16 papers
Croc: Training the Next Generation Chip Designers on Domain-Specific End-to-End Open Source Silicon
Enrico Zelioli, Philippe Sauter, Thomas Benz +5
The demand for domain-specific systems-on-chip (SoCs) in artificial intelligence, robotics, and automotive systems is increasing the need for engineers with hands-on expertise on v…
HyperCroc: End-to-End Open-Source RISC-V MCU with a Plug-In Interface for Domain-Specific Accelerators
Philippe Sauter, Thomas Benz, Paul Scheffler +1
Domain-Specific architectures with accelerators for machine learning and signal processing require efficient bulk data movement and high-bandwidth access to large datasets. Such ca…
Implementing and Optimizing an Open-Source SD-card Host Controller for RISC-V SoCs
Axel Vanoni, Philippe Sauter, Paul Scheffler +4
Recent announcements have shown the viability of end-to-end open-source (OS) Linux-capable RISC-V systems on chip (SoCs). However, practical application and software development pl…
Development of an Energy-Efficient and Real-Time Data Movement Strategy for Next-Generation Heterogeneous Mixed-Criticality Systems
Thomas Benz
Industrial domains such as automotive, robotics, and aerospace are rapidly evolving to satisfy the increasing demand for machine-learning-driven Autonomy, Connectivity, Electrifica…
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…