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RISC-V CPUs leverage the RVV (RISC-V Vector) extension to accelerate data-parallel workloads. In addition to arithmetic operations, RVV includes powerful permutation instructions that enable flexible element rearrangement within vector…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Vasileios Titopoulos , George Alexakis , Chrysostomos Nicopoulos , Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos

We present a customizable soft architecture which allows for the execution of GPGPU code on an FPGA without the need to recompile the design. Issues related to scaling the overlay architecture to multiple GPGPU multiprocessors are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Kevin Andryc , Tedy Thomas , Russell Tessier

Low bit-width Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) enable deployment of complex machine learning models on constrained devices such as microcontrollers (MCUs) by reducing their memory footprint. Fine-grained asymmetric quantization (i.e.,…

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

Modern GPUs incorporate specialized matrix units such as Tensor Cores to accelerate GEMM operations, which are central to deep learning workloads. However, existing matrix unit designs are tightly coupled to the SIMT core, restricting…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hansung Kim , Ruohan Richard Yan , Joshua You , Tieliang Vamber Yang , Yakun Sophia Shao

Edge-computing requires high-performance energy-efficient embedded systems. Fixed-function or custom accelerators, such as FFT or FIR filter engines, are very efficient at implementing a particular functionality for a given set of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Benoît Walter Denkinger , Miguel Peón-Quirós , Mario Konijnenburg , David Atienza , Francky Catthoor

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

The growing number of low-power smart devices in the Internet of Things is coupled with the concept of "Edge Computing", that is moving some of the intelligence, especially machine learning, towards the edge of the network. Enabling machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Xiaying Wang , Michele Magno , Lukas Cavigelli , Luca Benini

This paper introduces the processing element architecture of the second generation SpiNNaker chip, implemented in 22nm FDSOI. On circuit level, the chip features adaptive body biasing for near-threshold operation, and dynamic…

Many FPGAs vendors have recently included embedded processors in their devices, like Xilinx with ARM-Cortex A cores, together with programmable logic cells. These devices are known as Programmable System on Chip (PSoC). Their ARM cores…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-05 A. Rios-Navarro , R. Tapiador-Morales , A. Jimenez-Fernandez , M. Dominguez-Morales , C. Amaya , A. Linares-Barranco

With the widespread use of deep neural networks(DNNs) in intelligent systems, DNN accelerators with high performance and energy efficiency are greatly demanded. As one of the feasible processing-in-memory(PIM) architectures,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Junpeng Wang , Mengke Ge , Bo Ding , Qi Xu , Song Chen , Yi Kang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired alternative to conventional artificial neural networks, with potential advantages in power efficiency due to their event-driven computation. Despite their promise, SNNs have yet…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Wangdan Liao , Weidong Wang

SpiNNaker is an ARM-based processor platform optimized for the simulation of spiking neural networks. This brief describes the roadmap in going from the current SPINNaker1 system, a 1 Million core machine in 130nm CMOS, to SpiNNaker2, a 10…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Christian Mayr , Sebastian Hoeppner , Steve Furber

Vortex, a newly proposed open-source GPGPU platform based on the RISC-V ISA, offers a valid alternative for GPGPU research over the broadly-used modeling platforms based on commercial GPUs. Similarly to the push originating from the RISC-V…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Giuseppe M. Sarda , Nimish Shah , Abubakr Nada , Debjyoti Bhattacharjee , Marian Verhelst

The design of Microprocessors Computer Architectures remains as a fundamental course in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. The technology and organization inside microprocessors have changed quite fast in the last twenty years. That…

Neuromorphic hardware platforms implement biological neurons and synapses to execute spiking neural networks (SNNs) in an energy-efficient manner. We present SpiNeMap, a design methodology to map SNNs to crossbar-based neuromorphic…

This work presents the design and preliminary performance of a highly-multiplexed superconducting detector readout. The readout system is implemented on the Xilinx ZCU111 RFSoC Evaluation Board. The current design uses 12% of the DSPs, 60%…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Jennifer Pearl Smith , John I. Bailey , III. , Benjamin A. Mazin

Custom memory organization are challenging task in the area of VLSI design. This study aims to design high speed and low power consumption memory for embedded system. Synchronous SRAM has been proposed and analyzed using various simulators.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Ravi Khatwal , Manoj Kumar Jain

We propose two tiers of modifications to FPGA logic cell architecture to deliver a variety of performance and utilization benefits with only minor area overheads. In the irst tier, we augment existing commercial logic cell datapaths with a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-09 SeyedRamin Rasoulinezhad , Siddhartha , Hao Zhou , Lingli Wang , David Boland , Philip H. W. Leong

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) obtain outstanding results in tasks that require human-level understanding of data, like image or speech recognition. However, their computational load is significant, motivating the development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Paolo Meloni , Alessandro Capotondi , Gianfranco Deriu , Michele Brian , Francesco Conti , Davide Rossi , Luigi Raffo , Luca Benini

This article presents an asynchronous FPGA architecture for implementing cryptographic algorithms secured against physical cryptanalysis. We discuss the suitability of asynchronous reconfigurable architectures for such applications before…