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A First Look at RISC-V Virtualization from an Embedded Systems Perspective
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This article describes the first public implementation and evaluation of the RISC-V Hypervisor Extension (H-extension v0.6.1) targeting embedded and mixed-criticality systems on a Rocket chip core. The work successfully ported
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Comparative Analysis and Enhancement of CFG-based Hardware-Assisted CFI Schemes
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This paper addresses the difficulty of quantitatively comparing existing hardware-assisted Control Flow Integrity (CFI) schemes by implementing several promising CFG-based mechanisms on a unified RISC-V platform. The authors benchmark performance, hardware utilization,
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Open Source RISC-V Hardware Changes the Game - EE Times Asia
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The shift towards open-source RISC-V hardware is fundamentally transforming the semiconductor industry by democratizing processor design and development. This open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) facilitates rapid innovation, enabling unprecedented customization and drastically
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Brightening the Optical Flow through Posit Arithmetic
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This paper investigates the commercial and technical merits of the posit data format as a drop-in replacement for the IEEE 754 floating-point standard, specifically applying it to the Lucas-Kanade (LuKa) optical flow
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ANDROMEDA: An FPGA Based RISC-V MPSoC Exploration Framework
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ANDROMEDA is an FPGA-based framework designed for the exploration and optimization of complex RISC-V Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs). It enables computer architects to vary and observe the performance trade-offs of critical parameters, including
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Efficient Sealable Protection Keys for RISC-V
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This paper proposes SealPK, an efficient hardware-assisted intra-process isolation mechanism for the RISC-V open ISA, designed to overcome limitations found in modern processors like Intel MPK. SealPK dramatically expands domain capacity to