PULP: A ultra-low power parallel accelerator for energy-efficient and flexible embedded vision

F Conti, D Rossi, A Pullini, I Loi, L Benini - Journal of Signal Processing …, 2016 - Springer
Novel pervasive devices such as smart surveillance cameras and autonomous micro-UAVs
could greatly benefit from the availability of a computing device supporting embedded …

A 60 gops/w,− 1.8 v to 0.9 v body bias ulp cluster in 28 nm utbb fd-soi technology

D Rossi, A Pullini, I Loi, M Gautschi, FK Gürkaynak… - Solid-State …, 2016 - Elsevier
Ultra-low power operation and extreme energy efficiency are strong requirements for a
number of high-growth application areas, such as E-health, Internet of Things, and wearable …

Klessydra-t: designing vector coprocessors for multithreaded edge-computing cores

A Cheikh, S Sordillo, A Mastrandrea, F Menichelli… - IEEE Micro, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computation-intensive kernels, such as convolutions, matrix multiplication, and Fourier
transform, are fundamental to edge-computing AI, signal processing, and cryptographic …

Multi-core embedded wireless sensor networks: Architecture and applications

A Munir, A Gordon-Ross… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Technological advancements in the silicon industry, as predicted by Moore's law, have
enabled integration of billions of transistors on a single chip. To exploit this high transistor …

Accelerated visual context classification on a low-power smartwatch

F Conti, D Palossi, R Andri, M Magno… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data produced by wearable sensors is key in contexts such as performance enhancement
and training help for sports and fitness, continuous monitoring for aging people and for …

A low power software-defined-radio baseband processor for the Internet of Things

Y Chen, S Lu, HS Kim, D Blaauw… - … symposium on high …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we define a configurable Software Defined Radio (SDR) baseband processor
design for the Internet of Things (IoT). We analyzed the fundamental algorithms in …

Energy-efficient vision on the PULP platform for ultra-low power parallel computing

F Conti, D Rossi, A Pullini, I Loi… - 2014 IEEE Workshop on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many-core architectures structured as fabrics of tightly-coupled clusters have shown
promising results on embedded computer vision benchmarks, providing state-of-art …

Recent subthreshold design techniques

M Radfar, K Shah, J Singh - Active and Passive Electronic …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Considering the variety of studies that have been reported in low‐power designing era, the
subthreshold design trend in Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits has experienced a …

Process variation in near-threshold wide SIMD architectures

S Seo, RG Dreslinski, M Woh, Y Park… - Proceedings of the 49th …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Near-threshold operation has emerged as a competitive approach for energy-efficient
architecture design. In particular, a combination of near-threshold circuit techniques and …

Enabling the heterogeneous accelerator model on ultra-low power microcontroller platforms

F Conti, D Palossi, A Marongiu… - … Design, Automation & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The stringent power constraints of complex microcontroller based devices (eg smart sensors
for the IoT) represent an obstacle to the introduction of sophisticated functionality …