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Advanced Silicon and SWIR Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes: Design, Simulation, and Characterization

Ekin Kizilkan

Low-level light detection with high spatial and timing accuracy is a growing area of interest by virtue of applications such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), biomedical imaging, time-resolved Raman spectroscopy, and quantum applications. Single-phot ...

EPFL2024

Active Wire Fences for Multitenant FPGAs

Mirjana Stojilovic, Ognjen Glamocanin

When spatially shared among multiple tenants, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are vulnerable to remote power side-channel analysis attacks. Using carefully crafted on-chip voltage sensors, adversaries can extract secrets (e.g., encryption keys or th ...

2023

Learning With Your PETS

Drazen Dujic, Andrea Cervone, Renan Pillon Barcelos, Jules Christian Georges Macé, Max Dupont

Recently, we published an article [1] presenting how the Power Electronics course at the bachelor level is organized by the Power Electronics Laboratory and taught at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland. For those avid readers who m ...

2023

Evaluating, Exploiting, and Hiding Power Side-Channel Leakage of Remote FPGAs

Ognjen Glamocanin

The pervasive adoption of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in both cyber-physical systems and the cloud has raised many security issues. Being integrated circuits, FPGAs are susceptible to fault and power side-channel attacks, which require physical ...

EPFL2023

Automating the Design of Programmable Interconnect for Reconfigurable Architectures

Stefan Nikolic

With Moore's law coming to an end, increasingly more hope is being put in specialized hardware implemented on reconfigurable architectures such as Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Yet, it is often neglected that these architectures themselves experi ...

EPFL2023

Temperature Impact on Remote Power Side-Channel Attacks on Shared FPGAs

Mathias Josef Payer, Mirjana Stojilovic, Ognjen Glamocanin

To answer the growing demand for hardware acceleration, Amazon, Microsoft, and many other major cloud service providers have included field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in their datacenters. However, researchers have shown that cloud FPGAs, when shared ...

IEEE2023

IIBLAST: Speeding Up Commercial FPGA Routing by Decoupling and Mitigating the Intra-CLB Bottleneck

Mirjana Stojilovic, Stefan Nikolic, Shashwat Shrivastava

We identified that in modern commercial FPGAs, routing signals from the general interconnect to the configurable logic blocks (CLBs) through a very sparse input interconnect block (IIB) represents a significant runtime bottleneck. This is despite academic ...

IEEE2023

A Visionary Look at the Security of Reconfigurable Cloud Computing

Francesco Regazzoni, Mirjana Stojilovic

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become critical components in many cloud computing platforms. These devices possess the fine-grained parallelism and specialization needed to accelerate applications ranging from machine learning to networking an ...

2023

RDS: FPGA Routing Delay Sensors for Effective Remote Power Analysis Attacks

Mirjana Stojilovic, Ognjen Glamocanin, David Spielmann

State-of-the-art sensors for measuring FPGA voltage fluctuations are time-to-digital converters (TDCs). They allow detecting voltage fluctuations in the order of a few nanoseconds. The key building component of a TDC is a delay line, typically implemented ...

2023

Energy-Efficient Electronic Functions Based on the Co-integration of 2D and Ferroelectric Materials

Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei

The digital revolution has significantly transformed our world over the past decades, driven by the scaling of transistor dimensions and the exponential increase in computation power. However, as the CMOS scaling era approaches its end, the semiconductor i ...

EPFL2023

Hardware-Software Co-design for Improved Resource Utilization in DNN Accelerators

Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler

Deep neural networks (DNN) have become an essential tool to tackle challenging tasks in many fields of computer science. However, their high computational complexity limits their applicability. Specialized DNN accelerators have been developed to accommodat ...

EPFL2023

Building Chips Faster: Hardware-Compiler Co-Design for Accelerated RTL Simulation

Sahand Kashani

The demise of Moore's Law and Dennard scaling has resulted in diminishing performance gains for general-purpose processors, and so has prompted a surge in academic and commercial interest for hardware accelerators. Specialized hardware has already redefine ...

EPFL2023

Assessment of the Bundle SNSPD Plus FPGA-Based TDC for High-Performance Time Measurements

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Santiago Tarrago Velez

Counting single photons and measuring their arrival time is of crucial importance for imaging and quantum applications that use single photons to outperform classical techniques. The investigation of the coincidence, i.e. correlation, between photons can b ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

SiGe Time Resolving Pixel Detectors for High Energy Physics and Medical Imaging

Fulvio Martinelli

In the last years, sub-nanosecond time-resolved particle detectors have been object of research by many companies and institutes since they represent an efficient tool to improve the performance of detecting systems for various applications such as High En ...

EPFL2022

Exploring negative capacitance and neuromorphic devices based on CMOS-compatible ferroelectric HfO2

Carlotta Gastaldi

Ferroelectric materials are explored for numerous applications thanks to their properties associated with electrically switchable spontaneous polarization. Perovskites are an established class of ferroelectrics used for sensors and actuators. However, they ...

EPFL2022

Label-Free C-Reactive Protein Si Nanowire FET Sensor Arrays With Super-Nernstian Back-Gate Operation

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Luca Capua, Yann Christophe Sprunger, Felix Risch

We present a CMOS-compatible double gate and label-free C-reactive protein (CRP) sensor, based on silicon on insulator (SOI) silicon nanowires arrays. We exploit a reference subtracted detection method and a super-Nernstian internal amplification given by ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

DFAulted: Analyzing and Exploiting CPU Software Faults Caused by FPGA-Driven Undervolting Attacks

Mirjana Stojilovic, Dina Gamaleldin Ahmed Shawky Mahmoud

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) combine hardware reconfigurability with a high degree of parallelism. Consequently, FPGAs offer performance gains and power savings for many applications. A recent trend has been to leverage the hardware versatility o ...

2022

Off-axis electron holography for the direct visualization of perpendicular shape anisotropy in nanoscale 3D magnetic random-access-memory devices

Victor Carle Adrien Boureau

Perpendicular shape anisotropy (PSA) and double magnetic tunnel junctions (DMTJs) offer practical solutions to downscale spin-transfer-torque Magnetic Random-Access Memory (STT-MRAM) beyond 20 nm technology nodes, while retaining their thermal stability an ...

AIP Publishing2022

Low-Latency High-Bandwidth Circuit and System Design for Trigger Systems in High Energy Physics

Marcos Vinícius Silva Oliveira

The increasing luminosity in HEP (High Energy Physics) colliders demands trigger systems to be more selective. First, more information from the detector is routed to the trigger system. Second, larger parts of this information are processed together. These ...

EPFL2021

Synthesizing General-Purpose Code Into Dynamically Scheduled Circuits

Paolo Ienne, Andrea Guerrieri, Lana Josipovic

Since their inception more than thirty years ago, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been widely used to implement a myriad of applications from different domains. As a result of their low-level hardware reconfigurability, FPGAs have much faster d ...

2021