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FPGA-Based Emulation of Embedded DRAMs for Statistical Error Resilience Evaluation of Approximate Computing Systems

Andreas Peter Burg, Andrea Bonetti, Marco Widmer

Embedded DRAM (eDRAM) requires frequent power-hungry refresh according to the worst-case retention time across PVT variations to avoid data loss. Abandoning the error-free paradigm, by choosing sub-critical refresh rates that gracefully degrade the eDRAM c ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

In Search of Lost Bandwidth: Extensive Reordering of DRAM Accesses on FPGA

Paolo Ienne, Mikhail Asiatici, Gabor Andras Csordas

For efficient acceleration on FPGA, it is essential for external memory to match the throughput of the processing pipelines. However, the usable DRAM bandwidth decreases significantly if the access pattern causes frequent row conflicts. Memory controllers ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

Improving Energy-Efficiency in Dynamic Memories Through Retention Failure Detection

Robert Giterman, Adam Shmuel Teman

A gain-cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) is an attractive logic-compatible alternative to the conventional static random access memory (SRAM) for the implementation of embedded memories, as it offers higher density, lower leakage, and two-ported operation. How ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

A 24 kb Single-Well Mixed 3T Gain-Cell eDRAM with Body-Bias in 28 nm FD-SOI for Refresh-Free DSP Applications

Yusuf Leblebici, Andreas Peter Burg, Robert Giterman, Andrea Bonetti, Cosimo Aprile, Jonathan Emmanuel D Narinx, Nicolas Claude Frigerio

Logic-compatible gain-cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) is an emerging alternative to conventional SRAM for memory-dominated system-on-chip (SoC) designs due to its high-density, low-power, and two-ported operation. Although GCs have a limited data retention t ...

IEEE2019

Adaptive simulation-based framework for error characterization of inexact circuits

Vincent Frédéric Camus

To design faster and more energy-efficient systems, numerous inexact arithmetic operators have been proposed, generally obtained by modifying the logic structure of conventional circuits. However, as the quality of service of an application has to be ensur ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Impact of Memory Voltage Scaling on Accuracy and Resilience of Deep Learning Based Edge Devices

David Atienza Alonso, Andreas Peter Burg, Miguel Peon Quiros, Martino Ruggiero, Andrea Bonetti, Flavio Ponzina, Benoît Walter Denkinger, Soumya Subhra Basu, Szabolcs Balási

Energy consumption is a significant obstacle to integrate deep learning into edge devices. Two common techniques to curve it are quantization, which reduces the size of the memories (static energy) and the number of accesses (dynamic energy), and voltage s ...

2020

DynaBurst: Dynamically Assemblying DRAM Bursts over a Multitude of Random Accesses

Paolo Ienne, Mikhail Asiatici

The effective bandwidth of the FPGA external memory, usually DRAM, is extremely sensitive to the access pattern. Nonblocking caches that handle thousands of outstanding misses (miss-optimized memory systems) can dynamically improve bandwidth utilization wh ...

IEEE2019

Low-Power Design of Digital VLSI Circuits around the Point of First Failure

Andrea Bonetti

As an increase of intelligent and self-powered devices is forecasted for our future everyday life, the implementation of energy-autonomous devices that can wirelessly communicate data from sensors is crucial. Even though techniques such as voltage scaling ...

EPFL2019

Linebacker: Preserving Victim Cache Lines in Idle Register Files of GPUs

Yunho Oh

Modern GPUs suffer from cache contention due to the limited cache size that is shared across tens of concurrently running warps. To increase the per-warp cache size prior techniques proposed warp throttling which limits the number of active warps. Warp thr ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Improving Main-memory Database System Performance through Cooperative Multitasking

Georgios Psaropoulos

Database systems access memory either sequentially or randomly. Contrary to sequential access and despite the extensive efforts of computer architects, compiler writers, and system builders, random access to data larger than the processor cache has been s ...

EPFL2019

CASSIS: Characterization with Adaptive Sample-Size Inferential Statistics Applied to Inexact Circuits

Vincent Frédéric Camus

2018