Publications related to Reliability Support for On-chip Memories Using Networks-on-Chips

Towards Scalable Electronics: Synthetic 2D Materials for Large-Area 2D Circuit Integration

In the past decades, a significant increase of the transistor density on a chip has led to exponential growth in computational power driven by Moore's law. To overcome the bottleneck of traditional von-Neumann architecture in computational efficiency, effo ...

EPFL2024

Multi-Ported GC-eDRAM Bitcell with Dynamic Port Configuration and Refresh Mechanism

Adam Shmuel Teman, Robert Giterman

Embedded memories occupy an increasingly dominant part of the area and power budgets of modern systems-on-chips (SoCs). Multi-ported embedded memories, commonly used by media SoCs and graphical processing units, occupy even more area and consume higher pow ...

MDPI2024

EdgeAI-Aware Design of In-Memory Computing Architectures

Marco Antonio Rios

Driven by the demand for real-time processing and the need to minimize latency in AI algorithms, edge computing has experienced remarkable progress. Decision-making AI applications stand out for their heavy reliance on data-centric operations, predominantl ...

EPFL2024

Active Voltage Balancing with Seamless Integration into Dual Gate Driver for Series Connection of SiC MOSFETs

Drazen Dujic

The versatility of half-bridge configuration of silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) power module contributes to its widespread adoption, highlighting the popularity and significance of its corresponding dual gat ...

2024

Chaosity: Understanding Contemporary NUMA-architectures

Anastasia Ailamaki, Viktor Sanca, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza, Hamish Mcniece Hill Nicholson, Andreea Nica

Modern hardware is increasingly complex, requiring increasing effort to understand in order to carefully engineer systems for optimal performance and effective utilization. Moreover, established design principles and assumptions are not portable to modern ...

2023

2D Nanosystems: Applications of 2D Semiconductors for In-Memory Computing

Guilherme Migliato Marega

Machine learning and data processing algorithms have been thriving in finding ways of processing and classifying information by exploiting the hidden trends of large datasets. Although these emerging computational methods have become successful in today's ...

EPFL2023

HetCache: Synergising NVMe Storage and GPU acceleration for Memory-Efficient Analytics

Anastasia Ailamaki, Periklis Chrysogelos, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza, Hamish Mcniece Hill Nicholson

Accessing input data is a critical operation in data analytics: i) slow data access significantly degrades performance, and ii) storing everything in the fastest medium, i.e., memory, incurs high operational and hardware costs. Further, while GPUs offer in ...

2023

How to Achieve Large-Area Ultra-Fast Operation of MoS 2 Monolayer Flash Memories?

Andras Kis, Aleksandra Radenovic, Yanfei Zhao, Zhenyu Wang, Guilherme Migliato Marega, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi, Hyungoo Ji, Asmund Kjellegaard Ottesen

Memory devices have returned to the spotlight due to increasing interest in using in-memory computing architectures to make data-driven algorithms more energy-efficient. One of the main advantages of this architecture is the efficient performance of vector ...

2023

Computational Imaging SPAD Cameras

Andrei Ardelean

Vision systems built around conventional image sensors have to read, encode and transmit large quantities of pixel information, a majority of which is redundant. As a result, new computational imaging sensor architectures were developed to preprocess the r ...

EPFL2023

Bit-Line Computing for CNN Accelerators Co-Design in Edge AI Inference

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Flavio Ponzina, Marco Antonio Rios

By supporting the access of multiple memory words at the same time, Bit-line Computing (BC) architectures allow the parallel execution of bit-wise operations in-memory. At the array periphery, arithmetic operations are then derived with little additional o ...

2023

Single Chip Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Microsystems

Nergiz Sahin Solmaz

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods are powerful tools employed in many fields, including physics, chemistry, material science, biology, and medicine. The use of NMR methodologies in an even wider range of applications is often hindered by the relativ ...

EPFL2023

Rebooting Virtual Memory with Midgard

Siddharth Gupta

Virtual Memory (VM) is a critical programming abstraction that is widely used in various modern computing platforms. With the rise of datacenter computing and birth of planet-scale online services, the semantic and capacity requirements from memory have ev ...

EPFL2023

Electrical spectroscopy of defect states and their hybridization in monolayer MoS2

Andras Kis, Oleg Yazyev, Yanfei Zhao, Juan Francisco Gonzalez Marin, Ahmet Avsar, Cheol Yeon Cheon, Kristians Cernevics, Zhenyu Wang, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi, Hyungoo Ji

Defects in solids are unavoidable and can create complex electronic states that can significantly influence the electrical and optical properties of semiconductors. With the rapid progress in the integration of 2D semiconductors in practical devices, it is ...

Nature Research2023

Development of a large-area, light-weight module using the MALTA monolithic pixel detector

Edoardo Charbon, Ashish Sharma, Francesco Piro

The MALTA pixel chip is a 2 cm x 2 cm large monolithic pixel detector developed in the Tower 180 nm imaging process. The chip contains four CMOS transceiver blocks at its sides which allow chip-to-chip data transfer. The power pads are located mainly at th ...

ELSEVIER2022

Impact of Interface Traps in Floating-Gate Memory Based on Monolayer MoS2

Andras Kis, Guilherme Migliato Marega

Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) have found potential applications in many areas of electronics, such as sensing, memory systems, optoelectronics, and power. Despite an intense experimental work, the literature is lacking of accurate modeling of nonvolatil ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

FPGA-to-CPU Undervolting Attacks

Mirjana Stojilovic, Dina Gamaleldin Ahmed Shawky Mahmoud

FPGAs are proving useful and attractive for many applications, thanks to their hardware reconfigurability, low power, and high-degree of parallelism. As a result, modern embedded systems are often based on systems-on-chip (SoCs), where CPUs and FPGAs share ...

IEEE2022

Thermal and Voltage-Aware Performance Management of 3D MPSoCs with Flow Cell Arrays and Integrated SC Converters

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

Flow cell arrays (FCAs) concurrently provide efficient on-chip liquid cooling and electrochemical power generation. This technology is especially promising for three-dimensional multi-processor systems-on-chip (3D MPSoCs) realized in deeply scaled technolo ...

2022

Low-Power Artificial Neural Network Perceptron Based on Monolayer MoS2

Andras Kis, Aleksandra Radenovic, Zhenyu Wang, Guilherme Migliato Marega, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi

Machine learning and signal processing on the edge are poised to influence our everyday lives with devices that will learn and infer from data generated by smart sensors and other devices for the Internet of Things. The next leap toward ubiquitous electron ...

2022

Method for reading and writing unreliable memories and a corresponding memory controller device and memory

Andreas Peter Burg, Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi

A method of accessing a memory space of a memory device with a decoder, the memory space having faults, including the steps of performing a memory access operation by an electronic device to a access a logical memory space of the memory device, and randomi ...

2022

AstriFlash: A Flash-Based System for Online Services

Babak Falsafi, Mark Johnathon Sutherland, Siddharth Gupta, Lei Yan, Yunho Oh

Modern datacenters host datasets in DRAM to offer large-scale online services with tight tail-latency requirements. Unfortunately, as DRAM is expensive and increasingly difficult to scale, datacenter operators are forced to consider denser storage technolo ...

2023