Mircea R. Stan
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View article: Virtualized Computational RFID (VCRFID) Solution for Industry 4.0 Applications
Virtualized Computational RFID (VCRFID) Solution for Industry 4.0 Applications Open
This paper presents a Virtualized Computational Radio Frequency Identification (VCRFID) solution that utilizes far-field UHF RF for sensing, computing, and self-powering at the edge. A standard UHF RFID system is asymmetric as it consists …
View article: Cool-3D: An End-to-End Thermal-Aware Framework for Early-Phase Design Space Exploration of Microfluidic-Cooled 3DICs
Cool-3D: An End-to-End Thermal-Aware Framework for Early-Phase Design Space Exploration of Microfluidic-Cooled 3DICs Open
The rapid advancement of three-dimensional integrated circuits (3DICs) has heightened the need for early-phase design space exploration (DSE) to minimize design iterations and unexpected challenges. Emphasizing the pre-register-transfer le…
View article: Strained topological insulator spin-orbit torque random access memory (STI-SOTRAM) bit cell for energy-efficient Processing in Memory
Strained topological insulator spin-orbit torque random access memory (STI-SOTRAM) bit cell for energy-efficient Processing in Memory Open
We present a novel design of a strained topological insulator spin-orbit torque random access memory (STI-SOTRAM) bit cell comprising a piezoelectric/magnet (gating)/topological insulator (TI)/magnet (storage) heterostructure that leverage…
View article: Editorial Rolling Out the IEEE TVLSI EDICS
Editorial Rolling Out the IEEE TVLSI EDICS Open
VLSI Systems research represents a dynamic and expansive domain. Over the years, it has evolved into a creative fusion of theoretical exploration, integrated chip design, performance evaluation, and practical applications related to the wi…
View article: Hot-LEGO: Architect Microfluidic Cooling Equipped 3DIC with Pre-RTL Thermal Simulation
Hot-LEGO: Architect Microfluidic Cooling Equipped 3DIC with Pre-RTL Thermal Simulation Open
Microfluidic cooling has been recognized as one of the most promising\nsolutions to achieve efficient thermal management for three-dimensional\nintegrated circuits (3DICs). It enables more opportunities to architect 3DICs\nwith different d…
View article: Editorial New Beginnings for IEEE TVLSI
Editorial New Beginnings for IEEE TVLSI Open
It is with great enthusiasm and honor that I assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief (EiC) for IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (TVLSI) this year. As we embark on this journey, I am grateful for the trust placed…
View article: SSRL: Single Skyrmion Reconfigurable Logic Utilizing 2-D Magnus Force on Magnetic Racetracks
SSRL: Single Skyrmion Reconfigurable Logic Utilizing 2-D Magnus Force on Magnetic Racetracks Open
Magnetic racetrack memory has frequently been complicated by the pinning of domain wall bits on the one hand and the need to engineer precise synchronization and inter-track repulsion between skyrmionic bits on the other. Such proposals, h…
View article: AI-PiM—Extending the RISC-V processor with Processing-in-Memory functional units for AI inference at the edge of IoT
AI-PiM—Extending the RISC-V processor with Processing-in-Memory functional units for AI inference at the edge of IoT Open
The recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) achieving “better-than-human” accuracy in a variety of tasks such as image classification and the game of Go have come at the cost of exponential increase in the size of artificial neural…
View article: Skyrmionics—Computing and memory technologies based on topological excitations in magnets
Skyrmionics—Computing and memory technologies based on topological excitations in magnets Open
Solitonic magnetic excitations such as domain walls and, specifically, skyrmionics enable the possibility of compact, high density, ultrafast, all-electronic, low-energy devices, which is the basis for the emerging area of skyrmionics. The…
View article: Gearbox
Gearbox Open
Processing-in-memory (PIM) minimizes data movement overheads by placing processing units near each memory segment. Recent PIMs employ processing units with a SIMD architecture. However, kernels with random accesses, such as sparse-matrix-d…
View article: Circuit Design Steps for Nano-Crossbar Arrays: Area-Delay-Power Optimization With Fault Tolerance
Circuit Design Steps for Nano-Crossbar Arrays: Area-Delay-Power Optimization With Fault Tolerance Open
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View article: VLSI for Next Generation CE
VLSI for Next Generation CE Open
The current research in VLSI explores emerging trends and novel ideas and concepts covering a broad range of topics in the area of VLSI: from VLSI circuits, systems, and design methods, to system-level design and systemon- chip issues, to …
View article: eAP
eAP Open
Accelerating finite automata processing benefits regular-expression workloads and a wide range of other applications that do not map obviously to regular expressions, including pattern mining, bioinformatics, and machine learning. Existing…
View article: Cross-Layer Resilience
Cross-Layer Resilience Open
Resilience to errors in the underlying hardware is a key design objective for a large class of computing systems, from embedded systems all the way to the cloud. Sources of hardware errors include radiation, circuit aging, variability indu…
View article: Automata Processing in Reconfigurable Architectures
Automata Processing in Reconfigurable Architectures Open
We present a general automata processing framework on FPGAs, which generates an RTL kernel for automata processing together with an AXI and PCIe based I/O circuitry. We implement the framework on both local nodes and cloud platforms (Amazo…
View article: Technical Program Overview
Technical Program Overview Open
On behalf ofthe Technical Program Committee ofthe 18th annual International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC 2019), it is a great pleasure to welcome all participants and introduce the technical program.This…
View article: Reservoir Computing Based Neural Image Filters
Reservoir Computing Based Neural Image Filters Open
Clean images are an important requirement for machine vision systems to recognize visual features correctly. However, the environment, optics, electronics of the physical imaging systems can introduce extreme distortions and noise in the a…
View article: Exploiting Read/Write Asymmetry to Achieve Opportunistic SRAM Voltage Switching in Dual-Supply Near-Threshold Processors
Exploiting Read/Write Asymmetry to Achieve Opportunistic SRAM Voltage Switching in Dual-Supply Near-Threshold Processors Open
Energy-efficient microprocessors are essential for a wide range of applications. While near-threshold computing is a promising technique to improve energy efficiency, optimal supply demands from logic core and on-chip memory are conflictin…
View article: T1A: Thermal - and Reliability-Aware Design in Nanometer Technologies
T1A: Thermal - and Reliability-Aware Design in Nanometer Technologies Open
more than eight years of industrial experience, has been a visiting faculty at UC Berkeley in 2004-2005, at IBM in 2000, and at Intel in 2002 and 1999.