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2.5D chiplet systems have been proposed to improve the low manufacturing yield of large-scale chips. However, connecting the chiplets through an electronic interposer imposes a high traffic load on the interposer network. Silicon photonics…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Ebadollah Taheri , Sudeep Pasricha , Mahdi Nikdast

While Transformers are dominated by Floating-Point (FP) Matrix-Multiplications, their aggressive acceleration through dedicated hardware or many-core programmable systems has shifted the performance bottleneck to non-linear functions like…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Run Wang , Gamze Islamoglu , Andrea Belano , Viviane Potocnik , Francesco Conti , Angelo Garofalo , Luca Benini

In-Memory Acceleration (IMA) promises major efficiency improvements in deep neural network (DNN) inference, but challenges remain in the integration of IMA within a digital system. We propose a heterogeneous architecture coupling 8 RISC-V…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Gianmarco Ottavi , Geethan Karunaratne , Francesco Conti , Irem Boybat , Luca Benini , Davide Rossi

Chiplet technology enables the integration of an increasing number of transistors on a single accelerator with higher yield in the post-Moore era, addressing the immense computational demands arising from rapid AI advancements. However, it…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jingwei Cai , Zuotong Wu , Sen Peng , Yuchen Wei , Zhanhong Tan , Guiming Shi , Mingyu Gao , Kaisheng Ma

Extreme edge devices or Internet-of-thing nodes require both ultra-low power always-on processing as well as the ability to do on-demand sampling and processing. Moreover, support for IoT applications like voice recognition, machine…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Vikram Jain , Sebastian Giraldo , Jaro De Roose , Linyan Mei , Bert Boons , Marian Verhelst

Processing-in-memory (PIM) has emerged as the go to solution for addressing the von Neumann bottleneck in edge AI accelerators. However, state-of-the-art (SoTA) digital PIM approaches suffer from low compute density, primarily due to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Mukul Lokhande , Narendra Singh Dhakad , Seema Chouhan , Akash Sankhe , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

Multi-chiplet architectures enabled by glass interposer offer superior electrical performance, enable higher bus widths due to reduced crosstalk, and have lower capacitance in the redistribution layer than current silicon interposer-based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Harsh Sharma , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Umit Y. Ogras , Partha Pratim Pande

As RISC-V architectures proliferate across embedded and high-performance domains, developers face persistent challenges in performance optimization due to fragmented tooling, immature hardware features, and platform-specific defects. This…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Alexander Batashev

The insatiable appetite of Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads for computing power is pushing the industry to develop faster and more efficient accelerators. The rigidity of custom hardware, however, conflicts with the need for scalable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Emmanuel Irabor , Mariam Musavi , Abhijit Das , Sergi Abadal

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

The chiplet-based System-in-Package~(SiP) technology enables more design flexibility via various inter-chiplet connection and heterogeneous integration. However, it is not known how to convert such flexibility into cost efficiency, which is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Tianqi Tang , Yuan Xie

The need to repeatedly shuttle around synaptic weight values from memory to processing units has been a key source of energy inefficiency associated with hardware implementation of artificial neural networks. Analog in-memory computing…

Domain-Specific architectures with accelerators for machine learning and signal processing require efficient bulk data movement and high-bandwidth access to large datasets. Such capabilities are often absent from minimal open-source…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Philippe Sauter , Thomas Benz , Paul Scheffler , Luca Benini

Integration of CPU and GPU technologies is a key enabler for modern AI and graphics workloads, combining control-oriented processing with massive parallel compute capability. As systems evolve toward chiplet-based architectures, pre-silicon…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Nij Dorairaj , Debabrata Chatterjee , Hong Wang , Hong Jiang , Alankar Saxena , Altug Koker , Thiam Ern Lim , Cathrane Teoh , Chuan Yin Loo , Bishara Shomar , Anthony Lester

The Internet-of-Things requires end-nodes with ultra-low-power always-on capability for a long battery lifetime, as well as high performance, energy efficiency, and extreme flexibility to deal with complex and fast-evolving near-sensor…

The ALICE experiment will upgrade the innermost three layers of its vertexing detector, the Inner Tracking System (ITS), during the next LHC Long Shutdown (LS3) with a novel, bent, ultra-light MAPS-based tracker. Six wafer-scale sensor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-24 Nicolas Tiltmann

We study the application of emerging chiplet-based Neural Processing Units to accelerate vehicular AI perception workloads in constrained automotive settings. The motivation stems from how chiplets technology is becoming integral to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mohanad Odema , Luke Chen , Hyoukjun Kwon , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Capsule networks (CapsNets) are an emerging trend in image processing. In contrast to a convolutional neural network, CapsNets are not vulnerable to object deformation, as the relative spatial information of the objects is preserved across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Miguel Costa , Diogo Costa , Tiago Gomes , Sandro Pinto

Vector processors frequently suffer from inefficient memory accesses, particularly for strided and segment patterns. While coalescing strided accesses is a natural solution, effectively gathering or scattering elements at fixed strides…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Hongyi Guan , Yichuan Gao , Chenlu Miao , Haoyang Wu , Hang Zhu , Mingfeng Lin , Huayue Liang

ALICE, one of the four main CERN LHC experiments, studies heavy-ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. For LHC Run 4 (starting 2030), ALICE will replace the three innermost cylindrical layers of its inner tracking system during Long…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-07 Livia Terlizzi