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Constant technological advancements in commercial multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) resulted in their deployment in more and more applications, ranging from entertainment to disaster management and many more domains. However, in contrast to their powerful and diverse entrance into our lifestyle and society, they do not yet provide sufficient intrinsic fail-safe mechanisms to prevent accidents...
The growing impact of the network on the overall power consumption of many-core systems introduces a need for mechanisms that reduce the power required for data communication without significantly impacting performance. This paper proposes a low-overhead mechanism for frequency control of individual channels in a Network-on-Chip system. The proposed mechanism is low-overhead, distributed and easy...
Near real-time periodic tasks, which are popular in multimedia streaming applications, have deadline periods that are longer than the input intervals thanks to buffering. For such applications, the conventional frame-based scheduling cannot realize optimal scheduling due to their shortsighted deadline assumption. To realize globally energy-efficient executions of these applications, we propose a novel...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an extremely fragmented market and can be defined as anything from sensors to small servers. It is estimated that over 30 billion IoT devices will ship by 2020. The ability to sense countless amounts of information that communicates to the cloud is driving innovation into IoT applications, such as in wearable devices (for health, fitness or infotainment applications)...
Non-volatile memory (NVM)-based FPGAs are expected to replace traditional SRAM-based FPGAs to achieve higher scalability, lower leakage power, and better reliability. In NVM-based FPGAs, dynamic power is the dominant power factor, and flip-flops exhibit the most intensive switching activities. While flip-flops can be implemented with NVM elements such as Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJ), NVM cells...
Developing computer vision applications for low-power heterogeneous systems is increasingly gaining interest in the embedded systems community. Even more interesting is the tuning of such embedded software for the target architecture when this is driven by multiple constraints (e.g., performance, peak power, energy consumption). Indeed, developers frequently run into system-level inefficiencies and...
Addressing electromigration (EM) during physical design has become crucial to ensure reliable integrated circuits. Simulation methods, such as the finite element method (FEM), are increasingly overwhelmed by the complexity of the task. With further technology scaling, it is predicted that FEM will not be usable anymore for a full-chip EM analysis due to complexity reasons. To address this bottleneck,...
As fabrication process exploits even deeper submicron technology, power consumption is becoming one of the most critical obstacles in electronic circuit and system designs nowadays. Meanwhile, the leakage power is dominating the power consumption. Various emerging nanodevices have been developed to tackle the leakage power issue in recent years. The single-electron transistor (SET) is regarded as...
The miniaturization of CMOS technology is likely to reach its limit due to short-channel effects. New transistor technologies, including FinFET technology, were developed to deal with this effect and enable the continuous scaling-down of technological nodes. Alongside the constant scale-down of integrated circuits technology, the increasing need to store more and more information has resulted in the...
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are interconnections of heterogeneous hardware and software components (e.g., sensors, actuators, physical systems/processes, computational nodes and controllers, and communication subsystems). Increasing network connectivity of CPS computational nodes facilitates maintenance and on-demand reprogrammability and reduces operator workload. However, such increasing connectivity...
Current System on Chip (SoC) designs operate in multiple domains such as clock, reset and power domains. This is done to afford various functionalities existing on different IPs that can work in different configurations. Data propagating across multiple reset domains with the absence of correct synchronizers may be corrupted and unreliable. This paper presents an efficient technique to dynamically...
This talk will focus on an IoT Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) presented as an example of IoT work in the UAE and as part of the UAE SRC (Semiconductor Research Corp) Center of Excellence on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (aka ACE4S http://www.src.org/program/grc/ace4s/) involving researchers from 5 UAE Universities looking at developing new technologies aiming at innovative self-powered wireless sensing...
Currently, the most of the available strategies devised for in-field testing of microprocessor cores in the automotive market, are mainly oriented to test the more representative functional modules. However, most of the modern architectures also include a series of spare computational components that perform very specific functionalities. For example, merging modules, masked and reverse operation...
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