Publications de Georgios Karakonstantis

Statistical Fault Injection for Impact-Evaluation of Timing Errors on Application Performance

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis, Jeremy Hugues-Felix Constantin, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Zheng Wang

This paper proposes a novel approach to modeling of gate level timing errors during high-level instruction set simulation. In contrast to conventional, purely random fault injection, our physically motivated approach directly relates to the underlying circ ...

ACM2016

Cross-Layer Energy-Efficiency Optimization of Packet Based Wireless MIMO Communication Systems

Andreas Peter Burg, Carl Christian Sten Dominic Senning, Georgios Karakonstantis

Energy in today's short-range wireless communication is mostly spent on the analog-and digital hardware rather than on radiated power. Hence, purely information-theoretic considerations fail to achieve the lowest energy per information bit and the optimiza ...

Springer Verlag2016

Statistical Fault Injection for Impact-Evaluation of Timing Errors on Application Performance

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis, Jeremy Hugues-Felix Constantin, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Zheng Wang

This paper proposes a novel approach to modeling of gate level timing errors during high-level instruction set simulation. hi contrast to conventional, purely random fault injection, our physically motivated approach directly relates to the underlying circ ...

Ieee2016

Mitigating the Impact of Faults in Unreliable Memories For Error-Resilient Applications

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis, Adam Shmuel Teman, Shrikanth Ganapathy

Inherently error-resilient applications in areas such as signal processing, machine learning and data analytics provide opportunities for relaxing reliability requirements, and thereby reducing the overheads incurred by conventional error correction scheme ...

2015

Heterogeneous Error-Resilient Scheme for Spectral Analysis in Ultra-Low Power Wearable Electrocardiogram Devices

David Atienza Alonso, Pablo Garcia del Valle, Soumya Subhra Basu, Georgios Karakonstantis, Giovanni Ansaloni

Wearable devices performing advanced bio-signal analysis algorithms will foster a revolution in healthcare provision of chronic cardiac diseases. In this context, energy efficiency is of paramount importance, as long-term operations must be performed withi ...

IEEE Press2015

Exploiting Dynamic Timing Margins in Microprocessors for Frequency-Over-Scaling with Instruction-Based Clock Adjustment

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis, Jeremy Hugues-Felix Constantin, Anupam Chattopadhyay

Static timing analysis provides the basis for setting the clock period of a microprocessor core, based on its worst-case critical path. However, depending on the design, this critical path is not always excited and therefore dynamic timing margins exist th ...

2015

Refresh-Free Dynamic Standard-Cell Based Memories: Application to a QC-LDPC Decoder

Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis, Andrea Bonetti

The area and power consumption of low-density parity check (LDPC) decoders are typically dominated by embedded memories. To alleviate such high memory costs, this paper exploits the fact that all internal memories of a LDPC decoder are frequently updated w ...

2015

Enhancing Design Space Exploration by Extending CPU/GPU Specifications onto FPGAs

Paolo Ienne, Andreas Peter Burg, David Novo Bruna, Madhura Purnaprajna, Georgios Karakonstantis, Gabriel Falcao Paiva Fernandes, João Maria Duarte Andrade

The design cycle for complex special-purpose computing systems is extremely costly and time-consuming. It involves a multiparametric design space exploration for optimization, followed by design verification. Designers of special purpose VLSI implementatio ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Method and apparatus for low complexity spectral analysis of bio-signals

David Atienza Alonso, Srinivasan Murali, Andreas Peter Burg, Aviinaash Sankaranarayanan, Georgios Karakonstantis

A method and device for reducing the computational complexity of a processing algorithm, of a discrete signal, in particular of the spectral estimation and analysis of bio-signals, with minimum or no quality loss, which comprises steps of (a) choosing a do ...

2015

Energy versus Data Integrity Trade-Offs in Embedded High-Density Logic Compatible Dynamic Memories

Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis, Adam Shmuel Teman, Robert Giterman

Current variation aware design methodologies, tuned for worst-case scenarios, are becoming increasingly pessimistic from the perspective of power and performance. A good example of such pessimism is setting the refresh rate of DRAMs according to the worst- ...

2015

Approximate Computing With Unreliable Dynamic Memories

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis, Adam Shmuel Teman, Robert Giterman, Shrikanth Ganapathy

Embedded memories account for a large fraction of the overall silicon area and power consumption in modern SoC(s). While embedded memories are typically realized with SRAM, alternative solutions, such as embedded dynamic memories (eDRAM), can provide highe ...

2015

Variability-Aware Design Space Exploration of Embedded Memories

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis, Shrikanth Ganapathy

With scaling of process technologies and worsening of process variations, embedded memories are susceptible to a large number of failure mechanisms making it hard to achieve high yield. In this paper, by bringing together architecture and circuit-level exp ...

2014

Energy Efficiency through Significance-Based Computing

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis

An extension of approximate computing, significance-based computing exploits applications' inherent error resiliency and offers a new structural paradigm that strategically relaxes full computational precision to provide significant energy savings with min ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Enabling Complexity-Performance Trade-Offs for Successive Cancellation Decoding of Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming

Polar codes are one of the most recent advancements in coding theory and they have attracted significant interest. While they are provably capacity achieving over various channels, they have seen limited practical applications. Unfortunately, the successiv ...

2014

A Quality-Scalable and Energy-Efficient Approach for Spectral Analysis of Heart Rate Variability

David Atienza Alonso, Mohamed Mostafa Sabry Aly, Andreas Peter Burg, Aviinaash Sankaranarayanan, Georgios Karakonstantis

Today there is a growing interest in the integration of health monitoring applications in portable devices necessitating the development of methods that improve the energy efficiency of such systems. In this paper, we present a systematic approach that ena ...

IEEE2014

Multi-level wordline driver for robust SRAM design in nano-scale CMOS technology

Georgios Karakonstantis

In this paper, a multi-level wordline driver scheme is presented to improve 6T-SRAM read and write stability. The proposed wordline driver generates a shaped pulse during the read mode and a boosted wordline during the write mode. During read, the shaped p ...

Elsevier2014

On the Exploitation of the Inherent Error Resilience of Wireless Systems under Unreliable Silicon

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis

In this paper, we investigate the impact of circuit misbehavior due to parametric variations and voltage scaling on the performance of wireless communication systems. Our study reveals the inherent error resilience of such systems and argues that sufficien ...

Ieee2012

Shortening design time through multiplatform simulations with a portable OpenCL golden-model: the LDPC decoder case

Paolo Ienne, Andreas Peter Burg, David Novo Bruna, Madhura Purnaprajna, Georgios Karakonstantis, Gabriel Falcao Paiva Fernandes

Hardware designers and engineers typically need to explore a multi-parametric design space in order to ﬁnd the best conﬁguration for their designs using simulations that can take weeks to months to complete. For example, designers of special purpose chips ...

2012

Low Complexity Spectral Analysis of Heart-Rate-Variability through a Wavelet Based FFT

Andreas Peter Burg, Aviinaash Sankaranarayanan, Georgios Karakonstantis

In this paper, a low complexity system for spectral analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) is presented. The main idea of the proposed approach is the implementation of the Fast-Lomb periodogram that is a ubiquitous tool in spectral analysis, using a wav ...

2012

Data Mapping for Unreliable Memories

Christoph Studer, Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis

Future digital signal processing (DSP) systems must provide robustness on algorithm and application level to the presence of reliability issues that come along with corresponding implementations in modern semiconductor process technologies. In this paper, ...

2012