Chip Design & Architectures

University of Michigan’s MORPHEUS technology emerges unscathed from bug bounty effort.

The system automatically proves the trustworthiness of a hardware design, outperforming the competition in nearly every category.

The symposium highlighted new developments in computer architecture, and included a session on how the center's research can contribute to limiting the impact of pandemics.

The analytical model, called Accelerometer, can be applied in the early stages of an accelerator’s design to predict its effectiveness before ever being installed.

Prof. Austin is a creative, outside-the-box thinker who has produced a body of work that has had extraordinary impact in the area of computer architecture.

Computational caches are an emerging technology based on the use of a processors cache space to perform computations.

Kim takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle challenges in heterogeneous classes of energy-efficient and versatile communication systems.

Five students take compiler optimizations to a new level with speculative loop optimization

The open-source system cuts a key step in chip testing down from days or weeks to a couple hours, on average.

Thin film transistors stacked on top of a state-of-the-art silicon chip could help shrink electronics while improving performance.

Mudge’s paper examined the power-saving needs of high-performance computing.

Eckert is working to expand the role of memory and give it a dual responsibility to both store and compute data.

MORPHEUS can encrypt and reshuffle code thousands of times faster than human and electronic hackers.

Zhang is recognized with the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship for his work designing hardware solutions that could help support computer vision and machine learning.

Kassa is developing a framework that will look at the computations of an application and decide in real time which components will best handle it

Michigan Engineering researchers led by Prof. Pinaki Mazumder have created a new chip interconnect technology using terahertz surface-wave interconnects that will enable ultra fast data transmissions.

By harnessing the power and speed of graphics processing units, a University of Michigan startup can dramatically accelerate gene sequencing, shortening tasks that took multiple days to a single hour.

From quantum physics to computer systems: a profile of Pinaki Mazumder, professor of electrical engineering and computer science.

Genome sequencing could be as affordable as a routine medical test with highly efficient computing.

DARPA’s initiative to reinvigorate the microelectronics industry draws deeply on Michigan Engineering expertise.

Transmuter can change how programs use the hardware available to them in real time, effectively acting as a reconfigurable computer.

Three researchers with Michigan CSE affiliations have won the the best paper award at the 14th Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic – System Effects (SELSE).

A new radiation-hardened, multi-processor, Arm-based spacecraft processor is being developed at Michigan in a project led by Boeing and funded by NASA.

‘You shouldn’t need a Ph.D. to design new computing systems.’

The researchers say they’re making an unsolvable puzzle: ‘It’s like if you’re solving a Rubik’s Cube and every time you blink, I rearrange it.’

Prof. John Hayes and CSE graduate student Paishun Ting received the award for their paper entitled “Eliminating a Hidden Error Source in Stochastic Circuits.”

Bugs that are not caught before a product is released can cost companies billions of dollars.

New memristor chips can see patterns over pixels.

This award recognizes the paper published 15 years ago (2002) that has had the biggest impact on the field

Das’ research seeks to design specialized data-centric computing systems that dramatically reduce time and energy required to move data from storage to computing units.

This device could not only be useful in the ICU or field hospital setting, but also during long military patient transport, and especially in situations in which limited personnel and resources are available.

This platform has enabled a variety of sensors that can fit inside the human body, made possible by several breakthroughs in ultra-low power computing.

With a radio specifically designed to communicate through tissue, researchers from the Electrical and Computer Engineering are adding another level to a computer platform small enough to fit inside a medical grade syringe.

Prof. Wei Lu and former student Dr. Sung Hyun Jo co-founded Crossbar, Inc. to tackle the physical limitations of conventional memory technology.

The M3 is a fully autonomous computing system that acts as a smart sensing system.

Prof. Valeria Bertacco, Technical Program Chair for the 2017 conference, chose Michigan as the meeting location.

The focal point of the project will be a new computing resource, called ConFlux, which is designed to enable supercomputer simulations to interface with large datasets while running.

Sirius as an important platform for research into the development of next-generation warehouse computing. It gives researchers a testbed for studying how the data centers that process voice-enabled queries should evolve.

Protean Code is an enabling technology for dynamically recompiling native applications and rebalancing the use of Warehouse Scale Computers resources as demands dictate.

The book introduces and evaluates algorithms used during physical design to produce a geometric chip layout from an abstract circuit design, and presents the essential and fundamental algorithms used within each physical design stage.

His research focus is on addressing concurrency issues in mobile and cloud systems, which increasingly rely upon event-driven programming and customized processor accelerators.

The paper addresses how to manage multiple sources so that the user can maximize the information gained from each acoustic source.

All of the research being presented focuses on getting the absolute best performance from the tiniest circuits, sensors, and electronic devices.

The project proposes to produce a parallel heterogeneous 3D near-threshold computing system with unprecedented energy efficiency.

The five year project includes multiple research institutions, partners in industry, and educational outreach to the next generation of computer scientists.

This research is expected to have a fundamental and long term impact on a diverse set of applications ranging from energy conservation to health care.

The authors analyzed performance and accuracy for a variety of dynamic thermal analysis techniques and used their findings to develop a new analysis technique. Congratulations!

Until now, ubiquitous computing has been hampered by the size of necessary batteries—but Ambiq Micro is changing that, with their energy-efficient micro-controllers.

Their paper introduces new techniques that improve speed, solution quality, simplicity, and integration with other optimizations for global placement technology.

The resulting 65nm CMOS test chip achieved an energy efficiency of 21 pJ/bit making it a promising candidate for low-power, high-performance applications.

“Imagine a microprocessor so tiny and long lasting that it can be implanted in the eye of a glaucoma sufferer to measure the progress of the disease.”

The system could enable new biomedical implants as well as home-, building- and bridge-monitoring devices.

The paper explores logic and memory circuit topologies for a new type of transistor in development at IBM.

The winning paper describes a commercial prototype processor that targets wireless baseband processing for the next generation of cellular phones.