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Instruction-Level Power Side-Channel Leakage Evaluation of Soft-Core CPUs on Shared FPGAs

Mathias Josef Payer, Mirjana Stojilovic, Shashwat Shrivastava, Ognjen Glamocanin, Jinwei Yao, Nour Ardo

Side-channel disassembly attacks recover CPU instructions from power or electromagnetic side-channel traces measured during code execution. These attacks typically rely on physical access, proximity to the victim device, and high sampling rate measuring in ...

2023

Gem5-X : A Many-Core Heterogeneous Simulation Platform for Architectural Exploration and Optimization

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, William Andrew Simon, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi

The increasing adoption of smart systems in our daily life has led to the development of new applications with varying performance and energy constraints, and suitable computing architectures need to be developed for these new applications. In this paper, ...

2021

Low-Cost Side-Channel Secure Standard 6T-SRAM-Based Memory With a 1% Area and Less Than 5% Latency and Power Overheads

Robert Giterman

Side-channel attacks constitute a concrete threat to IoT systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). Embedded memories implemented with 6T SRAM macrocells often dominate the area and power consumption of these SoCs. Regardless of the computational platform, the side-channel ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

A Shared-Memory Parallel Implementation of the RePlAce Global Cell Placer

Mirjana Stojilovic, Philip Brisk, Frédéric Gessler

RePlAce is a state-of-the-art prototype of a flat, analytic, and nonlinear global cell placement algorithm, which models a placement instance as an electrostatic system with positively charged objects. It can handle large-scale standard-cell and mixed-cell ...

IEEE2020

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

A 420 mu W, 4 GHz Approximate Zero IF FM-UWB Receiver for Short-Range Communications

Christian Enz, Vladimir Kopta

A low-power FM-UWB receiver intended for short range communications in wireless sensor networks is presented in this paper. It utilizes an "approximate zero IF" architecture which combines a free-running ring oscillator as the RF LO with a modified delay-l ...

Ieee2016

High-Voltage Tolerant Bi-State Self-Biasing Output Driver using Cascade Complementary Latches in Twin-well CMOS Technology

Scott Anthony Lindner

The design of a bi-state output buffer that can handle 5 times the supply voltage is presented. The use of self-biasing stacked devices driven by a cascade of complementary latches allows all devices to operate within the limits set by the technology, thus ...

Ieee2016

Resolving the Memory Bottleneck for Single Supply Near-Threshold Computing

David Atienza Alonso, Mohamed Mostafa Sabry Aly

This paper focuses on a review of state-of-the-art memory designs and new design methods for near-threshold computing (NTC). In particular, it presents new ways to design reliable low-voltage NTC memories cost-effectively by reusing available cell librarie ...

IEEE/ACM Press2014

Methods to explore design space for MPEG RMC codec specifications

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati, Ghislain Roquier, Richard Thavot, Abdallah Alaaeldin Abdelaziz Elguindy

The recent MPEG Reconfigurable Media Coding (RMC) standard aims at defining media processing specifications (e.g. video codecs) in a form that abstracts from the implementation platform, but at the same time is an appropriate starting point for implementat ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Power-Gated Differential Logic Style Based on Double-Gate Controllable-Polarity Transistors

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

This brief presents a novel power-gating technique for differential cascade voltage switch logic (DCVSL) based on double-gate (DG) controllable-polarity field-effect transistors (FETs). DG controllable-polarity FETs, commonly referred to as ambipolar trans ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Scale-Out Processors

Pejman Lotfi Kamran

Global-scale online services, such as Google’s Web search and Facebook’s social networking, run in large-scale datacenters. Due to their massive scale, these services are designed to scale out (or distribute) their respective loads and datasets across thou ...

EPFL2013

Scale-Out Processors

Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman, Boris Robert Grot, Yusuf Onur Koçberber, Pejman Lotfi Kamran, Stavros Volos, Javier Picorel Obando, Al Mutaz Adileh, Dorde Jevdic

Scale-out datacenters mandate high per-server throughput to get the maximum benefit from the large TCO investment. Emerging applications (e.g., data serving and web search) that run in these datacenters operate on vast datasets that are not accommodated by ...

Ieee2012

Power/Performance Exploration of Single-core and Multi-core Processor Approaches for Biomedical Signal Processing

David Atienza Alonso, Ahmed Yasir Dogan, Andreas Peter Burg, Luca Benini

This study presents a single-core and a multi-core processor architecture for health monitoring systems where slow biosignal events and highly parallel computations exist. The single-core architecture is composed of a processing core (PC), an instruction m ...

Springer-Verlag Heidelberg2011

Simulation of High-Performance Memory Allocators

David Atienza Alonso, José Luis Risco Martin

This study presents a single-core and a multi-core processor architecture for health monitoring systems where slow biosignal events and highly parallel computations exist. The single-core architecture is composed of a processing core (PC), an instruction m ...

Elsevier2011

One Joule per GFlop for BLAS2 Now!

Vincent Keller

Energy consumption is today one of the major topics that the HPC community tries to tackle. In this paper, the authors present a thought experiment aiming at building a node of a supercomputer based on a GPU (Nvidia GTX280). The paper concentrate on BLAS2 ...

American Institute of Physics2010

A 0.8V 2.4GHz 1Mb/s GFSK RF transceiver with on-chip DC-DC converter in a standard 0.18µm CMOS technology

Maher Kayal, Pierre-André Farine, Steve Tanner, Frédéric Chastellain, Martin Kucera

A low-energy 2.4GHz RF transceiver supporting 1Mb/s Gaussian Frequency-Shift Keying modulation and designed to run on a 1.5V battery is implemented in a standard 0.18μm CMOS technology. The integrated DC-DC converter can provide up to 100mA to an external ...

IEEE2010

Temporal instruction fetch streaming

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman

L1 instruction-cache misses pose a critical performance bottleneck in commercial server workloads. Cache access latency constraints preclude L1 instruction caches large enough to capture the application, library, and OS instruction working sets of these wo ...

2008

VSH, an efficient and provable collision-resistant hash function

Arjen Lenstra

We introduce VSH, very smooth hash, a new S-bit hash function that is provably collision-resistant assuming the hardness of finding nontrivial modular square roots of very smooth numbers modulo an S-bit composite. By very smooth, we mean that the smoothnes ...

Springer Verlag2006