Publications related to Complex programmable logic device

A Visionary Look at the Security of Reconfigurable Cloud Computing

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

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

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

Unraveling the Electrochemical Electrode Coupling in Integrated Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Matteo Cucchi, Hsin Tseng

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have gained enormous attention due to their potential for bioelectronics and neuromorphic computing. However, their implementation into real-world applications is still impeded by a lack of understanding of the c ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Dynamic Probabilistic Pruning: A General Framework for Hardware-Constrained Pruning at Different Granularities

Alexandre Schmid, Lizeth Gonzalez Carabarin

Unstructured neural network pruning algorithms have achieved impressive compression ratios. However, the resulting-typically irregular-sparse matrices hamper efficient hardware implementations, leading to additional memory usage and complex control logic t ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Low and high frequency electromagnetic forces: numerical modelling and practical applications

Marco Riccardi

The understanding and manipulation of nanoscale analytes is a central theme in nanotechnology and has been one of the main driving forces behind the development of this field as we know it today. Furthermore, such a technology has the potential to also rev ...

EPFL2022

An All-Digital 1 Mbps, 57 pJ/bit Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Backscatter ASIC in 65 nm CMOS

James Daniel Rosenthal

We present an all-digital application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that implements Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-compatible backscatter communication. The ASIC was fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS process and occupies an active area of 0.12 mm(2) while consum ...

IEEE2022

The 2021 Magnonics Roadmap

Dirk Grundler, Thomas Yu, Heena Yang, Joyeeta Sinha

Magnonics is a budding research field in nanomagnetism and nanoscience that addresses the use of spin waves (magnons) to transmit, store, and process information. The rapid advancements of this field during last one decade in terms of upsurge in research p ...

2021

Intrinsic switching in Si-doped HfO2: A study of Curie-Weiss law and its implications for negative capacitance field-effect transistor

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Ali Saeidi, Teodor Rosca, Eamon Patrick O'Connor, Matteo Cavalieri, Carlotta Gastaldi, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei

HfO2-based ferroelectrics are considered a promising class of materials for logic and memory applications due to their CMOS compatibility and ferroelectric figures of merit. A steep-slope field-effect-transistor (FET) switch is a device for logic applicati ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

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

Programmable Logic Gates Based On Tunable Multistable Mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Ilan Vardi, 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

Logic-in-memory based on an atomically thin semiconductor

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

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

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

Programming Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Systems by High-Level Dataflow Synthesis

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Heterogeneous processing platforms combining in various architectures CPUs, GPUs, and programmable logic, are continuously evolving providing at each generation higher theoretical levels of computing performance. However, the challenge of how efficiently s ...

IEEE2020

Are Cloud FPGAs Really Vulnerable to Power Analysis Attacks?

Francesco Regazzoni, Mirjana Stojilovic, Ognjen Glamocanin, Louis Coulon

Recent works have demonstrated the possibility of extracting secrets from a cryptographic core running on an FPGA by means of remote power analysis attacks. To mount these attacks, an adversary implements a voltage fluctuation sensor in the FPGA logic, rec ...

IEEE2020

Reconfigurable Logic Gates Based on Programable Multistable Mechanisms

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

Binary logic gates are building blocks of computing machines, in particular, electronic computers. One variant is the programable logic gate, also known as the reconfigurable logic gate, in which the logical function implemented can be modified. In this pa ...

2020

Built-in Self-Evaluation of First-Order Power Side-Channel Leakage for FPGAs

Francesco Regazzoni, Mirjana Stojilovic, Ognjen Glamocanin, Louis Coulon

Embedded and cyber-physical systems are pervading all aspects of our lives, including sensitive and critical ones. As a result, they are an alluring target for cyber attacks. These systems, whose implementation is often based on reconfigurable hardware, ar ...

2020

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

DynaBurst: Dynamically Assemblying DRAM Bursts over a Multitude of Random Accesses

Paolo Ienne, Mikhail Asiatici

The effective bandwidth of the FPGA external memory, usually DRAM, is extremely sensitive to the access pattern. Nonblocking caches that handle thousands of outstanding misses (miss-optimized memory systems) can dynamically improve bandwidth utilization wh ...

IEEE2019

Template-assisted grown III-V semiconductor nanowires: A transmission electron microscopy study

Nicolas Bologna

III-V semiconductor nanowires are, due to their unique properties, one of the most promising nanostructures developed in the last decades. However, the realization of commercial devices made of III-V nanowires, such as transistors and solar cells, has not ...

EPFL2019