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Logic synthesis is a key component of digital design and modern EDA tools; it is thus an essential instrument for the design of leading-edge chips and to push the limits of their performance. In the last decades, the electronic circuits community has evolv ...

EPFL2020

High-Performance III-V MOSFETs and Tunnel-FETs Integrated on Silicon

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Silicon transistor scaling is approaching its end and a transition to novel materials and device concepts is more than ever essential. High-mobility compound semiconductors are considered promising candidates to replace silicon, targeting low-power logic a ...

EPFL2020

Towards Deeply Scaled 3D MPSoCs with Integrated Flow Cell Array Technology

David Atienza Alonso, Mohamed Mostafa Sabry Aly, Halima Najibi, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse

Deeply-scaled three-dimensional (3D) Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) enable high performance and massive communication bandwidth for next-generation computing. However, as process nodes shrink, temperature-dependent leakage dramatically increases, ...

2020

Logic-in-memory based on an atomically thin semiconductor

Andras Kis, Aleksandra Radenovic, Yanfei Zhao, Ahmet Avsar, Zhenyu Wang, Guilherme Migliato Marega, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi

The growing importance of applications based on machine learning is driving the need to develop dedicated, energy-efficient electronic hardware. Compared with von Neumann architectures, which have separate processing and storage units, brain-inspired in-me ...

2020

FPGA-Assisted Deterministic Routing for FPGAs

Mirjana Stojilovic, Dario Korolija

FPGA routing is one of the most time-consuming steps of FPGA compilation, often preventing fast edit-compile-test cycles in prototyping and development. There have been attempts to accelerate FPGA routing using algorithmic improvements, multi-core or multi ...

2019

Polarity-Controllable Devices and Circuits for Doping-Free 2D Electronics

Giovanni Vincenzo Resta

The growth of information technology has been sustained by the miniaturization of Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) Field-Effect Transistors (FETs), with the number of devices per unit area constantly increasing, as exemplified by Mooreâ s la ...

EPFL2019

FPGA-SPICE: A Simulation-Based Architecture Evaluation Framework for FPGAs

Giovanni De Micheli, Xifan Tang, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Edouard Giacomin

In this paper, we developed a simulation-based architecture evaluation framework for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), called FPGA-SPICE, which enables automatic layout-level estimation and electrical simulations of FPGA architectures. FPGA-SPICE can ...

2018

Rethinking Secure FPGAs: Towards a Cryptography-friendly Configurable Cell Architecture and its Automated Design Flow

Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Regazzoni

This work proposes the first fine-grained configurable cell array specifically tailored for the implementation of cryptographic algorithms that can be configured using widely adopted hardware description languages. Our solution can be added as a small, cry ...

IEEE2018

Trading off Energy versus Accuracy in Modern Computing Systems : From Digital Circuit Design to Programming Techniques

Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

The slowdown of Moore's law, which has been the driving force of the electronics industry over the last 5 decades, is causing serious problem to Integrated Circuits (ICs) improvements. Technology scaling is becoming more and more complex and fabrication co ...

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Performance characterization of Altera and Xilinx 28 nm FPGAs at cryogenic temperatures

Edoardo Charbon, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle

Quantum computers enable a massive speed-up in calculations, thanks to the nature of quantum operations. To unlock quantum computation, a classical system infrastructure is required for the control of qubits and processing of their data. While qubits are g ...

2018

Design techniques for a stable operation of cryogenic field-programmable gate arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle

In this paper, we show how a deep-submicron field-programmable gate array (FPGA) can be operated more stably at extremely low temperatures through special firmware design techniques. Stability at low temperatures is limited through long power supply wires ...

2018

Spatial: A Language and Compiler for Application Accelerators

Christos Kozyrakis, Yunqi Zhang

Industry is increasingly turning to reconfigurable architectures like FPGAs and CGRAs for improved performance and energy efficiency. Unfortunately, adoption of these architectures has been limited by their programming models. HDLs lack abstractions for pr ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018