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Xu, Yingfu (author), Shidqi, Kevin (author), van Schaik, Gert-Jan (author), Bilgic, Refik (author), Dobrita, Alexandra (author), Wang, Shenqi (author), Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Yousefzadeh, Amirreza (author)Neuromorphic processors promise low-latency and energy-efficient processing by adopting novel brain-inspired design methodologies. Yet, current neuromorphic solutions still struggle to rival conventional deep learning accelerators' performance and area efficiency in practical applications. Event-driven data-flow processing and near/in-memory...journal article 2024
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Diware, S.S. (author), Chilakala, Koteswararao (author), Joshi, Rajiv V. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Bishnoi, R.K. (author)Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of permanent vision loss worldwide. It refers to irreversible retinal damage caused due to elevated glucose levels and blood pressure. Regular screening for DR can facilitate its early detection and timely treatment. Neural network-based DR classifiers can be leveraged to achieve such screening in...journal article 2024
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Copetti, T. S. (author), Fieback, M. (author), Gemmeke, T. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Poehls, L. M.Bolzani (author)Memristive devices have become promising candidates to complement the CMOS technology, due to their CMOS manufacturing process compatibility, zero standby power consumption, high scalability, as well as their capability to implement high-density memories and new computing paradigms. Despite these advantages, memristive devices are susceptible...journal article 2024
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Aljuffri, A.A.M. (author), Huang, R. (author), Muntenaar, L.V.M. (author), Gaydadjiev, G. (author), Ma, Kezheng (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Taouil, M. (author)The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is widely recognized as a robust cryptographic algorithm utilized to protect data integrity and confidentiality. When it comes to lightweight implementations of the algorithm, the literature mainly emphasizes area and power optimization, often overlooking considerations related to performance and security....journal article 2024
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Köylü, T.C. (author), Reinbrecht, Cezar (author), Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Taouil, M. (author)Hardware security is currently a very influential domain, where each year countless works are published concerning attacks against hardware and countermeasures. A significant number of them use machine learning, which is proven to be very effective in other domains. This survey, as one of the early attempts, presents the usage of machine...journal article 2023
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Ghasempouri, Tara (author), Raik, Jaan (author), Reinbrecht, Cezar (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Taouil, M. (author)According to the World Economic Forum, cyberattacks are considered as one of the most important sources of risk to companies and institutions worldwide. Attacks can target the network, software, and/or hardware. Over the years, much knowledge has been developed to understand and mitigate cyberattacks. However, new threats have appeared in...journal article 2023
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Mahmoud, A.N.N. (author), Ciubotaru, Florin (author), Vanderveken, Frederic (author), Adelmann, Christoph (author), Cotofana, S.D. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Spin Waves (SWs), by their nature, are excited by means of voltage driven or current driven cells under two modes: Continuous Mode Operation (CMO), and Pulse Mode Operation (PMO). Moreover, the low throughput of the SW technology (caused by its high latency) can be enhanced by wavepipelining which is supported inherently by the SW under the...journal article 2023
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Diware, S.S. (author), Singh, A. (author), Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Joshi, Rajiv V. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Bishnoi, R.K. (author)Computation-in-memory (CIM) paradigm leverages emerging memory technologies such as resistive random access memories (RRAMs) to process the data within the memory itself. This alleviates the memory-processor bottleneck resulting in much higher hardware efficiency compared to von-Neumann architecture-based conventional hardware. Hence, CIM...journal article 2023
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Diware, S.S. (author), Dash, Sudeshna (author), Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Joshi, Rajiv V. (author), Strydis, C. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Bishnoi, R.K. (author)Timely detection of cardiac arrhythmia characterized by abnormal heartbeats can help in the early diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Wearable healthcare devices typically use neural networks to provide the most convenient way of continuously monitoring heart activity for arrhythmia detection. However, it is challenging to...journal article 2023
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Zahedi, M.Z. (author), Shahroodi, Taha (author), Wong, J.S.S.M. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)The vast potential of memristor-based computation-in-memory (CIM) engines has mainly triggered the mapping of best-suited applications. Nevertheless, with additional support, existing applications can also benefit from CIM. In particular, this paper proposes an energy and area-efficient CIM-based methodology to perform arithmetic signed...journal article 2023
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Abunahla, H.N. (author), Abbas, Yawar (author), Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Waheed, Waqas (author), Mohammad, Baker (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Alazzam, Anas (author), Rezeq, Moh’d (author)Advances in materials science and memory devices work in tandem for the evolution of Artificial Intelligence systems. Energy-efficient computation is the ultimate goal of emerging memristor technology, in which the storage and computation can be done in the same memory crossbar. In this work, an analog memristor device is fabricated utilizing...journal article 2023
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Fieback, M. (author), Cardoso Medeiros, G. (author), Wu, L. (author), Aziza, Hassen (author), Bishnoi, R.K. (author), Taouil, M. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Resistive RAM (RRAM) is a promising technology to replace traditional technologies such as Flash, because of its low energy consumption, CMOS compatibility, and high density. Many companies are prototyping this technology to validate its potential. Bringing this technology to the market requires high-quality tests to ensure customer...journal article 2022
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Köylü, T.C. (author), Reinbrecht, Cezar (author), Brandalero, Marcelo (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Taouil, M. (author)Fault injection attacks are a threat to all digital systems, especially to the ones conducting security sensitive operations. Recently, the strategy of observing the instruction flow to detect attacks has gained popularity. In this paper, we provide a comparative study between three hardware-based techniques (i.e., recurrent neural network (RNN)...journal article 2022
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Siddiqi, M.A. (author), Hahn, Georg (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Serdijn, W.A. (author), Strydis, C. (author)A Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) is an ensemble of collaborating, potentially heterogeneous, medical devices located inside, on the surface of or around the human body with the objective of tackling one or multiple medical conditions of the MBAN host. These devices-which are a special category of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs)–collect,...journal article 2022
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Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Du Nguyen, H.A. (author), Yu, J. (author), Bishnoi, R.K. (author), Taouil, M. (author), Franky, Catthoor (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Faster and cheaper computers have been constantly demanding technological and architectural improvements. However, current technology is suffering from three technology walls: leakage wall, reliability wall, and cost wall. Meanwhile, existing architecture performance is also saturating due to three well-known architecture walls: memory wall,...journal article 2022
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Wu, Lizhou (author), Rao, Siddharth (author), Taouil, M. (author), Marinissen, Erik Jan (author), Kar, Gouri Sankar (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)The popularity of perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ)-based spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memories (STT-MRAMs) is growing very fast. The performance of such memories is very sensitive to magnetic fields, including both internal and external ones. This article presents a magnetic-field-aware compact model of pMTJ, named...journal article 2022
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Condia, Josie E.Rodriguez (author), Augusto da Silva, F. (author), Bagbaba, Ahmet Cagri (author), Guerrero-Balaguera, Juan-David (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Sauer, Christian (author), Sonza Reorda, Matteo (author)Editor's notes: GPUs have seen an increased adoption in autonomous systems. This article assesses the fault coverage that can be attained through software self-test strategies for in-field test of GPUs. - Nicola Nicolici, McMaster Universityjournal article 2022
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Zahedi, M.Z. (author), Abu Lebdeh, M.F.M. (author), Bengel, Christopher (author), Wouters, Dirk (author), Menzel, Stephan (author), Le Gallo, Manuel (author), Sebastian, Abu (author), Wong, J.S.S.M. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)In recent years, we are witnessing a trend toward in-memory computing for future generations of computers that differs from traditional von-Neumann architecture in which there is a clear distinction between computing and memory units. Considering that data movements between the central processing unit (CPU) and memory consume several orders...journal article 2022
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Mahmoud, A.N.N. (author), Vanderveken, Frederic (author), Ciubotaru, Florin (author), Adelmann, Christoph (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Cotofana, S.D. (author)By their very nature, Spin Waves (SWs) excited at the same frequency but different amplitudes, propagate through waveguides and interfere with each other at the expense of ultra-low energy consumption. In addition, all (part) of the SW energy can be moved from one waveguide to another by means of coupling effects. In this paper we make use of...journal article 2022
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Yousefzadeh, Amirreza (author), Stuijt, Jan (author), Hijdra, Martijn (author), Liu, Hsiao-Hsuan (author), Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Singh, A. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Catthoor, Francky (author)Computation-in-Memory (CIM) is an emerging computing paradigm to address memory bottleneck challenges in computer architecture. A CIM unit cannot fully replace a general-purpose processor. Still, it significantly reduces the amount of data transfer between a traditional memory unit and the processor by enriching the transferred information....journal article 2022