 M. Kamaraju , K. Lal Kishore , A. V. N. Tilak

The performance of large-scale computing systems often critically depends on high-performance communication networks. Dynamically reconfigurable topologies, e.g., based on optical circuit switches, are emerging as an innovative new…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Vamsi Addanki , Chen Avin , Stefan Schmid

For decades, advances in electronics were directly driven by the scaling of CMOS transistors according to Moore's law. However, both the CMOS scaling and the classical computer architecture are approaching fundamental and practical limits,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Mohammed A. Zidan , YeonJoo Jeong , Jong Hong Shin , Chao Du , Zhengya Zhang , Wei D. Lu