Publications related to Soft error

Error field detection and correction studies towards ITER operation

Olivier Sauter, Bernhard Sieglin, Leonardo Pigatto

In magnetic fusion devices, error field (EF) sources, spurious magnetic field perturbations, need to be identified and corrected for safe and stable (disruption-free) tokamak operation. Within Work Package Tokamak Exploitation RT04, a series of studies hav ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Error estimates for SUPG-stabilised Dynamical Low Rank Approximations

Fabio Nobile, Thomas Simon Spencer Trigo Trindade

We perform an error analysis of a fully discretised Streamline Upwind Petrov Galerkin Dynamical Low Rank (SUPG-DLR) method for random time-dependent advection-dominated problems. The time integration scheme has a splitting-like nature, allowing for potenti ...

Springer Nature Switzerland2025

Comprehensive Memory Safety Validation: An Alternative Approach to Memory Safety

Mathias Josef Payer

Comprehensive memory safety validation identifies the memory objects whose accesses provably comply with all classes of memory safety, protecting them from memory errors elsewhere at low overhead. We assess the breadth and depth of comprehensive memory saf ...

Ieee Computer Soc2024

Analysis of the influence of errors in DNA-based image coding

Touradj Ebrahimi, Michela Testolina, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto

In the last decade, DNA has been increasingly investigated as an alternative medium for cold data storage, presenting several advantages over standard hard drives such as a higher density, longer lifespan and lower energy consumption. However, such coding ...

2023

Critical Schrodinger Cat Qubit

Vincenzo Savona, Fabrizio Minganti, Luca Gravina

Encoding quantum information onto bosonic systems is a promising route to quantum error correc-tion. In a cat code, this encoding relies on the confinement of the dynamics of the system onto the two-dimensional manifold spanned by Schrodinger cats of oppos ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Low Power LDPC Decoding by Reliable Voltage Down-Scaling

Andreas Peter Burg

Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) decoder is among the power hungry building blocks of wireless communication systems. Voltage scaling down to Near-Threshold (NT) voltages substantially improves energy efficiency, in theory up 10x. However, tuning the voltag ...

IEEE2023

Individual and combined benefits of different nonequilibrium proofreading mechanisms

Paolo De Los Rios, Daniel Maria Busiello, Stefano Zamuner, Adélaïde Alice Mohr

Genome duplication, transcription, and translation are among many crucial cellular processes that need to be performed with high fidelity. However, those extremely low error rates cannot be explained with simple equilibrium thermodynamic considerations. Th ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

Cascaded all-optical quantization employing step-size MMI and shape-optimized power splitter

Jijun He, Xiaowei Zhang, Jian Wu, Ye Tian

As a key unit of future high-throughput communications, optical analog to digital converter (OADC) with all-optical quantizer element that simultaneously possesses high resolution, large bandwidth and compact size is highly promising. A pending issue of co ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Range-separated hybrid functionals for accurate prediction of band gaps of extended systems

Alfredo Pasquarello, Stefano Falletta, Jing Yang

In this work, we systematically evaluate the accuracy in band gap prediction of range-separated hybrid functionals on a large set of semiconducting and insulating materials and carry out comparisons with the performance of their global counterparts. We obs ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Hardware-Software co-design Methodologies for Edge AI Optimization

Flavio Ponzina

ML-based edge devices may face memory and computational errors that affect applications' reliability and performance. These errors can be the result of particular working conditions (e.g., radiation areas in physical experiments or avionics) or could be th ...

EPFL2023

An Elliptic Local Problem With Exponential Decay Of The Resonance Error For Numerical Homogenization

Assyr Abdulle, Doghonay Arjmand, Edoardo Paganoni

Numerical multiscale methods usually rely on some coupling between a macroscopic and a microscopic model. The macroscopic model is incomplete as effective quantities, such as the homogenized material coefficients or fluxes, are missing in the model. These ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2023

Dynamic SCL Decoder With Path-Flipping for 5G Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Yifei Shen, Chuan Zhang

Since polar were ratified as part of the 5G standard, low-complexity polar decoders with close-to-optimum error-rate performance have received significant attention. Compared to successive cancellation (SC) decoding, both SC list and SC flip decoding can i ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Fast Sequence Repetition Node-Based Successive Cancellation List Decoding for Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren, Chuan Zhang

Compared with the bit-wise successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding of polar codes, the node-based Fast SCL decoding significantly reduces the decoding latency by identifying special constituent codes and decoding these in parallel. To further reduce th ...

IEEE2022

Quantum error correction using squeezed Schrodinger cat states

Vincenzo Savona, Fabrizio Minganti, David Schlegel

Bosonic quantum codes redundantly encode quantum information in the states of a quantum harmonic oscillator, making it possible to detect and correct errors. Schrodinger cat codes-based on the superposition of two coherent states with opposite displacement ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Error Resilient In-Memory Computing Architecture for CNN Inference on the Edge

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios, Flavio Ponzina

The growing popularity of edge computing has fostered the development of diverse solutions to support Artificial Intelligence (AI) in energy-constrained devices. Nonetheless, comparatively few efforts have focused on the resiliency exhibited by AI workload ...

2022

On the Advantage of Coherent LoRa Detection in the Presence of Interference

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Orion Afisiadis, Joachim Tobias Tapparel, Sitian Li

It has been shown that the coherent detection of long range (LoRa) signals only provides marginal gains of around 0.7 dB on the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. However, ALOHA-based massive Internet-of-Things systems, including LoRa, often ope ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

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

Polarization-Adjusted Convolutional (PAC) Codes: Sequential Decoding vs List Decoding

Andreas Peter Burg, Mohammad Rowshan

In the Shannon lecture at the 2019 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Arikan proposed to employ a one-to-one convolutional transform as a pre-coding step before the polar transform. The resulting codes of this concatenation are called po ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

A 161-mW 56-Gb/s ADC-Based Discrete Multitone Wireline Receiver Data-Path in 14-nm FinFET

Andreas Peter Burg, Cosimo Aprile, Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Cevrero, Gain Kim, Lukas Kull, Ilter Ozkaya, Thomas Toifl

This article introduces a wireline receiver (RX) data-path employing discrete multi-tone (DMT) modulation for communicating over electrical links. The DMT RX incorporates a fully digital equalization data-path, with a synthesized and automatically placed a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Coded LoRa Frame Error Rate Analysis

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Orion Afisiadis

In this work, we study the coded frame error rate (FER) of LoRa under additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and under carrier frequency offset (CFO). To this end, we use existing approximations for the bit error rate (BER) of the LoRa modulation under AWGN ...

IEEE2020