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most citedA Heterogeneous RISC-V based SoC for Secure Nano-UAV Navigation

15 citations · 30 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.AR2026

MEGATRON: a 28nm Analog PCM CiM/Digital System-on-Chip for Edge GenAI at 57.5 TOPS/W and 1.52 Mparam/mm

Alessandro Nadalini, Angelo Garofalo, Lorenzo Greco +12

We present MEGATRON, a heterogeneous Edge GenAI System-on-Chip in 28nm FD-SOI CMOS technology combining a non-volatile analog in-memory-computing engine based on a 4Mi-cell phase-c…

cs.AR2026

Scalable AXI4 Transaction Monitoring for Mixed-Criticality SoCs: From Phase-Level Precision to ID-Level Efficiency

Chaoqun Liang, Thomas Benz, Alessandro Ottaviano +4

Mixed-criticality Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) with on-chip interconnects based on the AXI4 open standard protocol lack a protocol-level timeout mechanism, exposing systems to deadlocks…

eess.SP2026

Safe-NEureka: a Hybrid Modular Redundant DNN Accelerator for On-board Satellite AI Processing

Riccardo Tedeschi, Luigi Ghionda, Alessandro Nadalini +5

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations are revolutionizing the space sector, with on-board Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming pivotal for next-generation satellites. AI accelerati…

cs.AR2025

FractalSync: Lightweight Scalable Global Synchronization of Massive Bulk Synchronous Parallel AI Accelerators

Victor Isachi, Alessandro Nadalini, Riccardo Fiorani Gallotta +3

The slow-down of technology scaling and the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads have led computer architects to increasingly exploit parallelization coupled with ha…

cs.AR2025

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…

cs.AR2025★ 13 cited

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…

cs.AR2025

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…

cs.AR2024

A Flexible Template for Edge Generative AI with High-Accuracy Accelerated Softmax & GELU

Andrea Belano, Yvan Tortorella, Angelo Garofalo +3

Transformer-based generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models achieve remarkable results in a wide range of fields, including natural language processing, computer vision, an…

cs.AR2024

Spatzformer: An Efficient Reconfigurable Dual-Core RISC-V V Cluster for Mixed Scalar-Vector Workloads

Matteo Perotti, Michele Raeber, Mattia Sinigaglia +3

Multi-core vector processor architectures excel in handling computationally intensive vectorizable tasks but struggle to achieve optimal resource utilization when facing sequential…

cs.AR2024

Occamy: A 432-Core 28.1 DP-GFLOP/s/W 83% FPU Utilization Dual-Chiplet, Dual-HBM2E RISC-V-based Accelerator for Stencil and Sparse Linear Algebra Computations with 8-to-64-bit Floating-Point Support in 12nm FinFET

Gianna Paulin, Paul Scheffler, Thomas Benz +11

We present Occamy, a 432-core RISC-V dual-chiplet 2.5D system for efficient sparse linear algebra and stencil computations on FP64 and narrow (32-, 16-, 8-bit) SIMD FP data. Occamy…

cs.AR2024★ 2 cited

A Gigabit, DMA-enhanced Open-Source Ethernet Controller for Mixed-Criticality Systems

Chaoqun Liang, Alessandro Ottaviano, Thomas Benz +4

The ongoing revolution in application domains targeting autonomous navigation, first and foremost automotive "zonalization", has increased the importance of certain off-chip commun…

cs.AR2024★ 15 cited

A Heterogeneous RISC-V based SoC for Secure Nano-UAV Navigation

Luca Valente, Alessandro Nadalini, Asif Veeran +12

The rapid advancement of energy-efficient parallel ultra-low-power (ULP) ucontrollers units (MCUs) is enabling the development of autonomous nano-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (na…

cs.AR2023

Siracusa: A 16 nm Heterogenous RISC-V SoC for Extended Reality with At-MRAM Neural Engine

Arpan Suravi Prasad, Moritz Scherer, Francesco Conti +9

Extended reality (XR) applications are Machine Learning (ML)-intensive, featuring deep neural networks (DNNs) with millions of weights, tightly latency-bound (10-20 ms end-to-end),…