Publications by Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse

SideDRAM: Integrating SoftSIMD Datapaths near DRAM Banks for Energy-Efficient Variable Precision Computation

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Rafael Medina Morillas, Pengbo Yu

By interfacing computing logic directly to the DRAM banks, bank-level Compute-near-Memory (CnM) architectures promise to mitigate the bottleneck at the memory interconnect. While this computation paradigm heavily reduces the energy requirements for data mo ...

ACM2025

DBFS: Dynamic Bitwidth-Frequency Scaling for Efficient Software-defined SIMD

Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Pengbo Yu, Flavio Ponzina

Machine learning algorithms such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are characterized by high robustness towards quantization, supporting small-bitwidth fixed-point arithmetic at inference time with little to no degradation in accuracy. In turn, small ...

IEEE2024

An Energy Efficient Soft SIMD Microarchitecture and Its Application on Quantized CNNs

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Pengbo Yu, Flavio Ponzina

The ever-increasing computational complexity and energy consumption of today's applications, such as Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, not only strain the capabilities of the underlying hardware but also significantly restrict their wide deployment at the ...

2024

A GRANDAB Decoder with 8.48 Gbps Worst-Case Throughput in 65nm CMOS

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen, Yifei Shen, Thomas Christoph Müller, Yuqing Ren

We present an error correction code (ECC) decoder based on the Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) with ABandonment (GRANDAB) algorithm for applications that require constant throughput and fixed decoding latency in the Gbps range. This high co ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

Bit-Line Computing for CNN Accelerators Co-Design in Edge AI Inference

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios, Flavio Ponzina

By supporting the access of multiple memory words at the same time, Bit-line Computing (BC) architectures allow the parallel execution of bit-wise operations in-memory. At the array periphery, arithmetic operations are then derived with little additional o ...

2023

An Error-Based Approximation Sensing Circuit for Event-Triggered Low-Power Wearable Sensors

David Atienza Alonso, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Silvio Zanoli, Flavio Ponzina

Event-based sensors have the potential to optimize energy consumption at every stage in the signal processing pipeline, including data acquisition, transmission, processing, and storage. However, almost all state-of-the-art systems are still built upon th ...

2023

Overflow-free compute memories for edge AI acceleration

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios, Flavio Ponzina

Compute memories are memory arrays augmented with dedicated logic to support arithmetic. They support the efficient execution of data-centric computing patterns, such as those characterizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. These architectures can ...

2023

Overflow-free Compute Memories for Edge AI Acceleration

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios, Flavio Ponzina

Compute memories are memory arrays augmented with dedicated logic to support arithmetic. They support the efficient execution of data-centric computing patterns, such as those characterizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. These architectures can ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Thermal and Voltage-Aware Performance Management of 3D MPSoCs with Flow Cell Arrays and Integrated SC Converters

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Halima Najibi

Flow cell arrays (FCAs) concurrently provide efficient on-chip liquid cooling and electrochemical power generation. This technology is especially promising for three-dimensional multi-processor systems-on-chip (3D MPSoCs) realized in deeply scaled technolo ...

2022

Error Resilient In-Memory Computing Architecture for CNN Inference on the Edge

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios, Flavio Ponzina

The growing popularity of edge computing has fostered the development of diverse solutions to support Artificial Intelligence (AI) in energy-constrained devices. Nonetheless, comparatively few efforts have focused on the resiliency exhibited by AI workload ...

2022