Publications associées à Joint Test Action Group

Low-Cost Side-Channel Secure Standard 6T-SRAM-Based Memory With a 1% Area and Less Than 5% Latency and Power Overheads

Side-channel attacks constitute a concrete threat to IoT systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). Embedded memories implemented with 6T SRAM macrocells often dominate the area and power consumption of these SoCs. Regardless of the computational platform, the side-channel ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Heterogeneous and Inexact: Maximizing Power Efficiency of Edge Computing Sensors for Health Monitoring Applications

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Miguel Peon Quiros, Soumya Subhra Basu, Loris Gérard Duch

In the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era, there is an increasing trend to enable intelligent behavior in edge computing sensors. Thus, a new generation of smart wearable devices for health monitoring is being developed, able to perform complex Digital Signal Pr ...

IEEE2018

An FPGA-Based Test System for RRAM Technology Characterization

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Maxime Victor Thammasack, Armando Biscontini

Resistive random access memory (RRAM) technologies have recently gained large attention from the academic and industrial research communities. Significant efforts have been made to enhance the performance of the memory stacks from both communities through ...

2018

Single-End FPGA-Based Fault Location System for Radial/Meshed AC/DC Networks based on the Electromagnetic Time Reversal Theory

Mario Paolone, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Reza Razzaghi

The paper presents an automated single-end FPGA-based fault location system for AC/DC power networks. The proposed system is based on the electromagnetic time reversal theory and uses an automated FPGA-based real-time simulator to perform the fault locatio ...

IEEE2017

A Synchronization-Based Hybrid-Memory Multi-Core Architecture for Energy-Efficient Biomedical Signal Processing

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Ruben Braojos Lopez, Luca Benini

In the last decade, improvements on technology scaling have enabled the design of a novel generation of wearable bio-sensing monitors. These smart Wireless Body Sensor Nodes (WBSNs) are able to acquire and process biological signals, such as electrocardiog ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Circuit Design, Architecture and CAD for RRAM-based FPGAs

Xifan Tang

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been indispensable components of embedded systems and datacenter infrastructures. However, energy efficiency of FPGAs has become a hard barrier preventing their expansion to more application contexts, due to two ...

EPFL2017

Neural Dynamics of Grouping and Segmentation Explain Properties of Visual Crowding

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Mauro Manassi

Investigations of visual crowding, where a target is difficult to identify because of flanking elements, has largely used a theoretical perspective based on local interactions where flanking elements pool with or substitute for properties of the target. Th ...

American Psychological Association2017

Inversion optimization in majority-inverter graphs

Giovanni De Micheli, Mathias Soeken, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Eleonora Testa, Luca Gaetano Amarù, Odysseas Zografos

Many emerging nanotechnologies realize majority gates as primitive building blocks and they benefit from a majority-based synthesis. Recently, Majority-Inverter Graphs (MIGs) have been introduced to abstract these new technologies. We present optimi ...

Ieee2016

Majority Logic Synthesis for Spin Wave Technology

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

Spin Wave Devices (SWDs) are promising beyond-CMOS candidates. Unlike traditional charge-based technologies, SWDs use spin as information carrier that propagates in waves. In this scenario, the logic primitive for computation is the majority gate. T ...

2014

A (Nearly) Free Lunch : Extending NAND Flash Lifetime by Exploiting Neglected Physical Properties

Xavier Jimenez

NAND flash is a key storage technology in modern computing systems. Without it, many devices would probably not exist today or would at least not benefit from as many features. The very large success of this technology motivated massive efforts to scale it ...

EPFL2014

Querypoint Debugging (Semi-Automated Inspection of Buggy Execution)

Salman Mirghasemi

Debugging is a hard and time-consuming programming task that appears in the most stages of software development and maintenance. Therefore, any improvement in the debugging practice can significantly reduce the time and costs of software production. In thi ...

EPFL2012

Monitoring and troubleshooting wireless sensor nodes by measuring the supply current waveform

Pierre-André Farine, Alexis Boegli, Mitko Tanevski

A troubleshooting method for debugging wireless sensor nodes using measurements of the supply current waveform and logic outputs is presented. The troubleshooting and debugging technique uses the supply current waveform in conjunction with the measurement ...

Elsevier Ltd.2010