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

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

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

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

Miss-Optimized Memory Systems: Turning Thousands of Outstanding Misses into Reuse Opportunities

Mikhail Asiatici

Even if Dennard scaling came to an end fifteen years ago, Moore' s law kept fueling an exponential growth in compute performance through increased parallelization. However, the performance of memory and, in particular, Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), ...

EPFL2021

Straight to the Point: Intra- and Intercluster LUT Connections to Mitigate the Delay of Programmable Routing

Paolo Ienne, Grace Zgheib, Stefan Nikolic

Technology scaling makes metal delay ever more problematic, but routing between Look-Up Tables (LUTs) still passes through a series of transistors. It seems wise to avoid the corresponding delay whenever possible. Direct connections between LUTs, both with ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Programmable Logic Gates Based On Tunable Multistable Mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Mohamed Gamal Abdelrahman Ahmed Zanaty

Binary logic operations are the building blocks of computing machines. In this paper, we present a new programmable binary logic gate based on programmable multistable mechanisms (PMM), which are multistable structures whose stability behavior depends on m ...

AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS2020

Switching event detection and self-termination programming circuit for energy efficient ReRAM memory arrays

Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse

Energy efficiency remains a challenge for the design of non-volatile resistive memories (ReRAMs) arrays. This memory technology suffers from intrinsic variability in switching speed, programming voltages and resistance levels. The programming conditions of ...

2019

A Dynamically Reconfigurable Platform for High-Performance and Low-Power On-Board Processing

Paolo Ienne, Andrea Guerrieri, Sahand Kashani

FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) are an attractive technology for high-speed data processing in space missions due to their unbeatable flexibility and best performance-to-power ratio in comparison to software. However FPGAs suffer from 3 major drawbac ...

IEEE2018

Sequential Discrete Kalman Filter for Real-Time State Estimation in Power Distribution Systems: Theory and Implementation

Mario Paolone, Andreas Martin Kettner

This paper demonstrates the feasibility of implementing real-time state estimators for active distribution networks in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) by presenting an operational prototype. The prototype is based on a linear state estimator that us ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

A Compiler for Parallel and Resource-Constrained Programmable in-Memory Computing

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Mathias Soeken, Giulia Meuli

Solid-state resistive switches have recently enabled low-power, scalable, non-volatile memories. Their proven intrinsic logic operation, allowing design of in-memory computing systems, attracted the attention of the research community. A Programmable Logic ...

2017

A PLiM Computer for the Internet of Things

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Mathias Soeken

Emerging applications are dramatically changing computer architecture requirements, with a shift toward big data that is processed using simple computations. A programmable logic-in-memory (PLiM) computer can allow memory cells to perform primitive logic o ...

2017

Endurance Management for Resistive Logic-In-Memory Computing Architectures

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Mathias Soeken

Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) is a promising non-volatile memory technology which enables modern in-memory computing architectures. Although RRAMs are known to be superior to conventional memories in many aspects, they suffer from a low writ ...

Ieee2017

Circuit Design, Architecture and CAD for RRAM-based FPGAs

Xifan Tang

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been indispensable components of embedded systems and datacenter infrastructures. However, energy efficiency of FPGAs has become a hard barrier preventing their expansion to more application contexts, due to two ...

EPFL2017

A reconfigurable cryogenic platform for the classical control of quantum processors

Edoardo Charbon

The implementation of a classical control infrastructure for large-scale quantum computers is challenging due to the need for integration and processing time, which is constrained by coherence time. We propose a cryogenic reconfigurable platform as the hea ...

2017

Parallelizing the Chambolle Algorithm for Performance Optimized Mapping on FPGA devices

David Atienza Alonso, Ivan Beretta, Abdulkadir Akin, Alessandro Antonio Nacci

The performance and the efficiency of recent computing platforms have been deeply influenced by the widespread adoption of hardware accelerators, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) or Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), which are often employed t ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

The Programmable Logic-in-Memory (PLiM) Computer (Invited)

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Luca Gaetano Amarù

Realization of logic and storage operations in memristive circuits have opened up a promising research direction of in-memory computing. Elementary digital circuits, e.g., Boolean arithmetic circuits, can be economically realized within memristive circuits ...

Ieee2016

An automated FPGA real-time simulator for power electronics and power systems electromagnetic transient applications

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Mario Paolone, Reza Razzaghi

The paper presents an automated FPGA-based real-time electromagnetic transients simulator for power electronics and power systems applications. The simulator features an automated procedure enabling its straightforward applications to different topologies ...

Elsevier2016

High-level synthesis of dynamic dataflow programs on heterogeneous MPSoC platforms

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati

The growing complexity of digital signal processing applications make a compelling case the use of high-level design and synthesis methodologies for the implementation on programmable logic devices and embedded processors. Past research has shown that, for ...

2016

Programming Models and Methods for Heterogeneous Parallel Embedded Systems

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati

The growing complexity of digital signal processing applications makes a compelling case for the adoption of higher-level programming models such as dataflow for the implementation of applications on programmable logic devices and many/multi-core embedded ...

2016

A Study on the Programming Structures for RRAM-based FPGA Architectures

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Xifan Tang, Gain Kim

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can benefit non-volatility and high-performance by exploiting Resistive Random Access Memories (RRAMs). In RRAM-based FPGAs, the memories do not only replace the SRAMs and store configurations, but they can also repla ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016