Hardware Accelerator For Fully Homomorphic Encryption


A technical paper titled "CraterLake: A Hardware Accelerator for Efficient Unbounded Computation on Encrypted Data" was published by researchers at MIT, IBM TJ Watson, SRI International, and University of Michigan. "We present CraterLake, the first FHE accelerator that enables FHE programs of unbounded size (i.e., unbounded multiplicative depth). Such computations require very large cipherte... » read more

Efficient Gated Clock Design Approach for LFSR


A technical paper titled "A Novel Clock Gating Approach for the Design of Low-Power Linear Feedback Shift Registers" was published by researchers at Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy. Abstract "This paper presents an efficient solution to reduce the power consumption of the popular linear feedback shift register by exploiting the gated clock approach. The power reduction with respec... » read more

RISC-V decoupled Vector Processing Unit (VPU) For HPC


A technical paper titled "Vitruvius+: An Area-Efficient RISC-V Decoupled Vector Coprocessor for High Performance Computing Applications" was published by researchers at Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain. "The maturity level of RISC-V and the availability of domain-specific instruction set extensions, like vector processing, make RISC-V a good candidate for supporting the integration of ... » read more

Scalable Technique Producing Thin Lightweight Solar Cells That Turn Any Surface Into A Power Source (MIT)


A new technical paper titled "Printed Organic Photovoltaic Modules on Transferable Ultra-thin Substrates as Additive Power Sources" was published by researchers at MIT. "These durable, flexible solar cells, which are much thinner than a human hair, are glued to a strong, lightweight fabric, making them easy to install on a fixed surface. They can provide energy on the go as a wearable power ... » read more

Hardware Fuzzing (U. of Michigan, Google, Virginia Tech)


A technical paper titled "Fuzzing Hardware Like Software" was published by researchers at University of Michigan, Google and Virginia Tech. The paper was presented at the 2022 Usenix Security Symposium. Abstract: "Hardware flaws are permanent and potent: hardware cannot be patched once fabricated, and any flaws may undermine even formally verified software executing on top. Consequently, ve... » read more

Ultrafast Optical Chirality Logic Gates (Aalto University)


A technical paper titled "Chirality logic gates" was published by researchers at Aalto University (Finland), National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (Beijing), and University of Cambridge. Abstract (partial) "The ever-growing demand for faster and more efficient data transfer and processing has brought optical computation strategies to the forefront of research in next-generation com... » read more

Repurposing Josephson Junctions At The Cell Boundaries For Fan-out (UCSB)


A technical paper titled "Low-Cost Superconducting Fan-Out with Repurposed Josephson Junctions" was published by researchers at UC Santa Barbara.  The paper received an award at the Applied Superconductivity Conference in Oct 2022 and was highlighted in this UCSB news article. Abstract: "Superconductor electronics (SCE) promise computer systems with orders of magnitude higher speeds and lo... » read more

Safeguarding SRAMs From IP Theft (Best Paper Award)


A technical paper titled "Beware of Discarding Used SRAMs: Information is Stored Permanently" was published by researchers at Auburn University. The paper won "Best Paper Award" at the IEEE International Conference on Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE) Oct. 25-27 in Huntsville. Abstract: "Data recovery has long been a focus of the electronics industry for decades by s... » read more

Automatic Layout Generator Targeting Region-based Layouts for Advanced FinFET-Based Full-Custom Circuits (UT Austin/NVIDIA)


A technical paper titled "AutoCRAFT: Layout Automation for Custom Circuits in Advanced FinFET Technologies" was published by researchers at UT Austin and NVIDIA. "This paper presents AutoCRAFT, an automatic layout generator targeting region-based layouts for advanced FinFET-based full-custom circuits. AutoCRAFT uses specialized place-and-route (P&R) algorithms to handle various design cons... » read more

Step Towards A 5G Software-Defined RAN Over A Fully Open-Source Parallel RISC-V Architecture (ETH Zurich)


A technical paper titled "Efficient Parallelization of 5G-PUSCH on a Scalable RISC-V Many-core Processor" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. Abstract (partial) "5G Radio access network disaggregation and softwarization pose challenges in terms of computational performance to the processing units. At the physical layer level, the baseband processing computational effort is typicall... » read more

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