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venue: TC
year: 2024
selected:
- title: "Achieving DRAM-Like PCM by Trading Off Capacity for Latency"
authors:
- Irina Alam
- Puneet Gupta 0001
tldr: "Proposes a capacity-for-latency trade-off in Phase Change Memory to match DRAM-level access latency without specialized process changes."
why_notable: "Offers a practical path to deploying PCM as a DRAM alternative, directly addressing the latency gap that has blocked PCM adoption in main-memory systems."
- title: "A High-Performance, Energy-Efficient Modular DMA Engine Architecture"
authors:
- Thomas Benz
- Michael Rogenmoser
- Paul Scheffler
- Samuel Riedel
- Alessandro Ottaviano
- Andreas Kurth
- Torsten Hoefler
- Luca Benini
tldr: "Presents a modular, parametric DMA engine design achieving high bandwidth and low energy overhead for heterogeneous SoC data movement."
why_notable: "Provides an open, well-evaluated DMA baseline that researchers building custom SoCs or accelerators can directly reuse or benchmark against."
- title: "Split-Radix Based Compact Hardware Architecture for CRYSTALS-Kyber"
authors:
- Wenbo Guo 0009
- Shuguo Li
tldr: "Designs a compact FPGA/ASIC hardware accelerator for the CRYSTALS-Kyber post-quantum key encapsulation mechanism using a split-radix NTT."
why_notable: "Demonstrates efficient hardware realization of a NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithm, critical for transitioning real systems to quantum-resistant cryptography."
- title: "Accelerating Sparse DNNs Based on Tiled GEMM"
authors:
- Cong Guo 0003
- Fengchen Xue
- Jingwen Leng
- Yuxian Qiu
- Yue Guan 0003
- Weihao Cui
- Quan Chen 0002
- Minyi Guo
tldr: "Accelerates sparse deep neural network inference by restructuring sparse matrix multiplication into tiled GEMM operations that map efficiently onto GPU tensor cores."
why_notable: "Bridges the gap between theoretical sparsity speedups and GPU hardware realities, achieving practical inference acceleration on commodity hardware."
- title: "Xvpfloat: RISC-V ISA Extension for Variable Extended Precision Floating Point Computation"
authors:
- Eric Guthmuller
- César Fuguet
- Andrea Bocco
- Jérôme Fereyre
- Riccardo Alidori
- Ihsane Tahir
- Yves Durand
tldr: "Defines a RISC-V ISA extension supporting variable-precision floating-point operations beyond IEEE 754 standard widths, targeting HPC and scientific computing."
why_notable: "Addresses precision flexibility at the ISA level, enabling energy-efficient mixed-precision HPC workloads without requiring separate co-processors."
- title: "Enabling HW-Based Task Scheduling in Large Multicore Architectures"
authors:
- Lucas Morais
- Carlos Álvarez 0001
- Daniel Jiménez-González
- Juan Miguel De Haro Ruiz
- Guido Araujo
- Michael Frank 0008
- Alfredo Goldman
- Xavier Martorell
tldr: "Implements task-scheduling logic directly in hardware for large multicore chips, reducing OS scheduling overhead and improving parallelism exploitation."
why_notable: "Demonstrates that offloading fine-grained task management to hardware can substantially reduce software overhead in many-core systems."
- title: "Ara2: Exploring Single- and Multi-Core Vector Processing With an Efficient RVV 1.0 Compliant Open-Source Processor"
authors:
- Matteo Perotti
- Matheus A. Cavalcante
- Renzo Andri
- Lukas Cavigelli
- Luca Benini
tldr: "Presents Ara2, an open-source RISC-V vector processor fully compliant with RVV 1.0, evaluated across single- and multi-lane configurations for energy-efficient vector workloads."
why_notable: "Provides the community with a production-quality, open RVV 1.0 reference design and a thorough design-space exploration of vector-processor microarchitecture."
- title: "EcoFlow: Efficient Convolutional Dataflows on Low-Power Neural Network Accelerators"
authors:
- Lois Orosa 0001
- Skanda Koppula
- Yaman Umuroglu
- Konstantinos Kanellopoulos
- Juan Gómez-Luna
- Michaela Blott
- Kees A. Vissers
- Onur Mutlu
tldr: "Systematically analyzes and optimizes dataflow schedules for convolutional layers on low-power DNN accelerators, yielding significant energy savings."
why_notable: "Provides a principled framework for dataflow selection that benefits embedded AI accelerator designers targeting energy-constrained deployments."
- title: "Prefender: A Prefetching Defender Against Cache Side Channel Attacks as a Pretender"
authors:
- Luyi Li
- Jiayi Huang 0001
- Lang Feng 0001
- Zhongfeng Wang 0001
tldr: "Proposes a hardware prefetching mechanism that disguises cache access patterns to defend against conflict-based cache side-channel attacks with low performance overhead."
why_notable: "Addresses cache side-channel attacks at the microarchitecture level without relying on software mitigations, offering a lightweight and transparent defense."
- title: "Randomizing Set-Associative Caches Against Conflict-Based Cache Side-Channel Attacks"
authors:
- Wei Song 0002
- Zihan Xue
- Jinchi Han
- Zhenzhen Li
- Peng Liu 0005
tldr: "Introduces a cache randomization scheme for set-associative caches that eliminates conflict-based side-channel attack primitives with minimal performance overhead."
why_notable: "Provides a strong and low-cost architectural defense against a broad class of cache timing attacks that affect nearly all modern processors."
- title: "SCARF: Securing Chips With a Robust Framework Against Fabrication-Time Hardware Trojans"
authors:
- Mohammad Eslami
- Tara Ghasempouri
- Samuel Pagliarini
tldr: "Proposes a framework for detecting and mitigating hardware Trojans inserted during chip fabrication using lightweight logic testing combined with side-channel verification."
why_notable: "Tackles the increasingly critical supply-chain hardware-security threat with a practical methodology applicable during standard chip validation flows."
- title: "GraNDe: Efficient Near-Data Processing Architecture for Graph Neural Networks"
authors:
- Sungmin Yun 0001
- Hwayong Nam
- Jaehyun Park 0006
- Byeongho Kim
- Jung Ho Ahn
- Eojin Lee
tldr: "Designs a near-data processing accelerator tailored for graph neural network inference, co-locating compute with graph-structured memory to cut off-chip traffic."
why_notable: "Demonstrates that memory-wall bottlenecks in GNN inference can be alleviated by a purpose-built PIM design, achieving substantial speedup and energy efficiency gains."