ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems

We describe an exciting new application domain for deep reinforcement learning (RL): droplet routing on digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs). A DMFB consists of a two-dimensional electrode array, and it manipulates droplets of liquid to automatically ...

Logic synthesis is a crucial step in electronic design automation tools. The rapid developments of reinforcement learning (RL) have enabled the automated exploration of logic synthesis. Existing RL based methods may lead to data inefficiency, and the ...

Deep learning has become a highly popular research field, and previously deep learning algorithms ran primarily on CPUs and GPUs. However, with the rapid development of deep learning, it was discovered that existing processors could not meet the specific ...

Cache timing channel attacks exploit the inherent properties of cache memories: hit and miss time along with the shared nature of the cache to leak secret information. The side channel and covert channel are the two well-known cache timing channel ...

Recently Processing-in-Memory (PIM) has become a promising solution to achieve energy-efficient computation in data-intensive applications by placing computation near or inside the memory. In most Deep Learning (DL) frameworks, a user manually partitions ...

For real-time embedded systems, QoS (Quality of Service), fault tolerance, and energy budget constraint are among the primary design concerns. In this research, we investigate the problem of energy constrained standby-sparing for both periodic and ...

Over the past decade, machine learning model complexity has grown at an extraordinary rate, as has the scale of the systems training such large models. However, there is an alarmingly low hardware utilization (5–20%) in large scale AI systems. The low ...

Controllers are mission-critical components of any electronic design. By sending control signals, they decide which and when other data path elements must operate. Faults, especially Single Event Upset (SEU) occurrence in these components, can lead to ...

Recently, GPU-accelerated placers such as DREAMPlace and Xplace have demonstrated their superiority over traditional CPU-reliant placers by achieving orders of magnitude speed up in placement runtime. However, due to their limited focus in placement ...

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) realizes high bandwidth and time determinism for data transmission and thus becomes the crucial communication technology in time-critical systems. The Gate Control List (GCL) is used to control the transmission of different ...

Multiple software and hardware intellectual property (IP) components are combined on a single chip to form Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chips (MPSoCs). Due to the rigid time-to-market constraints, some of the IPs are from outsourced third parties. Due to ...

Ideally, accelerator development should be as easy as software development. Several recent design languages/tools are working toward this goal, but actually testing early designs on real applications end-to-end remains prohibitively difficult due to the ...

Placement is a critical step in the physical design for digital application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), as it can directly affect the design qualities such as wirelength and timing. For many domain specific designs, the demands for high ...

Analog circuit optimization and design presents a unique set of challenges in the IC design process. Many applications require the designer to optimize for multiple competing objectives, which poses a crucial challenge. Motivated by these practical ...

Finite field multiplication is a non-linear transformation operator that appears in the majority of symmetric cryptographic algorithms. Numerous specified finite field multiplication units have been proposed as a fundamental module in the coarse-grained ...

Logic camouflage is a widely adopted technique that mitigates the threat of intellectual property (IP) piracy and overproduction in the integrated circuit (IC) supply chain. Camouflaged logic achieves functional obfuscation through physical-level ...