Publications related to History of personal computers

DyNCA: Real-time Dynamic Texture Synthesis Using Neural Cellular Automata

Sabine Süsstrunk, Ehsan Pajouheshgar, Yitao Xu, Tong Zhang

Current Dynamic Texture Synthesis (DyTS) models can synthesize realistic videos. However, they require a slow iterative optimization process to synthesize a single fixed-size short video, and they do not offer any post-training control over the synthesis p ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

Large-Scale Graph Processing on FPGAs with Caches for Thousands of Simultaneous Misses

Paolo Ienne, Mikhail Asiatici

Efficient large-scale graph processing is crucial to many disciplines. Yet, while graph algorithms naturally expose massive parallelism opportunities, their performance is limited by the memory system because of irregular memory accesses. State-of-the-art ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2021

The open EEGLAB portal Interface: High-Performance computing with EEGLAB

Fiorenzo Artoni

EEGLAB signal processing environment is currently the leading open-source software for processing electroencephalographic (EEG) data. The Neuroscience Gateway (NSG, nsgportal.org) is a web and API-based portal allowing users to easily run a variety of neur ...

2021

Gain-Cell Embedded DRAMs: Modeling and Design Space

Andreas Peter Burg, Adam Shmuel Teman, Robert Giterman, Andrea Bonetti

Among the different types of DRAMs, gain-cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) is a compact, low-power and CMOS-compatible alternative to conventional SRAM. GC-eDRAM achieves high memory density as it relies on a storage cell that can be implemented with as few as ...

IEEE2020

Interactions between Personality, Depression, Anxiety and Cognition to Understand Early Stage of Alzheimer's Disease

Valérie Rita Madeleine Zufferey

The multifaceted nature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can lead to wide inter-individual differences in disease manifestation in terms of brain pathology and cognition. The lack of understanding of phenotypic diversity in A ...

BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD2020

Blade: An in-Cache Computing Architecture for Edge Devices

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios, William Andrew Simon, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi

Area and power constrained edge devices are increasingly utilized to perform compute intensive workloads, necessitating increasingly area and power efficient accelerators. In this context, in-SRAM computing performs hundreds of parallel operations on spati ...

2020

Gain-Cell Embedded DRAMs: Modeling and Design Space

Andreas Peter Burg, Adam Shmuel Teman, Robert Giterman, Andrea Bonetti

Among the different types of dynamic random-access memories (DRAMs), gain-cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) is a compact, low-power, and CMOS-compatible alternative to conventional static random-access memory (SRAM). GC-eDRAM achieves high memory density, as i ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Modeling of Total Ionizing Dose Degradation on 180-nm n-MOSFETs Using BSIM3

Nergiz Sahin Solmaz, Mustafa Berke Yelten, Sadik Ilik

This paper presents a modeling approach to simulate the impact of total ionizing dose (TID) degradation on low-power analog and mixed-signal circuits. The modeling approach has been performed on 180-nm n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transist ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Hardware-conscious Hash-Joins on GPUs

Anastasia Ailamaki, Manolis Karpathiotakis, Raja Appuswamy, Periklis Chrysogelos, Panagiotis Sioulas

Traditionally, analytical database engines have used task parallelism provided by modern multisocket multicore CPUs for scaling query execution. Over the past few years, GPUs have started gaining traction as accelerators for processing analytical queries d ...

IEEE2019

Sub-Thermionic Scalable III-V Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors Integrated on Si (100)

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Kirsten Emilie Moselund

We present scalable III-V heterojunction tunnel FETs fabricated using a Si CMOS-compatible FinFET process flow and integrated on Si (100) substrates. The tunneling junction is fabricated through self-aligned selective p(+) GaAsSb raised source epitaxial re ...

IEEE2019

A 24 kb Single-Well Mixed 3T Gain-Cell eDRAM with Body-Bias in 28 nm FD-SOI for Refresh-Free DSP Applications

Andreas Peter Burg, Robert Giterman, Cosimo Aprile, Yusuf Leblebici, Andrea Bonetti, Jonathan Emmanuel D Narinx, Nicolas Claude Frigerio

Logic-compatible gain-cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) is an emerging alternative to conventional SRAM for memory-dominated system-on-chip (SoC) designs due to its high-density, low-power, and two-ported operation. Although GCs have a limited data retention t ...

IEEE2019

Development of a monolithic near-field optomechanical system

Ryan Daniel Schilling

In the same year as Einstein's annus mirabilis, English engineer and physicist John Flemming patented the first rectifying diode, which he called the "Flemming valve". Einstein's work on the photoelectric effect would change our understanding of the nature ...

EPFL2018

Low-Overhead Dynamic Instruction Mix Generation using Hybrid Basic Block Profiling

Willy Zwaenepoel, Andrzej Pawel Nowak

Dynamic instruction mixes form an important part of the toolkits of performance tuners, compiler writers, and CPU architects. Instruction mixes are traditionally generated using software instrumentation, an accurate yet slow method, that is normally limite ...

2018

A PLiM Computer for the Internet of Things

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

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

GraaspBox: Enabling Mobile Knowledge Delivery into Underconnected Environments

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk

Interacting with knowledge in a timely fashion is critical for the success of humanitarian missions. At the same time, the places where humanitarian action is needed are often those where Internet connection is poor or not available at all, making digital ...

ACM2017

The Seamless Peer and Cloud Evolution Framework

Dario Floreano, Joshua Evan Auerbach, Giovanni Iacca, Guillaume Paul Olivier Leclerc

Evolutionary algorithms are increasingly being applied to problems that are too computationally expensive to run on a single personal computer due to costly fitness function evaluations and/or large numbers of fitness evaluations. Here, we introduce the Se ...

ACM Press2016

A Process Compensated Gain Cell Embedded-DRAM for Ultra-Low-Power Variation-Aware Design

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

Gain cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) is a high-density alternative to SRAM for ultra-low-power systems. However, due to its dynamic nature, GC-eDRAM requires power-hungry refresh cycles to ensure data retention. Traditional design approaches dictate configur ...

Ieee2016

Modeling of Two-Phase Evaporative Heat Transfer in Three-Dimensional Multicavity High Performance Microprocessor Chip Stacks

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Yassir Madhour, Brian Paul D'Entremont, Bruno Michel

Three-dimensional (3D) stacking of integrated-circuit (IC) dies increases system density and package functionality by vertically integrating two or more dies with area-array through-silicon-vias (TSVs). This reduces the length of global interconnects and t ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2014

Manual Parallelization Versus State-of-the-Art Parallelization Techniques: The SPEC CPU2006 as a Case Study

Aleksandar Vitorovic

Being multiprocessors (both on-chip and/or off-chip), modern computer systems can automatically exploit the benefits of parallel programs, but their resources remain underutilized in executing still-Prevailing sequential applications. An obvious solution i ...

Elsevier Academic Press Inc2014

3D-ICE: a Compact Thermal Model for Early-Stage Design of Liquid-Cooled ICs

David Atienza Alonso, Arvind Raj Mahankali Sridhar, Alessandro Vincenzi

Liquid-cooling using microchannel heat sinks etched on silicon dies is seen as a promising solution to the rising heat fluxes in two-dimensional and stacked three-dimensional integrated circuits. Development of such devices requires accurate and fast therm ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014