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SIMinG-1k: A thousand-core simulator running on general-purpose graphical processing units

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Martino Ruggiero, Shivani Raghav

This paper introduces SIMinG-1k-a manycore simulator infrastructure. SIMinG-1k is a graphics processing unit accelerated, parallel simulator for design-space exploration of large-scale manycore systems. It features an optimal trade-off between modeling acc ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Temperature Control of High Performance Multicore Platforms Using Convex Optimization

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali

With technology advances, the number of cores integrated on a chip and their speed of operation is increasing. This, in turn is leading to a significant increase in chip temperature. Temperature gradi- ents and hot-spots not only affect the performance of ...

2008

Multi-Processor Operating System Emulation Framework with Thermal Feedback for Systems-on-Chip

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Pablo Garcia del Valle

Multi-Processor System-On-Chip (MPSoC) can provide the performance levels required by high-end embedded applications. However, they do so at the price of an increasing power density, which may lead to thermal runaway if coupled with low-cost packaging and ...

2007

Synthesis of Networks on Chips for 3D Systems on Chips

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali, Ciprian Seiculescu

Three-dimensional stacking of silicon layers is emerging as a promising solution to handle the design complexity and heterogeneity of Systems on Chips (SoCs). Networks on Chips (NoCs) are necessary to efficiently handle the 3D interconnect complexity. Desi ...

2009

Energy Proportionality in Near-Threshold Computing Servers and Cloud Data Centers: Consolidating or Not?

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Marina Zapater Sancho, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi, Ali Pahlevan

Cloud Computing aims to efficiently tackle the increasing demand of computing resources, and its popularity has led to a dramatic increase in the number of computing servers and data centers worldwide. However, as effect of post-Dennard scaling, computing ...

2018

Networks on Chips: From Research to Products

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali, Federico Angiolini, Ciprian Seiculescu

Research on Networks on Chips (NoCs) has spanned over a decade and its results are now visible in some products. Thus the seminal idea of using networking technology to address the chip-level interconnect problem has been shown to be correct. Moreover, as ...

2010

Characterization and Implementation of Fault-Tolerant Vertical Links for 3-D Networks-on-Chip

Luca Benini, Federico Angiolini, Subhasish Mitra

Through silicon vias (TSVs) provide an efficient way to support vertical communication among different layers of a vertically stacked chip, enabling scalable 3-D networks-on-chip (NoC) architectures. Unfortunately, low TSV yields significantly impact the f ...

2011

Reliability Support for On-chip Memories Using Networks-on-Chips

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali, Federico Angiolini

As the geometries of the transistors reach the physical limits of operation, one of the main design challenges of Systems-on-Chips (SoCs) will be to provide dynamic (run-time) support against permanent and intermittent faults that can occur in the system. ...

2006

Scalable Instruction Set Simulator for Thousand-core Architectures Running on GPGPUs

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Martino Ruggiero, Shivani Raghav

IEEE Press2010

A Complete Multi-Processor System-on-Chip FPGA-Based Emulation Framework

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Pablo Garcia del Valle

With the growing complexity in consumer embedded products and the improvements in process technology, Multi-Processor System-On-Chip (MPSoC) architectures have become widespread. These new systems are very complex to design as they must execute multiple co ...

2006

Co-clustering : A versatile Tool for Data Analysis in Biomedical Informatics

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini

Co-clustering has not been much exploited in biomedical in- formatics, despite its success in other domains. Most of the previous applications were limited to analyzing gene expression data. We performed co-clustering analysis on other types of data and ob ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2007

Thermal-Aware System-Level Modeling and Management for Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Francesco Zanini

Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) are penetrating the electronics market as a powerful, yet commercially viable, solution to answer the strong and steadily growing demand for scalable and high performance systems, at limited design complexity. Howev ...

IEEE Press2011

Multicore Thermal Management with Model Predictive Control

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Francesco Zanini

The goal of thermal management is to meet maximum operating temperature constraints, while at the same time tracking timevarying performance requirements. Current approaches avoid thermal violations by forcing abrupt operating points changes (e.g. processo ...

IEEE Press2009

Comparison of a Timing-Error Tolerant Scheme with a Traditional Re-transmission Mechanism for Networks on Chips

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali, Federico Angiolini

On-chip wires are becoming unreliable as the effect of various noise sources increases with technology scaling. This leads to unpredictable timing delay variations on the interconnect wires. There is a significant need to mitigate the effect of parasitics ...

2006

A Method for Routing Packets Across Multiple Paths in NoCs with In-Order Delivery and Fault-Tolerance Guarantees

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali

Networks on Chips (NoCs) are required to tackle the increasing delay and poor scalability issues of bus-based communication architectures. Many of today’s NoC designs are based on single path routing. By utilizing multiple paths for routing, congestion in ...

2007

NoC Design and Implementation in 65 nm Technology

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali, Federico Angiolini

As embedded computing evolves towards ever more powerful architectures, the challenge of properly interconnecting large numbers of on-chip computation blocks is becoming prominent. Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) have been proposed as a scalable solution to both p ...

2007

Tackling the Bottleneck of Delay Tables in 3D Ultrasound Imaging

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini, Marcel Arditi, Federico Angiolini, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim

3D ultrasound imaging is quickly becoming a refer- ence technique for high-quality, accurate, expressive diagnostic medical imaging. Unfortunately, its computation requirements are huge and, today, demand expensive, power-hungry, bulky processing resources ...

IEEE2015

Modular Design and Optimization of Biomedical Applications for Ultra-Low Power Heterogeneous Platforms

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Miguel Peon Quiros, Benoît Walter Denkinger, Elisabetta De Giovanni, Simone Machetti

In the last years, remote health monitoring is becoming an essential branch of health care with the rapid development of wearable sensors technology. To meet the demand of new more complex applications and ensuring adequate battery lifetime, wearable senso ...

2020

Diseño de redes en chip de propósito específico con información de rutado físico

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali, Federico Angiolini

The equivalent English title: "Design of Custom Networks-on-Chip with Physical Layout Information" Abstract translated into English: Due to the growing demand of communication between processors and memory devices in Systems-on-Chip (SoCs), recently the ne ...

2006

An integrated, programming model-driven framework for NoC-QoS support in cluster-based embedded many-cores

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini, Federico Angiolini, Jaime Joven Murillo

Embedded SoC designs are embracing the many-core paradigm to deliver the required performance to run an ever-increasing number of applications in parallel. Networks-on-Chip (NoC) are considered as a convenient technology to implement many-core embedded pla ...

Elsevier2013