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The 2024 Magnonics Roadmap

Dirk Grundler, Thomas Yu, Ping Che, Qi Wang

Magnonics is a research field that has gained an increasing interest in both the fundamental and applied sciences in recent years. This field aims to explore and functionalize collective spin excitations in magnetically ordered materials for modern informa ...

2024

Multi-Ported GC-eDRAM Bitcell with Dynamic Port Configuration and Refresh Mechanism

Adam Shmuel Teman, Robert Giterman

Embedded memories occupy an increasingly dominant part of the area and power budgets of modern systems-on-chips (SoCs). Multi-ported embedded memories, commonly used by media SoCs and graphical processing units, occupy even more area and consume higher pow ...

MDPI2024

Exploring High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Architectures for Edge AI-Enabled Applications

Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

The desire and ability to place AI-enabled applications on the edge has grown significantly in recent years. However, the compute-, area-, and power-constrained nature of edge devices are stressed by the needs of the AI-enabled applications, due to a gener ...

EPFL2024

Highly Parallel RTL Simulation

Seyedmahyar Emami

Verification and testing of hardware heavily relies on cycle-accurate simulation of RTL. As single-processor performance is growing only slowly, conventional, single-threaded RTL simulation is becoming impractical for increasingly complex chip designs and ...

EPFL2024

Analytical Model of Single-Sided Linear Induction Motors for High-Speed Applications

Mario Paolone, André Hodder, Simone Rametti, Lucien André Félicien Pierrejean

This article describes a field-based analytical model of single-sided linear induction motors (SLIMs) that explicitly considers the following effects altogether: finite motor length, magnetomotive force mmf space harmonics, slot effect, edge effect, and ta ...

IEEE2024

EdgeAI-Aware Design of In-Memory Computing Architectures

Marco Antonio Rios

Driven by the demand for real-time processing and the need to minimize latency in AI algorithms, edge computing has experienced remarkable progress. Decision-making AI applications stand out for their heavy reliance on data-centric operations, predominantl ...

EPFL2024

Overflow-free compute memories for edge AI acceleration

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Flavio Ponzina, Marco Antonio Rios

Compute memories are memory arrays augmented with dedicated logic to support arithmetic. They support the efficient execution of data-centric computing patterns, such as those characterizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. These architectures can ...

2023

Compilation and Design Space Exploration of Dataflow Programs for Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Platforms

Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Today's continued increase in demand for processing power, despite the slowdown of Moore's law, has led to an increase in processor count, which has resulted in energy consumption and distribution problems. To address this, there is a growing trend toward ...

EPFL2023

SecureCells: A Secure Compartmentalized Architecture

Babak Falsafi, Mathias Josef Payer, Siddharth Gupta, Atri Bhattacharyya, Yuanlong Li, Florian Hofhammer, Andrés Sánchez Marín

Modern programs are monolithic, combining code of varied provenance without isolation, all the while running on network-connected devices. A vulnerability in any component may compromise code and data of all other components. Compartmentalization separates ...

2023

Design Space Exploration for Partitioning Dataflow Program on CPU-GPU Heterogeneous System

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Dataflow programming is a methodology that enables the development of high-level, parametric programs that are independent of the underlying platform. This approach is particularly useful for heterogeneous platforms, as it eliminates the need to rewrite ap ...

SPRINGER2023

Impact of Video Processing Operations in Deepfake Detection

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

The detection of digital face manipulation in video has attracted extensive attention due to the increased risk to public trust. To counteract the malicious usage of such techniques, deep learning-based deepfake detection methods have been developed and ha ...

2023

WarpAttack: Bypassing CFI through Compiler-Introduced Double-Fetches

Mathias Josef Payer, Flavio Toffalini, Luca Di Bartolomeo

Code-reuse attacks are dangerous threats that attracted the attention of the security community for years. These attacks aim at corrupting important control-flow transfers for taking control of a process without injecting code. Nowadays, the combinations o ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Instruction-Level Power Side-Channel Leakage Evaluation of Soft-Core CPUs on Shared FPGAs

Mathias Josef Payer, Mirjana Stojilovic, Ognjen Glamocanin, Shashwat Shrivastava

Side-channel disassembly attacks recover CPU instructions from power or electromagnetic side-channel traces measured during code execution. These attacks typically rely on physical access, proximity to the victim device, and high sampling rate measuring in ...

2023

Realization and Control of Bulk and Surface Modes in 3D Nanomagnonic Networks by Additive Manufacturing of Ferromagnets

Dirk Grundler, Mohammad Hamdi, Mingran Xu, Huixin Guo, Axel Johan Marie Deenen

The high-density integration in information technology fuels the research on functional 3D nanodevices. Particularly ferromagnets promise multifunctional 3D devices for nonvolatile data storage, high-speed data processing, and non-charge-based logic operat ...

Wiley2023

Thermal and Power-Aware Run-Time Performance Management of 3D MPSoCs with Integrated Flow Cell Arrays

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Halima Najibi

Flow Cell Arrays (FCA) technology employs microchannels filled with an electrolytic fluid to concurrently provide cooling and power generation to integrated circuits (ICs). This solution is particularly appealing for Three-Dimensional Multi-Processor Syste ...

2022

Dynamic SIMD Parallel Execution on GPU from High-Level Dataflow Synthesis

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Developing and fine-tuning software programs for heterogeneous hardware such as CPU/GPU processing platforms comprise a highly complex endeavor that demands considerable time and effort of software engineers and requires evaluating various fundamental comp ...

MDPI2022

SIMD Parallel Execution on GPU from High-Level Dataflow Synthesis

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Writing and optimizing application software for heterogeneous platforms including GPU units is a very difficult task that requires designer efforts and resources to consider several key elements to obtain good performance. Dataflow programming has shown to ...

2022

Thermal and Voltage-Aware Performance Management of 3D MPSoCs with Flow Cell Arrays and Integrated SC Converters

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Halima Najibi

Flow cell arrays (FCAs) concurrently provide efficient on-chip liquid cooling and electrochemical power generation. This technology is especially promising for three-dimensional multi-processor systems-on-chip (3D MPSoCs) realized in deeply scaled technolo ...

2022

Adversarial Robustness by Design Through Analog Computing And Synthetic Gradients

Florent Gérard Krzakala

We propose a new defense mechanism against adversarial at-tacks inspired by an optical co-processor, providing robustness without compromising natural accuracy in both white-box and black-box settings. This hardware co-processor performs a nonlinear fixed ...

IEEE2022

Design and management of three-dimensional multi-processor systems-on-chip with integrated flow cell arrays

Halima Najibi

Three-Dimensional Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (3D MPSoCs) are promising solutions for highly intensive Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data applications. They combine remarkably dense computation capabilities and massive communication bandwidths. ...

EPFL2022