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RISC-V ISA-based processors have recently emerged as both powerful and energy-efficient computing platforms. The release of the MILK-V Pioneer marked a significant milestone as the first desktop-grade RISC-V system. With increasing…

RISC-V processors are becoming ubiquitous in critical applications, but their susceptibility to microarchitectural side-channel attacks is a serious concern. Detection of microarchitectural attacks in RISC-V is an emerging research topic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Muhammad Hassan , Maria Mushtaq , Jaan Raik , Tara Ghasempouri

WebRISC-V is a web-based educational tool designed to simulate the pipelined execution of assembly programs according to the RV64IM specifications (64-bit RISC-V processor). The tool allows users to investigate pipeline stalls, understand…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Roberto Giorgi , Gianfranco Mariotti

This article describes the first public implementation and evaluation of the latest version of the RISC-V hypervisor extension (H-extension v0.6.1) specification in a Rocket chip core. To perform a meaningful evaluation for modern…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Bruno Sá , José Martins , Sandro Pinto

The widespread diffusion of compute-intensive edge-AI workloads and the stringent demands of modern autonomous systems require advanced heterogeneous embedded architectures. Such architectures must support high-performance and reliable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Enrico Zelioli , Alessandro Ottaviano , Robert Balas , Nils Wistoff , Angelo Garofalo , Luca Benini

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

Systolic arrays and shared-L1-memory manycore clusters are commonly used architectural paradigms that offer different trade-offs to accelerate parallel workloads. While the first excel with regular dataflow at the cost of rigid…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Sergio Mazzola , Samuel Riedel , Luca Benini

By exploiting the modular RISC-V ISA this paper presents the customization of instruction set with posit\textsuperscript{\texttrademark} arithmetic instructions to provide improved numerical accuracy, well-defined behavior and increased…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Federico Rossi , Francesco Urbani , Marco Cococcioni , Emanuele Ruffaldi , Sergio Saponara

Rapid advancements in RISC-V hardware development shift the focus from low-level optimizations to higher-level parallelization. Recent RISC-V processors, such as the SOPHON SG2042, have 64 cores. RISC-V processors with core counts…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Alexander Strack , Christopher Taylor , Dirk Pflüger

The RISC-V "V" extension introduces vector processing to the RISC-V architecture. Unlike most SIMD extensions, it supports long vectors which can result in significant improvement of multiple applications. In this paper, we present our…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Sonia Rani Gupta , Nikela Papadopoulou , Miquel Pericàs

Single-issue processor cores are very energy efficient but suffer from the von Neumann bottleneck, in that they must explicitly fetch and issue the loads/storse necessary to feed their ALU/FPU. Each instruction spent on moving data is a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Fabian Schuiki , Florian Zaruba , Torsten Hoefler , Luca Benini

Architectural simulators hold a vital role in RISC-V research, providing a crucial platform for workload evaluation without the need for costly physical prototypes. They serve as a dynamic environment for exploring innovative architectural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Debjyoti Bhattacharjee , Anmol , Tommaso Marinelli , Karan Pathak , Peter Kourzanov

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

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…

To reduce the area of RISC-V Vector extension (RVV) in small processors, the authors are considering one simple modification: reduce the number of registers in the vector register file. The standard 'V' extension requires 32 vector…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Eino Jacobs , Dmitry Utyansky , Muhammad Hassan , Thomas Roecker

Modern data-driven applications expose limitations of von Neumann architectures - extensive data movement, low throughput, and poor energy efficiency. Accelerators improve performance but lack flexibility and require data transfers.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Vincenzo Petrolo , Flavia Guella , Michele Caon , Pasquale Davide Schiavone , Guido Masera , Maurizio Martina

ReRAM-based in-memory computing (IMC) architectures are promising candidates for energy-efficient matrix-vector multiplication. While scaling the size of ReRAM arrays allows for the amortization of power-hungry peripheral circuits like DACs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Ching-Yi Lin , Sahil Shah

This paper presents an automated approach for designing processors that support a subset of the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) for a new class of applications at Extreme Edge. The electronics used in extreme edge applications…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Alireza Raisiardali , Konstantinos Iordanou , Jedrzej Kufel , Kowshik Gudimetla , Kris Myny , Emre Ozer

Computing-in-Memory (CiM) architectures aim to reduce costly data transfers by performing arithmetic and logic operations in memory and hence relieve the pressure due to the memory wall. However, determining whether a given workload can…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Di Gao , Dayane Reis , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Cheng Zhuo

This project enables RISC-V microkernel support in IREE, an MLIR-based machine learning compiler and runtime. The approach begins by enabling the lowering of MLIR linalg dialect contraction ops to linalg.mmt4d op for the RISC-V64 target…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Adeel Ahmad , Ahmad Tameem Kamal , Nouman Amir , Bilal Zafar , Saad Bin Nasir