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Toward Open-Source Chiplets for HPC and AI: Occamy and Beyond
Paul Scheffler, Thomas Benz, Tim Fischer +3
We present a roadmap for open-source chiplet-based RISC-V systems targeting high-performance computing and artificial intelligence, aiming to close the performance gap to proprieta…
A Direct Memory Access Controller (DMAC) for Irregular Data Transfers on RISC-V Linux Systems
Thomas Benz, Axel Vanoni, Michael Rogenmoser +1
With the ever-growing heterogeneity in computing systems, driven by modern machine learning applications, pressure is increasing on memory systems to handle arbitrary and more dema…
Data-Driven Power Modeling and Monitoring via Hardware Performance Counter Tracking
Sergio Mazzola, Gabriele Ara, Thomas Benz +3
Energy-centric design is paramount in the current embedded computing era: use cases require increasingly high performance at an affordable power budget, often under real-time const…
FlatAttention: Dataflow and Fabric Collectives Co-Optimization for Efficient Multi-Head Attention on Tile-Based Many-PE Accelerators
Chi Zhang, Luca Colagrande, Renzo Andri +6
Multi-Head Attention (MHA) is a critical computational kernel in transformer-based AI models. Emerging scalable tile-based accelerator architectures integrate increasing numbers of…
Basilisk: A 34 mm2 End-to-End Open-Source 64-bit Linux-Capable RISC-V SoC in 130nm BiCMOS
Philippe Sauter, Thomas Benz, Paul Scheffler +3
End-to-end open-source electronic design automation (OSEDA) enables a collaborative approach to chip design conducive to supply chain diversification and zero-trust step-by-step de…
A Reliable, Time-Predictable Heterogeneous SoC for AI-Enhanced Mixed-Criticality Edge Applications
Angelo Garofalo, Alessandro Ottaviano, Matteo Perotti +20
Next-generation mixed-criticality Systems-on-chip (SoCs) for robotics, automotive, and space must execute mixed-criticality AI-enhanced sensor processing and control workloads, ens…
Croc: An End-to-End Open-Source Extensible RISC-V MCU Platform to Democratize Silicon
Phillippe Sauter, Thomas Benz, Paul Scheffler +6
Ensuring a continuous and growing influx of skilled chip designers and a smooth path from education to innovation are key goals for several national and international "Chips Acts".…
ArtistIC: An Open-Source Toolchain for Top-Metal IC Art and Ultra-High-Fidelity GDSII Renders
Thomas Benz, Paul Scheffler, Nils Wistoff +3
Open-source projects require outreach material to grow their community, secure funds, and strengthen their influence. Numbers, specifications, and facts alone are intangible to uni…
Towards Reliable Systems: A Scalable Approach to AXI4 Transaction Monitoring
Chaoqun Liang, Thomas Benz, Alessandro Ottaviano +3
In safety-critical SoC applications such as automotive and aerospace, reliable transaction monitoring is crucial for maintaining system integrity. This paper introduces a drop-in T…
Occamy: A 432-Core Dual-Chiplet Dual-HBM2E 768-DP-GFLOP/s RISC-V System for 8-to-64-bit Dense and Sparse Computing in 12nm FinFET
Paul Scheffler, Thomas Benz, Viviane Potocnik +12
ML and HPC applications increasingly combine dense and sparse memory access computations to maximize storage efficiency. However, existing CPUs and GPUs struggle to flexibly handle…
AXI-REALM: Safe, Modular and Lightweight Traffic Monitoring and Regulation for Heterogeneous Mixed-Criticality Systems
Thomas Benz, Alessandro Ottaviano, Chaoqun Liang +6
The automotive industry is transitioning from federated, homogeneous, interconnected devices to integrated, heterogeneous, mixed-criticality systems (MCS). This leads to challenges…