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Cloud computing environments increasingly provision field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for their programmability and hardware-level parallelism. While FPGAs are typically used by one tenant at a time, multitenant schemes supporting spatial sharing of c ...

2024

Electrical-Level Fault-Injection Attacks on FPGA-Based Systems

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With the growth in the performance of general-purpose computing no longer following Moore's law and Dennard scaling, the use of hardware-specialized systems is common practice. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are adopted in cloud and cyber-physical ...

EPFL2024

FlexiMem: Flexible Shared Virtual Memory for PCIe-attached FPGAs

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Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) is a mechanism that allows host-side applications and FPGA accelerators to access the same virtual address space. It enables accelerating algorithms with unpredictable memory access patterns by making transparent pointer sharing ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

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AAAI Press2024

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EPFL2024

Contemporary Logic Synthesis: with an Application to AQFP Circuit Optimization

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Electronic devices play an irreplaceable role in our lives. With the tightening time to market, exploding demand for computing power, and continuous desire for smaller, faster, less energy-consuming, and lower-cost chips, computer-aided design for electron ...

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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

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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 ...

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Automating the Design of Programmable Interconnect for Reconfigurable Architectures

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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

Practical Implementations of Remote Power Side-Channel and Fault-Injection Attacks on Multitenant FPGAs

Francesco Regazzoni, Mirjana Stojilovic, Ognjen Glamocanin, Dina Gamaleldin Ahmed Shawky Mahmoud

Cloud computing environments increasingly provision FPGAs because of their fine-grained, highly parallel, and flexible hardware architecture. The availability of FPGAs in the cloud fueled research on the security risks associated with exposing FPGA fabric ...

Springer, Cham2023

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

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

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

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 ...

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From Nano to Macro An overview of the IEEE Bio Image and Signal Processing Technical Committee

Michaël Unser, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Michael Stefan Daniel Liebling

The Bio Image and Signal Processing (BISP) Technical Committee (TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) promotes activities within the broad technical field of biomedical image and signal processing. Areas of interest include medical and biological ...

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Hardware Implementation of Digital Signal Processing Algorithms for Programmable Epilepsy Control Systems

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Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that causes recurring seizures and affects more than 50 million people worldwide. Implantable medical devices (IMDs) are regarded as effective tools to cure patients who suffer from refractory epilepsy. Se ...

EPFL2023

2D Nanosystems: Applications of 2D Semiconductors for In-Memory Computing

Guilherme Migliato Marega

Machine learning and data processing algorithms have been thriving in finding ways of processing and classifying information by exploiting the hidden trends of large datasets. Although these emerging computational methods have become successful in today's ...

EPFL2023

Challenging the Assumptions: Rethinking Privacy, Bias, and Security in Machine Learning

Bogdan Kulynych

Predictive models based on machine learning (ML) offer a compelling promise: bringing clarity and structure to complex natural and social environments. However, the use of ML poses substantial risks related to the privacy of their training data as well as ...

EPFL2023

Vibrational NDT with Under-sampled Data through Physics-informed Neural Networks

Olga Fink

The vibrational response of solid materials and structural components is substantially governed by their mechanical and geometrical properties. Low-frequency vibrations and modal frequencies are sensitive to global geometrical deviations, while high-freque ...

2023

Finding information-rich electrocardiographic biomarkers to characterize atrial fibrillation

Anna Mary Mc Cann

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia; it will affect one in four adults worldwide in their lifetime. AF has serious consequences, including drastically increased risk of stroke. Catheter ablation surgery is an established treatmen ...

EPFL2023