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Maximizing Energy Efficiency in Subthreshold RISC-V Cores (NTNU)
By Technical Paper Link - 12 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Optimizing Energy Efficiency in Subthreshold RISC-V Cores" was published by researchers at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Abstract "Our goal in this paper is to understand how to maximize energy efficiency when designing standard-ISA processor cores for subthreshold operation. We hence develop a custom subthreshold library and use it to ... » read more

Wafer-Scale Computing for LLMs (U. of Edinburgh, Microsoft)
By Technical Paper Link - 09 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "WaferLLM: A Wafer-Scale LLM Inference System" was published by researchers at University of Edinburgh and Microsoft Research. Abstract "Emerging AI accelerators increasingly adopt wafer-scale manufacturing technologies, integrating hundreds of thousands of AI cores in a mesh-based architecture with large distributed on-chip memory (tens of GB in total) and ultr... » read more

Power Delivery Challenges in 3D HI CIM Architectures for AI Accelerators (Georgia Tech)
By Technical Paper Link - 07 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Co-Optimization of Power Delivery Network Design for 3D Heterogeneous Integration of RRAM-based Compute In-Memory Accelerators" was published by researchers at Georgia Tech. Abstract: "3D heterogeneous integration (3D HI) offers promising solutions for incorporating substantial embedded memory into cutting-edge analog compute-in-memory (CIM) AI accelerators, ad... » read more

Transistor Sizing Approach for OTA Circuits Using a Transformer Architecture
By Technical Paper Link - 07 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

A  new technical paper titled "Accelerating OTA Circuit Design: Transistor Sizing Based on a Transformer Model and Precomputed Lookup Tables" was published by University Minnesota and Cadence. Abstract: "Device sizing is crucial for meeting performance specifications in operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs), and this work proposes an automated sizing framework based on a transform... » read more

Optimization of the Inter-Chiplet Interconnect And The Chiplet Placement (ETH Zurich, U. of Bologna)
By Technical Paper Link - 04 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "PlaceIT: Placement-based Inter-Chiplet Interconnect Topologies" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich and University of Bologna. Abstract "2.5D integration technology is gaining traction as it copes with the exponentially growing design cost of modern integrated circuits. A crucial part of a 2.5D stacked chip is a low-latency and high-throughput inter-ch... » read more

Mixed-Precision DL Inference, Co-Designed With HW Accelerator DPU (Intel)
By Technical Paper Link - 03 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "StruM: Structured Mixed Precision for Efficient Deep Learning Hardware Codesign" was published by Intel. Abstract "In this paper, we propose StruM, a novel structured mixed-precision-based deep learning inference method, co-designed with its associated hardware accelerator (DPU), to address the escalating computational and memory demands of deep learning worklo... » read more

Processing-Using-DRAM: Attaining High-Performance Via Dynamic Precision Bit-Serial Arithmetic (ETH Zurich, et al.)
By Technical Paper Link - 01 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Proteus: Achieving High-Performance Processing-Using-DRAM via Dynamic Precision Bit-Serial Arithmetic" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich, Cambridge University, Universidad de Córdoba, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NVIDIA Research. Abstract "Processing-using-DRAM (PUD) is a paradigm where the analog operational properties of DRAM structures ... » read more

Topology And Connection Architecture Of CXL Pooling Systems (Microsoft, Columbia)
By Technical Paper Link - 29 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Octopus: Scalable Low-Cost CXL Memory Pooling" was published by researchers at University of Washington, Microsoft Azure and Columbia University. Abstract "Compute Express Link (CXL) is widely-supported interconnect standard that promises to enable memory disaggregation in data centers. CXL allows for memory pooling, which can be used to create a shared memory ... » read more

DeepSeek: Improving Language Model Reasoning Capabilities Using Pure Reinforcement Learning
By Technical Paper Link - 27 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning" was published by DeepSeek. Abstract: "We introduce our first-generation reasoning models, DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1-Zero, a model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning (SFT) as a preliminary step, demonstrates rema... » read more

Reverse Engineering Approach for Evaluating HW IP Protection ( U. of Florida, Indiana U.)
By Technical Paper Link - 23 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Library-Attack: Reverse Engineering Approach for Evaluating Hardware IP Protection" was published by researchers at University of Florida and Indiana University. Abstract "Existing countermeasures for hardware IP protection, such as obfuscation, camouflaging, and redaction, aim to defend against confidentiality and integrity attacks. However, within the current thr... » read more

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