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Terahertz waveform synthesis in integrated thin-film lithium niobate platform

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Jérôme Faist, Francesca Fabiana Settembrini

Bridging the "terahertz gap" relies upon synthesizing arbitrary waveforms in the terahertz domain enabling applications that require both narrow band sources for sensing and few-cycle drives for classical and quantum objects. However, realization of custom ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Counter-directional polariton coupler

Hugo Pierre Alexandre Flayac, Christoph Schneider

We report on an on-chip routing device for propagating condensates of exciton-polaritons. This counter-directional coupler implements signal control by a photonic microdisk potential, which couples two lithographically defined waveguides and reverses the c ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Single-photon avalanche diode imagers in biophotonics: review and outlook

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Samuel Burri, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle

Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays are solid-state detectors that offer imaging capabilities at the level of individual photons, with unparalleled photon counting and time-resolved performance. This fascinating technology has progressed at a very ...

2019

Learning-Based Hardware Design for Data Acquisition Systems

Cosimo Aprile

This multidisciplinary research work aims to investigate the optimized information extraction from signals or data volumes and to develop tailored hardware implementations that trade-off the complexity of data acquisition with that of data processing, conc ...

EPFL2018

Post-P&R Performance and Power Analysis for RRAM-based FPGAs

Giovanni De Micheli, Xifan Tang, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Edouard Giacomin

Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM)-based FPGAs are predicted to outperform conventional FPGAs architectures in area, delay and power over a wide range of voltage operations, allowing novel energy-quality trade-offs for reconfigurable computing. The oppo ...

2018

Impact of Data Serialization over TSVs on Routing Congestion in 3D-Stacked Multi-Core Processors

Giovanni De Micheli, Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Cevrero, Giulia Beanato

3D integration can alleviate routing congestion, reducing the wirelength and improving performances. Nevertheless, each TSV still occupies non-negligible silicon area: as the number of TSV increases, their effect on the chip routing is detrimental. The red ...

Elsevier2016

Design of High-Temperature SRAM for Reliable Operation Beyond 250 C

Yusuf Leblebici, Radisav Cojbasic

In this paper, we analyze the 6T SRAM cell failures caused by temperature and supply voltage variations, and we explore the design of robust SRAM cells for high temperature operation. This integral SRAM reliability study is performed using 180nm SOI CMOS p ...

2015

Design of Digital SoC for Operation at High Temperatures

Radisav Cojbasic

There is a growing demand for Systems-on-Chip, integrating microprocessors, on-chip memories, data converters and a variety of sensors, which are capable of reliable operation at high temperatures. For instance, modern aircraft industry demands microcontro ...

EPFL2014

System Level Benchmarking with Yield-Enhanced Standard Cell Library for Carbon Nanotube VLSI Circuits

Giovanni De Micheli, Jian Zhang, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Shashi Kanth Bobba, Subhasish Mitra

The quest for technologies with superior device characteristics has showcased Carbon-Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors (CNFET) into limelight. In this work we present physical design techniques to improve the yield of CNFET circuits in the presence of Carb ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2014

Power Distribution Solutions for Large Hadron Collider Upgrades

Stefano Michelis

In view of the Large Hadrons Collider experiments upgrade, where the inner front-end electronics will require higher supply power, a new power distribution scheme has to be designed. This thesis presents a new and more efficient scheme based on step-down D ...

EPFL2012

OLTP on Hardware Islands

Anastasia Ailamaki, Pinar Tözün, Miguel Sérgio De Oliveira Branco, Danica Porobic, Ippokratis Pandis

Modern hardware is abundantly parallel and increasingly heterogeneous. The numerous processing cores have non-uniform access latencies to the main memory and to the processor caches, which causes variability in the communication costs. Unfortunately, datab ...

2012

A Distributed Interleaving Scheme for Efficient Access to WideIO DRAM Memory

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini, Ciprian Seiculescu

Achieving the main memory (DRAM) required bandwidth at ac- ceptable power levels for current and future applications is a ma- jor challenge for System-on-Chip designers for mobile platforms. Three dimensional (3D) integration and 3D stacked DRAM mem- ories ...

2012

Organic Thin-Film Transistors and Circuits Fabricated by Stencil Lithography on Full-Wafer Flexible Substrates

Nenad Cvetkovic

Electronic devices based on organic semiconductors, such as field-effect transistors (OTFTs) and organic diodes have attracted significant interest as possible inexpensive and flexible alternatives to inorganic devices. Despite considerable improvement in ...

EPFL2011

A hardware-software codesign framework for cellular computing

Pierre-André Mudry

Until recently, the ever-increasing demand of computing power has been met on one hand by increasing the operating frequency of processors and on the other hand by designing architectures capable of exploiting parallelism at the instruction level through h ...

EPFL2009

Predictor virtualization

Babak Falsafi

Many hardware optimizations rely on collecting information about program behavior at runtime. This information is stored in lookup tables. To be accurate and effective, these optimizations usually require large dedicated on-chip tables. Although technology ...

2008

Data-flow transformations to maximize the use of carry-save representation in arithmetic circuits

Paolo Ienne, Philip Brisk, Ajay Kumar Verma

The increasing importance,of datapath circuits in complex systems-on-chip calls for special arithmetic optimizations. The goal is to automatically achieve the handcrafted results which escape classic logic optimizations. Some work has been done in the rece ...

2008

Quantitative Modelling and Comparison of Communication Schemes to Guarantee Quality-of-Service in Networks-on-Chip

Paolo Ienne, Yusuf Leblebici, Mehmet Harmanci

We address the quantitative comparison of two basic connection schemes for on-chip communication, connection-oriented and connection-less, regarding their enforcement of a defined Quality-of-Service for the communication. For such comparison, we have built ...

2005

Integrated fluxgate compass for portable applications

Predrag Drljaca

Modern applications in industry, navigation and medicine demand small and sensitive magnetic field sensors. In this thesis we have developed a new planar micro fluxgate magnetometer. High resolution, low power consumption and orthogonal fields detection ma ...

EPFL2004