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Leading the Blind

The design and development of innovative FPGA architectures hinge on the flexibility of its toolchain. Retargetable toolchains, like the Verilog-to-Routing (VTR) flow, have been developed to enable the testing of new FPGAs by mapping circuits onto easily-d ...

EPFL2017

Single-FPGA complete 3D and 2D medical ultrasound imager

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Marcel Arditi, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Damien Doy

3D ultrasound (US) acquisition acquires volumetric images, thus alleviating a classical US imaging bottleneck that requires a highly-trained sonographer to operate the US probe. However, this opportunity has not been explored in practice, since 3D US machi ...

IEEE2017

Live Demonstration: Inexpensive 1024-Channel 3D Telesonography System on FPGA

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Marcel Arditi, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Damien Doy

Volumetric ultrasound (US) is a very promising development of medical US imaging. An under-exploited advantage of volumetric US is the mitigation of the strict probe positioning constrains necessary to acquire 2D scans, potentially allowing the decoupling ...

2017

Automatic Generation of Efficient Accelerators for Reconfigurable Hardware

Christos Kozyrakis, Yunqi Zhang

Acceleration in the form of customized datapaths offer large performance and energy improvements over general purpose processors. Reconfigurable fabrics such as FPGAs are gaining popularity for use in implementing application-specific accelerators, thereby ...

Ieee2016

A Full-Capacity Local Routing Architecture for FPGAs

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Xifan Tang

Reconfigurable systems employ highly-routable local routing architecture to interconnect generic fine-grain logic blocks. Commercial FPGAs employ 50% sparse crossbars rather than fully-connected crossbars in their local routing architecture to trade off be ...

2016

Methodology for 3-D Substrate Network Extraction for SPICE Simulation of Parasitic Currents in Smart Power ICs

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Camillo Stefanucci, Pietro Buccella

A 3-D simulation of substrate currents is crucial to analyze parasitic coupling effects due to minority carrier injection in smart power ICs. In this paper, a substrate parasitic extraction methodology is introduced by dividing the IC layout into elementar ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Substrate Current Optimization in Smart Power ICs

Pietro Buccella

Safety requirements for modern automotive electronics call for more and more robust power integrated circuits. The mixed-signal IC design flow alone is often no longer capable of tracking possible design failures in complex Smart Power integrated circuits ...

EPFL2016

Synthesis of Dual Mode Logic

Adam Shmuel Teman

In recent years, the major focus of VLSI design has shifted from high-speed to low-power consumption. While standard CMOS-based digital design provides substantial flexibility during pre-silicon design phases, the characteristics of the gates are set by fa ...

Elsevier2016

Exploiting the Expressive Power of Graphene Reconfigurable Gates via Post-Synthesis Optimization

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Luca Gaetano Amarù, Sandeep Miryala

As an answer to the new electronics market demands, semiconductor industry is looking for different materials, new process technologies and alternative design solutions that can support Silicon replacement in the VLSI domain. The recent introduction of gra ...

ACM2015

A Circuit Synthesis Flow for Controllable-Polarity Transistors

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Luca Gaetano Amarù

Double-Gate (DG) controllable-polarity Field-Effect Transistors (FETs) are devices whose n- or p- polarity is on-line configurable by adjusting the second gate voltage. Such emerging transistors have been fabricated in silicon nanowires, carbon nanotuges a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

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