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HW-Enabled Security Techniques To Improve Platform Security And Data Protection For Cloud Data Centers And Edge Computing (NIST)


A technical paper titled "Hardware-Enabled Security: Enabling a Layered Approach to Platform Security for Cloud and Edge Computing Use Cases" was published by NIST, Intel, AMD, Arm, IBM, Cisco and Scarfone Cybersecurity. Abstract: "In today’s cloud data centers and edge computing, attack surfaces have shifted and, in some cases, significantly increased. At the same time, hacking has becom... » read more

Fabricating FeFET Devices with Silicon-Doped Hafnium Oxide As A Ferroelectric Layer


A new technical paper titled "Synergistic Approach of Interfacial Layer Engineering and READ-Voltage Optimization in HfO2-Based FeFETs for In-Memory-Computing Applications" was published by researchers at Fraunhofer IPMS, GlobalFoundries, and TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Abstract (partial) "This article reports an improvement in the performance of the hafnium oxide-based (HfO2) ferroelectric... » read more

An Arrangement of Chiplets That Outperforms A Grid Arrangement (ETH Zurich / U. of Bologna)


A research paper titled "HexaMesh: Scaling to Hundreds of Chiplets with an Optimized Chiplet Arrangement" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich and University of Bologna. Abstract: "2.5D integration is an important technique to tackle the growing cost of manufacturing chips in advanced technology nodes. This poses the challenge of providing high-performance inter-chiplet interconnects ... » read more

Hardware Trojans Target Coherence Systems in Chiplets (Texas A&M / NYU)


A technical paper titled "Hardware Trojan Threats to Cache Coherence in Modern 2.5D Chiplet Systems" was published by researchers at Texas A&M University and NYU. Abstract: "As industry moves toward chiplet-based designs, the insertion of hardware Trojans poses a significant threat to the security of these systems. These systems rely heavily on cache coherence for coherent data communic... » read more

HW Security: Fingerprints Of Digital Circuits Using Electromagnetic Side-Channel Sensing & Simulations (Georgia Tech)


A technical paper titled "Circuit Activity Fingerprinting Using Electromagnetic Side-Channel Sensing and Digital Circuit Simulations" was published by researchers at Georgia Tech. The work "introduces a novel circuit identification method based on “fingerprints” of periodic circuit activity that does not rely on any circuit-specific reference measurements. We capture these “fingerprint... » read more

Chip Sandwich: Electronics Chip & Photonics Chip Co-Optimized To Work Together (CalTech/Univ. of Southampton)


A technical paper titled "A 100-Gb/s PAM4 Optical Transmitter in a 3-D-Integrated SiPh-CMOS Platform Using Segmented MOSCAP Modulators" was published by researchers at CalTech and University of Southampton. "The resulting optimized interface between the two chips allows them to transmit 100 gigabits of data per second while producing just 2.4 pico-Joules per transmitted bit. This improves th... » read more

HW Accelerator Architecture for MI Computation With Low Latency, Energy Efficient (MIT)


A new technical paper titled "Efficient Computation of Map-scale Continuous Mutual Information on Chip in Real Time" was published by researchers at MIT. Find the technical paper here. "In this paper, we introduce a new hardware accelerator architecture for MI computation that features a low-latency, energy-efficient MI compute core and an optimized memory subsystem that provides sufficie... » read more

MAC Operation on 28nm High-k Metal Gate FeFET-based Memory Array with ADC (Fraunhofer IPMS/GF)


A technical paper titled "Demonstration of Multiply-Accumulate Operation With 28 nm FeFET Crossbar Array" was published by researchers at Fraunhofer IPMS and GlobalFoundries. Abstract "This letter reports a linear multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation conducted on a crossbar memory array based on 28nm high-k metal gate (HKMG) Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) and ferroelectric fi... » read more

Using Sparseloop in Hardware Accelerator Design Flows (MIT)


A technical paper titled "Sparseloop: An Analytical Approach To Sparse Tensor Accelerator Modeling" was published by researchers at MIT and NVIDIA.  The paper won "Distinguished Artifact Award" at the MICRO 2022 conference. Find the technical paper here.  Published 2022.  Project website is here and github here. Abstract: "In recent years, many accelerators have been proposed to effici... » read more

Optimizing Hardware Capacity, Utilizing Automatic Differentiation to Efficiently Compute Derivatives in Parallel Programming Models


A technical paper titled "Scalable Automatic Differentiation of Multiple Parallel Paradigms through Compiler Augmentation" was published by researchers at MIT (CSAIL), Argonne National Lab, and TU Munich. The paper was a Best Paper Finalist and a Best Student Paper winner at SuperComputing 2022. Find the technical paper here. Published November 2022. The work "demonstrates how Enzyme opti... » read more

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