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Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Gianmarco Ottavi , Angelo Garofalo , Giuseppe Tagliavini , Francesco Conti , Luca Benini , Davide Rossi

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

RISC-V is an extendable Instruction Set Architecture, growing in popularity for embedded systems. However, optimizing it to specific requirements, imposes a great deal of manual effort. To bridge the gap between software and ISA, the tool…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Andreas Hager-Clukas , Philipp van Kempen , Stefan Wallentowitz

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

The RISC-V Vector Extension~(RVV) is a cornerstone for supporting compute throughout in scientific and machine learning workloads. Yet compiler support and performance monitoring on real RVV~1.0 hardware are still evolving. In this work, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ruimin Shi , Maya Gokhale , Pei-Hung Lin , Xavier Teruel , Ivy Peng

This report makes the case that a well-designed Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) can match, and even exceed, the performance and code density of existing commercial Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) while maintaining the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Christopher Celio , Palmer Dabbelt , David A. Patterson , Krste Asanović

The emergence of a new, open, and free instruction set architecture, RISC-V, has heralded a new era in microprocessor architectures. Starting with low-power, low-performance prototypes, the RISC-V community has a good chance of moving…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Valentin Volokitin , Evgeny Kozinov , Valentina Kustikova , Alexey Liniov , Iosif Meyerov

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

The growing computational demands of machine learning (ML) workloads have driven the design of ML accelerators aiming at an optimal tradeoff between efficiency and flexibility. A widely explored architecture for flexible ML accelerators is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Luca Colagrande , Lorenzo Leone , Maximilian Coco , Andrei Deaconeasa , Luca Benini

The rapid development of RISC-V instruction set architecture presents new opportunities and challenges for software developers. Is it sufficient to simply recompile high-performance software optimized for x86-64 onto RISC-V CPUs? Are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Anna Pirova , Anastasia Vodeneeva , Konstantin Kovalev , Alexander Ustinov , Evgeny Kozinov , Alexey Liniov , Valentin Volokitin , Iosif Meyerov

To meet the computational requirements of modern workloads under tight energy constraints, general-purpose accelerator architectures have to integrate an ever-increasing number of extremely area- and energy-efficient processing elements…

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

This paper presents an LLM-empowered workflow for RISC-V supply chain analysis, integrating Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) to enable comprehensive, multimodal data-driven insights. The proposed approach…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Nenad Petrovic , Andre Schamschurko , Yingjie Xu , Alois Knoll

Code optimization is a crucial task that aims to enhance code performance. However, this process is often tedious and complex, highlighting the necessity for automatic code optimization techniques. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as…

Spiking Neural Network processing promises to provide high energy efficiency due to the sparsity of the spiking events. However, when realized on general-purpose hardware -- such as a RISC-V processor -- this promise can be undermined and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Wiktor J. Szczerek , Artur Podobas

Architectural simulators hold a vital role in RISC-V research, providing a crucial platform for workload evaluation without the need for costly physical prototypes. They serve as a dynamic environment for exploring innovative architectural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Debjyoti Bhattacharjee , Anmol , Tommaso Marinelli , Karan Pathak , Peter Kourzanov

Computing-in-memory (CIM) is renowned in deep learning due to its high energy efficiency resulting from highly parallel computing with minimal data movement. However, current SRAM-based CIM designs suffer from long latency for loading…

The rapidly evolving landscape of AI and machine learning workloads has widened the gap between high-level domain operations and efficient hardware utilization. Achieving near-peak performance still demands deep hardware expertise-experts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Arun Thangamani , Md Asghar Ahmad Shahid , Adam Siemieniuk , Rolf Morel , Renato Golin , Alexander Heinecke

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 project focuses on making a RISC-V CPU Core using the Logisim software. RISC-V is significant because it will allow smaller device manufacturers to build hardware without paying royalties and allow developers and researchers to design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Siddesh D. Patil , Premraj V. Jadhav , Siddharth Sankhe

This paper introduces a novel 32-bit microprocessor, based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture, is designed,utilising a dynamic clock source to achieve high efficiency, overcoming the limitations of hardware delays. In addition, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Keyu Chen , Xuyi Hu , Robert Killey