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The paper describes the design and hardware implementation of 32-bit encrypted MIPS processor based on MIPS pipeline architecture. The organization of pipeline stages in such a way that pipeline can be clocked at high frequency. Encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Kirat Pal Singh , Dilip Kumar

In this paper we study the power-performance relationship of power-efficient computing from a queuing theoretic perspective. We investigate the interplay of several system operations including processing speed, system on/off decisions, and…

Performance · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Yanpei Liu , Stark C. Draper , Nam Sung Kim

We present a family of policies that, integrated within a runtime task scheduler (Nanox), pursue the goal of improving the energy efficiency of task-parallel executions with no intervention from the programmer. The proposed policies tackle…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Luis Costero , Francisco D. Igual , Katzalin Olcoz , Francisco Tirado

End-to-end (E2E) artificial intelligence (AI) pipelines are composed of several stages including data preprocessing, data ingestion, defining and training the model, hyperparameter optimization, deployment, inference, postprocessing,…

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) inference has a clear potential for high energy efficiency as computation is triggered by events. However, the inherent sparsity of events poses challenges for conventional computing systems, driving the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Simone Manoni , Paul Scheffler , Luca Zanatta , Andrea Acquaviva , Luca Benini , Andrea Bartolini

Heterogeneous systems increasingly rely on RISC-V cores as orchestration engines to manage data movement, synchronization, and scheduling across accelerators and reconfigurable fabrics. Conventional performance metrics, such as FLOPs,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Dave Ojika , Projjal Gupta , Preethi Budi , Herman Lam , Shreya Mehrotra

Space Cyber-Physical Systems (S-CPS) such as spacecraft and satellites strongly rely on the reliability of onboard computers to guarantee the success of their missions. Relying solely on radiation-hardened technologies is extremely…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Michael Rogenmoser , Yvan Tortorella , Davide Rossi , Francesco Conti , Luca Benini

In recent years, interest in RISC-V computing architectures has moved from academic to mainstream, especially in the field of High Performance Computing where energy limitations are increasingly a concern. As of this year, the first single…

The new open and royalty-free RISC-V ISA is attracting interest across the whole computing continuum, from microcontrollers to supercomputers. High-performance RISC-V processors and accelerators have been announced, but RISC-V-based HPC…

While most instruction set architectures (ISAs) are only available to use through the purchase of a restrictive commercial license, the RISC-V ISA presents a free and open-source alternative. Due to this availability, many free and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ian McDougall , Harish Batchu , Michael Davies , Karthikeyan Sankaralingam

The surge for computing resource demand is increasing global electricity consumption in data centers which is expected to exceed 1000 TWh by 2026, mainly attributable to adoption of new AI technologies. Carbon-aware computing strategies can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Marvin Steinke

Extended Reality (XR) enables immersive experiences through untethered headsets but suffers from stringent battery and resource constraints. Energy-efficient design is crucial to ensure both longevity and high performance in XR devices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Boyuan Tian , Yihan Pang , Muhammad Huzaifa , Shenlong Wang , Sarita Adve

Convex optimization methods are employed to optimize a real-time (RT) system-on-chip (SoC) under a variety of physical resource-driven constraints, demonstrated on an industry MPEG2 encoder SoC. The power optimization is compared to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-22 L. Yavits , A. Morad , R. Ginosar , U. Weiser

Reducing the energy expended to carry out a computational task is important. In this work, we explore the prospects of meeting Quality-of-Service requirements of tasks on a multi-core system while adjusting resources to expend a minimum of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Mehrzad Nejat , Madhavan Manivannan , Miquel Pericas , Per Stenstrom

Synchronization is likely the most critical performance killer in shared-memory parallel programs. With the rise of multi-core and many-core processors, the relative impact on performance and energy overhead of synchronization is bound to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Marco Bertuletti , Samuel Riedel , Yichao Zhang , Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli , Luca Benini

Modern data-driven applications expose limitations of von Neumann architectures - extensive data movement, low throughput, and poor energy efficiency. Accelerators improve performance but lack flexibility and require data transfers.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Vincenzo Petrolo , Flavia Guella , Michele Caon , Pasquale Davide Schiavone , Guido Masera , Maurizio Martina

With power consumption becoming a critical processor design issue, specialized architectures for low power processing are becoming popular. Several studies have shown that neural networks can be used for signal processing and pattern…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Raqibul Hasan , Tarek M. Taha , Chris Yakopcic , David J. Mountain

The ability to maximize the performance during peak workload hours and minimize the power consumption during off-peak time plays a significant role in the energy-efficient systems. Our previous work has proposed a high-performance…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Xuan-Thuan Nguyen , Trong-Thuc Hoang , Hong-Thu Nguyen , Katsumi Inoue , Cong-Kha Pham

RISC-V provides a flexible and scalable platform for applications ranging from embedded devices to high-performance computing clusters. Particularly, its RISC-V Vector Extension (RVV) becomes of interest for the acceleration of AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Federico Nicolas Peccia , Frederik Haxel , Oliver Bringmann

Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) have attracted growing interest because they exhibit performance and energy efficiency competitive with ASICs while maintaining flexibility similar to FPGAs. These properties make CGRAs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sabrina Yarzada , Christopher Torng