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SiC Power Electronics Packaging: Floating Die Structure and Liquid Metal Fluidic Connection (Cambridge U. )


A new technical paper titled "Liquid Metal Fluidic Connection and Floating Die Structure for Ultralow Thermomechanical Stress of SiC Power Electronics Packaging" was published by researchers at Cambridge University. Abstract "Coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE) of various materials in packaging structure layers vary largely, causing significant thermomechanical stress in power electroni... » read more

HW Security: Flip-Flops Along Logic Gates to Prevent Synthesis Tools’ Structural Leakages (TU Dresden, Ruhr Univ. Bochum)


A new technical paper titled "Flip-Lock: A Flip-Flop-Based Logic Locking Technique for Thwarting ML-based and Algorithmic Structural Attacks" was published by researchers at TU Dresden and Ruhr University Bochum. Abstract "Machine learning (ML) and algorithmic structural attacks have highlighted the possibility of utilizing structural leakages of an obfuscated circuit to reverse engineer th... » read more

Functional Compaction for Functional Test Sequences (Purdue University, I. Pomeranz)


A new technical paper titled "Functional Compaction for Functional Test Sequences" was published by IEEE Fellow Irith Pomeranz at Purdue University. Abstract: "The occurrence of silent data corruption because of hardware defects in large scale data centers points to the advantages of applying functional test sequences to detect hardware defects that escape scan-based tests. When using funct... » read more

Excitonic Phenomena in TMDs (Harvard, Google, Stanford et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Dynamical Control of Excitons in Atomically Thin Semiconductors" was published by researchers at Harvard University, Google Research, Stanford University, UC Riverside and others. Abstract "Excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as a promising platform for novel applications ranging from optoelectronic devices to quantum optics and sol... » read more

6G And Beyond: Overall Vision And Survey of Research


A new 92 page technical paper titled "6G: The Intelligent Network of Everything -- A Comprehensive Vision, Survey, and Tutorial" was published by IEEE researchers at Finland's University of Oulu. Abstract "The global 6G vision has taken its shape after years of international research and development efforts. This work culminated in ITU-R's Recommendation on "IMT-2030 Framework". While the d... » read more

Step Towards 3D PICs: Low Loss Fiber-Coupled Interconnects (UIUC)


A new technical paper titled "Low loss fiber-coupled volumetric interconnects fabricated via direct laser writing" was published by researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Abstract "Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are vital for high-speed data transmission. However, optical routing is limited in PICs composed of only one or a few stacked planes. Further, coupling ... » read more

NVMs: In-Memory Fine-Grained Integrity Verification Technique (Intel Labs, IISc)


A new technical paper titled "iMIV: in-Memory Integrity Verification for NVM" was published by researchers at Intel Labs and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. Abstract "Non-volatile Memory (NVM) could bridge the gap between memory and storage. However, NVMs are susceptible to data remanence attacks. Thus, multiple security metadata must persist along with the data to protect th... » read more

In Situ Backpropagation Strategy That Progressively Updates Neural Network Layers Directly in HW (TU Eindhoven)


A new technical paper titled "Hardware implementation of backpropagation using progressive gradient descent for in situ training of multilayer neural networks" was published by researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology. Abstract "Neural network training can be slow and energy-expensive due to the frequent transfer of weight data between digital memory and processing units. Neuromorp... » read more

Monolithic 3D TFT Integration at Room Temperature, Used to Stack 10 Vertical Layers


A new technical paper titled "Three-dimensional integrated metal-oxide transistors" was published by researchers at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology). Abstract "The monolithic three-dimensional vertical integration of thin-film transistor (TFT) technologies could be used to create high-density, energy-efficient and low-cost integrated circuits. However, the develo... » read more

On-Chip Communication For Programmable Accelerators In Heterogeneous SoCs (Columbia, IBM)


A technical paper titled “Towards Generalized On-Chip Communication for Programmable Accelerators in Heterogeneous Architectures” was published by researchers at Columbia University and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Abstract: "We present several enhancements to the open-source ESP platform to support flexible and efficient on-chip communication for programmable accelerators in het... » read more

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