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The RISC-V "V" extension introduces vector processing to the RISC-V architecture. Unlike most SIMD extensions, it supports long vectors which can result in significant improvement of multiple applications. In this paper, we present our…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Sonia Rani Gupta , Nikela Papadopoulou , Miquel Pericàs

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

Modern general-purpose accelerators integrate a large number of programmable area- and energy-efficient processing elements (PEs), to deliver high performance while meeting stringent power delivery and thermal dissipation constraints. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Luca Colagrande , Jayanth Jonnalagadda , Luca Benini

The ever-growing scale of data parallelism in today's HPC and ML applications presents a big challenge for computing architectures' energy efficiency and performance. Vector processors address the scale-up challenge by decoupling Vector…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Navaneeth Kunhi Purayil , Matteo Perotti , Tim Fischer , Luca Benini

Quantum computers create new security risks for today's encryption systems. This paper presents an improved version of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that uses quantum technology to strengthen protection. Our approach offers two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Albert Nieto-Morales , Arit Kumar Bishwas , Joel Jacob Varghese

Energy efficiency (EE) is a challenging task in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, where high spectral efficiency and low energy consumption appear as conflicting requirements. Although passive reconfigurable intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Junjie Ye , Mohamed Rihan , Peichang Zhang , Lei Huang , Stefano Buzzi , Zhen Chen

While posit format offers superior dynamic range and accuracy for transprecision computing, its adoption in RISC-V processors is hindered by the lack of a unified solution for lightweight, precision-scalable, and IEEE-754 arithmetic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qiong Li , Chao Fang , Longwei Huang , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang

Despite the impressive search rate of one key per clock cycle, the update stage of a random-access-memory-based content-addressable-memory (RAM-based CAM) always suffers high latency. Two primary causes of such latency include: (1) the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Xuan-Thuan Nguyen , Trong-Thuc Hoang , Hong-Thu Nguyen , Katsumi Inoue , Cong-Kha Pham

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) has been deemed a promising paradigm to provide ubiquitous communication and computing services for the Internet of Things (IoT). Besides, by intelligently reflecting the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Xintong Qin , Zhengyu Song , Tianwei Hou , Wenjuan Yu , Jun Wang , Xin Sun

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

The growth of machine learning (ML) workloads has underscored the importance of efficient memory hierarchies to address bandwidth, latency, and scalability challenges. HERMES focuses on optimizing memory subsystems for RISC-V architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Pranav Suryadevara

The proliferation of high-throughput sequencing machines ensures rapid generation of up to billions of short nucleotide fragments in a short period of time. This massive amount of sequence data can quickly overwhelm today's storage and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Subho S. Banerjee , Mohamed El-Hadedy , Jong Bin Lim , Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk , Deming Chen , Steve Lumetta , Ravishankar K. Iyer

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables privacy-preserving computation and has many applications. However, its practical implementation faces massive computation and memory overheads. To address this bottleneck, several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Aikata Aikata , Ahmet Can Mert , Sunmin Kwon , Maxim Deryabin , Sujoy Sinha Roy

Open-source RISC-V cores are increasingly demanded in domains like automotive and space, where achieving high instructions per cycle (IPC) through superscalar and out-of-order (OoO) execution is crucial. However, high-performance…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zexin Fu , Riccardo Tedeschi , Gianmarco Ottavi , Nils Wistoff , César Fuguet , Davide Rossi , Luca Benini

This paper proposes IMCRYPTO, an in-memory computing (IMC) fabric for accelerating AES encryption and decryption. IMCRYPTO employs a unified structure to implement encryption and decryption in a single hardware architecture, with combined…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Dayane Reis , Haoran Geng , Michael Niemier , Xiaobo Sharon Hu

Recent years have witnessed impressive progress in super-resolution (SR) processing. However, its real-time inference requirement sets a challenge not only for the model design but also for the on-chip implementation. In this paper, we…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Wenqian Zhao , Qi Sun , Yang Bai , Wenbo Li , Haisheng Zheng , Bei Yu , Martin D. F. Wong

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

Emerging Artificial Intelligence-enabled Internet-of-Things (AI-IoT) System-on-a-Chip (SoC) for augmented reality, personalized healthcare, and nano-robotics need to run many diverse tasks within a power envelope of a few tens of mW over a…

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a key enabler of high-performance systems, offering low latency, high throughput, and reduced CPU overhead by allowing direct memory-to-memory transfers between machines. However, its design bypasses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Erik Bångsbo , Zakaria Hersi , Anna Benktson , Stefan Holmgren , Romaric Duvignau

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) may face challenging cybersecurity attacks that may require sophisticated intrusion detection systems, necessitating a rapid development and response system. This research investigates the performance…