3 papers
cs.AR2025
ISAAC: Intelligent, Scalable, Agile, and Accelerated CPU Verification via LLM-aided FPGA Parallelism
Jialin Sun, Yuchen Hu, Dean You +6
Functional verification is a critical bottleneck in integrated circuit development, with CPU verification being especially time-intensive and labour-consuming. Industrial practice…
cs.AR2025
MERE: Hardware-Software Co-Design for Masking Cache Miss Latency in Embedded Processors
Dean You, Jieyu Jiang, Xiaoxuan Wang +9
Runahead execution is a technique to mask memory latency caused by irregular memory accesses. By pre-executing the application code during occurrences of long-latency operations an…
cs.AR2025
NVR: Vector Runahead on NPUs for Sparse Memory Access
Hui Wang, Zhengpeng Zhao, Jing Wang +11
Deep Neural Networks are increasingly leveraging sparsity to reduce the scaling up of model parameter size. However, reducing wall-clock time through sparsity and pruning remains c…