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Bloom filters are commonly used to test for set membership. A Bloom filter consists of a series of hash functions, whose combined signature is used to construct a composite hash. Applications are broad, and include networking, transactional memory, ...

The complexity of the design-space exploration of large-scale NoCs is exacerbated not only by the ever-increasing number of cores, but also by the increased runtime uncertainties in both the scale and task structure of the emerging applications. ...

As energy efficiency has become a primary concern, system designers have greater need for a flexible and highly accurate power estimation method for evaluating different architecture options. Since memory is an increasingly dominant power consumer, we ...

Many modern cyber-physical systems (CPS), especially industrial automation systems, require the actions of multiple computational systems to be performed at much higher rates and more tightly synchronized than is possible with ad hoc designs. Time is ...

Write amplification is a major cause of performance and endurance degradations in NAND flash based storage systems. In an object-based NAND flash device, two causes of write amplification are onode partial update and cascading update. Updating one onode,...

The write amplification problem deteriorates as the block size of modern flash-memory chips keeps increasing. Without the careful garbage collection, significant live-page copying might even worsen the reliability problem, that is already severe to 3D ...

Over the past years, the adaptation of flash memory has seen a tremendous growth in a wide range of fields, with high-end applications demanding ever higher reliability and performance for storage devices. Even though a single-level-cell (SLC) flash ...

Emergence of Internet-of-Things brings a whole new class of applications and higher efficiency for existing services. Application-specific requirements, as well as connectivity and communication ability of devices have introduced new challenges for IoT ...

Internet-of-Things (IoT) envisions an infrastructure of ubiquitous networked smart devices offering advanced monitoring and control services. Current art in IoT architectures utilizes gateways to enable application-specific connectivity to IoT devices. ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a design implementation of embedded system design that connects a variety of devices, sensors, and physical objects to a larger connected network (e.g. the Internet) which requires human-to-human or human-to-computer ...

This paper presents a fast and cycle accurate simulation environment for early power-performance analysis of multithreaded applications targeted to symmetric multiprocessing embedded architectures. Our simulation environment leverages the hybrid ...

Due to the exponentially increasing size of design space of microprocessors and time-consuming simulations, predictive models have been widely employed in design space exploration (DSE). Traditional approaches mostly build a program-specific predictor ...

Applications, such as streaming applications, modeled by task graphs can be efficiently executed in a pipelined fashion. In synthesizing application-specific heterogeneous pipelined systems, where to place buffers (called buffer placement) and what type ...

Micron's new Automata Processor (AP) architecture exploits the very high and natural level of parallelism found in DRAM technologies to achieve native-hardware implementation of non-deterministic finite automata (NFAs). The use of DRAM technology to ...

Conventional High Level Synthesis (HLS) tools mainly target compute intensive kernels typical of digital signal processing applications. We are developing techniques and architectural templates to enable HLS of data analytics applications. These ...

In this paper, we present the implementation of big data analytics applications in a heterogeneous CPU+FPGA accelerator architecture. We develop the MapReduce implementation of K-means, K nearest neighbor, support vector machine and Naive Bayes in a ...

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are a set of powerful yet computationally complex learning mechanisms that are projected to dominate various artificial intelligence and massive data analytic domains. Physical viability, such as timing, memory, or energy ...

Decreasing hardware reliability makes robust firmware imperative for safety-critical applications. Hence, ensuring correct handling of errors in peripherals is a key objective during firmware design. To adequately support robustness considerations of ...

The communication in Network-on-Chips (NoCs) may be subject to errors. Error Correcting Codes (ECCs) can be used to tolerate the transient faults in flits caused by Single Event Upsets (SEU). ECC can improve the reliability of a NoC significantly at the ...

The reliability problem of modern flash-memory chips quickly deteriorates because of the nature of MLC chips. Although the vertical stacking of storage cells in 3D flash-memory chips dramatically increases the bit density, compared to 2D chips, it also ...

The IoT will host a large number of co-existing cyber-physical applications. Continuous change, application interference, environment dynamics and uncertainty lead to complex effects which must be controlled to give performance and application ...

Energy harvesting is one of the most promising battery alternatives to power future generation embedded systems in Internet of Things (IoT). However, energy harvesting powered embedded systems suffer from frequent execution interruption due to unstable ...

Wireless body sensor nodes (WBSNs) are miniaturized devices that are able to acquire, process and transmit bio-signals (such as electrocardiograms, respiration or human-body kinetics). WBSNs face major design challenges due to extremely limited power ...

Photonic network-on-chip (PNoC) architectures employ photonic waveguides with dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) for signal traversal and microring resonators (MRs) for signal modulation, to enable high bandwidth on-chip transfers. ...

Advances in the physical sciences and engineering enable the development of internet-of-things (IoT) to understand, interface / interact and engineer physical world (systems). However, the deployment of multitude of wireless sensors and agents spanning ...

The volume of mobile web browsing traffic has significantly increased as well as the complexity of the mobile websites mandating high-performance web page rendering engines to be used on mobile devices. Although there has been a significant improvement ...

To meet the performance and energy efficiency demands of emerging complex and variable workloads, heterogeneous many-core architectures are increasingly being deployed, necessitating operating systems support for adaptive task allocation to efficiently ...

In this paper, we study the problem of exploiting parallelism in a hard real-time streaming application modeled as a Synchronous Data Flow (SDF) graph and scheduled on a cluster heterogeneous Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) platform such that ...

Currently, the IoT discussion is focused primarily on the operational phase. This includes how a IoT device behaves, operates, communicates, and interacts with other IoT devices during operation. However, IoT devices and systems have other lifecycle ...

Security is important in IoT as any other computing systems. However, standard solutions are necessary but not sufficient due to the added dimensions of their presence in physical space and the possibility for them to interact. This talk presents a new ...