Publications associées à Explicitly parallel instruction computing

A Deep-Learning Approach to Side-Channel Based CPU Disassembly at Design Time

Side-channel CPU disassembly is a side-channel attack that allows an adversary to recover instructions executed by a processor. Not only does such an attack compromise code confidentiality, it can also reveal critical information on the system’s internals. ...

IEEE2022

VWR2A: A Very-Wide-Register Reconfigurable-Array Architecture for Low-Power Embedded Devices

David Atienza Alonso, Miguel Peon Quiros, Benoît Walter Denkinger

Edge-computing requires high-performance energy-efficient embedded systems. Fixed-function or custom accelerators, such as FFT or FIR filter engines, are very efficient at implementing a particular functionality for a given set of constraints. However, the ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Real-Time Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Fast Mechatronic Systems

Petr Listov

This thesis presents an efficient and extensible numerical software framework for real-time model-based control. We are motivated by complex and challenging mechatronic applications spanning from flight control of fixed-wing aircraft and thrust vector cont ...

EPFL2022

Pipeline Synthesis and Optimization from Branched Feedback Dataflow Programs

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati, Anatoly Prihozhy

Large dataflow designs are a result of behavioral specification of modern complex digital systems and/or a result of unfolding and transforming looped and branched programs. Since deep-submicron silicon technology provides large amounts of available resour ...

SPRINGER2020

Polynomial Evaluation on Superscalar Architecture, Applied to the Elementary Function e(x)

Felix Schürmann, Francesco Cremonesi, Timothée Ewart, Fabien Jonathan Delalondre

The evaluation of small degree polynomials is critical for the computation of elementary functions. It has been extensively studied and is well documented. In this article, we evaluate existing methods for polynomial evaluation on superscalar architecture. ...

2020

Blade: An in-Cache Computing Architecture for Edge Devices

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios, William Andrew Simon, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi

Area and power constrained edge devices are increasingly utilized to perform compute intensive workloads, necessitating increasingly area and power efficient accelerators. In this context, in-SRAM computing performs hundreds of parallel operations on spati ...

2020

Linebacker: Preserving Victim Cache Lines in Idle Register Files of GPUs

Yunho Oh

Modern GPUs suffer from cache contention due to the limited cache size that is shared across tens of concurrently running warps. To increase the per-warp cache size prior techniques proposed warp throttling which limits the number of active warps. Warp thr ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Microwave inductive proximity sensors with sub-pm/Hz1/2 resolution

Giovanni Boero, Nergiz Sahin Solmaz, Alessandro Valentino Matheoud, Lénaïc Frehner

Inductive proximity sensors are low-cost and versatile detectors achieving resolutions in the nm and sub-nm range. Their typical working frequency ranges from tens of kHz to a few MHz. Operation at higher frequencies is considered as a possible route for t ...

2019

A 32kHz crystal oscillator leveraging voltage scaling in an ultra-low power 40nA real-time clock

Maher Kayal, Luca Rossi, François Krummenacher, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

In this paper, an ultra-low power consumption crystal oscillator embedded in an RTC module (ASIC and its crystal resonator) is presented. The technique leverages oscillation amplitude and loads capacitance scaling; it incorporates transistor level merging ...

IEEE2018

Exploiting Compute Caches for Memory Bound Vector Operations

Paolo Ienne, Gabriel Falcao Paiva Fernandes, João Miguel Morgado Pereira Vieira

To reduce the average memory access time, most current processors make use of a multilevel cache subsystem. However, despite the proven benefits of such cache structures in the resulting throughput, conventional operations such as copy, simple maps and red ...

IEEE2018

Exploiting CPU-Load and Data Correlations in Multi-Objective VM Placement for Geo-Distributed Data Centers

David Atienza Alonso, Ali Pahlevan, Pablo Garcia del Valle

Cloud computing has been proposed as a new paradigm to deliver services over the internet. The proliferation of cloud services and increasing users’ demands for computing resources have led to the appearance of geo-distributed data centers (DCs). These DCs ...

EDAA/ACM/IEEE Press2016

How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores

Anastasia Ailamaki, Pinar Tözün, Danica Porobic, Iraklis Psaroudakis, Erietta Liarou

Hardware trends oblige software to overcome three major challenges against systems scalability: (1) taking advantage of the implicit/vertical parallelism within a core that is enabled through the aggressive micro-architectural features, (2) exploiting the ...

2015

High-level synthesis of dataflow programs for heterogeneous platforms : design flow tools and design space exploration

Endri Bezati

The growing complexity of digital signal processing applications implemented in programmable logic and embedded processors make a compelling case the use of high-level methodologies for their design and implementation. Past research has shown that for comp ...

EPFL2015

ADDICT: Advanced Instruction Chasing for Transactions

Anastasia Ailamaki, Pinar Tözün

Recent studies highlight that traditional transaction processing systems utilize the micro-architectural features of modern processors very poorly. L1 instruction cache and long-latency data misses dominate execution time. As a result, more than half of th ...

2014

BuMP: Bulk Memory Access Prediction and Streaming

Babak Falsafi, Boris Robert Grot, Stavros Volos, Javier Picorel Obando

With the end of Dennard scaling, server power has emerged as the limiting factor in the quest for more capable datacenters. Without the benefit of supply voltage scaling, it is essential to lower the energy per operation to improve server efficiency. As th ...

2014

Manual Parallelization Versus State-of-the-Art Parallelization Techniques: The SPEC CPU2006 as a Case Study

Aleksandar Vitorovic

Being multiprocessors (both on-chip and/or off-chip), modern computer systems can automatically exploit the benefits of parallel programs, but their resources remain underutilized in executing still-Prevailing sequential applications. An obvious solution i ...

Elsevier Academic Press Inc2014

Transactions Chasing Scalability and Instruction Locality on Multicores

Pinar Tözün

For several decades, online transaction processing (OLTP) has been one of the main server applications that drives innovations in the data management ecosystem, and in turn the database and computer architecture communities. Recent hardware trends oblige s ...

EPFL2014

Synchronizing Code Execution on Ultra-Low-Power Embedded Multi-Channel Signal Analysis Platforms

David Atienza Alonso, Andreas Peter Burg, Giovanni Ansaloni, Ruben Braojos Lopez, Jeremy Hugues-Felix Constantin, Ahmed Yasir Dogan

Embedded biosignal analysis involves a considerable amount of parallel computations, which can be exploited by employing low-voltage and ultra-low-power (ULP) parallel computing architectures. By allowing data and instruction broadcasting, single instructi ...

2013

Design Methods for Parallel Hardware Implementation of Multimedia Iterative Algorithms

David Atienza Alonso, Ivan Beretta, Alessandro Antonio Nacci

Traditionally, parallel implementations of multimedia algorithms are carried out manually, since the automation of this task is very difficult due to the complex dependencies that generally exist between different elements of the data set. Moreover, there ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Design Space Exploration of High Level Stream Programs on Parallel Architectures: A focus on the Buffer Size Minimization and Optimization Problem

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Claudio Paolo Alberti

This paper presents a dataflow design methodology and an associated co-exploration environment, focusing on the optimization of buffer sizes. The approach is applicable to dynamic dataflow designs and its performance is presented and validated by experimen ...

2013