Publications associées à History of computing hardware (1960s–present)

EdgeAI-Aware Design of In-Memory Computing Architectures

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

A 3.3-Gb/s SPAD-Based Quantum Random Number Generator

Edoardo Charbon, Pouyan Keshavarzian, Francesco Gramuglia, Mario Stipcevic

Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are a burgeoning technology used for a variety of applications, including modern security and encryption systems. Typical methods exploit an entropy source combined with an extraction or bit generation circuit in or ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Self-heating analysis of monolithically integrated hybrid III-V/Si PIN diode

Kirsten Emilie Moselund

Self-heating is a crucial effect in integrated nanophotonic devices regarding their power consumption. In this work, we employ coupled 3D thermo-electrical simulations to gain insight into the thermal behavior related to traps in a monolithic InP-InGaAs-In ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

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

Performance improvement of chip-level CMOS-integrated ReRAM cells through material optimization

Elmira Shahrabi, Thomas La Grange, Yusuf Leblebici, Tugba Demirci

The integration of the resistive random access memory (ReRAM) with CMOS logic circuitry provides a solution to scaling limitations, and offers promising candidates for use in next generation computing applications. It is challenging to realize a reliable, ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Electronic solutions for power system emulation

Guillaume Olivier Lanz

Nowadays electric power systems are subject to continuous changes and the needs in the power generation and delivery service are constantly increasing, with a higher complexity of a progressively more distributed network. Because the impact of a failure ca ...

EPFL2017

Distributed Rate Allocation in Switch-Based Multiparty Videoconferencing System

Pascal Frossard, Sergio Mena, Stefano D'Aronco

Multiparty videoconferences, or more generally multiparty video calls, are gaining a lot of popularity as they offer a rich communication experience. These applications have, however, large requirements in terms of both network and computational resources ...

2017

An Ultra-Low Power NVM-Based Multi-Core Architecture for Embedded Bio Signal Processing

David Atienza Alonso, Ruben Braojos Lopez

Healthcare delivery is evolving towards new Wireless Body Sensor Nodes (WBSN), which are miniaturized devices able to acquire, process and transmit subjects’ bio-signals in real time within a tiny energy budget. Recent efforts on AD converters and transmis ...

2016

Distributed rate allocation in switch-based multiparty videoconference

Pascal Frossard, Sergio Mena, Stefano D'Aronco

Multiparty videoconferences, or more generally multiparty video calls, are gaining a lot of popularity as they offer a rich communication experience. These applications have however, large requirements in terms of both network and computational resources a ...

ACM2016

Towards Scalable Synchronization on Multi-Cores

Vasileios Trigonakis

The shift of commodity hardware from single- to multi-core processors in the early 2000s compelled software developers to take advantage of the available parallelism of multi-cores. Unfortunately, only few---so-called embarrassingly parallel---applications ...

EPFL2016

A semi-analytical approach for optimized design of microchannel liquid-cooled ICs

David Atienza Alonso, Arvind Raj Mahankali Sridhar

The development of embedded and interlayer liquid cooling in integrated circuits (ICs) using silicon microchannels has gained interest in the recent years owing to the rise of on-chip heat uses that aggravate thermal reliability issues of the emerging 3D s ...

IEEE Press2014

Topology and dynamics of the zebrafish segmentation clock core circuit

Bart Deplancke, Andrew Charles Oates, Sebastian Maerkl, Daniele Soroldoni, Alina Isakova

During vertebrate embryogenesis, the rhythmic and sequential segmentation of the body axis is regulated by an oscillating genetic network termed the segmentation clock. We describe a new dynamic model for the core pace-making circuit of the zebrafish segme ...

2012

Molecular dynamics nano-scratching of aluminium: a novel quantitative energy-based analysis method

Jean-François Molinari, Till Junge

Atomistic models for friction suffer from the severe length- and time-scale restrictions of molecular dynamics. Even when they yield good qualitative results, it is difficult to draw meaningful quantitative conclusions from them. In this paper, a novel app ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

Dataflow Programming for Systems Design Space Exploration for Multicore Platforms

Christophe Lucarz

Nowadays processing systems are asked to support increasing complex and demanding high-performance applications, especially in the signal processing and video processing domains. The design of these systems are becoming extremely challenging because of sev ...

EPFL2011

Aether: A scalable approach to logging

Anastasia Ailamaki, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Manoussos Gavriil Athanassoulis, Radu Ioan Stoica, Ippokratis Pandis

The shift to multi-core hardware brings new challenges to database systems, as the software parallelism determines performance. Even though database systems traditionally accommodate simultaneous requests, a multitude of synchronization barriers serialize ...

2010

A multitasking and data-driven architecture for multi-agents simulations

Sébastien Schertenleib

The expansion of 3D real-time simulations (3DRTS) into millions of homes together with the technical progress of computers hardware force to approach software developments for 3DRTS from different perspectives. From an historical standpoint, 3DRTS started ...

EPFL2006

A hybrid CMOS-SET co-fabrication platform using nano-grain polysilicon wires

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Didier Bouvet, Vincent Pott, Santanu Mahapatra, Serge Ecoffey

This paper presents a process for the co-fabrication of self-aligned NMOS and single electron transistors made by gated polysilicon wires. The realization of SET–MOS hybrid architectures is also reported. The proposed process exploits an original low energ ...

2005