Publications related to Systolic array

TiC-SAT: Tightly-coupled Systolic Accelerator for Transformers

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alireza Amirshahi, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

Transformer models have achieved impressive results in various AI scenarios, ranging from vision to natural language processing. However, their computational complexity and their vast number of parameters hinder their implementations on resource-constraine ...

2023

Hardware-Software Co-design for Improved Resource Utilization in DNN Accelerators

Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler

Deep neural networks (DNN) have become an essential tool to tackle challenging tasks in many fields of computer science. However, their high computational complexity limits their applicability. Specialized DNN accelerators have been developed to accommodat ...

EPFL2023

Compilation and Design Space Exploration of Dataflow Programs for Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Platforms

Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Today's continued increase in demand for processing power, despite the slowdown of Moore's law, has led to an increase in processor count, which has resulted in energy consumption and distribution problems. To address this, there is a growing trend toward ...

EPFL2023

Thermal and Power-Aware Run-Time Performance Management of 3D MPSoCs with Integrated Flow Cell Arrays

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Halima Najibi

Flow Cell Arrays (FCA) technology employs microchannels filled with an electrolytic fluid to concurrently provide cooling and power generation to integrated circuits (ICs). This solution is particularly appealing for Three-Dimensional Multi-Processor Syste ...

2022

Dynamic SIMD Parallel Execution on GPU from High-Level Dataflow Synthesis

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Developing and fine-tuning software programs for heterogeneous hardware such as CPU/GPU processing platforms comprise a highly complex endeavor that demands considerable time and effort of software engineers and requires evaluating various fundamental comp ...

MDPI2022

SIMD Parallel Execution on GPU from High-Level Dataflow Synthesis

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Writing and optimizing application software for heterogeneous platforms including GPU units is a very difficult task that requires designer efforts and resources to consider several key elements to obtain good performance. Dataflow programming has shown to ...

2022

BLADE: A BitLine Accelerator for Devices on the Edge

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

The increasing ubiquity of edge devices in the consumer market, along with their ever more computationally expensive workloads, necessitate corresponding increases in computing power to support such workloads. In-memory computing is attractive in edge devi ...

2019

Exploiting Flow Graph of System of ODEs to Accelerate the Simulation of Biologically-Detailed Neural Networks

Felix Schürmann, Michael Lee Hines, Bruno Ricardo Da Cunha Magalhães

Exposing parallelism in scientific applications has become a core requirement for efficiently running on modern distributed multicore SIMD compute architectures. The granularity of parallelism that can be attained is a key determinant for the achievable ac ...

IEEE2019

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

Snap-On User-Space Manager for Dynamically Reconfigurable System-on-Chips

Paolo Ienne, Andrea Guerrieri, Sahand Kashani

Due to increased embedded processing requirements, modern SoCs are becoming heterogeneous computing platforms by combining traditional processing units with custom reconfigurable hardware accelerators (HAs) on an FPGA fabric. However, efficiently managing ...

2019

Trace-based manycore partitioning of stream-processing applications

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati, Malgorzata Maria Michalska

Application performance on these processor array platforms is highly sensitive to how functionality is physically placed on the device, as this choice crucially determines communication latencies and congestion patterns of the on-chip inter-core communicat ...

2016

SAT-Based Combinational and Sequential Dependency Computation

Giovanni De Micheli, Mathias Soeken

We present an algorithm for computing both functional dependency and unateness of combinational and sequential Boolean func- tions represented as logic networks. The algorithm uses SAT-based tech- niques from Combinational Equivalence Checking (CEC) ...

Springer2016

Learning spatio-temporal patterns in the presence of input noise using phase-change memristors

Stanislaw Andrzej Wozniak, Evangelos Eleftheriou, Angeliki Pantazi

Neuromorphic systems increasingly attract research interest owing to their ability to provide biologically inspired methods of computing, alternative to the classic von Neumann architecture. In these systems, computing relies on spike-based communication b ...

2016

All-memristive neuromorphic computing with level-tuned neurons

Stanislaw Andrzej Wozniak, Evangelos Eleftheriou, Angeliki Pantazi

In the new era of cognitive computing, systems will be able to learn and interact with the environment in ways that will drastically enhance the capabilities of current processors, especially in extracting knowledge from vast amount of data obtained from m ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Energy-Aware Processing Platform Exploration for Embedded Biosignal Analysis

Ahmed Yasir Dogan

According to the World Health Organization, lifestyle-related diseases, e.g., cardiovascular diseases are the major cause of mortality worldwide. An accurate and continuous medical supervision is highly required for diagnosis and treatment of such diseases ...

EPFL2013

3D Thermal-Aware Floorplanner for Many-Core Single-Chip Systems

David Atienza Alonso, José Luis Ayala Rodrigo

Heat removal and power density distribution delivery have become two major reliability concerns in 3D stacked technology. In this paper, we propose a thermal-driven 3D floorplanner. Our contributions include: (1) a novel multi-objective formulation to cons ...

IEEE Press2011

Integrated imager circuit comprising a monolithic array of single photon avalanche diodes

Edoardo Charbon, Pierre-André Besse, Cristiano Niclass, Alexis Rochas

Integrated circuit (1) comprising: an array of single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), a plurality of read-out circuits, each SPADs being coupled to one read-out circuit, wherein at least some of the read-out circuits comprise time-to-digital converters (T ...

2007

Automatic Analysis of microRNA Microarray Images Using Mathematical Morphology

Michel Kocher

The micro array are an experimental technique for parallel determination of molecular concentration. The image analysis is an important, time consuming and error prone step of the process. We describe here an automatic procedure able to analyze the micro a ...

IEEE2007