Processor-based strong physical unclonable functions with aging-based response tuning

J Kong, F Koushanfar - IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A strong physically unclonable function (PUF) is a circuit structure that extracts an
exponential number of unique chip signatures from a bounded number of circuit …

An energy-efficient last-level cache architecture for process variation-tolerant 3D microprocessors

J Kong, F Koushanfar, SW Chung - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As process technologies evolves, tackling process variation problems is becoming more
challenging in 3D (ie, die-stacked) microprocessors. Process variation adversely affects …

Exploiting narrow-width values for process variation-tolerant 3-D microprocessors

J Kong, SW Chung - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Process variation is a challenging problem in 3D microprocessors, since it adversely affects
performance, power, and reliability of 3D microprocessors, which in turn results in yield …

Fine-grained voltage boosting for improving yield in near-threshold many-core processors

J Kong, A Munir, F Koushanfar - Proceedings of the 25th edition on Great …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Process variation is a major impediment in optimizing yield, energy, and performance in
near-threshold many-core processors. In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis …

Variable latency L1 data cache architecture design in multi-core processor under process variation

J Kong - Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and …, 2015 - koreascience.kr
In this paper, we propose a new variable latency L1 data cache architecture for multi-core
processors. Our proposed architecture extends the traditional variable latency cache to be …

Near-threshold L1 data cache for yield management under process variations

J Kong, JY Hur - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Near-threshold computing (NTC) has recently emerged and been considered as a strong
candidate for future energy-efficient computing. However, adverse impacts from process …

An efficient trade-off between yield and energy for eDRAM caches under process variations

J Kong, YH Gong - Microprocessors and Microsystems, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract eDRAM cells have been considered as a promising alternative to conventional
SRAM cells and already adopted in commercial processors. However, eDRAM cells need to …

Process variation-tolerant 3D microprocessor design: An efficient architectural solution

J Kong, SW Chung - … of 2013 International Conference on IC …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Process variation is one of the most challenging problems for 3D microprocessors. This is
because stacked dies are likely to have fairly different characteristics due to wafer-to-wafer …