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One of the biggest concerns in IoT is privacy and security. Encryption and authentication need big power budgets, which battery-operated IoT end-nodes do not have. Hardware accelerators designed for specific cryptographic operations provide…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Ömer Faruk Irmak , Arda Yurdakul

RISC-V open-source systems are emerging in deployment scenarios where safety and security are critical. OpenTitan is an open-source silicon root-of-trust designed to be deployed in a wide range of systems, from high-end to deeply embedded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Emanuele Parisi , Alberto Musa , Maicol Ciani , Francesco Barchi , Davide Rossi , Andrea Bartolini , Andrea Acquaviva

Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processors (ASIPs) built on the RISC-V architecture offer specialization opportunities for various applications. Existing frameworks are largely designed around fixed instruction extension interfaces and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuyang Zou , Youwei Xiao , Chenyun Yin , Yansong Xu , Yuhao Luo , Yitian Sun , Ruifan Xu , Renze Chen , Yun Liang

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained IoT devices remains a challenging problem, often requiring hardware modifications tailored to individual AI models. Existing accelerator-generation tools, such as AMD's FINN, do…

In this paper, the program control unit of an embedded RISC processor is enhanced with a novel zero-overhead loop controller (ZOLC) supporting arbitrary loop structures with multiple-entry/exit nodes. The ZOLC has been incorporated to an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Nikolaos Kavvadias , Spiridon Nikolaidis

Recent advancements in fields such as automotive and aerospace have driven a growing demand for robust computational resources. Applications that were once designed for basic MCUs are now deployed on highly heterogeneous SoC platforms.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Afonso Oliveira , Diogo Costa , Gonçalo Moreira , José Martins , Sandro Pinto

In this paper, we focus on improving autonomous driving safety via task offloading from cellular vehicles (CVs), using vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) links, to an multi-access edge computing (MEC) server. Considering that the frequencies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Bo Yang , Xueyao Zhang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Yan Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Software developers must adapt to keep up with the changing capabilities of platforms so that they can utilize the power of High- Performance Computers (HPC), including exascale systems. OpenMP, a directive-based parallel programming model,…

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

This project focuses on making a RISC-V CPU Core using the Logisim software. RISC-V is significant because it will allow smaller device manufacturers to build hardware without paying royalties and allow developers and researchers to design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Siddesh D. Patil , Premraj V. Jadhav , Siddharth Sankhe

Vector architectures are gaining traction for highly efficient processing of data-parallel workloads, driven by all major ISAs (RISC-V, Arm, Intel), and boosted by landmark chips, like the Arm SVE-based Fujitsu A64FX, powering the TOP500…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Matteo Perotti , Matheus Cavalcante , Nils Wistoff , Renzo Andri , Lukas Cavigelli , Luca Benini

In this paper we present Arrow, a configurable hardware accelerator architecture that implements a subset of the RISC-V v0.9 vector ISA extension aimed at edge machine learning inference. Our experimental results show that an Arrow…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Imad Al Assir , Mohamad El Iskandarani , Hadi Rayan Al Sandid , Mazen A. R. Saghir

The ever-increasing compute performance of GPU accelerators drives up the need for efficient data movements within HPC applications to sustain performance. Proposed as a solution to alleviate CPU-GPU data movement, AMD MI300A Accelerated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Gabin Schieffer , Jacob Wahlgren , Ruimin Shi , Edgar A. León , Roger Pearce , Maya Gokhale , Ivy Peng

Compared to the first generation of deep neural networks, dominated by regular, compute-intensive kernels such as matrix multiplications (MatMuls) and convolutions, modern decoder-based transformers interleave attention, normalization, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Max Wipfli , Gamze İslamoğlu , Navaneeth Kunhi Purayil , Angelo Garofalo , Luca Benini

AI training creates synchronized, step-dominant surges with millisecond edges that destabilize constant-power loads (Choukse et al., 2025; arXiv:2508.14318). We propose a physics-anchored row-scale $\pm 400$ Vdc architecture that makes…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Paul Churnock

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) poses significant challenges in computer vision. Despite its wide application in robotics, autonomous driving, and smart manufacturing, there is limited literature addressing the specific challenges of running…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Xiang Li , Cheng Chen , Yuan-yao Lou , Mustafa Abdallah , Kwang Taik Kim , Saurabh Bagchi

Today's data centers consist of thousands of network-connected hosts, each with CPUs and accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs. These hosts also contain network interface cards (NICs), operating at speeds of 100Gb/s or higher, that are used…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Guanwen Zhong , Aditya Kolekar , Burin Amornpaisannon , Inho Choi , Haris Javaid , Mario Baldi

Recently the hardware emulation technique has emerged as a promising approach to accelerating hardware verification/debugging process. To fully evaluate the powerfulness of the emulation approach and demonstrate its potential impact, we…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Kai Cong , Li Lei , Zhenkun Yang , Fei Xie

Deep learning-based recommendation models (DLRMs) are widely deployed in commercial applications to enhance user experience. However, the large and sparse embedding layers in these models impose substantial memory bandwidth bottlenecks due…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yu-Hong Lai , Chieh-Lin Tsai , Wen Sheng Lim , Han-Wen Hu , Tei-Wei Kuo , Yuan-Hao Chang

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