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Exposing parallelism in scientific applications has become a core requirement for efficiently running on modern distributed multicore SIMD compute architectures. The granularity of parallelism that can be attained is a key determinant for the achievable ac ...

IEEE2019

Speculative Dataflow Circuits

Paolo Ienne, Andrea Guerrieri, Lana Josipovic

With FPGAs facing broader application domains, the conversion of imperative languages into dataflow circuits has been recently revamped as a way to overcome the conservatism of statically scheduled high-level synthesis. Apart from the ability to extract pa ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Toward a Full-Flexible and Fast-Prototyping TOF-PET Block Detector Based on TDC-on-FPGA

Edoardo Charbon, Esteban Venialgo Araujo

Typically, a time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) block detector is built using application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), since they integrate a high number of channels at a reasonable power consumption and into a small area. How ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Network-Compute Co-Design for Distributed In-Memory Computing

Alexandros Daglis

The booming popularity of online services is rapidly raising the demands for modern datacenters. In order to cope with data deluge, growing user bases, and tight quality of service constraints, service providers deploy massive datacenters with tens to hund ...

EPFL2018

Trading off Energy versus Accuracy in Modern Computing Systems : From Digital Circuit Design to Programming Techniques

Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

The slowdown of Moore's law, which has been the driving force of the electronics industry over the last 5 decades, is causing serious problem to Integrated Circuits (ICs) improvements. Technology scaling is becoming more and more complex and fabrication co ...

EPFL2018

Integrating Heuristic and Machine-Learning Methods for Efficient Virtual Machine Allocation in Data Centers

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Ali Pahlevan

Modern cloud data centers (DCs) need to tackle efficiently the increasing demand for computing resources and address the energy efficiency challenge. Therefore, it is essential to develop resource provisioning policies that are aware of virtual machine (VM ...

2018

A Synchronization-Based Hybrid-Memory Multi-Core Architecture for Energy-Efficient Biomedical Signal Processing

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Giovanni Ansaloni, Ruben Braojos Lopez

In the last decade, improvements on technology scaling have enabled the design of a novel generation of wearable bio-sensing monitors. These smart Wireless Body Sensor Nodes (WBSNs) are able to acquire and process biological signals, such as electrocardiog ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Approximate FPGA Implementation of CORDIC for Tactile Data Processing using Speculative Adders

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus

In most robotic and biomedical applications, the interest for real-time embedded systems with tactile ability has been growing. For example in prosthetics, a dedicated portable system is needed for developing wearable devices. The main challenges for such ...

2017

The Mondrian Data Engine

Babak Falsafi, Boris Robert Grot, Javier Picorel Obando, Alexandros Daglis, Mario Paulo Drumond Lages De Oliveira, Dmitrii Ustiugov, Nooshin Sadat Mirzadeh

The increasing demand for extracting value out of ever-growing data poses an ongoing challenge to system designers, a task only made trickier by the end of Dennard scaling. As the performance density of traditional CPU-centric architectures stagnates, adva ...

2017