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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

A High-throughput and Low-Latency Interconnection Network for Multi-Core Clusters with 3-D Stacked L2 Tightly-Coupled Data Memory

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini

The performance of most digital systems today is limited by the interconnect latency between logic and memory, rather than by the performance of logic or memory itself. Three- dimensional (3-D) integration using through-silicon-vias (TSVs) may provide a so ...

2012

Online Thermal Control Methods for Multi-Processor Systems

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Francesco Zanini, Colin Neil Jones

With technological advances, the number of cores integrated on a chip is increasing. This, in turn is leading to thermal constraints and thermal design challenges. Temperature gradients and hot-spots not only affect the performance of the system, but also ...

Association for Computing Machinery2012

Low-power processor architecture exploration for online biomedical signal analysis

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Ahmed Yasir Dogan, Andreas Peter Burg, Jeremy Hugues-Felix Constantin

In this study, the authors explore sequential and parallel processing architectures, utilising a custom ultra-low-power (ULP) processing core, to extend the lifetime of health monitoring systems, where slow biosignal events and highly parallel computations ...

Inst Engineering Technology-Iet2012

A Portable Setup for Molecular Detection by Transmission LSPR

Luca Benini, Enrico Accastelli, Carlotta Guiducci, Giulia Cappi, Fabio Mario Spiga

In the framework of bioanalytics and multiple array detection, we developed a fully portable and low-cost detection system based on Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) in a transmission configuration (T-LSPR). The transmission approach is suitable t ...

2012

GPGPU-Accelerated Parallel and Fast Simulation of Thousand-core Platforms

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Martino Ruggiero, Shivani Raghav

The multicore revolution and the ever-increasing complexity of computing systems is dramatically changing system design, analysis and programming of computing platforms. Future architectures will feature hundreds to thousands of simple processors and on-ch ...

IEEE/ACM Press2011

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

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

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

Characterization and Implementation of Fault-Tolerant Vertical Links for 3-D Networks-on-Chip

Federico Angiolini, Luca Benini, Subhasish Mitra

Through silicon vias (TSVs) provide an efficient way to support vertical communication among different layers of a vertically stacked chip, enabling scalable 3-D networks-on-chip (NoC) architectures. Unfortunately, low TSV yields significantly impact the f ...

2011

Thermal-Aware System-Level Modeling and Management for Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Francesco Zanini

Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) are penetrating the electronics market as a powerful, yet commercially viable, solution to answer the strong and steadily growing demand for scalable and high performance systems, at limited design complexity. Howev ...

IEEE Press2011

Scalable instruction set simulator for thousand-core architectures running on GPGPUs

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Martino Ruggiero, Shivani Raghav

Simulators are still the primary tools for development and performance evaluation of applications running on massively parallel architectures. However, current virtual platforms are not able to tackle the complexity issues introduced by 1000-core future sc ...

IEEE Press2010

Scalable Instruction Set Simulator for Thousand-core Architectures Running on GPGPUs

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Martino Ruggiero, Shivani Raghav

IEEE Press2010

SunFloor 3D: A Tool for Networks on Chip Topology Synthesis for 3D Systems on Chips

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali, Ciprian Seiculescu

Three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D-ICs) are a promising approach to address the integration challenges faced by current systems on chips (SoCs). Designing an efficient network on chip (NoC) interconnect for a 3-D SoC that meets not only the applicat ...

2010

Networks on Chips: From Research to Products

Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali, Ciprian Seiculescu

Research on Networks on Chips (NoCs) has spanned over a decade and its results are now visible in some products. Thus the seminal idea of using networking technology to address the chip-level interconnect problem has been shown to be correct. Moreover, as ...

2010

A Method to Remove Deadlocks in Networks-on-Chips with Wormhole Flow Control

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali, Ciprian Seiculescu

Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) are a promising interconnect paradigm to address the communication bottleneck of Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). Wormhole flow control is widely used as the transmission protocol in NoCs, as it offers high throughput and low latency. To mat ...

2010

Methods for Designing Reliable Probe Arrays

Abhishek Garg, Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini

Recent advances in biosensing technologies have led to applications of biosensor probe arrays for rapid identification of biological agents such as drugs, gene expressions, proteins, cholesterol and fats in an input sample. However, monitoring the simultan ...

IEEE2010

Cancer marker detection in human serum with a point-of-care low-cost system

Luca Benini, Sandro Carrara

Chemiluminescence, i.e. the emission of light from a chemical reaction, offers interesting opportunities for developing point-of-care biosensors. However, commercially available systems are expensive, bulky, and primarily addressed to laboratory usage. The ...

2010

Minimization of the reconfiguration latency for the mapping of applications on FPGA-based systems

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become promising mapping fabric for the implementation of System-on-Chip (SoC) platforms, due to their large capacity and their enhanced support for dynamic and partial reconfigurability. Design automation suppor ...

IEEE Press2009

A Method for Calculating Hard QoS Guarantees for Networks-on-Chip

Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali, Dara Rahmati, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad

Many Networks-on-Chip (NoC) applications exhibit one or more critical traffic flows that require hard Quality of Service (QoS). Guaranteeing bandwidth and latency for such real time flows is crucial. In this paper, we present novel methods to efficiently c ...

2009

New probe immobilizations by lipoate-diethalonamine or ethylene-glycol molecules for capacitance DNA chip

Yusuf Leblebici, Giovanni De Micheli, Bruno Samori, Luca Benini, Andrea Cavallini, Sandro Carrara

Label–free DNA detection is of crucial role to when developing point-of-care biochips to be used in personalized therapy. Capacitance detection is a promising technology for label-free DNA detection. However, data published in literature often show evident ...

2009

Physically clustered Forward Body Biasing for variability compensation in nanometer CMOS design

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini

Nanometer CMOS scaling has resulted in greatly increased circuit variability, with extremely adverse consequences on design predictability and yield. A number of recent works have focused on adaptive post-fabrication tuning approaches to mitigate this prob ...

2009

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