The effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for tasks such as Automatic Speech Recognition has fostered interest in RNN inference acceleration. Due to the recurrent nature and data dependencies of RNN computations, prior work has designed ...

Existing near-data processing (NDP)-powered architectures have demonstrated their strength for some data-intensive applications. Data center servers, however, have to serve not only data-intensive but also compute-intensive applications. An in-depth ...

Memory-centric designs deploy computation to storage and enable efficient in-memory computation while avoiding massive amount of data movement. The in-memory-computing schemes have shown distinct advantages and concerns when applying to different types ...

As with most aspects of electronic systems and integrated circuits, hardware security has traditionally evolved around the dominant CMOS technology. However, with the rise of various emerging technologies, whose main purpose is to overcome the ...

The broad applications of lithium-ion batteries in cyber-physical systems attract intensive research on building energy-efficient battery systems. Reconfigurable battery packs have been proposed to improve reliability and energy efficiency. Despite ...

For makers and developers, circuit prototyping is an integral part of building electronic projects. Currently, it is common to build circuits based on breadboard schematics that are available on various maker and DIY websites. Some breadboard schematics ...

The extremely high technology process reached by silicon manufacturing (smaller than 32nm) has led to production of computational platforms and SoC, featuring a considerable amount of resources. Whereas from one side such multi- and many-core platforms ...

P4 is a high-level language for programming protocol-independent packet processors. P4 works in conjunction with SDN control protocols like OpenFlow. In its current form, OpenFlow explicitly specifies protocol headers on which it operates. This set has ...

In recent years, many design approaches have been developed for automated manufacturing systems in the fields of reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS), holonic manufacturing systems (HMS), and multi-agent systems (MAS). One of the principle reasons ...

This column discusses topics of interest to the microarchitecture community, judging by Micro conference paper session topics and IEEE Micro issue themes. It also previews the two Cool Chips articles in the issue and the cover article on CPU-GPU ...

In this paper, we propose a multi-resolution filter bank (MRFB)-based on the fast filter bank design for multiple resolution spectrum sensing in military radio receivers. The proposed method overcomes the constraint of fixed sensing resolution in ...

Frameworks that promote the intelligent coordination of medical devices are required in ubiquitous health care environments. Such environments are essential to achieve closed-loop behavior, and an emphasis on interoperability standards and ...

This introduction to the special issue on Cool Chips discusses the state of low-power, high-speed chips and challenges facing researchers. It introduces five articles exploring different solutions to reducing power consumption and enhancing chip ...

A new antenna structure comprising of multiple radiating microstrip patches, representing a figure of digit eight, proximity fed by a microstrip line is proposed. On a double-layered substrate of FR4, this antenna achieves multiband functionality in the ...

In this work a wide overview on the exploitation of MEMS technology (MicroElectroMechanical-Systems) for Radio Frequency (i.e. RF-MEMS) and telecommunication systems is provided. In the last 10-15 years MEMS technology proved to be a valuable solution ...

In this demo, we prove that the flexibility supported by off-the-shelf IEEE 802.11 hardware can be significantly extended if we move the control of the MAC programming interface from the driver to the firmware, i.e. from the host CPU to the card CPU. To ...

Reconfigurability analysis for reliable fault-tolerant control designIn this paper the integration of reliability evaluation in reconfigurability analysis of a fault-tolerant control system is considered. The aim of this work is to contribute to ...

It is generally believed that a distributed intelligent system, such as a holonic manufacturing system (HMS), should be more reconfigurable than a conventional hierarchical manufacturing system (HiMS). However, a recent case study suggested that the ...

With the progress in wireless communications techniques in recent years, a new promising concept of wireless sensor networks has received a well deserved attention by researchers all over the world. Embedded sensors offer intelligent devices and systems ...

Security processing provides user authentication and secure communication for portable electronic devices. Security processors for portable electronic devices should occupy small area, consume low power, handle several cryptography algorithms, and ...