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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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Sarkar, A. (author), Al-Ars, Z. (author), Bertels, K.L.M. (author)In this research, we extend the universal reinforcement learning agent models of artificial general intelligence to quantum environments. The utility function of a classical exploratory stochastic Knowledge Seeking Agent, KL-KSA, is generalized to distance measures from quantum information theory on density matrices. Quantum process...conference paper 2023
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Cardoso Medeiros, G. (author)The Fin Field-Effect Transistor (FinFET) technology became the most promising approach to enable the downscaling of technological nodes below the 20 nm threshold. However, the introduction of new technology nodes for embedded memories such as SRAMs, especially for even smaller nodes such as 10 and 5 nm, gives rise to new manufacturing failure...doctoral thesis 2022
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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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Bagbaba, Ahmet Cagri (author), Augusto da Silva, F. (author), Sonza Reorda, Matteo (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Jenihhin, Maksim (author), Sauer, Christian (author)ISO 26262 requires classifying random hardware faults based on their effects (safe, detected, or undetected) within integrated circuits used in automobiles. In general, this classification is addressed using expert judgment and a combination of tools. However, the growth of integrated circuit complexity creates a huge fault space; hence, this...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) enable the realization of energy efficient circuits, as they propagate and interfere within waveguides without consuming noticeable energy. However, SW computing can be even more energy efficient by taking advantage of the approximate computing paradigm as many applications, e.g., multimedia and social...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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Wu, L. (author), Rao, Siddharth (author), Taouil, M. (author), Marinissen, Erik Jan (author), Kar, Gouri Sankar (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)The manufacturing process of STT-MRAM requires unique steps to fabricate and integrate magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) devices which are data-storing elements. Thus, understanding the defects in MTJs and their faulty behaviors are paramount for developing high-quality test solutions. This article applies the advanced device-aware test to...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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Batté, Amandine (author), van der Horst, Sophie C. (author), Elmer, Mireille (author), Sun, Su Ming (author), Sharma, Sushma (author), van Leeuwen, Jolanda (author), Chabes, Andrei (author), van Attikum, Haico (author)Eukaryotic cells have evolved a replication stress response that helps to overcome stalled/collapsed replication forks and ensure proper DNA replication. The replication checkpoint protein Mrc1 plays important roles in these processes, although its functional interactions are not fully understood. Here, we show that MRC1 negatively interacts...journal article 2022
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Fieback, M. (author), Münch, Christopher (author), Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Cardoso Medeiros, G. (author), Taouil, M. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Tahoori, Mehdi (author)Emerging non-volatile resistive memories like Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (STT-MRAM) and Resistive RAM (RRAM) are in the focus of today’s research. They offer promising alternative computing architectures such as computation-in-memory (CiM) to reduce the transfer overhead between CPU and memory, usually referred to as the...conference paper 2022
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Gong, J. (author), Charbon-Iwasaki-Charbon, E. (author), Sebastiano, F. (author), Babaie, M. (author)This article presents a low-jitter and low-spur charge-sampling phase-locked loop (CSPLL). A charge-domain sub-sampling phase detector is introduced to achieve a high phase-detection gain and to reduce the PLL in-band phase noise. Even without employing any power-hungry isolation buffers, the proposed phase detector dramatically suppresses...journal article 2022
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Boter, J.M. (author), Dehollain Lorenzana, J.P. (author), van Dijk, J.P.G. (author), Xu, Yuanxing (author), Hensgens, T. (author), Versluis, R. (author), Naus, H.W.L. (author), Veldhorst, M. (author), Sebastiano, F. (author), Vandersypen, L.M.K. (author)One of the main bottlenecks in the pursuit of a large-scale-chip-based quantum computer is the large number of control signals needed to operate qubit systems. As system sizes scale up, the number of terminals required to connect to off-chip control electronics quickly becomes unmanageable. Here, we discuss a quantum-dot spin-qubit...journal article 2022
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Zahedi, M.Z. (author), Shahroodi, T. (author), Custers, Geert (author), Singh, A. (author), Wong, J.S.S.M. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)In recent years, we are witnessing a trend moving away from conventional computer architectures towards Computation-In-Memory (CIM) based on emerging memristor devices. This is due to the fact that the performance and energy efficiency of traditional computer architectures can no longer be increased at the same pace as before. The main barriers...conference paper 2022
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El Arrassi, A.E. (author), Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Haddadi, Anass El (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) can drastically improve the energy efficiency of neuromorphic computing through network sparsity and event-driven execution. Thus, SNNs have the potential to support practical cognitive tasks on resource constrained platforms, such as edge devices. To realize this, SNN requires energy-efficient hardware which can...conference paper 2022
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Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Singh, A. (author), Diware, S.S. (author), Bishnoi, R.K. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Computation-In-Memory (CIM) using memristor devices provides an energy-efficient hardware implementation of arithmetic and logic operations for numerous applications, such as neuromorphic computing and database query. However, memristor-based CIM suffers from various non-idealities such as conductance drift, read disturb, wire parasitics,...conference paper 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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Fieback, M. (author), Taouil, M. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Testing of Computation-in-Memory (CIM) designs based on emerging non-volatile memory technologies, such as resistive RAM (RRAM), is fundamentally different from testing traditional memories. Such designs allow not only for data storage (i.e., memory configuration) but also for the execution of logical and arithmetic operations (i.e., computing...conference paper 2022
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Cem Gursoy, Cemil (author), Kraak, D.H.P. (author), Ahmed, Foisal (author), Taouil, M. (author), Jenihhin, Maksim (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Memory designs require timing margins to compensate for aging and fabrication process variations. With technology downscaling, aging mechanisms became more apparent, and larger margins are considered necessary. This, in return, means a larger area requirement and lower performance for the memory. Bias Temperature Instability (BTI) is one of the...conference paper 2022
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Copetti, T.S. (author), Nilovic, M. (author), Fieback, M. (author), Gemmeke, T. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Bolzani Poehls, L.M. (author)Memristive devices have become promising candidates to complement and/or replace 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...conference paper 2022