A survey of architectural techniques for near-threshold computing

S Mittal - ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Energy efficiency has now become the primary obstacle in scaling the performance of all
classes of computing systems. Low-voltage computing, specifically, near-threshold voltage …

Exploiting partially-forgetful memories for approximate computing

M Shoushtari, A BanaiyanMofrad… - IEEE Embedded …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the memory subsystem is already a major contributor to energy consumption of
embedded systems, the guard-banding required for masking the effects of ever increasing …

Software controlled memories for scalable many-core architectures

LAD Bathen, ND Dutt - … and Real-Time Computing Systems and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Technology scaling along with the ever evolving demand for media-rich software stacks
have motivated the need for many-core platforms. With the increase in compute power and …

Power/capacity scaling: Energy savings with simple fault-tolerant caches

M Gottscho, A BanaiyanMofrad, N Dutt… - Proceedings of the 51st …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Complicated approaches to fault-tolerant voltage-scalable (FTVS) SRAM cache
architectures can suffer from high overheads. We propose static (SPCS) and dynamic …

Power/energy minimization techniques for variability-aware high-performance 16-nm 6T-SRAM

J Samandari-Rad, R Hughey - IEEE Access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power and energy minimization is a critical concern for the battery life, reliability, and yield of
many minimum-sized SRAMs. In this paper, we extend our previously proposed hybrid …

A parallel and reconfigurable architecture for efficient OMP compressive sensing reconstruction

AM Kulkarni, H Homayoun, T Mohsenin - … of the 24th Edition of the Great …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Compressive Sensing (CS) is a novel scheme, in which a signal that is sparse in a known
transform domain can be reconstructed using fewer samples. However, the signal …

Low-cost memory fault tolerance for IoT devices

M Gottscho, I Alam, C Schoeny, L Dolecek… - ACM Transactions on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
IoT devices need reliable hardware at low cost. It is challenging to efficiently cope with both
hard and soft faults in embedded scratchpad memories. To address this problem, we …

Multi-layer memory resiliency

N Dutt, P Gupta, A Nicolau, A BanaiyanMofrad… - Proceedings of the 51st …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
With memories continuing to dominate the area, power, cost and performance of a design,
there is a critical need to provision reliable, high-performance memory bandwidth for …

DPCS: Dynamic power/capacity scaling for SRAM caches in the nanoscale era

M Gottscho, A BanaiyanMofrad, N Dutt… - ACM Transactions on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Fault-Tolerant Voltage-Scalable (FTVS) SRAM cache architectures are a promising
approach to improve energy efficiency of memories in the presence of nanoscale process …

REMEDIATE: A scalable fault-tolerant architecture for low-power NUCA cache in tiled CMPs

A BanaiyanMofrad, H Homayoun… - 2013 International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Technology scaling and process variation severely degrade the reliability of Chip
Multiprocessors (CMPs), especially their large cache blocks. To improve cache reliability, we …