• Article  

      BlackOut: Enabling fine-grained power gating of buffers in Network-on-Chip routers 

      Zoni, D.; Canidio, A.; Fornaciari, W.; Englezakis, Panayiotis; Nicopoulos, Chrysostomos A.; Sazeides, Yiannakis (2017)
      The Network-on-Chip (NoC) router buffers play an instrumental role in the performance of both the interconnection fabric and the entire multi-/many-core system. Nevertheless, the buffers also constitute the major leakage ...
    • Conference Object  

      HARPA: Solutions for dependable performance under physically induced performance variability 

      Rodopoulos, Dimitrios; Corbetta, S.; Massari, Giuseppe; Libutti, S.; Catthoor, F.; Sazeides, Yiannakis; Nicopoulos, Chrysostomos A.; Portero, Antoni; Cappe, E.; Vavrík, R.; Vondrák, V.; Soudris, Dimitrios J.; Sassi, F.; Fritsch, A.; Fornaciari, W. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      Transistor miniaturization, combined with the dawn of novel switching semiconductor structures, calls for careful examination of the variability and aging of the computer fabric. Time-zero and time-dependent phenomena need ...
    • Conference Object  

      HARPA: Tackling physically induced performance variability 

      Zompakis, Nikolaos; Noltsis, Michail; Ndreu, L.; Hadjilambrou, Zacharias; Englezakis, Panayiotis; Nikolaou, Panagiota; Portero, Antoni; Libutti, S.; Massari, Giuseppe; Sassi, F.; Bacchini, A.; Nicopoulos, Chrysostomos A.; Sazeides, Yiannakis; Vavrik, R.; Golasowski, M.; Sevcik, J.; Vondrak, V.; Catthoor, F.; Fornaciari, W.; Soudris, Dimitrios J. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)
      Continuously increasing application demands on both High Performance Computing (HPC) and Embedded Systems (ES) are driving the IC manufacturing industry on an everlasting scaling of devices in silicon. Nevertheless, ...