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Blanter, Y.M. (author), Carmiggelt, J.J. (author), Cotofana, S.D. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Nikitin, A. A. (author), Reimann, T. (author), Sharma, S. (author), van der Sar, T. (author), Zhang, X. (author)Magnonics addresses the physical properties of spin waves and utilizes them for data processing. Scalability down to atomic dimensions, operation in the GHz-to-THz frequency range, utilization of nonlinear and nonreciprocal phenomena, and compatibility with CMOS are just a few of many advantages offered by magnons. Although magnonics is still...journal article 2022
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Mahmoud, A.N.N. (author), Cucu Laurenciu, N. (author), Vanderveken, Frederic (author), Ciubotaru, Florin (author), Adelmann, Christoph (author), Cotofana, S.D. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)In the early stages of a novel technology development, it is difficult to provide a comprehensive assessment of its potential capabilities and impact. Nevertheless, some preliminary estimates can be drawn and are certainly of great interest and in this paper we follow this line of reasoning within the framework of the Spin Wave (SW) based...conference paper 2022
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Majzoub, Sohaib (author), Saleh, Resve A. (author), Taouil, M. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Bamakhrama, Mohamed (author)Design-space exploration for low-power manycore design is a daunting and time-consuming task which requires some complex tools and frameworks to achieve. In the presence of process variation, the problem becomes even more challenging, especially the time associated with trial-and-error selection of the proper options in the tools to obtain the...journal article 2022
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Bernardi, P. (author), Cantoro, R. (author), Coyette, A. (author), Dobbeleare, W. (author), Fieback, M. (author), Floridia, A. (author), Gielenk, G. (author), Guerriero, A. M. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Electronics employed in modern safety-critical systems require severe qualification during the manufacturing process and in the field, to prevent fault effects from manifesting themselves as critical failures during mission operations. Traditional fault models are not sufficient anymore to guarantee the required quality levels for chips...conference paper 2022
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Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Wu, L. (author), Münch, Christopher (author), Rao, Siddharth (author), Tahoori, Mehdi B. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)STT-MRAM has long been a promising non-volatile memory solution for the embedded application space owing to its attractive characteristics such as non-volatility, low leakage, high endurance, and scalability. However, the operating requirements for high-performance computing (HPC) and low power (LP) applications involve different challenges....conference paper 2022
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Singh, A. (author), Zahedi, M.Z. (author), Shahroodi, Taha (author), Gupta, Mohit (author), Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Komalan, Manu (author), Joshi, R.V. (author), Catthoor, Francky (author), Bishnoi, R.K. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) based computation-in-memory (CIM) architectures have shown great prospects for an energy-efficient computing. However, device variations and non-idealities narrow down the sensing margin that severely impacts the computing accuracy. In this work, we propose an adaptive referencing...conference paper 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)In this article, we propose an energy-efficient spin wave (SW)-based approximate 4:2 compressor including three- and five-input majority gates. We validate our proposal by means of micromagnetic simulations and assess and compare its performance with state-of-the-art SW 45-nm CMOS and spin-CMOS counterparts. The evaluation results indicate...journal article 2022
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Aljuffri, A.A.M. (author), Reinbrecht, Cezar (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Taouil, M. (author), Sepulveda, Johanna (author)Currently NIST is working towards the standardization of lightweight cryptography (LWC). Although the cryptanalytic strength of LWC is currently under deep scrutiny, the LWC implementation security has not been yet widely explored. GIFT block cipher is the main building block of many of the LWC NIST candidates and therefore has the potential to...conference paper 2022
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Mahmoud, A.N.N. (author), Vanderveken, Frederic (author), Adelmann, Christoph (author), Ciubotaru, Florin (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Cotofana, S.D. (author)By their very nature, spin waves (SWs) with different frequencies can propagate through the same waveguide, while mostly interfering with their own species. Therefore, more SW encoded data sets can coexist, propagate, and interact in parallel, which opens the road toward hardware replication-free parallel data processing. In this article, we...journal article 2021
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Wu, L. (author), Rao, Siddharth (author), Taouil, M. (author), Marinissen, Erik Jan (author), Kar, Gouri Sankar (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Understanding the defects in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) and their faulty behaviors are paramount for developing high-quality tests for STT-MRAM. This paper characterizes and models intermediate (IM) state defects in MTJs; IM state manifests itself as an abnormal third resistive state, apart from the two bi-stable states of MTJ. We...conference paper 2021
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Köylü, T.C. (author), Okkerman, Hans (author), Reinbrecht, Cezar (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Taouil, M. (author)Internet of things (IoT) devices are appearing in all aspects of our digital life. As such, they have become prime targets for attackers and hackers. An adequate protection against attacks is only possible when the confidentiality and integrity of the data and applications of these devices are secured. State-of-the-art solutions mostly address...conference paper 2021
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Caetano Garaffa, L. (author), Aljuffri, A.A.M. (author), Reinbrecht, Cezar (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Taouil, M. (author), Sepulveda, Johanna (author)Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are a strong candidate to be used in future machine learning applications. SNNs can obtain the same accuracy of complex deep learning networks, while only using a fraction of its power. As a result, an increase in popularity of SNNs is expected in the near future for cyber physical systems, especially in the...conference paper 2021
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Cardoso Medeiros, G. (author), Fieback, M. (author), Copetti, Thiago (author), Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Taouil, M. (author), Bolzani Poehls, L. M. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Manufacturing defects in FinFET SRAMs can cause hard-to-detect faults such as Undefined State Faults (USFs). Detection of USFs is not trivial, as they may not lead to incorrect functionality. Nevertheless, undetected USFs may have a severe impact on the memory's quality: they can cause random read outputs, which might lead to test escapes and no...conference paper 2021
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Wu, L. (author), Rao, Siddharth (author), Taouil, M. (author), Marinissen, Erik Jan (author), Kar, Gouri Sankar (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Understanding the manufacturing defects in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), which are the data-storing elements in STT-MRAMs, and their resultant faulty behaviors are crucial for developing high-quality test solutions. This paper introduces a new type of MTJ defect: synthetic anti-ferromagnet flip (SAFF) defect, wherein the magnetization in...conference paper 2021
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Mahmoud, A.N.N. (author), Vanderveken, Frederic (author), Adelmann, Christoph (author), Ciubotaru, Florin (author), Cotofana, S.D. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)The key enabling factor for Spin Wave (SW) technology utilization for building ultra low power circuits is the ability to energy efficiently cascade SW basic computation blocks. SW Majority gates, which constitute a universal gate set for this paradigm, operating on phase encoded data are not input output coherent in terms of SW amplitude....journal article 2021
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Poehls, L. M.Bolzani (author), Fieback, M. (author), Hoffmann-Eifert, S. (author), Copetti, T. (author), Brum, E. (author), Menzel, S. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Gemmeke, T. (author)Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology has been scaled down over the last forty years making possible the design of high-performance applications, following the predictions made by Gordon Moore and Robert H. Dennard in the 1970s. However, there is a growing concern that device scaling, while maintaining cost-effective...journal article 2021
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Aziza, Hassan (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Fieback, M. (author), Taouil, M. (author), Moreau, Mathieu (author), Girard, Patrick (author), Virazel, Arnaud (author), Coulié, Karine (author)RRAM density enhancement is essential not only to gain market share in the highly competitive emerging memory sector but also to enable future high-capacity and power-efficient brain-inspired systems, beyond the capabilities of today’s hardware. In this paper, a novel design scheme is proposed to realize reliable and uniform multi-level cell ...journal article 2021
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Taouil, M. (author), Reinbrecht, Cezar (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Sepulveda, Johanna (author)Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM)-based systems are widely used in mobile and portable applications where low-cost and high-storage memory capability are required. However, such systems are prone to attacks. A latent threat to DRAM-based system security is the so-called Rowhammer attacks. By repeatedly accessing memory, an attacker is able to...conference paper 2021
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Aljuffri, A.A.M. (author), Zwalua, Marc (author), Reinbrecht, Cezar (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Taouil, M. (author)Side-channel attacks (SCAs) are powerful attacks that could be used to retrieve keys from electronic devices. Several physical leakage sources can be exploited in SCAs, such as power, time, heat, and so on. Heat is one of the side-channels that is not frequently analyzed by attackers in the literature due to the high noise associated with...journal article 2021
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Mahmoud, A.N.N. (author), Vanderveken, Frederic (author), Ciubotaru, Florin (author), Adelmann, Christoph (author), Cotofana, S.D. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Spin Waves (SWs) propagate through magnetic waveguides and interfere with each other without consuming noticeable energy, which opens the road to new ultra-low energy circuit designs. In this paper we build upon SW features and propose a novel energy efficient Full Adder (FA) design consisting of 1 Majority and 2 XOR gates, which outputs Sum...conference paper 2021