Final Program
The PDF with the final program can be found HERE.

08:00 – 08:30

Conference Registration

08:30 – 09:00

Welcome by General and Program Co-Chairs

09:00 – 10:00

Keynote Talk 1: Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee, AI Facebook
“The Computing Frontiers of Social Network”

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:45

Session 1.1/1.2 .A
Low Power Analog Sensing

Session 2.1.A
Power Delivery: Generate, Regulate, Infiltrate

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 14:45

Session 1.1/1.2 .B
Clocking and Communication Techniques

Session 2.2.A
Low-Power Architectures and Frameworks for Machine Learning

14:45 – 15:15

Coffee Break

15:15 – 16:30

Session 1.3.A
Low Power On-Chip and Chip-To-Chip Communication

Session 2.3.A
Artificial Intelligence in System Design

16:30 – 17:30

Design Contest Short Presentations

17:45 – 20:00

Industry Reception with Demos and Industry Perspective Posters

 

 

9:00 – 10:00 Keynote-1

The Computing Frontiers of Social Network
Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee, AI Facebook

Chairs: David Atienza

 

Session 1.1/1.2.A: Low Power Analog Sensing
Chairs: Rahul M. Rao

10:30 – 10:55

A Pulse-Width Modulated Cochlear Implant Interface Electronics with 513 µW Power Consumption
Halil Andac Yigit, Hasan Ulusan, Muhammed Berat Yuksel, Salar Chamanian, Berkay Çiftci, Aziz Koyuncuoglu, Ali Muhtaroglu and Haluk Kulah

10:55 – 11:20

A Sound Activity Detector Embedded Low-Power MEMS Microphone Readout Interface for Speech Recognition
Youngtae Yang, Junsoo Cho, byunggyu lee and Suhwan Kim

11:20 – 11:45

A Compact Self-Capacitance Sensing Analog Front-End for a Touch Detection in Low Power Mode
Jiheon Park, Young-Ha Hwang, Jonghyun Oh, Yoonho Song, Jun-Eun Park and Deog-Kyoon Jeong

 

Session 2.1.A: Power Delivery: Generate, Regulate, Infiltrate
Chairs: Mohamed Sabry, Andrea Calimera

10:30 – 10:55

A Design Framework for Thermal-Aware Power Delivery Network in 3D MPSoCs with Integrated Flow Cell Arrays
Halima Najibi, Alexandre Levisse and Marina Zapater

10:55 – 11:20

Automatic GDSII Generator for On-Chip Voltage Regulator for Easy Integration in Digital SoCs
Venkata Chaitanya Krishna Chekuri, Nihar Dasari, Arvind Singh and Saibal Mukhopadhyay

11:20 – 11:45

Power Delivery Resonant Virus: Concept and Application
Tianhao Shen, Di Gao, Yiyu Shi and Cheng Zhuo

 

Session 1.1/1.2.B: Clocking and Communication Techniques
Chairs: Vishal Khatri

13:30 – 13:55

A Low-Energy Inductive Transceiver using Spike-Latency Encoding for Wireless 3D Integration
Benjamin Fletcher, Shidhartha Das and Terrence Mak

13:55 – 14:20

A Low-Power and Low-Noise 20:1 Serializer with Two Calibration Loops in 55-nm CMOS
Yong-Un Jeong, Joo-Hyung Chae, Sung-Phil Choi, Jaekwang Yun, Shinhyun Jeong and Suhwan Kim

14:20 – 14:45

Robust Low Power Clock Synchronization for Multi-Die Systems
Ragh Kuttappa, Baris Taskin, Scott Lerner, Vasil Pano and Ioannis Savidis

 


Session 2.2.A: Low-Power Architectures and Frameworks for ML
Chairs: Marina Zapater, Qing Wu

13:30 – 13:55

An Automated Approximation Methodology for Arithmetic Circuits
Sayandip De, Jos Huisken and Henk Corporaal

13:55 – 14:20

An Ultra-Efficient Memristor-Based DNN Framework with Structured Pruning and Quantization Using ADMM
Geng Yuan, Xiaolong Ma, Caiwen Ding, Sheng Lin, Tianyun Zhang, Zeinab S. Jalali, Yilong Zhao, Li Jiang, Sucheta Soundarajan, Yanzhi Wang

14:20 – 14:45

DYSPINDLE : DYNAMIC SPIKE BUNDLING FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENT SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS

Sarada Krithivasan, Sanchari Sen, Swagath Venkataramani and Anand Raghunathan

 

Session 1.3.A: Low Power On-Chip and Chip-To-Chip Communication
Chairs: Chris Nicol

15:15 – 15:40

On Trade-off Between Static and Dynamic Power Consumption in NoC Power Gating
Di Zhu, Yunfan Li and Lizhong Chen

15:40 – 16:05

Muffin: Minimally-Buffered Zero-Delay Power-Gating Technique in On-Chip Routers
Hossein Farrokhbakht, Hadi Mardani Kamali and Natalie Enright Jerger

16:05 – 16:30

Concurrent Multipoint-to-Multipoint Communication on Interposer Channels
Lejie Lu, Richard Afoakwa, Michael Huang and Hui Wu

 

Session 2.3.A: Artificial Intelligence in System Design
Chairs: Amir Aminifar, Chun-Han Lin

15:15 – 15:40

TEA-DNN: the Quest for Time-Energy-Accuracy Co-optimized Deep Neural Networks
Lile Cai, Anne-Maelle Barneche, Arthur Herbout, Chuan Sheng Foo, Jie Lin, Vijay Ramaseshan Chandrasekhar and Mohamed M. Sabry

15:40 – 16:05

CNN-based Camera-less User Attention Detection for Smartphone Power Management
Daniele Jahier Pagliari, Matteo Ansaldi, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino

16:05 – 16:30

MemGANs: Memory Management for Energy-Efficient Acceleration of Complex Computations in Hardware Architectures for Generative Adversarial Networks
Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Muhammad Zuhaib Akbar, Rehan Ahmed, Semeen Rehman, Axel Jantsch, Muhammad Shafique


Industry Perspective Posters (Presented during Industry Reception)

1

Comparative evaluation of Body Biasing and Voltage Scaling for Low-Power Design on 28nm UTBB FD-SOI Technology

Ricardo Gomez Gomez, Edwige Bano and Sylvain Clerc

2

Enhanced 3D Implementation of an Arm Cortex-A Microprocessor

Xiaoqing Xu, Mudit Bhargava, Steve Moore, Saurabh Sinha and Brian Cline

 

Design Contest Demos (Pitch Session and during Industry Reception)

Processor Innovations

1

Exceeding Pessimistic Margins on ARMv8 Servers for Energy Efficient Processing in Edge/Cloud  
G. Papadimitriou, A. Chatzidimitriou, D. Gizopoulos, P. Nikolaou, Z. Hadjilambrou, Y. Sazeides, L. Mukhanov, K. Tovletoglou, G. Karakonstantis and D. Guilhot

2

Energy-Quality Scalable Monocular Depth Estimation for Embedded Systems
A. Cipolletta, V. Peluso, A. Calimera, E. Macii, M. Poggi, F. Tosi and S. Mattoccia

3

Implementation of Software Defined Energy Management for Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC
V. Zivojnovic, D. Mista and N. Katic

4

A 50MHz Low Power SoC Operating on a 0.48V Supply at 25°C
K. Han, S. Lee, J.-J. Lee, W. Lee and M. Pedram

5

Design and Validation of A Two-Phase Gravity-Driven Micro-Scale Thermosyphon
A. Iranfar, A. Seuret, I. Penas, J. B. Marcinichen, M. Zapater, J. Thome and D. Atienza

6

Realizing Energy-Efficient Dependable Systems with Variably-Reliable DRAMs
K. Tovletoglou, L. Mukhanov and G. Karakonstantis

7

An 88fJ / 40 MHz [0.4V] – 0.61pJ / 1GHz [0.9V] Dual Mode Logic 8x8-bit Multiplier Accumulator with a Self-Adjustment Mechanism in 28 nm FD-SOI
I. Stanger, N. Shavit, R. Taco and A. Fish

Machine Learning

8

Efficient Model Compression and Hardware-Aware Quantization for Object Detection on FPGAs
M. Sun, G. Yuan, N. Liu, K. Xu, X. Lin, and Y. Wang

9

Thinker-IM: An Energy-Efficient Speech Recognition Processor with Computing-in-Memory SRAM and Predictive Execution
R. Guo, Y. Liu, S. Zheng, S.-Y- Wu, P. Ouyang, W.-S. Khwa, C. Xi, J.-J. Chen, X. Li, L. Liu, M.-F. Chang, S. Wei and S. Yin

10

Vau da Muntanialas: Towards Real-Time Speech Recognition on an Energy-Efficient Systolic Array of LSTM Accelerators
G. Paulin, L. Cavigelli, F. Conti and L. Benini

11

Neuromorphic System for Temporal Data Classification
H. Fang, A. Shrestha, D. Rider and Q. Qiu

12

An Embedded Deep Learning Accelerator for Intelligent Microcontroller Units
F. Su, J. Yue, H. Tian and Y. Liu

13

STICKER: An energy efficient sparse-aware neural network processor
Z. Yuan, Y. Yang, H. Tian, T. Wu, H. Yang and Y. Liu

Edge Devices

14

FLASH: Content-based Power-saving Design for Scrolling Operations in Browser Applications on Mobile OLED Devices
H.-C. Chang, Y.-C. Yang, L.-Y. Yu and C.-H. Lin

15

Always-On VGA Vision Sensor with Pixel-Wise Double-Threshold Background Rejection for Event-Detection
Y. Zou, M. Gottardi, M. Lecca and M. Perenzoni

2

e-Glass for Real-Time Brain Activity Monitoring in the Internet of Things (IoT) Era
R. Zanetti, D. Sopic, A. Aminifar and D. Atienza

17

Self-Sustainable Embedded High-Precision and Low Latency UWB Localization
P. Mayer, C. Schnetzler, M. Magno and L. Benini

18

2.45-GHz Wireless Power Transfer for BLE-connected Smart Motion Detection Sensor
R. Dekimpe, P. Xu, M. Schramme, N. Janatian, I. Stupia, M. Drouguet, P. Gérard, C. Craeye, L. Vandendorpe, D. Flandre and D. Bol

19

PULP-DroNet: Open Source and Open Hardware Artificial Intelligence for Fully Autonomous Navigation on Nano-UAVs
D. Palossi, F. Conti, D. Rossi and L. Benini

20

InfiniWolf: A Self-Sustaining and Energy Efficient Multi-Sensor SmartWatch
X. Wang, M. Magno, D. Baret, L. Schulthess, M. Eggimann and L. Benini

21

SecureTouch: A Zero-Power Reciever For Body Communication and Secure Applications
P. Mayer, F. Villani, K. Weber and M. Magno


09:00 – 10:00

Keynote Talk 2: Prof. Luca Benini, ETH Zurich
“Extreme Edge AI - The Parallel Ultra-low Power (PULP) Approach”

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:45

Session 1.1/1.2 .C
Machine Learning Circuits and Memory Design

Session 2.2.B
Low-Power Edge Computing Systems

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 14:45

Session 1.3.B

Approximation for High Energy and Computational Efficiency

Session 2.3.B
Energy-Efficient Software for Mobile Applications

14:45 – 15:15

Coffee Break

15:15 – 16:30

Session 1.3.C
Memory Efficiency Improvement

Special Session
In-Memory Computing

18:30 – 22:00

Banquet + Awards (Olympic Museum)
Bus leaves 18:00 at EPFL

 

 

9:00 – 10:00 Keynote-2

Extreme Edge AI–The Parallel Ultra-low Power (PULP) Approach
Luca Benini, ETH Zurich

Chairs: Chris Nicol

 

Session 1.1/1.2.C: Machine Learning Circuits and Memory Design
Chairs: Alexandre Levisse

10:30 – 10:55

K-Nearest Neighbor Hardware Accelerator Using In-Memory Computing SRAM
Jyotishman Saikia, Shihui Yin, Zhewei Jiang, Mingoo Seok and Jae-sun Seo

10:55 – 11:20

A Logic Compatible 4T Dual Embedded DRAM Array for In-Memory Computation of Deep Neural Networks
Taegeun Yoo, Hyunjoon Kim, Qian Chen, Tony Tae-Hyoung Kim and Bongjin Kim

11:20 – 11:45

A 65nm switched source line sub-threshold ROM using data encoding, with 0.3V Vmin and 47fJ/b access energy
Supreet Jeloka, Pranay Prabhat, Graham Knight and James Myers

 

Session 2.2.B: Low-power Edge Computing Systems
Chairs: Tomas Teijeiro, Mahamed Sabry

10:30 – 10:55

Autonomous I/O for Intermittent IoT Systems
Yu-Chen Lin, Pi-Cheng Hsiu and Tei-Wei Kuo

10:55 – 11:20

BottleNet: A Deep Learning Architecture for Intelligent Mobile Cloud Computing Services
Amir Erfan Eshratifar, Amirhossein Esmaili and Massoud Pedram

11:20 – 11:45

Similarity-Based LSTM Architecture for Energy-Efficient Edge-Level Speech Recognition
Junseo Joe, Jaeha Kung, Sunggu Lee and Youngjoo Lee

 

Session 1.3.B: Approximation for High Energy and Computational Efficiency
Chairs: Mohsen Imani, Qinru Qiu

13:30 – 13:55

MixNet: An Energy-Scalable and Computationally Lightweight Deep Learning Accelerator
Sangwoo Jung, Seungsik Moon, Youngjoo Lee and Jaeha Kung

13:55 – 14:20

A²M: Approximate Algebraic Memory Using Polynomial Rings
Dong Kai Wang and Nam Sung Kim

14:20 – 14:45

Compressing Sparse Ternary Weight Convolutional Neural Networks for Efficient Hardware Acceleration
Hyeonwook Wi, Hyeonuk Kim, Seungkyu Choi and Lee-sup Kim

 

Session 2.3.B: Energy-Efficient Software for Mobile Applications
Chairs: Jaeha Kung, Christian Fabre

13:30 – 13:55

FLASH: Content-based Power-saving Design for Scrolling Operations in Browser Applications on Mobile OLED Devices
Hao-Chun Chang, Yu-Chieh Yang, Liang-Yan Yu and Chun-Han Lin

13:55 – 14:20

Balancing Memory Accesses for Energy-Efficient Graph Analytics Accelerators
Mingyu Yan, Xing Hu, Shuangchen Li, Itir Akgun, Han Li, Xin Ma, Lei Deng, Xiaochun Ye, Zhimin Zhang, Dongrui Fan and Yuan Xie

14:20 – 14:45

Rethinking Last-level-cache Write-back Strategy for MLC STT-RAM Main Memory with Asymmetric Write Energy
Yu-Pei Liang, Tseng-Yi Chen, Yuan-Hao Chang, Shuo-Han Chen, Pei-Yu Chen and Wei-Kuan Shih

 

Session 1.3.C: Memory Efficiency Improvement
Chairs: Jos Huiskens

15:15 – 15:40

Improving Energy Efficiency by Memoizing Data Access Information
Michael Stokes, Ryan Baird, Zhaoxiang Jin, David Whalley and Soner Onder

15:40 – 16:05

Exploring the Relation between Monolithic 3D L1 GPU Cache Capacity and Warp Scheduling Efficiency
Cong Thuan Do, Young-Ho Gong, Cheol Hong Kim, Seon Wook Kim and Sung Woo Chung

16:05 – 16:30

SHRIMP: Efficient Instruction Delivery with Domain Wall Memory
Joonas Multanen, Asif Ali Khan, Pekka Jääskeläinen, Fazal Hameed and Jeronimo Castrillon

 

Special Session: In-Memory Computing
Chairs: Robert Giterman, Nima Taheri Nejad

15:15 – 15:40

Unified Memory-Computing Architecture with Memristive Devices
Qing Wu

15:40 – 16:05

Phase-change memory enables energy-efficient brain-inspired computing

Manuel Le Gallo

16:05 – 16:30

Slashing energy and runtime with BLADE, an in-cache computing architecture for edge devices
Alexandre Levisse

09:00 – 10:00

Keynote Talk 3: Prof. Giovanni De Micheli, EPFL
“Nanosystems: Technology and Tools”

10:00 – 11:00

Poster Session
with Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:15

Session 1.3/2.3.D
Application-Centric Optimization of Emerging Technologies

Session 2.1/2.2/2.3
Optimization Methodologies for Unconventional Digital System Designs

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

 

9:00 – 10:00 Keynote-3

Nanosystems: Technology and Tools
Giovanni De Micheli, EPFL

Chairs: Qinru Qiu

 

10:00 – 11:00 Poster Session

1

3DTUBE: A DESIGN FRAMEWORK FOR HIGH-VARIATION CARBON NANOTUBE-BASED TRANSISTOR TECHNOLOGY

Aporva Amarnath, Javad Bagherzadeh, Jielun Tan and Ron Dreslinski

2

A PROBABILISTIC APPROACH TO ENERGY-CONSTRAINED MIXED-CRITICALITY SYSTEMS

F. Reghenzani, G. Massari and W. Fornaciari

3

ADDRESSING TEMPORAL VARIATIONS IN QUBIT QUALITY METRICS FOR PARAMETERIZED QUANTUM CIRCUITS

M. ALAM, A. Ash- Saki and S. Ghosh

4

AN ENERGY EFFICIENT ON-CHIP LEARNING ARCHITECTURE FOR STDP BASED SPARSE CODING

H. Kim, H. Tang and J. Park

5

BATTERY-AWARE ELECTRIC TRUCK DELIVERY ROUTE PLANNER

D. Baek, Y. Chen, N. Chang, E. Macii, M. Poncino

6

COMPHD: EFFICIENT HYPERDIMENSIONAL COMPUTING USING MODEL COMPRESSION

J. Morris, M. Imani, S. Bosch, A. Thomas, H. Shu and T. Rosing

7

FPGA-based Acceleration of Binary Neural Network Training with Minimized Off-Chip Memory Access
P. K. Chundi, P. Liu, S. Park, S. Lee and M. Seok

8

ENERGY-AUTONOMOUS MCU OPERATING IN SUB-VT REGIME WITH TIGHTLY-INTEGRATED ENERGY-HARVESTER

J. Deng, J.-L. Nagel, L. Zahnd, M. Pons, D. Ruffieux, C. Arm, P. Persechini and S. Emery

9

LOCAL LEARNING IN RRAM NEURAL NETWORKS WITH SPARSE DIRECT FEEDBACK ALIGNMENT

B. Crafton, P. Basnet, M. West, E. Vogel and A. Raychowdhury

10

MESSAGEFUSION: ON-PATH MESSAGE COALESCING FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT AND SCALABLE GRAPH ANALYTICS

L. Belayneh, A. Addisie and V. Bertacco

11

MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF CHIP COOLING WITH TWO-PHASE VAPOR CHAMBERS

Z. Yuan, G. Vaartstra, P. Shukla, S. Reda, E. Wang and A. Coskun

12

NON-VOLATILE MEMORY UTILIZING RECONFIGURABLE FERROELECTRIC TRANSISTORS TO ENABLE DIFFERENTIAL READ AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT IN-MEMORY COMPUTATION.

S. K. Thirumala, S. Jain, A. Raghunathan and S. Gupta

13

SECO: A SCALABLE ACCURACY APPROXIMATE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION VIA CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZATION

D. Wu, T. Chen, C.-F. Chen, O. Ahia, J. San Miguel, M. Lipasti and Y. Kim

14

SHINE: A NOVEL SHA-3 IMPLEMENTATION USING RERAM-BASED IN-MEMORY COMPUTING

K. Nagarajan, S. S. Ensan, M. N. I. Khan, S. Ghosh and A. Chattopadhyay

15

TEMPERATURE-AWARE ADAPTIVE VM ALLOCATION IN HETEROGENEOUS DATA CENTERS

Y. G. Kim, J. I. Kim, S. H. Choi, S. Y. Kim and S. W. Chung

16

TIP: A TEMPERATURE EFFECT INVERSION-AWARE ULTRA-LOW POWER SYSTEM-ON-CHIP PLATFORM

K. Han, S. Lee, J.-J. Lee, W. Lee and M. Pedram

 

Session 1.3/2.3.D: Application-Centric Optimization of Emerging Technologies
Chairs: Sung Woo Chung, Nima Taheri Nejad

11:00 – 11:25

RAPID: A ReRAM Processing in Memory Architecture for DNA Sequence Alignment
Saransh Gupta, Mohsen Imani, Behnam Khaleghi, Venkatesh Kumar and Tajana Rosing

11:25 – 11:50

HR3AM: a Heat Resilient design for RRAM based neuromorphic computing
Xiao Liu, Minxuan Zhou, Tajana Rosing and JISHEN ZHAO

11:50 – 12:15

NCFET-Aware Voltage Scaling
Sami Salamin, Martin Rapp, Hussam Amrouch, Girish Pahwa, Yogesh Chauhan and Joerg Henkel

 

Session 2.1/2.2/2.3: Optimization Methodologies for Unconventional Digital System Designs

11:00 – 11:25

Towards a Complete Methodology for Synthesizing Bundled-Data Asynchronous Circuits on FPGAs
Kshitij Bhardwaj, Paolo Mantovani, Luca Carloni and Steven M. Nowick

11:25 – 11:50

Tier Partitioning and Flip-flop Relocation Methods for Clock Trees in Monolithic 3D ICs
Da Eun Shim, Sai Surya Kiran Pentapati, Jeehyun Lee and Sung Kyu Lim

 

11:50 – 12:15

VCAM: Variation Compensation through Activation Matching for Analog Binarized Neural Networks
Jaehyun Kim, Chaeun Lee, Jihun Kim, Yumin Kim, Cheol Seong Hwang and Kiyoung Choi