Pierre Boulet, University Lille 1, France
Ramon Canal, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Joseph Friedman, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Vincent Gaudet, University of Waterloo, Canada
Swaroop Ghosh, The Pennsylvania Stat University, USA
Jingtong Hu, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Li Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Xueqing Li, Tsinghua University, China
Weiqiang Liu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Fabrizio Lombardi, Northeastern University, USA
Marisa Lopez-Vallejo, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Anca Molnos, CEA-LETI, France
Kundan Nepal, University of St Thomas, USA
Tianxiao Nie, Beihang University, China
Ian O'Connor, Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology, France
Naoya Onizawa, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Alexandru Paler, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Antonio Rubio, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Liang Shi, East China Normal University, China
Ronald Tetzlaff, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Christof Teuscher, Portland State University, USA
Amit Trivedi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Ioannis Vourkas, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile
Lan Wei, University of Waterloo, Canada
Wu Xiulong, Anhui University, China
Lang Zeng, Beihang University, China
Several recent studies have demonstrated the usability of emerging technology devices in Neural Network hardware designs. Most works report that the emerging memory devices are ideal candidates for synaptic weight implementations, but also in some cases they have been shown to have good potential also for neuron (processing unit) implementations. Current emerging-technology-based neural networks are able to store reduced-precision numbers for weights. However, to achieve better convergence and speed of the learning and inference process for intensive computing applications, the neural network has to be designed with a quite high degree of redundancy. Moreover, the architecture will also have to mitigate the inherent high variability of the emerging technologies. The Ensemble Neural Networks paradigm allows building more power-efficient and accurate neural networks, by combining predictions for multiple, different neural networks models to reduce variance, minimize errors and improve accuracy. This talk addresses opportunities and challenges of binarized Ensemble Neural Networks with spintronic devices.
Time: November 8, 8:00 am EST (UTC-5:00)
Short Bio: Lorena Anghel received her PhD in 2000 from Grenoble Institute of Engineering and Management (INPG). Currently she is Full Professor at INPG in Microelectronics and Embedded Systems Engineering and member of the research staff of SPINTEC Laboratory. Her research interests include: design and validation of reliable digital integrated circuits, hardware/software tolerant design, aging induced reliability issues, defects and variation tolerance for emerging technologies, with a particular focus on design of logic and memory circuits based on magnetic components. Since 2019 she has been holding an Excellence Chair position at the AI Multi-Disciplinary Institute in Grenoble on the topic of “Non Volatile Emerging based Spiking Neural Network”. She was General Chair of IEEE VLSI Test Symposium in 2020 and 2021, IEEE European Test Symposium in 2012 and IEEE On-Line Test Symposium in 2005, and Program Chair of IEEE VLSI Test Symposium in 2015 and 2016, DCIS Conference in 2008 and 2009, founder of SERESSA Summer School from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Anghel has been recipient of 5 Best Paper Awards and one Outstanding Paper Award. From 2016 to 2020, Dr. Anghel was Deputy Vice President at INPG, in charge of Industrial Relationships. She is currently Scientific Director of INPG covering the following topics: Micro and Nanoelectronic Technology and Design, Computer Science and Informatics.
Chiplet-based integration is a paradigm shift that shapes the way we design our future systems. The concept is to move forward from large systems-on-chip that are limited by communication, thermal design power, and reticle size, toward a robust plug-and-play approach, where small, hardened IP heterogeneous off-the-shelf chiplets are seamlessly integrated on a single platform. In this talk, we will discuss the current state-of-the-art and challenges in chiplet integration, and specifically examine an ultra-large wafer-scale platform for applications, such as artificial intelligence acceleration, high-performance computing, and neuromorphic hardware.
Time: November 8, 11:00 am EST (UTC-5:00)
Short Bio: Boris Vaisband is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University in Montreal, QC, Canada. His current research interests are in integration and design methodologies for heterogeneous systems, including power delivery, communication, thermal aware design and floorplanning, and testing. Some applications of interest are ultra-large-scale artificial intelligence systems, high performance computing, hardware obfuscation, Internet of Things, and bio-compatible devices.
The evolving landscape of wireline signaling has reached an exciting point after decades of evolution. This talk aims to walk through this journey, reflect on the learnings, and find a way towards 200+ Gb/s signaling techniques. In the first decade of high-speed signaling, data rates increased from 1 Gb/s to 28 Gb/s, consistently and on a relatively predictable path by adopting equalization and making them more affordable through CMOS scaling. Most of the research effort was towards optimizing link performance in a strict power budget limited scenario. As we enter the 50+ Gb/s main challenge, we maximize the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) for a given transmit power with multilevel signaling. Fortunately, digital signal processing and coding have helped us to go beyond 100 Gb/s. The talk will conclude with potential future directions to break the barrier beyond 250 Gb/s electrical signaling.
Time: November 9, 10:00 am EST (UTC-5:00)
Short Bio: Masum Hossain received the M.Sc. degree from Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, in 2010. From 2008 to 2010, he was with the Analog and Mixed-Signal Division, Gennum Corporation, Burlington, ON, where he was involved in developing the world’s highest-capacity and most power-efficient cross-point router solution. He was a Senior Member of Technical Staff with the Rambus Laboratory, Sunnyvale, CA, USA, where he was involved in advanced equalization and clock-recovery techniques for interfaces. In 2013, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Dr. Hossain was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2008 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference and the Analog Device’s Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2010. In 2016, he received the Rambus’s distinguished inventor award for 20 unique patents.
Nonvolatile storage devices, called "magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ)" devices, have potential advantages such as fast read/write, and high endurance, together with back-end-of-the-line compatibility, which could offer the potential advantages to break through the performance bottleneck in the present era of CMOS-based VLSI circuits and systems. In this presentation, some concrete examples based on MTJ-based logic-in-memory architectures are presented and their suitability for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications are discussed.
Time: November 10, 8:00 am EST (UTC-5:00)
Short Bio: Takahiro Hanyu received the B.E., M.E. and D.E. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1984, 1986 and 1989, respectively. He is currently a Professor and Education/Research Councillor (April 2018 to present) in the Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC), Tohoku University. His general research interests include nonvolatile logic circuits and their applications to ultra-low-power and/or highly dependable VLSI processors, and post-binary computing and its application to brain-inspired VLSI systems.
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