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The demand for energy-efficient and high performance embedded systems drives the evolution of new hardware architectures, including concepts like approximate computing. This paper presents a novel reconfigurable embedded platform named…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Arvin Delavari , Faraz Ghoreishy , Hadi Shahriar Shahhoseini , Sattar Mirzakuchaki

eChronos is a formally verified Real Time Operating System(RTOS) designed for embedded micro-controllers. eChronos was targeted for tightly constrained devices without memory management units. Currently, eChronos is available on proprietary…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Shubhendra Pal Singhal , M. Sridevi , N Sathya Narayanan , M J Shankar Raman

Transformer-based foundation models have become crucial for various domains, most notably natural language processing (NLP) or computer vision (CV). These models are predominantly deployed on high-performance GPUs or hardwired accelerators…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Viviane Potocnik , Luca Colagrande , Tim Fischer , Luca Bertaccini , Daniele Jahier Pagliari , Alessio Burrello , Luca Benini

In this work, we present X-HEEP, an open-source, configurable, and extendible RISC-V platform for ultra-low-power edge applications (TinyAI). X-HEEP features the eXtendible Accelerator InterFace (XAIF), which enables seamless integration of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Simone Machetti , Pasquale Davide Schiavone , Giovanni Ansaloni , Miguel Peón-Quirós , David Atienza

Graphics processing units (GPUs) excel at parallel processing, but remain largely unexplored in ultra-low-power edge devices (TinyAI) due to their power and area limitations, as well as the lack of suitable programming frameworks. To…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Simone Machetti , Pasquale Davide Schiavone , Lara Orlandic , Darong Huang , Deniz Kasap , Giovanni Ansaloni , David Atienza

High-performance computing (HPC) systems must support fast-moving software stacks, especially in AI/ML, while preserving scheduler control, scalable startup, and production performance. Yet many HPC container solutions rely on specialized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Alberto Madonna , Matteo Chesi , Gwangmu Lee , Michele Brambilla , Fawzi Roberto Mohamed , Felipe A. Cruz

This paper presents a novel System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture for accelerating complex deep learning models for edge computing applications through a combination of hardware and software optimisations. The hardware architecture tightly…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Vineet Kumar , Ajay Kumar M , Yike Li , Shreejith Shanker , Deepu John

Managing energy and thermal profiles is critical for many-core HPC processors with hundreds of application-class processing elements (PEs). Advanced model predictive control (MPC) delivers state-of-the-art performance but requires solving…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Alessandro Ottaviano , Andrino Meli , Paul Scheffler , Giovanni Bambini , Robert Balas , Davide Rossi , Andrea Bartolini , Luca Benini

We present and evaluate the ExaNeSt Prototype, a liquid-cooled rack prototype consisting of 256 Xilinx ZU9EG MPSoCs, 4 TBytes of DRAM, 16 TBytes of SSD, and configurable interconnection 10-Gbps hardware. We developed this testbed in…

HyperDimensional Computing (HDC) as a machine learning paradigm is highly interesting for applications involving continuous, semi-supervised learning for long-term monitoring. However, its accuracy is not yet on par with other Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 William Andrew Simon , Una Pale , Tomas Teijeiro , David Atienza

Heterogeneous computers integrate general-purpose host processors with domain-specific accelerators to combine versatility with efficiency and high performance. To realize the full potential of heterogeneous computers, however, many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Andreas Kurth , Björn Forsberg , Luca Benini

Quantum computing imposes stringent requirements for the precise control of large-scale qubit systems, including, for example, microsecond-latency feedback and nanosecond-precision timing of gigahertz signals -- demands that far exceed the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Junyi Liu , Yi Lee , Haowei Deng , Connor Clayton , Gengzhi Yang , Xiaodi Wu

Heterogeneous system-on-chips (SoCs) have become the standard embedded computing platforms due to their potential to deliver superior performance and energy efficiency compared to homogeneous architectures. They can be particularly suited…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Samet E. Arda , Anish NK , A. Alper Goksoy , Joshua Mack , Nirmal Kumbhare , Anderson L. Sartor , Ali Akoglu , Radu Marculescu , Umit Y. Ogras

Open-source RISC-V cores are increasingly demanded in domains like automotive and space, where achieving high instructions per cycle (IPC) through superscalar and out-of-order (OoO) execution is crucial. However, high-performance…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zexin Fu , Riccardo Tedeschi , Gianmarco Ottavi , Nils Wistoff , César Fuguet , Davide Rossi , Luca Benini

In this paper, we evaluate the portability of the SYCL programming model on some of the latest CPUs and GPUs from a wide range of vendors, utilizing the two main compilers: DPC++ and hipSYCL/OpenSYCL. Both compilers currently support GPUs…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Istvan Z Reguly

We present a portable platform, called PIC_ENGINE, for accelerating Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes on heterogeneous many-core architectures such as Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). The aim of this development is efficient simulations on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 F. Hariri , T. M. Tran , A. Jocksch , E. Lanti , J. Progsch , P. Messmer , S. Brunner , G. Gheller , L. Villard

Resource-limited robots face significant challenges in executing computationally intensive tasks, such as locomotion and manipulation, particularly for real-time optimal control algorithms like Model Predictive Control (MPC). This paper…

Heterogeneous multi-core architectures combine on a single chip a few large, general-purpose host cores, optimized for single-thread performance, with (many) clusters of small, specialized, energy-efficient accelerator cores for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Luca Colagrande , Luca Benini

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is a brain-inspired paradigm valued for its noise robustness, parallelism, energy efficiency, and low computational overhead. Hardware accelerators are being explored to further enhance their performance,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Md Mizanur Rahaman Nayan , Che-Kai Liu , Zishen Wan , Arijit Raychowdhury , Azad J Naeemi

To address the growing needs for scalable High Performance Computing (HPC) and Quantum Computing (QC) integration, we present our HPC-QC full stack framework and its hybrid workload development capability with modular…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xin Zhan , K. Grace Johnson , Aniello Esposito , Barbara Chapman , Marco Fiorentino , Kirk M. Bresniker , Raymond G. Beausoleil , Masoud Mohseni