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Modern computing devices employ High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) to meet their memory bandwidth requirements. An HBM-enabled device consists of multiple DRAM layers stacked on top of one another next to a compute chip (e.g. CPU, GPU, and FPGA)…
Effects of radiation on electronic circuits used in extra-terrestrial applications and radiation prone environments need to be corrected. Since FPGAs offer flexibility, the effects of radiation on them need to be studied and robust methods…
This study investigates the impact of out-of-plane compressive mechanical stress (MS) on the performance and reliability of n-channel IGZO thin film transistors (TFTs). It is demonstrated that MS induces a positive Vth shift in the device…
As conventional technology scaling approaches physical and power limitations, modern computing systems increasingly face performance bottlenecks arising from memory latency, energy consumption, scalability constraints, and data movement…
Deep learning has emerged as an effective solution for addressing the challenges of short-term voltage stability assessment (STVSA) in power systems. However, existing deep learning-based STVSA approaches face limitations in adapting to…
A new high-level implementation independent functional fault model for control faults in microprocessors is introduced. The fault model is based on the instruction set, and is specified as a set of data constraints to be satisfied by test…
Repeated off-chip memory accesses to DRAM drive up operating power for data-intensive applications, and SRAM technology scaling and leakage power limits the efficiency of embedded memories. Future on-chip storage will need higher density…
This paper investigates the application of a robust CPU-based power modelling methodology that performs an automatic search of explanatory events derived from performance counters to embedded GPUs. A 64-bit Tegra TX1 SoC is configured with…
Traditional biological and pharmaceutical manufacturing plants are controlled by human workers or pre-defined thresholds. Modernized factories have advanced process control algorithms such as model predictive control (MPC). However, there…
Sensors and actuators based on resonant micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), such as scanning micro mirrors, are well-established in automotive and consumer products. As the areas of application broaden, the requirements for the MEMS…
Emerging Persistent Memory technologies (also PM, Non-Volatile DIMMs, Storage Class Memory or SCM) hold tremendous promise for accelerating popular data-management applications like in-memory databases. However, programmers now need to deal…
Industry practitioners care about small improvements in malware detection accuracy because their models are deployed to hundreds of millions of machines, meaning a 0.1\% change can cause an overwhelming number of false positives. However,…
The demand for accurate information about the internal structure and characteristics of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) has been on the rise. Recent studies have explored the structure and characteristics of DRAM to improve processing…
Statistical process monitoring (SPM) methods are essential tools in quality management to check the stability of industrial processes, i.e., to dynamically classify the process state as in control (IC), under normal operating conditions, or…
Problem Statement: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) circuits play a significant role in major recent embedded process control designs. However, exploiting these platforms requires deep hardware conception skills and remains an important…
Bounded Model Checking (BMC) is a widely used software verification technique. Despite its successes, the technique has several limiting factors, from state-space explosion to lack of completeness. Over the years, interval analysis has…
With the escalating demand for power-efficient neural network architectures, non-volatile compute-in-memory designs have garnered significant attention. However, owing to the nature of analog computation, susceptibility to noise remains a…
In recent years, due to a higher demand for portable devices, which provide restricted amounts of processing capacity and battery power, the need for energy and time efficient hard- and software solutions has increased. Preliminary…
This study presents a methodology for anticounterfeiting of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) chips. In particular, we experimentally demonstrate a generalized methodology for detecting (i) Integrated Circuit (IC) origin, (ii) recycled or used NVM…
Digital In-memory computing improves energy efficiency and throughput of a data-intensive process, which incur memory thrashing and, resulting multiple same memory accesses in a von Neumann architecture. Digital in-memory computing involves…