Covers energy dissipation in VLSI chips, focusing on subthreshold current in NMOS transistors and the effects of threshold voltage on power consumption.
Covers the fundamentals of analog CMOS integrated circuits, emphasizing transistor-level design principles and the historical impact of CMOS technology.
Explores GPUs' architecture, CUDA programming, image processing, and their significance in modern computing, emphasizing early start and correctness in GPU programming.
Discusses the challenges and future of neuromorphic computing, comparing digital computers and specialized hardware, such as SpiNNaker and NEST, while exploring the Human Brain Project's Neuromorphic Computing Platform.
Explores parallelism in programming, emphasizing trade-offs between programmability and performance, and introduces shared memory parallel programming using OpenMP.
Introduces the IcySoC project, focusing on ultra-low power computing and approximate computing techniques for energy efficiency and performance optimization.
