Publications related to Place and route

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

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

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

Automating the Design of Programmable Interconnect for Reconfigurable Architectures

Stefan Nikolic

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

High-Level Synthesis of Dynamically Scheduled Circuits

Lana Josipovic

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools generate hardware designs from high-level programming languages. These tools almost universally build datapaths that are controlled using a centralized controller which relies on a static, compile-time schedule to determine ...

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

Timing-Driven Placement for FPGA Architectures with Dedicated Routing Paths

Paolo Ienne, Grace Zgheib, Stefan Nikolic

The idea of introducing dedicated, fast paths between certain FPGA elements in order to reduce delay is neither new nor particularly hard to come up with. What is less obvious, however, is how to put such paths to actual use. In this work, we propose an ef ...

IEEE2020

Method for manufacturing hybrid soft-rigid electronic devices

Florian Dylan Fallegger, Hadrien Olivier Michaud, Arthur Edouard Hirsch, Aaron Powers Gerratt

A method for manufacturing a hybrid soft-rigid electromechanical device comprising the steps of i) placing electronic components on a temporary substrate; ii) encapsulating said electronic components within a soft curable material and curing said soft cura ...

2019

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

Live Demonstration: Quasi-Digital Portable Pen to Monitor Anaesthetics Delivery

Sandro Carrara, Danilo Demarchi, Simone Aiassa, Francesco Grassi

The live demonstration presents the innovative concept of a portable pen-device able to sense anaesthetic compounds over time for improved anaesthesiology practice. A custom Printed Circuit Board (PCB) manage in the event-based quasi-digital domain the sam ...

IEEE2019

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

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

Leading the Blind : Automated Transistor-Level Modeling for FPGA Architects

Grace Zgheib

The design and development of innovative FPGA architectures hinge on the flexibility of its toolchain. Retargetable toolchains, like the Verilog-to-Routing (VTR) flow, have been developed to enable the testing of new FPGAs by mapping circuits onto easily-d ...

EPFL2017

Single-FPGA complete 3D and 2D medical ultrasound imager

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Marcel Arditi, Damien Doy, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim

3D ultrasound (US) acquisition acquires volumetric images, thus alleviating a classical US imaging bottleneck that requires a highly-trained sonographer to operate the US probe. However, this opportunity has not been explored in practice, since 3D US machi ...

IEEE2017

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

Methodology for 3-D Substrate Network Extraction for SPICE Simulation of Parasitic Currents in Smart Power ICs

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Camillo Stefanucci, Pietro Buccella

A 3-D simulation of substrate currents is crucial to analyze parasitic coupling effects due to minority carrier injection in smart power ICs. In this paper, a substrate parasitic extraction methodology is introduced by dividing the IC layout into elementar ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Substrate Current Optimization in Smart Power ICs

Pietro Buccella

Safety requirements for modern automotive electronics call for more and more robust power integrated circuits. The mixed-signal IC design flow alone is often no longer capable of tracking possible design failures in complex Smart Power integrated circuits ...

EPFL2016

Exploiting the Expressive Power of Graphene Reconfigurable Gates via Post-Synthesis Optimization

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

As an answer to the new electronics market demands, semiconductor industry is looking for different materials, new process technologies and alternative design solutions that can support Silicon replacement in the VLSI domain. The recent introduction of gra ...

ACM2015

A Circuit Synthesis Flow for Controllable-Polarity Transistors

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

Double-Gate (DG) controllable-polarity Field-Effect Transistors (FETs) are devices whose n- or p- polarity is on-line configurable by adjusting the second gate voltage. Such emerging transistors have been fabricated in silicon nanowires, carbon nanotuges a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

CELONCEL: Effective Design Technique for 3-D Monolithic Integration targeting High Performance Integrated Circuits

Giovanni De Micheli, Shashi Kanth Bobba, Thomas Ernst

3-D monolithic integration (3DMI), also termed as sequential integration, is a potential technology for future gigascale circuits. Since the device layers are processed in sequential order, the size of the vertical contacts is similar to traditional contac ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011

Exploiting Fast Carry-Chains Of Fpgas For Designing Compressor Trees

Paolo Ienne, Philip Brisk, Hadi Parandeh Afshar

Fast carry chains featuring dedicated adder circuitry is a distinctive feature of modern FPGAs. The carry chains bypass the general routing network and are embedded in the logic blocks of FPGAs for fast addition. Conventional intuition is that such carry c ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2009

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