Due to the exceedingly high integration density of VLSI circuits and the resulting high power density, thermal integrity became a major challenge. One way to tackle this problem is Dark silicon. Dark silicon is the amount of circuitry in a chip that is ...

With the widespread use of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), machine learning algorithms have evolved in two diverse directions—one with ever-increasing connection density for better accuracy and the other with more compact sizing for energy efficiency. The ...

Voltage/frequency island (VFI)-based power management is a popular methodology for designing energy-efficient manycore architectures without incurring significant performance overhead. However, monolithic 3D (M3D) integration has emerged as an enabling ...

A Mixed Criticality System (MCS) combines real-time software tasks with different criticality levels. In a MCS, the criticality level specifies the level of assurance against system failure. For high-critical flows of messages, it is imperative to meet ...

Communication between different IP cores in MPSoCs and HMPs often results in clock domain crossing. Asynchronous network on chip (NoC) support communication in such heterogeneous set-ups. While there are a large number of tools to model NoCs for ...

We study the ultimate limits of hardware solutions for the self-protection strategies against permanent faults in networks on chips (NoCs). NoCs reliability is improved by replacing each base router by an augmented router which includes extra protection ...

Protection of intellectual property (IP) is increasingly critical for IP vendors in the semiconductor industry. However, advanced reverse engineering techniques can physically disassemble the chip and derive the IPs at a much lower cost than the value ...

To face the complex communication problems that arise as the number of on-chip components grows up, photonic networks-on-chip (NoCs) have been recently proposed to replace electronic interconnects. However, photonic NoCs lack efficient laser sources, ...

As the relentless quest for higher throughput and lower energy cost continues in heterogenous multicores, there is a strong demand for energy-efficient and high-performance Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures. Heterogeneous architectures that can ...

Optical networks-on-chip (NoCs) based on silicon photonics have been proposed as emerging on-chip communication architectures for chip multiprocessors with large core counts. However, due to the thermal sensitivity of optical devices used in optical ...

Wireless Network-on-Chip (WiNoC) represents a promising emerging communication technology for addressing the scalability limitations of future manycore architectures. In a WiNoC, high-latency and power-hungry long-range multi-hop communications can be ...