Lab News

Jun-Han Han, Robert E. West, Karina Torres-Castro, Nathan Swami, Samira Khan and Mircea Stan's paper titled, "Power and Thermal Modeling of In-3D-Memory Computing" has been presented at the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Device, Circuit and System (IEEE ISDCS), March 3-5 2021.

M. Ceylan Morgul, Mohammad Nazmus Sakib and Mircea Stan's paper titled, "Reliable Processing in Flash with High Temperature" is going to be presented at IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IIRW) 2021​.

Vaibhav Verma and Mohammed Nazmus Sakib were recently awarded the UVA Engineering Endowed Graduate Fellowship award. As a part of the fellowship, they will each receive a $5,000 addition to the graduate recipients academic-year stipend and a $5,000 research account. Congrats to them both!

Elisa Pantoja and Mohammad Nazmus Sakib had their work presented at this year's SRC TECHCON'21. Their research focuses on developing "Batteryless, chip-less RFID printable sensor technlogy" and "Skyrmionic based temporal memory logic", respectively. Congrats to them both!!

HPLP alumus, Dave Garrett an alumnus of HPLP and is the VP of HW Engineering at Syntiant Corp is publishing blog posts on CMOS power dynamics and ML system design from a hardware perspective. Follow his blog posts, linked below:
Link to Blog Post

Our undergraduate ASIC design team has passed the first round in the 2021 IEEE SSCS PICO Design Contest with the project of TIDENet: TinyML Image Detection on the Edge with Neural Networks. We are selected as one of the 18 out of 61 submissions.

Project Title: ASCENT: Ferroelectric-based Compute-in-Memory Dynamical Engine (Ferro-CoDE) to Solve Hard Combinatorial Optimization
Profs. Nikhil Shukla (ECE & MSE), Jon Ihlefeld (MSE & ECE) and Mircea Stan (ECE), who along with Prof. Vijaykrishnan Narayanan (Penn State) have just been awarded a 4 year NSF grant.

Mircea R. Stan presents a talk on “Asynchronous Stream Computing for Low Power IoT Asynchronous Stochastic Computing (ASC), Asynchronous Stream Processing (ASP) and Asynchronous Impulse Radio (AIR) for ubiquitous sensing at the Edge” at TECHNION (Israel Institute of Technology) - Advanced Circuits Research Center (ACRC) as a part of the “ACRC Semiconductor Webinars” series and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lectures series.Abstract of the talk:

Xinfei Guo, an alumnus of HPLP, has started his new position at the University of Michigan Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University as an Assistant Professor. Congrats!

Robert E. West III launched a new version of HotSpot on Github. The new version 7.0 implements the microfluidic cooling feature into the HotSpot simulator. The new feature is expected to broaden the thermal management options whilst designing 3D microarchitecture.
What is HotSpot?