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LUT-Based Optimization For ASIC Design Flow

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Gaetano Amarù, Eleonora Testa

In this paper, we develop a new LUT-based optimization flow tailored for the synthesis of ASICs rather than FPGAs. We enhance LUT-mapping to consider the literal/AIG cost of LUT-nodes. We extend traditional Boolean methods to simplify and re-shape LUT-netw ...

2021

A Deeper Look at the Energy Consumption of Lightweight Block Ciphers

Francesco Regazzoni, Subhadeep Banik, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Andrea Felice Caforio

In the last few years, the field of lightweight cryptography has seen an influx in the number of block ciphers and hash functions being proposed. In the past there have been numerous papers that have looked at circuit level implementation of block ciphers ...

IEEE2021

System, device and method for quantum correlation measurement with single photon avalanche diode arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A system for photon correlation of an illuminated object and/or a light source, including a light source for illuminating the object or to correlate, an optical system having an object-facing side configured to face the object or the light source and a pro ...

2020

Trading off Energy versus Accuracy in Modern Computing Systems : From Digital Circuit Design to Programming Techniques

Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

The slowdown of Moore's law, which has been the driving force of the electronics industry over the last 5 decades, is causing serious problem to Integrated Circuits (ICs) improvements. Technology scaling is becoming more and more complex and fabrication co ...

EPFL2018

Rethinking Secure FPGAs: Towards a Cryptography-friendly Configurable Cell Architecture and its Automated Design Flow

Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Regazzoni

This work proposes the first fine-grained configurable cell array specifically tailored for the implementation of cryptographic algorithms that can be configured using widely adopted hardware description languages. Our solution can be added as a small, cry ...

IEEE2018

A High-PDE, Backside-Illuminated SPAD in 65/40-nm 3D IC CMOS Pixel With Cascoded Passive Quenching and Active Recharge

Edoardo Charbon, Scott Anthony Lindner, Martin Wolf

We present a complete pixel based on a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) fabricated in a backside-illuminated (BSI) 3D IC technology. The chip stack comprises an image sensing tier produced in a 65-nm image sensor technology and a data processing tier i ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Boolean logic optimization in majority-inverter graphs

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

We present a Boolean logic optimization framework based on Majority-Inverter Graph (MIG). An MIG is a directed acyclic graph consisting of three-input majority nodes and regular/complemented edges. Current MIG optimization is supported by a consistent alge ...

2016

Majority-Inverter Graph: A New Paradigm for Logic Optimization

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

In this paper, we propose a paradigm shift in representing and optimizing logic by using only majority (MAJ) and inversion (INV) functions as basic operations. We represent logic functions by Majority-Inverter Graph (MIG): a directed acyclic graph c ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

FPGAs for the Masses: Affordable Hardware Synthesis from Domain-Specific Languages

Nithin George

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have the unique ability to be configured into application-specific architectures that are well suited to specific computing problems. This enables them to achieve performances and energy efficiencies that outclass oth ...

EPFL2016

New Data Structures and Algorithms for Logic Synthesis and Verification

Luca Gaetano Amarù

The strong interaction between Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology contributed substantially to the advancement of modern digital electronics. The continuous downscaling of CMOS Field Effec ...

EPFL2015

Signaling in 3-D integrated circuits, benefits and challenges

Somayyeh Rahimian Omam

Three-dimensional (3-D) or vertical integration is a design and packaging paradigm that can mitigate many of the increasing challenges related to the design of modern integrated systems. 3-D circuits have recently been at the spotlight, since these circuit ...

EPFL2015

A Circuit Synthesis Flow for Controllable-Polarity Transistors

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

Double-Gate (DG) controllable-polarity Field-Effect Transistors (FETs) are devices whose n- or p- polarity is on-line configurable by adjusting the second gate voltage. Such emerging transistors have been fabricated in silicon nanowires, carbon nanotuges a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

A High-Performance Low-Power Near-Vt RRAM-based FPGA

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

The routing architecture, heavily using programmable switches, dominates the area, delay and power of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Resistive Random Access Memories (RRAMs) enable high-performance routing architectures through the r ...

2014

Non-LUT field-programmable gate arrays

Paolo Ienne, Grace Zgheib, David Novo Bruna, Hadi Parandeh Afshar

New logic blocks capable of replacing the use of Look-Up Tables (LUTs) in integrated circuits, such as Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the new logic block is a tree structure comprised of a number of levels ...

2014

Multi-unit global energy management and optimization for network-on-chip applications

Zeynep Toprak Deniz

The problem of energy optimization in multi-core systems (such as single-chip multiprocessors) where the individual energy demands of various processing elements are governed by instantaneous workload requirements is well defined in literature. The signifi ...

EPFL2006