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FPGA-Based Emulation of Embedded DRAMs for Statistical Error Resilience Evaluation of Approximate Computing Systems

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Improving Main-memory Database System Performance through Cooperative Multitasking

Database systems access memory either sequentially or randomly. Contrary to sequential access and despite the extensive efforts of computer architects, compiler writers, and system builders, random access to data larger than the processor cache has been s ...

EPFL2019

Power Analysis Resilient SRAM Design Implemented with a 1% Area Overhead Impedance Randomization Unit for Security Applications

Robert Giterman

Power analysis attacks are an effective tool to extract sensitive information using side-channel analysis, forming a serious threat to IoT systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). Embedded memories implemented with conventional 6T SRAM macrocells often dominate the area ...

IEEE2019

Bridging the Latency Gap between NVM and DRAM for Latency-bound Operations

Anastasia Ailamaki, Georgios Psaropoulos

Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies exhibit 4× the read access latency of conventional DRAM. When the working set does not fit in the processor cache, this latency gap between DRAM and NVM leads to more than 2× runtime increase for queries dominated by ...

ACM2019

Hardware/Software Co-Design and Reliability Analysis of Ultra-Low Power Biomedical Devices

Soumya Subhra Basu

Smart health monitoring devices, known as Wireless Body Sensor Nodes (WBSN) are transforming today's health-care landscape, shifting it from traditional hospital-based methods toward more personalized approaches. Their demand is ever-increasing in the mode ...

EPFL2019

Design Guidelines for High-Performance SCM Hierarchies

Babak Falsafi, Javier Picorel Obando, Alexandros Daglis, Edouard Bugnion, Dmitrii Ustiugov, Mark Johnathon Sutherland, Dionysios Pnevmatikatos

With emerging storage-class memory (SCM) nearing commercialization, there is evidence that it will deliver the much-anticipated high density and access latencies within only a fewfactors of DRAM. Nevertheless, the latency-sensitive nature of memory-residen ...

ACM2018

Post-P&R Performance and Power Analysis for RRAM-based FPGAs

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

Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM)-based FPGAs are predicted to outperform conventional FPGAs architectures in area, delay and power over a wide range of voltage operations, allowing novel energy-quality trade-offs for reconfigurable computing. The oppo ...

2018

LTRF: Enabling High-Capacity Register Files for GPUs via Hardware/Software Cooperative Register Prefetching

Babak Falsafi, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, Mario Paulo Drumond Lages De Oliveira, Seyed Borna Ehsani

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) employ large register files to accommodate all active threads and accelerate context switching. Unfortunately, register files are a scalability bottleneck for future GPUs due to long access latency, high power consumption, ...

2018

The Mondrian Data Engine

Babak Falsafi, Javier Picorel Obando, Boris Robert Grot, Alexandros Daglis, Nooshin Sadat Mirzadeh, Dmitrii Ustiugov, Mario Paulo Drumond Lages De Oliveira, Dionysios Pnevmatikatos

The increasing demand for extracting value out of ever-growing data poses an ongoing challenge to system designers, a task only made trickier by the end of Dennard scaling. As the performance density of traditional CPU-centric architectures stagnates, adva ...

2017

Near-Memory Address Translation

Javier Picorel Obando

Virtual memory (VM) is a crucial abstraction in modern computer systems at any scale, from handheld devices to datacenters. VM provides programmers the illusion of an always sufficiently large and linear memory, making programming easier. Although the core ...

EPFL2017

An Accelerator for High Efficient Vision Processing

Paolo Ienne, Robert Fasthuber, Qi Guo, Zidong Du

In recent years, neural network accelerators have been shown to achieve both high energy efficiency and high performance for a broad application scope within the important category of recognition and mining applications. Still, both the energy efficiency a ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Single-Supply 3T Gain-Cell for Low-Voltage Low-Power Applications

Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Andreas Peter Burg, Adam Shmuel Teman, Robert Giterman

Logic compatible gain cell (GC) embedded DRAM (eDRAM) arrays are considered an alternative to SRAM due to their small size, non-ratioed operation, low static leakage, and 2-port functionality. However, traditional GC-eDRAM implementations require boosted c ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Automatic Generation of Efficient Accelerators for Reconfigurable Hardware

Christos Kozyrakis, Yunqi Zhang

Acceleration in the form of customized datapaths offer large performance and energy improvements over general purpose processors. Reconfigurable fabrics such as FPGAs are gaining popularity for use in implementing application-specific accelerators, thereby ...

Ieee2016