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Lifetime-Aware Design of Item-Level Intelligence
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We present FlexiFlow, a lifetime-aware design framework utilizing natively flexible electronics and area-optimized RISC-V cores for Item-Level Intelligence (ILI) embedded in disposable products. The framework addresses the 1000X operational lifetime variability in
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basic_RV32s: An Open-Source Microarchitectural Roadmap for RISC-V RV32I
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This paper introduces BASICRV32s, an open-source framework detailing a practical microarchitectural roadmap for the RISC-V RV32I Instruction Set Architecture. The design follows an evolutionary pathway, progressing from a basic single-cycle core to
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HEEPidermis: a versatile SoC for BioZ recording
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HEEPidermis is a versatile System-on-Chip (SoC) designed to overcome the limitations of bulky, fixed-purpose hardware currently used for biological impedance (BioZ) recording. This SoC integrates a complete measurement pipeline, including specialized analog-to-digital
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Microarchitecture Design and Benchmarking of Custom SHA-3 Instruction for RISC-V
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This study designs and benchmarks a custom SHA-3 permutation instruction directly integrated into the RISC-V CPU microarchitecture to address the limitations of standalone cryptographic accelerators. Using cycle-accurate GEM5 simulations and FPGA prototyping,
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Support Vector Machines Classification on Bendable RISC-V
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This paper addresses the challenge of implementing power-hungry Machine Learning (ML) algorithms on ultra-low-cost, lightweight Flexible Electronics (FE). The authors propose an open-source framework and a custom, precision-scalable Support Vector Machine (SVM)
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Building an Open CGRA Ecosystem for Agile Innovation
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This paper presents a comprehensive, open-source ecosystem centered on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs) to enable agile hardware-software co-design for AI and edge computing workloads. Key contributions include HyCUBE, a novel CGRA with