Advanced Design in Semiconductor Electronics

This lecture provides an overview of a project focusing on advanced design in semiconductor electronics, addressing challenges such as power efficiency, bandwidth, and volume predictions. The project resulted in a prototype chip with a homogeneous fabric of processor clusters optimized for energy efficiency, aiming to bridge the gap between flexibility and efficiency in computing engines. The lecture delves into the hardware design challenges, including the communication challenge in many-core architectures, the design of a multi-banked memory for processors, and the development of a synchronous network on chip. It also discusses the system-level interconnect and potential solutions for integrating the chip into a system on chip or a 3D stackable configuration.