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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

Exploring High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Architectures for Edge AI-Enabled Applications

Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

The desire and ability to place AI-enabled applications on the edge has grown significantly in recent years. However, the compute-, area-, and power-constrained nature of edge devices are stressed by the needs of the AI-enabled applications, due to a gener ...

EPFL2024

Highly Parallel RTL Simulation

Verification and testing of hardware heavily relies on cycle-accurate simulation of RTL. As single-processor performance is growing only slowly, conventional, single-threaded RTL simulation is becoming impractical for increasingly complex chip designs and ...

EPFL2024

Nano-MOSFET - Foundation of Quantum Computing Part I

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano

As big strides were being made in many science fields in the 1970s and 80s, faster computation for solving problems in molecular biology, semiconductor technology, aeronautics, particle physics, etc., was at the forefront of research. Parallel and super-co ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

X-HEEP: An Open-Source, Configurable and Extendible RISC-V Microcontroller

David Atienza Alonso, Miguel Peon Quiros, José Angel Miranda Calero, Simone Machetti, Pasquale Davide Schiavone, Thomas Christoph Müller, Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez, Benoît Walter Denkinger, Ruben Rodriguez, Saverio Nasturzio

In this work, we present eXtendible Heterogeneous Energy-Efficient Platform (X-HEEP), a configurable and extendible single-core RISC-V-based ultra-low-power microcontroller. X-HEEP can be used standalone as a low-cost microcontroller, or it can be integrat ...

New York2023

Preconditioning techniques for generalized Sylvester matrix equations

Yannis Dirk Voet

Sylvester matrix equations are ubiquitous in scientific computing. However, few solution techniques exist for their generalized multiterm version, as they now arise in an increasingly large number of applications. In this work, we consider algebraic parame ...

2023

500 MHz high resolution proximity sensors with fully integrated digital counter

Giovanni Boero, Nergiz Sahin Solmaz, Reza Farsi

We report on the design and characterization of two inductive proximity sensors based on LC oscillators operating at 500 MHz. The distance from the target is obtained by measuring the oscillation frequency variation. Both sensors contain an off-chip LC res ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Determining an optimum quantity of interleaved instruction streams of defined coroutines

Anastasia Ailamaki, Georgios Psaropoulos

A method for optimizing memory access for database operations is provided. The method may include performing a first database operation by at least executing a first instruction stream associated with the first database operation. The first database opera ...

2023

Dimensionality reduction of time-series data, and systems and devices that use the resultant embeddings

Mackenzie Mathis, Steffen Schneider

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for dimensionality reduction of time-series using contrastive learning. A method can include receiving multidimensional input time series data that includes ...

2023

Signatures of a sampling quantum advantage in driven quantum many-body systems

A crucial milestone in the field of quantum simulation and computation is to demonstrate that a quantum device can perform a computation task that is classically intractable. A key question is to identify setups that can achieve such goal within current te ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

A recipe for cracking the quantum scaling limit with machine learned electron densities

Mario Geiger

A long-standing goal of science is to accurately simulate large molecular systems using quantum mechanics. The poor scaling of current quantum chemistry algorithms on classical computers, however, imposes an effective limit of about a few dozen atoms on tr ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Acceleration of graph pattern mining and applications to financial crime

Jovan Blanusa

Various forms of real-world data, such as social, financial, and biological networks, can be represented using graphs. An efficient method of analysing this type of data is to extract subgraph patterns, such as cliques, cycles, and motifs, from graphs. For ...

EPFL2023

Electrical-Level Attacks on CPUs, FPGAs, and GPUs: Survey and Implications in the Heterogeneous Era

Mirjana Stojilovic, Dina Gamaleldin Ahmed Shawky Mahmoud

Given the need for efficient high-performance computing, computer architectures combining CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs are nowadays prevalent. However, each of these components suffers from electrical-level security risks. Moving to heterogeneous systems, with th ...

2022

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

Full System Exploration of On-Chip Wireless Communication on Many-Core Architectures

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Giovanni Ansaloni, Rafael Medina Morillas, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

In order to develop sustainable and more powerful information technology (IT) infrastructures, the challenges posed by the "memory wall" are critical for the design of high-performance and high-efficiency many-core computing systems. In this context, recen ...

IEEE2022

Spike-Based Sensing and Communication for Highly Energy-Efficient Sensor Edge Nodes

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca

Highly energy-efficient wireless sensor nodes are a prerequisite for a sustainable operation of the Internet of things. Therefore, classical approaches for system design based on digital signal processing are not a viable solution, but system design has to ...

IEEE2022

Model Predictive Control of Aerial Swarms

Enrica Soria

Aerial robot swarms can have a large socio-economic impact. They can perform time-critical missions faster than a single robot and access dangerous environments without compromising human safety. However, swarm deployment is often limited to free environme ...

EPFL2022

Low-Latency High-Bandwidth Circuit and System Design for Trigger Systems in High Energy Physics

Marcos Vinícius Silva Oliveira

The increasing luminosity in HEP (High Energy Physics) colliders demands trigger systems to be more selective. First, more information from the detector is routed to the trigger system. Second, larger parts of this information are processed together. These ...

EPFL2021

Analysis system and method for analysing the movement of a portion of the body and/or of a human prosthesis

Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Fiorenzo Artoni

An analysis method (200) for analysing the pressure exerted by a portion of the body and/or of a human prosthesis comprises the following steps: sampling data generated by the portion of the body and/or the human prosthesis during a threshold calibration p ...

2021

Online Dating Quantification Practices: A Human-Machine Learning Process

Jessica Carolina Pidoux

The phenomenon of online dating via web and mobile phone applications involves several actors: graphical interfaces, developers, algorithmic systems for user matching, and users. These actors have been studied in parallel by the social sciences and by comp ...

EPFL2021