HW/SW Co-Design to Retarget the Compiler For RISC-V Custom Instructions (Tampere Univ.)


A new technical paper titled "Automatically Retargeting Hardware and Code Generation for RISC-V Custom Instructions" was published by researchers at Tampere University. Abstract "Custom instruction (CI) set extensions are beneficial for increasing performance and energy efficiency in a set of target applications. For rapid prototyping of these types of application-specific processors, desig... » read more

Dedicated 3D Accelerator Specifically Designed For Emerging Spiking Transformers


A new technical paper titled "Spiking Transformer Hardware Accelerators in 3D Integration" was published by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, Georgia Tech and Burapha University. "Recognizing the current lack of dedicated hardware support for spiking transformers, this paper presents the first work on 3D spiking transformer hardware architecture and design methodology. We present an architect... » read more