Category: memory
3D-ICE version 4.0 is out
We are excited to share the release of 3D-ICE 4.0, the newest version of our 3D Interlayer Cooling Emulator, which can deliver more accurate and efficient thermal modeling for modern 2.5D/3D heterogeneous chiplet systems. 3D-ICE 4.0 supports modeling detailed material distribution across layers, directly imported from industrial layouts. To handle complex multi-layer stacks, 3D-ICE introduces (…)
Chips from a higher dimension: the next generation of generative AI computing
For many years, Prof. John Thome of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering pioneered the use of heat sensing technology, and collaborated with Prof. David Atienza of the Institute of Electrical Engineering to model ways in which 3D chips could be cooled efficiently, using techniques like micro-channels of liquids. This work has been further developed as (…)
David Atienza presents SwissChips
Prof. David Atienza presents the national initiative SwissChips and the role of ESL in this massive collaboration. Video by Dr. Alex Levisse and Alex Widerski More on SwissChips: Alex Levisse explains SwissChips in detail ESL participates in three SwissChips projects X-HEEP and SwissChips Yuxuan Wang presents SwissChips project at maiden conference SwissChips official website
Optimising VEGA data with FPGA technology
There are thousands of courses on offer at EPFL, covering topics as far apart as socio-environmental learning, epilepsy monitoring and urban digital twins. We decided to have a closer look at a very special course, one which brings together the three fundamental principles of EPFL Institutes: education, research and industry. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) (…)
SwissChips: A national project in full swing
In conversation with Dr. Alexandre Levisse of EPFL What is the goal of SwissChips? The SwissChips initiative offers support to Universities and Universities of Applied Science in Switzerland, to carry out research in the field of integrated circuit design, commonly called chips. In Switzerland, we do not have large foundries to manufacture high performance GPU (…)
Collaboration with University of Bordeaux for structured pruning co-design
Our team collaborated with scientists from the University of Bordeaux to analyze how configuration choices across the stack affect performance metrics. Results demonstrate that structured pruning on systems featuring systolic array acceleration can effectively increase performance, while maintaining high QoS levels. Up to 44% system-wide speedups due to structured pruning and quantization were measured, with (…)
Accelerating the validation process of full systems without sacrificing accuracy
Introducing the first open-source RISC-V-based FS-validated simulation models with a complete and replicable methodology Full-System simulation is essential for performance evaluation of complete systems that execute complex applications on a complete software stack consisting of an operating system and user applications. Nevertheless, they require careful fine-tuning against real hardware to obtain reliable performance statistics, which (…)
Optimizing interconnects with amazing results
One of our teams has rolled out Gem5-AcceSys: an innovative framework for a system-level exploration of standard interconnects and configurable memory hierarchies. A series of tests using this new technology will be presented at the Design Automation Conference in San Francisco. In this study it has been shown that optimized interconnects can achieve up to (…)
ESL and SwissChips
Prof. David Atienza presents the SwissChips national initiative, and explains the role of ESL within this massive collaboration: Dr. Alex Levisse, ESL Alumnus, goes into detail about SwissChips for an in-depth interview: SwissChips – a national initiative ESL is participating in three SwissChips projects: Design Infrastructure Chips for Edge AI Computing Systems-on-Chip Find (…)
ClearSpace will use Minority Report technology from ESL
Satellites are open to attack. All communications systems are vulnerable to hackers by definition, and are protected accordingly, with hardware and software. However, because they reside outside the protection of the Earth’s atmosphere, satellites are perhaps exposed to the mightiest and most unpredictable hacker of all: the Sun. “The Sun’s radiation can affect the data (…)