Homomorphic Encryption (HE) is one of the most promising post-quantum cryptographic
schemes that enable privacy-preserving computation on servers. However, noise …

A unique feature of this open access textbook is to provide a comprehensive introduction to
the fundamental knowledge in embedded systems, with applications in cyber-physical …

The doubling of microprocessor performance every three years has been the result of two
factors: more transistors per chip and superlinear scali ng of the processor clock with …

Trends in VLSI technology scaling demand that future computing devices be narrowly
focused to achieve high performance and high efficiency, yet also target the high volumes …

The power-efficient Imagine stream processor achieves performance densities comparable
to those of special-purpose embedded processors. Executing programs mapped to streams …

The Imagine Stream Processor is a single-chip programmable media processor with 48
parallel ALUs. At 400 MHz, this translates to a peak arithmetic rate of 16 GFLOPS on single …

The physical layer of most wireless protocols is traditionally implemented in custom
hardware to satisfy the heavy computational requirements while keeping power …

The register file access time is one of the critical delays in current superscalar processors. Its
impact on processor performance is likely to increase in future processor generations, as …

Dynamic superscalar processors execute multiple instructions out-of-order by looking for
independent operations within a large window. The number of physical registers within the …

Multi-ported memories are challenging to implement with FPGAs since the provided block
RAMs typically have only two ports. We present a thorough exploration of the design space …