Arm Research | Research Publications

Publication title	Conference/Journal	Authors	Date	Further resources
Whitepaper: Understanding Write Combining on Arm	Arm Whitepaper	P. Shamis	November 2020
Energy-aware HW/SW Co-modeling of Batteryless Wireless Sensor Nodes	ENSsys	S. Wong S. Sliper W. Wang A. Weddell S. Gauthier G. Merrett	November 2020
AOS: Hardware-based Always-On Heap Memory Safety	MICRO	Y. Kim J. Lee H. Kim	October 2020
Towards Data-Flow Parallelization for Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applications	CLUSTER	K. Sala A. Rico V. Beltran	September 2020	Read blog Watch presentation
Securing Branch Predictors With Two-Level Encryption		J. Lee Y. Ishii D. Sunwoo	July 2020
Relaxed Persist Ordering Using Strand Persistency		V. Gogte W. Wang S. Diestelhorst P. Chen S. Narayanasamy T. Wenisch	June 2020	Read blog
Implementation of a flexible cache coherency protocol for the Ruby memory system		T. Muck P. Benedicte	May 2020
DRAM Memory Controller Updates		W. Elsasser N. Nikoleris	May 2020	Watch presentation
The Non-Uniform Compute Device (NUCD) Architecture for Lightweight Accelerator Offload	PDP	M. Asri C. Dunham R. Rusitoru A. Gerstlauer J Beard	March 2020
Shredder: Learning Noise Distributions to Protect Inference Privacy		P. Ramrakhyani H. Esmaeilzadeh F. Mireshghallah	March 2020	Watch presentation
Rebasing Instruction Prefetching: An Industry Perspective	CAL	Y. Ishii (CE-CPU) J. Lee K. Nathella D. Sunwoo	February 2020
Fused: Closed-loop Performance and Energy Simulation of Embedded Systems		S. T. Sliper W. Wang N. Nikoleris A. S. Weddell G. V. Merrett	January 2020
Temporal Prefetching Without the Off-Chip Metadata		H. Wu K. Nathella J. Pusdesris D. Sunwoo A. Jain C. Lin	October 2019
Directed Statistical Warming through Time Traveling		N. Nikoleris L. Eeckhout E. Hagersten T. E. Carlson	October 2019
DynaSprint: Microarchitectural Sprints with Dynamic Utility and Thermal Management		Z. Huang J. Joao A. Rico A. Hilton B. Lee	October 2019
SPiDRE: Accelerating Sparse Memory Access Patterns	PACT	A. Barredo J. Beard M. Moreto	September 2019	See PDF
Multi-spectral Reuse Distance: Diving Spatial Information from Temporal Data	HPEC	A. Cabrera R. Chamberlain J. Beard	September 2019
Reducing Data Movement and Energy in Multilevel Cache Hierarchies Without Losing Performance: Can you have it all?		J. Wang P. Ramrakhyani W. Elsasser L. K. John	September 2019
Efficient Metadata Management for Irregular Data Prefetching		H. Wu K. Nathella D. Sunwoo A. Jain C. Lin	June 2019
Sampled Simulation of Task-Based Programs		T. Grass T. Carlson A. Rico G. Ceballos E. Ayguadé M. Casas M. Moreto	February 2019
BRB: Mitigating Branch Predictor Side-Channels		I.Vougioukas N.Nikoleris A.Sandberg S.Diestelhorst G.V. Merrett B.M. Al-Hashimi	February 2019	Read blog
Whitepaper: Introducing the new Armv8.1-M architecture		T. Grocutt	February 2019	Read blog
Nucleus: Finding the Sharing Limit of Heterogeneous Cores		I. Vougioukas A. Sanberg B. M. Al-Hashimi Geoff V. Merrett	October 2017
A Triple Core Lock-Step (TCLS) ARM® Cortex®-R5 Processor for Safety-Critical and Ultra-Reliable Applications		X. Iturbe B. Venu E. Ozer S. Das	October 2017
The Arm Scalable Vector Extension		N. Stephens S. Biles M. Boettcher J. Eapen M. Eyole G. Gabrielli M. Horsnell G. Magklis A. Martinez M. Premillieu A. Reid A. Rico P. Walker	April 2017	Read blog

Publication title	Conference/Journal	Authors	Date	Further resources
A Supply Voltage Control Method for Performance Guaranteed Ultra-Low-Power Microcontroller	IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits	B. Labbe P. Fan T. Achuthan P. Prabhat G. Knight J. Myers	September 2020	Read blog
A Spike-Latency Transceiver with Tuneable Pulse Control for Low-Energy Wireless 3D Integration		B. Fletcher S. Das Te. Mak	September 2020
Bespoke Machine Learning Processor Development Framework on Flexible Substrates	IEEE FLEPS	Emre Ozer Jedrzej Kufel John Biggs Gavin Brown James Myers Anjit Rana Antony Sou Catherine Ramsdale	July 2020
A hardwired machine learning processing engine fabricated with sub-micron metal-oxide thin-film transistors on a flexible substrate		E. Ozer J. Kufel J. Myers J. Biggs G. Brown A. Rana A. Sou C. Ramsdale S. White	July 2020	Read blog
Enhanced 3D Implementation of an Arm® Cortex®-A		X. Xu M. Bhargava S. Moore S. Sinha B. Cline	July 2020
GeST: An automatic framework for generating CPU stress-tests	ISPASS	Z. Hadjilambrou S. Das P.N. Whatmough D. Bull Y. Sazeides	March 2020
M0N0: A Performance-Regulated 0.8-to-38MHz DVFS ARM Cortex-M33 SIMD MCU with 10nW Sleep Power		Pranay Prabhat Benoît Labbe Graham Knight Anand Savanth Jonas Svedas Matthew J Walker Supreet Jeloka Philex Ming-Yan Fan Fernando García-Redondo Thanusree Achuthan James Myers	February 2020	Read blog
Buried Power Rails and Back-side Power Grids: Arm® CPU Power Delivery Network Design Beyond 5nm		D. Prasad S. S. T. Nibhanupudi S. Das O. Zografos B. Chehab S. Sarkar R. Baert A. Robinson A. Gupta A. Spessot P. Debacker D. Verkest J. Kulkarni B. Cline S. Sinha	December 2019	Read blog
Error Correlation Prediction in Lockstep Processors for Safety-Critical Systems		E. Ozer B. Venu X. Iturbe S. Das S. Lyberis J. Biggs P. Harrod J. Penton	October 2018	Read blog
Standard Cell Library Design and Optimization Methodology for ASAP7 PDK		X. Xu N. Shah A. Evans S. Sinha B. Cline G. Yeric	July 2018	Read blog

Publication title	Authors	Date	Further resources
Asvie: A Timing-Agnostic SVE Optimization Methodology	M. T. Cruz D. Ruiz R. Rusitoru	November 2019
Cache Line Sharing and Communication in ECP Proxy Applications	J. Randall A. Rico J. A. Joao	September 2019	Read blog
On the Benefits of Tasking with OpenMP	A. Rico I. S. Barrera J. A. Joao J. Randall M. Casas M. Moretó	September 2019	Read blog
On the Maturity of Parallel Applications for Asymmetric Multi-core Processors	K. Chronaki M.Moretó M. Casas A. Rico R. M. Badia E. Ayguadé M. Valero	May 2019

Publication title	Conference/Journal	Authors	Date	Further resources
Reliability-Driven Deployment in Energy-Harvesting Sensor Networks	CNSM	X. Yu X. Song L. Cherkasova T. Simunic Rosing	November 2020	Slides
Optimizing Sensor Deployment and Maintenance Costs for Large-Scale Environmental Monitoring	ISSS	X. Yu K. Ergun L. Cherkasova T. S. Rosing	September 2020
Combining Individual and Joint Networking Behavior for Intelligent IoT Analytics	ICIOT	J. V. Jeyakumar L. Cherkasova S. Lajevardi M. Allan Y. Zhao J. Fry M. Srivastava	August 2020
RelIot: Reliability Simulator for IoT Networks	ICIOT	K. Ergun X. Yu N. Nagesh L. Cherkasova P. Mercati R. Rayoub T. Rosing	August 2020
Simulating Reliability of IoT Networks with RelIoT	DSN-S	K. Ergun X. Yu N. Nagesh L. Cherkasova P. Mercati R. Rayoub T. Rosing	July 2020
IOTGAZE: IoT Security Enforcement via Wireless Context Analysis	INFOCOM	T. Gu Z. Fang A. Abhishek H. Fu P. Hu P. Mohapatra	July 2020
Applications of Computation-In-Memory Architectures based on Memristive Devices	DATE	Said Hamdioui Hoang Anh Du Nguyen Mottaqiallah Taouil Abu Sebastian Manuel Le Gallo Sandeep Pande Siebren Schaafsma Francky Catthoor Shidhartha Das Fernando García-Redondo G. Karunaratne Abbas Rahimi Luca Benini	March 2020
Analysis Demand Forecasting of Residential Energy Consumption at Multiple Time Scales		P. Amin L. Cherkasova R. Aitken V. Kache	November 2019
A Time-Domain Current-Mode MAC Engine for Analogue Neural Networks in Flexible Electronics		Matt Douthwaite Fernando García-Redondo Pantelis Georgiou Shidhartha Das	October 2019
A 0.98-nW/kHz 33-kHz Fully Integrated Subthreshold-Region Operation RC Oscillator With Forward-Body-Biasing		P. Fan A. Savanth B. Labbé P. Prabhat J. Myers	September 2019	Read blog
A 10.8pJ/bit Pulse-Position Inductive Transceiver for Low-Energy Wireless 3D Integration		B. Fletcher S. Das T. Mak	September 2019
A Low-Energy Inductive Transceiver using Spike-Latency Encoding for Wireless 3D Integration		B. Fletcher S. Das T. Mak	July 2019
A 65nm switched source line sub-threshold ROM using data encoding, with 0.3V Vmin and 47fJ/b access energy		Supreet Jeloka Pranay Prabhat Graham Knight James Myers	July 2019
Automating Energy Demand Modeling and Forecasting Using Smart Meter Data		P. Amin L. Cherkasova R. Aitken V. Kache	July 2019
Ternary Hybrid Neural-Tree Networks for Highly Constrained IoT Applications		D. Gope G. Dasika M. Mattina	March 2019
Integrated Reciprocal Conversion with Selective Direct Operation for Energy Harvesting Systems		A. Savanth A. Weddell J. Myers D. Flynn B. M. Al-Hashimi	September 2017	Read blog

Publication title	Conference/Journal	Authors	Date	Further resources
MicroNets: Neural Network Architectures for Deploying TinyML Applications on Commodity Microcontrollers	MLSys 2021	C. Banbury C. Zhou I. Fedorov R. M. Navarro U. Thakker D. Gope V. J. Reddi M. Mattina P. Whatmough	February 2021
Stochastic-YOLO: Efficient Probabilistic Object Detection under Dataset Shifts	NeurIPS 2020	T. Azevedo R. De Jong M. Mattina P. Maji.	December 2020
Understanding the Impact of Dynamic Channel Pruning on Conditionally Parameterized Convolutions	AIChallengeIoT	R. Raju D. Gope U. Thakker J. Beu	November 2020
Pushing the Envelope of Dynamic Channel Spatial Gating Technologies	AIChallengeIoT	X. Huang U. Thakker D. Gope J. Beu	November 2020
Sparse Systolic Tensor Array for Efficient CNN Hardware Acceleration		Z. Liu P. Whatmough M. Mattina	September 2020
Efficient Residue Number System Based Winograd Convolution		Z. Liu M Mattina	August 2020	Read blog
Tiny LSTMs: Efficient Neural Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids	InterSpeech 2020	I. Fedorov M. Stamenovic C. Jensen L. Yang A. Mandell Y. Gan M. Mattina P. Whatmough	May 2020
Mango: A Python Library for Parallel Hyperparameter Tuning		S. Sandha M. Aggarwal I. Fedorov M. Srivastava	May 2020
Benchmarking TinyML Systems: Challenges and Direction		C. Banbury V. Reddi M. Lam W. Fu A. Fazel J. Holleman X. Huang R. Hurtado D. Kanter A. Lokhmotov D. Patterson D. Pau J. Seo J. Sieracki U. Thakker M. Verheist P. Yadav	March 2020	Workshop
Compressing Language Models using Doped Kronecker Products		U. Thakker P. Whatmough M. Mattina J. Beu	March 2020	Workshop
Systolic Tensor Array: An Efficient Structured-Sparse GEMM Accelerator for Mobile CNN Inference		ZG. Liu P. Whatmough M. Mattina	March 2020
Aggressive Compression of MobileNets Using Hybrid Ternary Layers		D. Gope J. Beu U. Thakker M. Mattina	February 2020
Improving Accuracy of Neural Networks Compressed using Fixed Structures via Doping		U. Thakker P. Whatmough M. Mattina J. Beu	February 2020	Summit
Compressing RNNs for IoT devices by 15-38x using Kronecker Products		U. Thakker J. Beu D. Gope C. Zhou I. Fedorov G. Dasika M. Mattina	January 2020
Run-Time Efficient RNN Compression for Inference on Edge Devices		U. Thakker J. Beu D. Gope G. Dasika M. Mattina	January 2020
SpArSe: Sparse Architecture Search for CNNs on Resource-Constrained Microcontrollers		I. Fedorov R. P. Adams M. Mattina P. Whatmough	December 2019	Read blog
RNN Compression using Hybrid Matrix Decomposition		U. Thakker J. Beu D. Gope C. Zhou I. Fedorov G. Dasika M. Mattina	December 2019	Workshop
Skipping RNN State Updates without Retraining the Original Model		J. Tao U. Thakker G. Dasika J. Beu	November 2019	Read blog
A Static Analysis-based Cross-Architecture Performance Prediction Using Machine Learning		N. Ardalani U. Thakker A. Albarghouthi K. Sankaralingam	June 2019	Workshop
2019 Evolutionary Algorithms Review		A. Sloss S. Gustafson	June 2019	Read book
Learning low-precision neural networks without Straight-Through Estimator (STE)		Z-G. Liu M. Mattina	May 2019	Read blog
RNN Compression using Hybrid Matrix Decomposition		U. Thakker J. Beu D. Gope G. Dasika M. Mattina	March 2019	Summit
Measuring scheduling efficiency of RNNs for NLP applications		U. Thakker G. Dasika J. Beu M. Mattina	March 2019	Workshop
SCALE-Sim: Systolic CNN Accelerator Simulator		A. Samajdar Y. Zhu P. Whatmough M. Mattina T. Krishna	February 2019
FixyNN: Efficient Hardware for Mobile Computer Vision via Transfer Learning		P. Whatmough C. Zhou P. Hansen S. Kolala Venkataramanaiah J-S. Seo M. Mattina	February 2019	Read blog
Energy Efficient Hardware for On-Device CNN Inference via Transfer Learning		P. Whatmough C. Zhou P. Hansen M. Mattina	February 2019
Efficient and Robust Machine Learning for Real-World Systems		F. Pernkopf W. Roth M. Zoehrer L. Pfeifenberger G. Schindler H. Froening S. Tschiatschek R. Peharz M. Mattina Z. Ghahramani	December 2018
DNN Engine: A 28-nm Timing-Error Tolerant Sparse Deep Neural Network Processor for IoT Applications		P. Whatmough S. Kyu-Lee D. Brooks G. Wei	September 2018
Euphrates: Algorithm-SoC Co-Design for Low-Power Mobile Continuous Vision		Y. Zhu A. Samajdar M. Mattina P. Whatmough	March 2018	Read blog
Mobile Machine Learning Hardware at Arm: A Systems-on-Chip (SoC) Perspective		Y. Zhu M. Mattina P. Whatmough	February 2018

Publication title	Conference/Journal	Authors	Date	Further resources
Talk: It’s time to tame the wild west of IoT device security	HOST	R. Aitken	December 2020
Whitepaper: Post-Quantum Cryptography	Arm Whitepaper	H. Becker	October 2020
Talk: How can hardware security contribute to the fight against Covid-19 and post-pandemic life?	HOST	R. Aitken	July 2020
ISA Semantics for ARMv8-A, RISC-V, and CHERI-MIPS		A. Armstrong T. Bauereiss B. Campbell A. Reid K. E. Gray R. M. Norton P. Mundkur M. Wassell J. French C. Pulte S. Flur I. Stark N. Krishnaswami P. Sewell	January 2019
BRB: Mitigating Branch Predictor Side-Channels.		I. Vougioukas N. Nikoleris A. Sandberg S. Diestelhorst B. M. Al-Hashimi G. V. Merrett	November 2018	Read blog
The semantics of transactions and weak memory in x86, Power, ARM, and C++		N. Chong T. Sorensen J. Wickerson	June 2018	Read blog

Publication title		Authors	Date	Further resources
Virtual-Link: A Scalable Multi-Producer, Multi-Consumer Message Queue Architecture for Cross-Core Communication	IPDPS 2021	Q. Wu J. Beard A. Ekanayake A. Gerstlauer L. John	January 2021
IoTSPY: Uncovering Human Privacy Leakage in IoT Networks via Mining Wireless Context	PIMRC	T. Gu Z. Fang A. Abhishek P. Mohapatra	September 2020
eWASM: Practical Software Fault Isolation for Reliable Embedded Devices		G. Peach R. Pan Z. Qu G. Parmer C. Haster L. Cherkasova	September 2020	Watch presentation
OpenSHMEM I/O Extensions for Fine-grained Access to Persistent Memory Storage		M. Grodowitz P. Shamis S. Poole	August 2020
Sledge: A Serverless-First, Light-Weight Wasm Runtime for the Edge	Middleware	P. K. Gadepalli S. McBride G. Peach L. Cherkasova G. Parmer	July 2020
Talk: Bending the climate curve: Enabling Sustainable Growth of Big Data, AI, and Cloud Computing	SEMICON West	R. Aitken	July 2020	Read blog
Towards Learning-automation IoT Attack Detection through Reinforcement Learning	WoWMoM	T. Gu Z Fang A. Abhishek P. Mohapatra	June 2020	Read blog
Using Arm Scalable Vector Extension to Optimize Open MPI		D. Zhong P. Shamis Q. Cao G. Bosilca S. Sumimoto K. Miura J. Dongarra	May 2020
SMARTER: Experiences with Cloud Native on Edge		A. Ferreira E. V. Hensbergen C. Adeniyi-Jones E. Grimely-Evans J. Minor M. Nutter L. E. Peña K. Agarwal J. Hermes	April 2020
Talk: Is an Open-source Hardware Revolution on the Horizon?	ISSCC 20	R. Aitken	February 2020
Challenges and Opportunities for Efficient Serverless Computing at the Edge		P.K. Gadepalli G. Peach L. Cherkasova R. Aitken G. Parmer	October 2019
Breaking Band: A Breakdown of High-performance Communication		R. Zambre M. Grodowitz A. Chandramowlishwaran P. Shamis	August 2019
Analysis Demand Forecasting of Residential Energy Consumption at Multiple Time Scales	IM 2019	P. Amin L. Cherkasova R. Aitken V. Kach	April 2019
Stretch: Balancing QoS and Throughput for Colocated Server Workloads on SMT Cores		A. Margaritov S. Gupta R. Gonzalez-Alberquilla B. Grot	February 2019	Read blog
Open-Source Shared Memory implementation of the HPCG benchmark: analysis, improvements and evaluation on Cavium ThunderX2		D. Ruiz F. Mantovani M. Casas F. Spiga J. Labarta	July 2018
Persistency for Synchronization-Free Regions		V. Gogte S. Diestelhorst W. Wang S. Narayanasamy P. M. Chen T. F. Wenisch	June 2018	Read blog
SynchroTrace: Synchronization-aware Architecture-agnostic Traces for Light-Weight Multicore Simulation of CMP and HPC Workloads		K. Sangaiah M. Lui R. Jagtap S. Diestelhorst S. Nilakantan A. More B. Taskin M. Hempstead	March 2018	Read blog
Crossing the Architectural Barrier: Evaluating Representative Regions of Parallel HPC Applications		A. Ferrerón R. Jagtap S. Bischoff R. Ruşitoru	March 2018	Read blog
Integrating DRAM Power-Down Modes in gem5 and Quantifying their Impact		R. Jagtap M. Jung W. Elasser C. Weis A. Hansson N. When	March 2018	Read blog

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