System-level optimization of accelerator local memory for heterogeneous systems-on-chip

C Pilato, P Mantovani, G Di Guglielmo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In modern system-on-chip architectures, specialized accelerators are increasingly used to
improve performance and energy efficiency. The growing complexity of these systems …

Design space exploration of fpga-based system with multiple dnn accelerators

R Kedia, S Goel, M Balakrishnan… - IEEE Embedded …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many emerging systems concurrently execute multiple applications that use deep neural
network (DNN) as a key portion of the computation. To speedup the execution of such …

Synchoricity and NOCs could make billion gate custom hardware centric SOCs affordable

A Hemani, SMAH Jafri, S Masoumian - Proceedings of the Eleventh …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present a novel synchoros VLSI design scheme that discretizes space
uniformly. Synchoros derives from the Greek word chóros for space. We propose raising the …

eBrainII: a 3 kW realtime custom 3D DRAM integrated ASIC implementation of a biologically plausible model of a human scale cortex

D Stathis, C Sudarshan, Y Yang, M Jung… - Journal of Signal …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), like CNN/DNN and LSTM, are not
biologically plausible. Despite their initial success, they cannot attain the cognitive …

Silago-cog: Coarse-grained grid-based design for near tape-out power estimation accuracy at high level

SMAH Jafri, N Farahini… - 2017 IEEE computer …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is well known that ASICs have orders of magnitude higher power efficiency than general
propose processors. However, due to the high engineering and manufacturing cost only …

RiBoSOM: Rapid bacterial genome identification using self-organizing map implemented on the synchoros SiLago platform

Y Yang, D Stathis, P Sharma, K Paul… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Artificial Neural Networks have been applied to many traditional machine learning
applications in image and speech processing. More recently, ANNs have caught attention of …

System-level memory optimization for high-level synthesis of component-based SoCs

C Pilato, P Mantovani, G Di Guglielmo… - Proceedings of the 2014 …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
The design of specialized accelerators is essential to the success of many modern Systems-
on-Chip. Electronic system-level design methodologies and high-level synthesis tools are …

Synchoros VLSI design style

D Stathis - 2022 - diva-portal.org
Computers have become essential to everyday life as much as electricity, communications
and transport. That is evident from the amount of electricity we spend to power our …

The silago solution: Architecture and design methods for a heterogeneous dark silicon aware coarse grain reconfigurable fabric

A Hemani, N Farahini, SMAH Jafri, H Sohofi… - The Dark Side of Silicon …, 2017 - Springer
The dark silicon constraint will restrict the VLSI designers to utilize an increasingly smaller
percentage of transistors as we progress deeper into nano-scale regime because of the …

Synthesis of predictable global NoC by abutment in synchoros VLSI design

JA González, D Stathis, A Hemani - Proceedings of the 15th IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Synchoros VLSI design style has been proposed as an alternative to the standard cell-
based design style; the word synchoros is derived from the Greek word choros for space …