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Enable Lightweight and Precision-Scalable Posit/IEEE-754 Arithmetic in RISC-V Cores for Transprecision Computing
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This paper presents a novel, unified hardware solution for integrating lightweight and precision-scalable Posit arithmetic into RISC-V Floating Point Units (FPU), while maintaining compatibility with IEEE-754 standards. The implementation uses dedicated posit
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Modular SAIL: dream or reality?
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This paper addresses the critical challenge of compositionality in the RISC-V development flow, which is necessary to fully leverage the modular nature of the ISA specification. The authors introduce "modular SAIL,
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RISC-Q: A Generator for Real-Time Quantum Control System-on-Chips Compatible with RISC-V
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RISC-Q is introduced as an open-source, flexible generator for Quantum Control System-on-Chips (QCSoC) designed to meet the stringent, real-time demands of large-scale qubit systems. It addresses the fragmentation and scalability issues of
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Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 20 - Semiconductor Engineering
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The "Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 20" likely summarizes significant recent research across the semiconductor ecosystem, addressing critical challenges in scaling, power efficiency, and advanced manufacturing. Key topics typically
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Introducing Instruction-Accurate Simulators for Performance Estimation of Autotuning Workloads
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This paper introduces a novel interface enabling autotuning workloads, critical for optimizing Machine Learning, to execute efficiently on instruction-accurate simulators rather than scarce target hardware. By training machine learning predictors on simulation
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MXDOTP: A RISC-V ISA Extension for Enabling Microscaling (MX) Floating-Point Dot Products
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MXDOTP is a novel RISC-V ISA extension designed to accelerate dot product computations using the energy-efficient and highly accurate 8-bit Microscaling Floating-Point (MXFP8) format. The extension integrates a specialized MXFP8 dot product-accumulate