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Power dissipation and energy consumption have become one of the most important problems in the design of processors today. This is especially true in power-constrained environments, such as embedded and mobile computing. While lowering the…

In recent years, the energy consumption of computing systems has increased and a large fraction of this energy is consumed in main memory. Towards this, researchers have proposed use of non-volatile memory, such as phase change memory…

Portable devices like smartphones, tablets, wearable electronic devices, medical implants, wireless sensor nodes, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices have tremendous constraints on their energy consumption. Adding more functionalities onto…

We report a resistance based threshold logic family useful for mimicking brain like large variable logic functions in VLSI. A universal Boolean logic cell based on an analog resistive divider and threshold logic circuit is presented. The…

The exponential emergence of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) has accelerated the research of hardware implementation of Deep Neural Network (DNN). Among all DNN processors, domain specific architectures, such as, Google's Tensor…

This paper has been withdrawn by the authors. In this paper, we propose a new low power coding technique by decreasing the number of switching activities on the buses which use transition signaling to transmit data. This approach dedicates…

The advance of autonomous Smart Sensor Networks and embedded systems for the Internet of Things, powered by photovoltaic energy harvesting, is severely limited by energy efficiency, especially in low-light environments. While Dynamic Power…

This paper addresses a novel five-transistor (5T) CMOS SRAM design with high performance and reliability in 65nm CMOS, and illustrates how it reduces the dynamic power consumption in comparison with the conventional and low-power 6T SRAM…

Pipelining is a design technique for logical circuits that allows for higher throughput than circuits in which multiple computations are fed through the system one after the other. It allows for much faster computation than architectures in…

Quantum computers are considered as a future alternative to circumvent the heat dissipation problem of VLSI circuits. The synthesis of reversible circuits is a very promising area of study considering the expected further technological…

Reversible computation is gaining increasing relevance in the context of several post-CMOS technologies, the most prominent of those being Quantum computing. One of the key theoretical problem pertaining to reversible logic synthesis is the…

Reversible logic circuit is a necessary construction for achieving ultra low power dissipation as well as for prominent post-CMOS computing technologies such as Quantum computing. Consequently automatic synthesis of a Boolean function using…

Nanomagnetic logic, in which the outcome of a computation is embedded into the energy hierarchy of magnetostatically coupled nanomagnets, offers an attractive pathway to implement in-memory computation. This computational paradigm avoids…

Reversible logic has applications in various research areas including low-power design and quantum computation. In this paper, a rule-based optimization approach for reversible circuits is proposed which uses both negative and positive…

Reversible computation has been proposed as a future paradigm for energy efficient computation, but so far few implementations have been realised in practice. Quantum circuits, running on quantum computers, are one construct known to be…

Globalization of IC manufacturing has led to increased security concerns, notably IP theft. Several logic locking techniques have been developed for protecting designs, but they typically display very large overhead, and are generally…

Side channel attacks are a major security concern for smart cards and other embedded devices. They analyze the variations on the power consumption to find the secret key of the encryption algorithm implemented within the security IC. To…

This paper presents and demonstrates a stochastic logic time delay reservoir design in FPGA hardware. The reservoir network approach is analyzed using a number of metrics, such as kernel quality, generalization rank, performance on simple…

Programmable circuits such as general-purpose processors or FPGAs have their end-user energy efficiency strongly dependent on the program that they execute. Ultimately, it is the programmer's ability to code and, in the case of general…

Researchers developed about a dozen semiconductor reversible (or adiabatic) logic chips since the early 1990s, validating circuit designs and proving the concept--but scale up required a further advance. This document shows that cryogenic…