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PCG: Mitigating Conflict-based Cache Side-channel Attacks with Prefetching

Abstract PCG is a novel prefetching-based scheme designed to effectively mitigate conflict-based cache side-channel attacks without incurring significant performance penalties. It achieves robust security by generating noisy, indistinguishable cache access patterns through a

By Admin 6 May 2024 • 2 min read •

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STRELA: STReaming ELAstic CGRA Accelerator for Embedded Systems (Full Report)

By Admin 18 Apr 2024 • 3 min read •

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STRELA: STReaming ELAstic CGRA Accelerator for Embedded Systems

Abstract STRELA is an elastic Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture (CGRA) integrated into an energy-efficient RISC-V System-on-Chip (SoC) designed for the embedded domain. Its microarchitecture specifically supports conditionals and irregular loops, enhancing adaptability for complex,

By Admin 18 Apr 2024 • 2 min read •

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Reconfigurable Edge Hardware for Intelligent IDS: Systematic Approach (Full Report)

By Admin 13 Apr 2024 • 3 min read •

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Reconfigurable Edge Hardware for Intelligent IDS: Systematic Approach

Abstract This paper addresses the deployment of intelligent Intrusion Detection Systems (I-IDS) on resource-constrained Edge hardware by proposing a systematic approach utilizing reconfigurable FPGA technology. The authors implemented and compared two architectures: a

By Admin 13 Apr 2024 • 2 min read •

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Beyond Random Inputs: A Novel ML-Based Hardware Fuzzing (Full Report)

By Admin 10 Apr 2024 • 3 min read •

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Beyond Random Inputs: A Novel ML-Based Hardware Fuzzing

Abstract This paper introduces ChatFuzz, a novel ML-based hardware fuzzer that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) to efficiently generate effective assembly code sequences for processor verification. Utilizing the RISC-V

By Admin 10 Apr 2024 • 2 min read •

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Design and implementation of a synchronous Hardware Performance Monitor for a RISC-V space-oriented processor (Full Report)

By Admin 8 Apr 2024 • 3 min read •

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Design and implementation of a synchronous Hardware Performance Monitor for a RISC-V space-oriented processor

Abstract This paper details the design and implementation of a synchronous Hardware Performance Monitor (HPM), or Performance Measurement Unit (PMU), integrated into a RISC-V processor intended for space-oriented On-Board Computer (OBC) applications. The

By Admin 8 Apr 2024 • 2 min read •

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SARIS: Accelerating Stencil Computations on Energy-Efficient RISC-V Compute Clusters with Indirect Stream Registers (Full Report)

By Admin 8 Apr 2024 • 3 min read •

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SARIS: Accelerating Stencil Computations on Energy-Efficient RISC-V Compute Clusters with Indirect Stream Registers

Abstract SARIS is a general methodology leveraging register-mapped indirect streams to significantly accelerate performance-critical stencil computations on energy-efficient RISC-V compute clusters. Utilizing this technique on an eight-core system, the authors demonstrate an average

By Admin 8 Apr 2024 • 2 min read •

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QED: Scalable Verification of Hardware Memory Consistency (Full Report)

By Admin 3 Apr 2024 • 3 min read •