Publications

Accelerating General-Purpose Linear Algebra on DNN Accelerators

Deep learning inference and training tasks are often accompanied by additional numerical data analysis tasks such as clustering, …
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Gemmini: Enabling Systematic Deep-Learning Architecture Evaluation via Full-Stack Integration

DNN accelerators are often developed and evaluated in isolation without considering the cross-stack, system-level effects in real-world …
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Accessible, FPGA Resource-Optimized Simulation of Multi-Clock Systems in FireSim

Given the complexity of modern systems-on-chip (SoCs), hardware-assisted verification is an integral part of the chip-design process. …
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Vertically Integrated Computing Labs Using Open-Source Hardware Generators and Cloud-Hosted FPGAs

The design of computing systems has changed dramatically over the past decade, but most courses in advanced computer architecture …
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FireMarshal: Making HW/SW Co-Design Reproducible and Reliable

Reproducibility in the sciences is critical to reliable inquiry, but is often easier said than done. In the computer architecture …
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COBRA: A Framework for Evaluating Compositions of Hardware Branch Predictors

We present COBRA, a framework which enables a realistic hardware-guided methodology for evaluating compositions of hardware branch …
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Programmable Fine-Grained Power Management and System Analysis of RISC-V Vector Processors in 28-nm FD-SOI

This letter presents a RISC-V System-on-Chip (SoC) with fully integrated switched-capacitor DC–DC converters, adaptive clock …
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Chipyard - An Integrated SoC Research and Implementation Environment

Continued improvement in computing efficiency requires functional specialization of hardware designs. We present an agile design flow …
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Chipyard: Integrated Design, Simulation, and Implementation Framework for Custom SoCs

Continued improvement in computing efficiency requires functional specialization of hardware designs. Agile hardware design …
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FirePerf: FPGA-Accelerated Full-System Hardware/Software Performance Profiling and Co-Design

Achieving high-performance when developing specialized hardware/software systems requires understanding and improving not only core …
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Gemmini: An Agile Systolic Array Generator Enabling Systematic Evaluations of Deep-Learning Architectures

Advances in deep learning and neural networks have resulted in rapid development of hardware accelerators that support them. A large …
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Co-Design of Deep Neural Nets and Neural Net Accelerators for Embedded Vision Applications

Deep Learning is arguably the most rapidly evolving research area in recent years. As a result, it is not surprising that the design of …
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Using FireSim to Enable Agile End-to-End RISC-V Computer Architecture Research

The explosive growth in the RISC-V ecosystem has brought about a multitude of open RTL SoC implementations, as well as broad software …
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Nested-Parallelism PageRank on RISC-V Vector Multi-Processors

Graph processing kernels and sparse-representation linear algebra workloads such as PageRank are increasingly used in machine learning …
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FireSim: FPGA-Accelerated Cycle-Exact Scale-Out System Simulation in the Public Cloud

In this article, we present FireSim, an open-source simulation platform that enables fast cycle-exact microarchitectural simulation of …
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FireSim: FPGA-Accelerated Cycle-Exact Scale-Out System Simulation in the Public Cloud

We present FireSim, an open-source simulation platform that enables cycle-exact microarchitectural simulation of large scale-out …
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Co-Design of Deep Neural Nets and Neural Net Accelerators for Embedded Vision Applications

Deep Learning is arguably the most rapidly evolving research area in recent years. As a result it is not surprising that the design of …
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Preventing Babel: Rectifying the Trend of Programming Language Divergence

Throughout the history of computers, there has been a proliferation of new programming languages. Programmers have a variety of …
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Policy based Role Centric Attribute Based Access Control Model (Policy RC-ABAC)

As network speed and storage capacities are rising faster and higher, the remote storage and ‘cloud’ concept is gaining …
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