Publications

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Conference & Journal Papers

VESICA: Fused Vector Extension for RISC-V Embedded GPUs

Dao Xian Ding, Michael Srouji, Brandon Kam, Nader Sehatbakhsh, Blaise Tine

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2026

PRISM: Accelerating Ray Tracing on RISC-V GPU

Kuan Fu Chen, Blaise Tine

IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2026

Inside VOLT: Designing an Open-Source GPU Compiler

Shinnung Jeong, Chihyo Ahn, Huanzhi Pu, Jisheng Zhao, Hyesoon Kim, Blaise Tine

ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC), 2026 · DOI

FastTrackGPU: Static-Analysis-Guided Analytical Modeling for Softcore GPUs

Chihyo Ahn, Shinnung Jeong, Liam Paul Cooper, Ruobing Han, Huanzhi Pu, Nicholas Parnenzini, Jisheng Zhao, Blaise Tine, Hyesoon Kim

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2026

Analysis of the RISC-V Vector Extension for Vulkan Graphics Kernels

Martin Troiber, Martin Schulz, Blaise Tine, Hyesoon Kim

IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), 2025 · DOI

SoftCUDA: Running CUDA on Softcore GPU

Chihyo Ahn, Ruobing Han, Udit Subramanya, Jisheng Zhao, Blaise Tine, Hyesoon Kim

IEEE 33rd Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2025 · DOI

Towards “True” GPU Performance Scaling for OpenGPU

Blaise Tine, Hyesoon Kim

IEEE Hot Chips 36 Symposium (HCS), 2024 · DOI

Skybox: Open-Source Graphic Rendering on Programmable RISC-V GPUs

Blaise Tine, Varun Saxena, Santosh Srivatsan, Joshua R. Simpson, Fadi Alzammar, Liam Paul Cooper, Sam Jijina, Swetha Rajagoplan, Tejaswini Anand Kumar, Jeff Young, Hyesoon Kim

28th Annual ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2023 · DOI

Vortex: Extending the RISC-V ISA for GPGPU and 3D-Graphics

Blaise Tine, Krishna Praveen Yalamarthy, Fares Elsabbagh, Hyesoon Kim

54th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2021 · DOI

Tango: an optimizing compiler for Just-In-Time RTL simulation

Blaise-Pascal Tine, Sudhakar Yalamanchili, Hyesoon Kim

2020 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2020 · DOI

Pagevault: securing off-chip memory using page-based authentication

Blaise-Pascal Tine, Sudhakar Yalamanchili

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Memory Systems (MEMSYS), 2017 · DOI

Workshop Papers

TinyVortex: Learning-Guided Kernel Scheduling for Configurable SIMT GPU Co-Design Space Exploration

Nikhil Rout, Blaise Tine

Workshop on Learning-Augmented Compilers & Systems (LACS), co-located with PACT 2026, 2026 · Code

Thread-Scalable 2:4 Structured Sparsity on an Open RISC-V GPU

Yanggon Kim, Xinle Song, Blaise Tine

Workshop on Open-Source Computer Architecture Research (OSCAR), 2026

RTL Design and Analysis of Sparse Tensor Cores for Unstructured Sparsity in RISC-V GPUs

Georgios Triantafyllou, Panagiotis-Eleftherios Eleftherakis, Konstantinos Iliakis, Blaise Tine, Sotirios Xydis

Workshop on Open-Source Computer Architecture Research (OSCAR), 2026

Multiport Support for Vortex OpenGPU Memory Hierarchy

Injae Shin, Blaise Tine

1st Workshop on Open Source Solutions for Massively Parallel Integrated Circuits (OSSMPIC), co-located with DATE 2025, 2025 · PDF

Implementing Hardware Extensions for Multicore RISC-V GPUs

Blaise Tine, Hyesoon Kim

6th Workshop on Computer Architecture Research with RISC-V (CARRV), 2022

The Tip of Iceberg in Open-Source Hardware GPU

Blaise Tine, Ruobing Han, Hyesoon Kim

Workshop on Open-Source Computer Architecture Research (OSCAR), 2022

Bringing OpenCL to Commodity RISC-V CPUs

Blaise Tine, Seyong Lee, Jeff Vetter, Hyesoon Kim

5th Workshop on Computer Architecture Research with RISC-V (CARRV), 2021 · PDF

Supporting CUDA for an extended RISC-V GPU architecture

Ruobing Han, Blaise Tine, Jaewon Lee, Jaewoong Sim, Hyesoon Kim

5th Workshop on Computer Architecture Research with RISC-V (CARRV), 2021 · PDF

Cryptography Acceleration in a RISC-V GPGPU

Austin Adams, Pulkit Gupta, Blaise Tine, Hyesoon Kim

5th Workshop on Computer Architecture Research with RISC-V (CARRV), 2021 · PDF

Cash: a single-source hardware-software codesign framework for rapid prototyping

Blaise Tine, Sudhakar Yalamanchili, Hyesoon Kim

Workshop on Languages, Tools, and Techniques for Accelerator Design (LATTE), 2021

Posters

Supporting Async Barrier and TMA for Vortex GPGPU (POSTER)

Chengxuan Wang, Blaise Tine

Workshop on Open-Source Computer Architecture Research (OSCAR), 2026

RoadBlock: Rethinking Tensor Core Microarchitecture for Emerging Microscaling Format Support on GPUs (POSTER)

Nikhil Rout, Blaise Tine

Workshop on Open-Source Computer Architecture Research (OSCAR), 2026

PRISM: Accelerating Ray Tracing on RISC-V GPU (POSTER)

Kuan Fu Chen, Blaise Tine

Workshop on Open-Source Computer Architecture Research (OSCAR), 2026

Hardware Acceleration of GPU Kernel Scheduling on RISC-V GPU (POSTER)

Randall Liu, Blaise Tine

Workshop on Open-Source Computer Architecture Research (OSCAR), 2026

gem5-Vortex: Heterogeneous Cross-ISA Integration of a RISC-V GPGPU in gem5 (POSTER)

Injae Shin, Blaise Tine

Workshop on Open-Source Computer Architecture Research (OSCAR), 2026

CycleFence: Precise Cycle-Level Profiling for RISC-V GPUs (POSTER)

Xinle Song, Blaise Tine

Workshop on Open-Source Computer Architecture Research (OSCAR), 2026

Accelerating Graphic Rendering on Programmable RISC-V GPUs (POSTER)

Blaise Tine, Varun Saxena, Santosh Srivatsan, Joshua R. Simpson, Fadi Alzammar, Liam Paul Cooper, Sam Jijina, Swetha Rajagoplan, Tejaswini Anand Kumar, Jeff Young, Hyesoon Kim

IEEE Hot Chips 34 Symposium (HCS), 2022 · PDF

A Scalable Multicore RISC-V GPGPU Accelerator for High-End FPGAs (POSTER)

Blaise Tine, Fares Elsabbagh, Seyong Lee, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Sung Kyu Lim, Hyesoon Kim

58th Design Automation Conference (DAC), Designer Track, 2021

Vortex: A Reconfigurable RISC-V GPGPU Accelerator for Architecture Research (POSTER)

Fares Elsabbagh, Blaise Tine, Apurve Chawda, Will Gulian, Yaotian Feng, Priyadarshini Roshan, Ethan Lyons, Lingjun Zhu, Sung Kyu Lim, Hyesoon Kim

IEEE Hot Chips 32 Symposium (HCS), 2020 · PDF

Productive Hardware Designs using Hybrid HLS-RTL Development (POSTER)

Blaise Tine, Seyong Lee, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Hyesoon Kim

International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), 2020 · DOI

Cash: A Single-Source Hardware-Software Codesign Framework for Rapid Prototyping (POSTER)

Blaise Tine, Fares Elsabbagh, Seyong Lee, Jeff Vetter, Hyesoon Kim

ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), 2020 · DOI

Tango: An Optimizing Compiler for Just-In-Time RTL Simulation (POSTER)

Blaise Tine, Sudhakar Yalamanchili, Hyesoon Kim, Jeffrey S. Vetter

28th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2019 · DOI

Preprints

Vortex: OpenCL Compatible RISC-V GPGPU

Fares Elsabbagh, Blaise Tine, Priyadarshini Roshan, Ethan Lyons, Euna Kim, Da Eun Shim, Lingjun Zhu, Sung Kyu Lim, Hyesoon Kim

arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.12151, 2020 · PDF

Patents

Rasterization of compute shaders

A Glaister, BP Tine, D Sessions, M Lyapunov, Y Dotsenko

US Patent 9,529,575

Vectorization of shaders

A Glaister, BP Tine, B Pelton, D Sessions, M Lyapunov, Y Dotsenko

US Patent 8,806,458

Scalar optimizations for shaders

A Glaister, BP Tine, D Sessions, M Lyapunov, Y Dotsenko

US Patent 9,430,199

Lookup tables for text rendering

BP Tine, CN Raubacher, AJR Hodsdon, MM Cohen

US Patent 9,129,441