The open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) is gaining traction, both in industry
and academia. The ISA is designed to scale from microcontrollers to server-class …

We present FireSim, an open-source simulation platform that enables cycle-exact
microarchitectural simulation of large scale-out clusters by combining FPGA-accelerated …

Effectively managing energy and power consumption is crucial to the success of the design
of any computing system, hel** mitigate the efficiency obstacles given by the downsizing …

Enabled by modern languages and retargetable compilers, software development is in a
virtual “Cambrian explosion” driven by a critical mass of powerfully parameterized libraries; …

This paper introduces GRANNITE, a GPU-accelerated novel graph neural network (GNN)
model for fast, accurate, and transferable vector-based average power estimation. During …

Dynamic verification is widely used to increase confidence in the correctness of RTL circuits
during the pre-silicon design phase. Despite numerous attempts over the last decades to …

NVDLA is an open-source deep neural network (DNN) accelerator which has received a lot
of attention by the community since its introduction by Nvidia. It is a full-featured hardware IP …

This paper presents a novel runtime power modeling methodology which automatically
identifies key signals for power dissipation of any RTL design. The toggle-pattern matrix is …

The end of Dennard's scaling and the looming power wall have made power and energy
primary design goals for modern processors. Further, new applications such as cloud …

The use of register transfer level (RTL) simulation is critical for hardware design in various
aspects including verification, debugging, and design space exploration. Among various …