Publications by Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon

Extending Boolean Methods for Scalable Logic Synthesis

Giovanni De Micheli, Mathias Soeken, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Luca Gaetano Amarù, Eleonora Testa

In recent years, Boolean methods in logic synthesis have been drawing the attention of EDA researchers due to the continuous push to advance quality of results. Boolean methods require high computational cost, as they rely on complete functional properties ...

2020

A Product Engine for Energy-Efficient Execution of Binary Neural Networks Using Resistive Memories

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi, Xifan Tang, Edouard Giacomin, João Miguel Morgado Pereira Vieira

The need for running complex Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), in edge devices, which are highly constrained in terms of computing power and energy, makes it important to execute such applications efficiently. ...

2019

Scalable Boolean Methods in a Modern Synthesis Flow

Mathias Soeken, Luca Gaetano Amarù, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Eleonora Testa, Jingshan Luo

With the continuous push to improve Quality of Results (QoR) in EDA, Boolean methods in logic synthesis have been recently drawing the attention of researchers. Boolean methods achieve better QoR than algebraic methods but require higher computational cost ...

2019

Functionality Enhanced Memories for Edge-AI Embedded Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Marco Antonio Rios, William Andrew Simon

With the surge in complexity of edge workloads, it appeared in the scientific community that such workloads cannot be anymore overflown to the cloud due to the huge edge device to server communication energy cost and the high energy consumption induced in ...

IEEE2019

Devices and Circuits Using Novel 2-D Materials: A Perspective for Future VLSI Systems

Giovanni De Micheli, Giovanni Vincenzo Resta, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon

Here, we review the most recent developments in the field of 2-D electronics. We focus first on the synthesis of 2-D materials, discussing the different growth techniques currently available and assessing their strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, we descri ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Post-P&R Performance and Power Analysis for RRAM-based FPGAs

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

Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM)-based FPGAs are predicted to outperform conventional FPGAs architectures in area, delay and power over a wide range of voltage operations, allowing novel energy-quality trade-offs for reconfigurable computing. The oppo ...

2018

Doping-Free Complementary Logic Gates Enabled by Two-Dimensional Polarity-Controllable Transistors

Giovanni De Micheli, Giovanni Vincenzo Resta, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon

Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials belonging to transition metal dichalcogenides, due to their physical and electrical properties, are an exceptional vector for the exploration of next-generation semiconductor devices. Among them, due to the po ...

2018

FPGA-SPICE: A Simulation-Based Architecture Evaluation Framework for FPGAs

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

In this paper, we developed a simulation-based architecture evaluation framework for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), called FPGA-SPICE, which enables automatic layout-level estimation and electrical simulations of FPGA architectures. FPGA-SPICE can ...

2018

Doping-free complementary inverter enabled by 2D WSe2 electrostatically-doped reconfigurable transistors

Giovanni De Micheli, Giovanni Vincenzo Resta, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon

Amongst 2-dimensional (2D) semiconductors of the transition-metal di-chalcogenide (TMDC) family [1], tungsten diselenide (WSe2) has shown ambipolar behavior [2], [3] coupled with high carrier mobility [4] and CMOS-like devices have been experimentally demo ...

IEEE2018

Conformal Deposition of Conductive Single-Crystalline Cobalt Silicide Layer on Si Wafer via a Molecular Approach

Giovanni De Micheli, Olha Sereda, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Tsung-Han Lin, David Baudouin

The realization of metal-semiconductor contacts plays a significant role in ultrascaled integrated circuits. Here, we establish a low-temperature molecular approach for the conformal deposition of a 20-nm Co-rich layer on Si (100) wafers by reaction in sol ...

2018