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Safety-critical designs need to ensure reliable operations under hostile conditions with a certain degree of confidence. The continuously higher complexity of these designs makes them more susceptible to the risk of failure. ISO26262…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Endri Kaja , Nicolas Gerlin , Luis Rivas , Monideep Bora , Keerthikumara Devarajegowda , Wolfgang Ecker

Connectivity in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) introduces vulnerability to cyber threats such as false data injection (FDI) attacks, which can compromise system reliability and safety. To ensure resilience, this paper proposes a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Parisa Ansari Bonab , Elisabeth Andarge Gedefaw , Mohammad Khajenejad

This paper presents a novel framework for enhancing the security, data rate, and sensing performance of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems. We employ a random frequency and pulse repetition interval (PRI) agility (RFPA)…

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 evolution of quantization and mixed-precision techniques has unlocked new possibilities for enhancing the speed and energy efficiency of NNs. Several recent studies indicate that adapting precision levels across different parameters can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Giorgos Armeniakos , Alexis Maras , Sotirios Xydis , Dimitrios Soudris

With the widespread popularity of RISC-V -- an open-source ISA -- custom hardware security solutions targeting specific defense needs are gaining popularity. These solutions often require specialized compilers that can insert metadata…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-13 David Demicco , Matthew Cole , Gokturk Yuksek , Ravi Theja Gollapudi , Aravind Prakash , Kanad Ghose , Zerksis Umrigar

Traditional control-flow analysis (CFA) for higher-order languages, whether implemented by constraint-solving or abstract interpretation, introduces spurious connections between callers and callees. Two distinct invocations of a function…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Thomas Gilray , Steven Lyde , Michael D. Adams , Matthew Might , David Van Horn

Integrating cryptographic accelerators into modern CPU architectures presents unique microarchitectural challenges, particularly when extending instruction sets with complex and multistage operations. Hardware-assisted cryptographic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Alperen Bolat , Sakir Sezer , Kieran McLaughlin , Henry Hui

The importance of open-source hardware and software has been increasing. However, despite GPUs being one of the more popular accelerators across various applications, there is very little open-source GPU infrastructure in the public domain.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Blaise Tine , Fares Elsabbagh , Krishna Yalamarthy , Hyesoon Kim

RISC-V is gaining popularity for its adaptability and cost-effectiveness in processor design. With the increasing adoption of RISC-V, the importance of implementing robust security verification has grown significantly. In the state of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Sharjeel Imtiaz , Uljana Reinsalu , Tara Ghasempouri

Rewriting x86_64 binaries-whether for security hardening, dynamic instrumentation, or performance profiling is notoriously difficult due to variable-length instructions, interleaved code and data, and indirect jumps to arbitrary byte…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Brian Zhao , Yiwei Yang , Yusheng Zheng , Andi Quinn

Many data-driven software engineering tasks such as discovering programming patterns, mining API specifications, etc., perform source code analysis over control flow graphs (CFGs) at scale. Analyzing millions of CFGs can be expensive and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Ramanathan Ramu , Ganesha B Upadhyaya , Hoan Anh Nguyen , Hridesh Rajan

Balancing safety and performance is one of the predominant challenges in modern control system design. Moreover, it is crucial to robustly ensure safety without inducing unnecessary conservativeness that degrades performance. In this work…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Anil Alan , Andrew J. Taylor , Chaozhe R. He , Aaron D. Ames , Gabor Orosz

The key to video inpainting is to use correlation information from as many reference frames as possible. Existing flow-based propagation methods split the video synthesis process into multiple steps: flow completion -> pixel propagation ->…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Jaeyeon Kang , Seoung Wug Oh , Seon Joo Kim

Cryptographic operations are critical for securing IoT, edge computing, and autonomous systems. However, current RISC-V platforms lack efficient hardware support for comprehensive cryptographic algorithm families and post-quantum…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Anh Kiet Pham , Van Truong Vo , Vu Trung Duong Le , Tuan Hai Vu , Hoai Luan Pham , Van Tinh Nguyen , Yasuhiko Nakashima

The posit representation for real numbers is an alternative to the ubiquitous IEEE 754 floating-point standard. In this work, we present PERCIVAL, an application-level posit capable RISC-V core based on CVA6 that can execute all posit…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-08 David Mallasén , Raul Murillo , Alberto A. Del Barrio , Guillermo Botella , Luis Piñuel , Manuel Prieto

Power side-channel (PSC) attacks are well-known threats to sensitive hardware like advanced encryption standard (AES) crypto cores. Given the significant impact of supply voltages (VCCs) on power profiles, various countermeasures based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Saideep Sreekumar , Mohammed Ashraf , Mohammed Nabeel , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Johann Knechtel

By sharing local sensor information via Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) wireless communication networks, Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is a technology that enables Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) to drive autonomously on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Dragan Nesic , Chau Yuen

Microarchitectural attacks compromise security by exploiting software-visible artifacts of microarchitectural optimizations such as caches and speculative execution. Defending against such attacks at the software level requires an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Gideon Mohr , Marco Guarnieri , Jan Reineke

Binary decompilation plays a vital role in various cybersecurity and software engineering tasks. Recently, end-to-end decompilation methods powered by large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention due to their ability to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Peipei Liu , Jian Sun , Rongkang Sun , Li Chen , Zhaoteng Yan , Peizheng Zhang , Dapeng Sun , Dawei Wang , Xiaoling Zhang , Dan Li