Computer Science
Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become an important approach for automatically designing neural networks under task-specific and hardware-specific constraints. However, many existing NAS frameworks tightly couple search space…
1D-CNNs play a crucial role for time-series analysis on tiny smart sensor systems, e.g. for biosignal analysis, predictive maintenance, or structural health monitoring. LUTbased precomputation has emerged as an interesting optimization…
Through-silicon vias (TSVs) enable dense vertical interconnects in 3D-IC and chiplet systems, but their metal-oxide-silicon structure introduces significant parasitic coupling paths that can degrade the spectral purity of sensitive RF…
The development of large-scale neuromorphic hardware has made practical implementations of threshold gate-based circuits a near-term possibility. The complexity advantages regarding traditional computing classes, as evidenced in the…
Memory disaggregation via CXL enables multi-host resource sharing. However, existing CXL sharing mechanisms enforce coarse-grained, host-level permissions only, leaving isolation to the operating system. Today, virtual memory enables…
Transformer decoding is constrained by both attention compute and KV-cache movement. This paper presents the Ferroelectric Charge-Domain Compute Cell (FCDC), a hafnium-zirconium-oxide (HZO) memcapacitor with an access device that stores…
As integrated circuit technologies continue to scale toward advanced process nodes, the continual reduction in node capacitance and supply voltage has made digital systems increasingly vulnerable to soft errors. Although traditional…
Advanced 2.5D Systems-in-Package (SiPs) compose a growing portion of high-performance systems. While the packaging and interconnect choices play a large role in the overall system design, system architects still lack a suitable framework…
Large-scale AI training and inference require hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes of DRAM with high peak to average utilization ratios, resulting in overprovisioning. In cloud computing, DRAM constitutes a significant share of the cost. Yet,…
Assertion-based verification (ABV) is a cornerstone of modern hardware design, yet manually translating design intent into formal SystemVerilog Assertions (SVAs) remains labor-intensive and error-prone. While Large Language Models (LLMs)…
Deploying large language models (LLMs) on mobile devices increasingly relies on heterogeneous execution, yet no prior study has systematically characterized NPU effectiveness at the operator and pipeline level. We present the first…
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained significant interest for applications such as citation network analysis and drug discovery due to their ability to apply machine learning techniques on graph-structured data. GNNs typically employ a…
This paper introduces on-chip integrated rotary traveling wave oscillators (RTWOs) organized into rotary oscillator array (ROA) bricks as an external perturbation to induce subharmonic injection locking (SHIL) in oscillator-based Ising…
Integer Linear Programming (ILP) is widely used for solving real-world optimization problems, including network routing, map routing, and traffic scheduling. However, ILP algorithms are sparse and branch-intensive, making them inefficient…
Speculative decoding has emerged as a promising lossless approach for accelerating Large Language Models (LLMs). As reasoning LLMs increasingly suffer from decode-stage overhead and approximation-based methods degrade accuracy, lossless…
Zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs) are a key technology for driving the large-scale adoption of zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP), but their performance bottlenecks severely limit their practicality. While current hardware acceleration…
The electric power supply for AI data centers is now the most significant bottleneck in the race toward Artificial General Intelligence, surpassing even the constraint of AI accelerator availability. To our knowledge, this paper is the…
Heterogeneous reconfigurable platforms with tensor cores, such as AMD ACAP, are increasingly adopted for deep neural network (DNN) inference due to their high throughput and flexibility. However, their suitability for microsecond-scale…
Always-on AI applications, from environmental sensors to biomedical implants, require ultra-low power consumption. Analog circuits offer a path to sub-microwatt inference, yet existing analog implementations are limited to feedforward…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are a promising paradigm for energy-efficient event-driven computation, but large-scale SNN execution remains challenging because sparse spike communication and synchronization can dominate runtime. Existing…