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Modern computing workloads, particularly in AI and edge applications, demand hardware-software co-design to meet aggressive performance and energy targets. Such co-design benefits from open and agile platforms that replace closed,…
As modern Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) grow in size, efficient utilization of the available fabric by a single application becomes increasingly difficult. Existing CGRA mappers either fail to utilize the available fabric or…
Given the indispensable need for a reliable network architecture to cope with 5G networks, 3GPP introduced a covet technology dubbed 5G Service Based Architecture (5G-SBA). Meanwhile, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) combined with SBA…
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The increasing diversity and complexity of transformer workloads at the edge present significant challenges in balancing performance, energy efficiency, and architectural flexibility. This paper introduces NX-CGRA, a programmable hardware…
Fifth generation (5G) cellular networks will serve a wide variety of heterogeneous use cases, including mobile broadband users, ultra-low latency services and massively dense connectivity scenarios. The resulting diverse communication…
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An essential component for the Fifth Generation of Mobile Networks deployments is the 5G Core (5GC), which bridges the 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) to the rest of the Internet. Some open-source platforms for the 5GC have emerged and been…
With the end of both Dennard's scaling and Moore's law, computer users and researchers are aggressively exploring alternative forms of computing in order to continue the performance scaling that we have come to enjoy. Among the more salient…
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Next-generation wireless technologies (for immersive-massive communication, joint communication and sensing) demand highly parallel architectures for massive data processing. A common architectural template scales up by grouping tens to…
Disaggregation maps parts of an AI workload to different types of GPUs, offering a path to utilize modern heterogeneous GPU clusters. However, existing solutions operate at a coarse granularity and are tightly coupled to specific model…