Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Dec. 3


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=391 /] » read more

Chiplet-Based NPUs to Accelerate Vehicular AI Perception Workloads


A new technical paper titled "Performance Implications of Multi-Chiplet Neural Processing Units on Autonomous Driving Perception" was published by researchers at UC Irvine. Abstract "We study the application of emerging chiplet-based Neural Processing Units to accelerate vehicular AI perception workloads in constrained automotive settings. The motivation stems from how chiplets technology i... » read more

Chiplet Heterogeneity And Advanced Scheduling With Pipelining


A technical paper titled “Inter-Layer Scheduling Space Exploration for Multi-model Inference on Heterogeneous Chiplets” was published by researchers at University of California Irvine. Abstract: "To address increasing compute demand from recent multi-model workloads with heavy models like large language models, we propose to deploy heterogeneous chiplet-based multi-chip module (MCM)-based... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Dec 18


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=176 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

Week In Review: Manufacturing, Test


Global semiconductor sales decreased 5.2% month-to-month in January, according to a new report by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). For the year, worldwide chip sales are down 18.5%, with the largest drop in sales by China at 31.6%, followed by the Asia Pacific region at 19.5%, and the Americas at 12.4%. Despite the contraction, companies are increasing investments in manufacturi... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 6


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=84 /] If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit for our global audience. At a minimum, papers need to be well researched and documented, relevant to the semiconductor ecosystem, and free of marketing bias. There is no cost involved for us ... » read more

Neuromorphic HW Fabric That Supports A Recently Proposed Class of Stochastic Neural Network


New research paper titled "Neural sampling machine with stochastic synapse allows brain-like learning and inference" from University of Notre Dame and Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California Irvine. Abstract "Many real-world mission-critical applications require continual online learning from noisy data and real-time decision making with a defined confidence level. Brain-... » read more

Security Research Bits


A number of hardware security-related technical papers were presented at the August 2021 USENIX Security Symposium. The organization provides open access research, and the presentation slides and papers are free to the public. Topics include side-channel attacks and defenses, embedded security, hardware security tokens, and more. Here are some highlights with associated links:   [tab... » read more

Has Computational Storage Finally Arrived?


The idea behind computational storage is not new. It’s just that like so many concepts, the idea has been well ahead of the technology. In a nutshell, computational storage brings processing power to the storage level. It eliminates the need to load data from the storage system into memory for processing. Moving data between storage and compute resources is inefficient and computational sy... » read more

HyperRec: Efficient Recommender Systems with Hyperdimensional Computing


A group of researchers are taking a different approach to AI. The University of California at San Diego, the University of California at Irvine, San Diego State University and DGIST recently presented a paper on a new hardware algorithm based on hyperdimensional (HD) computing, which is a brain-inspired computing model. The new algorithm, called HyperRec, uses data that is modeled with bina... » read more