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Impact Of The Film Transfer And Grain Size On The Cu-barrier Properties Of 2D WS2 Films (NUS et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Enhancing Cu-barrier properties of 2D-WS2 barriers: The role of grain size and surface passivation" was published by researchers at National University of Singapore, AIXTRON, IMiF and Applied Materials. Abstract "Two-dimensional (2D) films, such as tungsten disulfide (WS2), are being considered by the microelectronics industry as promising barrier and liner s... » read more

Autonomous Driving: Motion Planner Executed on Automotive-Grade Embedded HW (TU Munich)


A new technical paper titled "Towards Safe Autonomous Driving: A Real-Time Motion Planning Algorithm on Embedded Hardware" was published by researchers at TU Munich. Abstract "Ensuring the functional safety of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) requires motion planning modules that not only operate within strict real-time constraints but also maintain controllability in case of system faults. Exis... » read more

Ultra-low-bit LLM Inference Allows AI-PC CPUs And Discrete Client GPUs To Approach High-end GPU-Level (Intel)


A new technical paper titled "Pushing the Envelope of LLM Inference on AI-PC and Intel GPUs" was published by researcher at Intel. Abstract "The advent of ultra-low-bit LLM models (1/1.58/2-bit), which match the perplexity and end-task performance of their full-precision counterparts using the same model size, is ushering in a new era of LLM inference for resource-constrained environments... » read more

Semiconductor Supply Chain Security Using Side-Channel Power Measurements and Generative Adversarial Networks (Cornell)


A new technical paper titled "Out-of-Band Power Side-Channel Detection for Semiconductor Supply Chain Integrity at Scale" was published by researchers at Cornell University. Abstract "Out-of-band screening of microcontrollers is a major gap in semiconductor supply chain security. High-assurance techniques such as X-ray and destructive reverse engineering are accurate but slow and expensiv... » read more

MFMIS FeTFETs For Energy-Efficient, Scalable CIM Hardware Accelerators (Seoul National University)


A new technical titled "Impact of Random Phase Distribution on Ferroelectric Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors With Mitigation Strategies for Compute-in-Memory Applications" was published by researchers at Seoul National University. Abstract "This work presents, for the first time, an investigation of the impact of random phase distribution on ferroelectric (FE) tunnel field-effect transist... » read more

Hypergraph-based Techniques To Map Spiking Neural Networks on Neuromorphic HW (Politecnico di Milano)


A new technical paper titled "A Case for Hypergraphs to Model and Map SNNs on Neuromorphic Hardware" was published by researchers at Politecnico di Milano. Abstract "Executing Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic hardware poses the problem of mapping neurons to cores. SNNs operate by propagating spikes between neurons that form a graph through synapses. Neuromorphic hardware mimic... » read more

Overview of ALD-Driven Oxide Semiconductors for High Density, Low Power Memory Architectures (Hanyang Univ., imec)


A new technical paper titled "Oxide Semiconductor for Advanced Memory Architectures: Atomic Layer Deposition, Key Requirement and Challenges" was published by researchers a Hanyang University and imec. Abstract "Oxide semiconductors (OSs), introduced by the Hosono group in the early 2000s, have evolved from display backplane materials to promising candidates for advanced memory and logic ... » read more

Better Contact Resistance in Top-Gate CNFETs through Self-Aligned MoOx Nanoparticle Contact Doping (NYCU et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Improving Contact Resistance in Top-Gate Carbon Nanotube Transistor through Self-Aligned MoOx Nanoparticle Contact Doping" was published by researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and National Center for Instrumentation Research. "Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are promising candidates for next-generation back-end-of-line (BEOL) compatible devices due t... » read more

Overview and Comparison of Devices Used For Optical Waveguide-to-Waveguide Coupling (MIT et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Advances in waveguide to waveguide couplers for 3D integrated photonic packaging" was published by researchers at MIT and Bridgewater State University. Abstract "In this paper, we provide an overview and comparison of devices used for optical waveguide-to-waveguide coupling including inter-chip edge couplers, grating couplers, free form couplers, evanescent cou... » read more

Outlier-aware Quantization Framework Co-designed With Heterogeneous NVM For SLM Deployment on Edge Platforms (UCSD et al.)


  A new technical paper titled "QMC: Efficient SLM Edge Inference via Outlier-Aware Quantization and Emergent Memories Co-Design" was published by researchers at University of California San Diego and San Diego State University. Abstract "Deploying Small Language Models (SLMs) on edge platforms is critical for real-time, privacy-sensitive generative AI, yet constrained by memory, ... » read more

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