Author's Latest Posts


The Severity Of Test Escapes And SDCs Caused By Them (Google)


A new technical paper titled "Silent Data Corruption by 10x Test Escapes Threatens Reliable Computing" was published by Google. Abstract "Too many defective compute chips are escaping existing manufacturing tests -- at least an order of magnitude more than industrial targets across all compute chip types in data centers. Silent data corruptions (SDCs) caused by test escapes, when left unadd... » read more

LtRAM And StRAM: Specialized Memory Architectures Leveraging Workload-Specific Access Characteristics (Stanford, Microsoft)


A new technical paper titled "Towards Memory Specialization: A Case for Long-Term and Short-Term RAM" was published by researchers at Stanford University and Microsoft, and an independent researcher. Abstract "Both SRAM and DRAM have stopped scaling: there is no technical roadmap to reduce their cost (per byte/GB). As a result, memory now dominates system cost. This paper argues for a parad... » read more

In-NAND Self-Encryption Architecture In A 4D-NAND Structure (DGIST, Georgia Tech Et Al.)


A new technical paper titled "FlashVault: Versatile In-NAND Self-Encryption with Zero Area Overhead" was published by researchers at DGIST, Georgia Tech, POSTECH, Samsung Electronics, Virginia Tech, and Korea University. Abstract "We present FlashVault, an in-NAND self-encryption architecture that embeds a reconfigurable cryptographic engine into the unused silicon area of a state-of-the-ar... » read more

Low-Latency Interconnect for Close-Coupled On-Chip Communication With Error Correction Code Protection (ETH Zurich)


A new technical paper titled "relOBI: A Reliable Low-latency Interconnect for Tightly-Coupled On-chip Communication" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. Excerpt "On-chip communication is a critical element of modern systems-on-chip (SoCs), allowing processor cores to interact with memory and peripherals. Interconnects require special care in radiation-heavy environments, as any soft... » read more

Noise Margin Enhancing ULVR SRAM Cell (Tokyo Institute of Technology)


A new technical paper titled "A New Ultralow-Voltage Retention SRAM Cell Enhancing Noise Immunity" was published by researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Excerpt "A new ultralow-voltage retention (ULVR) SRAM cell is proposed, which can highly enhance the noise margin (NM) for the ULVR mode at ultralow voltages (VUL). This 8T cell is configured with newtype Schmitt-trigger (ST) i... » read more

Epitaxial Growth Of Up To 120 Si/SiGe Bilayers In View of 3D DRAM Applications (imec, Ghent Univ.)


A new technical paper titled "Epitaxial growth of up to 120× {Si0.8Ge0.2/Si} bilayers in view of three dimensional dynamic random access memory applications" was published by researchers at imec and Ghent University. Abstract "Epitaxially grown Si/Si1−xGex multi-stacks with ≥100 bilayers (≥200 sublayers) are being considered for three dimensionally vertically stacked dynamic rando... » read more

3DICs: Atomic-Scale Behavior of Electromigration in Cu−Cu Joints (NYCU, ITRI)


A new technical paper titled "In Situ Atomic-Scale Investigation of Electromigration Behavior in Cu–Cu Joints at High Current Density" was published by researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). Excerpt "Electromigration (EM) poses significant challenges to the reliability of miniaturized devices, particularly th... » read more

SpiNNaker2 Neuromorphic Platform: HW-Aware Fine-Tuning of Spiking Q-Networks (TU Dresden Et Al.)


A new technical paper titled "Hardware-Aware Fine-Tuning of Spiking Q-Networks on the SpiNNaker2 Neuromorphic Platform" was published by researchers at TU Dresden, ScaDS.AI and Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI). Excerpt "Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) promise orders-of-magnitude lower power consumption and low-latency inference on neuromorphic hardware for a wide ran... » read more

Optical Next-Gen Reservoir Computing Framework (Sorbonne, CNRS, Tsinghua U. et al)


A new technical paper titled "Optical next generation reservoir computing" was published by researchers at Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Tsinghua University, University of Hong Kong, and University of Tokyo. Excerpt "Artificial neural networks with internal dynamics exhibit remarkable capability in processing information. Reservoir computing (RC) is a canonical example that features rich comp... » read more

Double Intra-Cavity VCSELs: Properties And Design Challenges At Cryogenic Temperatures (Tampere Univ.)


A new technical paper titled "Thermal characteristics of a double intra-cavity contact VCSEL for cryogenic optical links" was published by researchers at Tampere University. Excerpt "Cryogenic computing systems, including quantum computers, cryo-CMOS and superconducting processors, necessitate efficient optical data links capable of operation at temperatures as low as 4 K. Vertical-cavity s... » read more

← Older posts Newer posts →