ISQED 2022: Program Rev. 11

March 30, 2022

SESSION 1A

Wednesday April 6

Efficient Deep Learning System Design

Chair: Cong Hao, Georgia Institute of Technology
Co-Chair: Bo Yuan, Rutgers University

10:10AM
1A.1
Hybrid Learning for Orchestrating Deep Learning Inference in Multi-user Edge-cloud Networks
Sina Shahhosseini¹, Tianyi Hu¹, Dongjoo Seo¹, Anil Kanduri², Bryan Donyanavard³, Amir M. Rahmani¹, Nikil Dutt⁴
¹University of California, Irvine, ²University of Turku, ³San Diego State University, ⁴UC Irvine

56	10:30AM 1A.2 X-NVDLA: Runtime Accuracy Configurable NVDLA based on Employing Voltage Overscaling Approach Hassan Afzali-Kusha and Massoud Pedram USC

76	10:50AM 1A.3 Analysis of the Effect of Off-chip Memory Access on the Performance of an NPU System Keonjoo Lee, Donghyun Kang, Duseok Kang, Soonhoi Ha Seoul National University

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11:10AM
1A.4
Design and Challenges of Edge Computing ASICs on Front-End Electronics
Sandeep Miryala¹ , Gabriella Carini¹, Grzegorz Deptuch¹, Jin Huang¹, Srinivas Katkoori², Piotr Maj¹, Soumyajit Mandal¹, Yihui Ren¹and Md Adnan Zaman¹
¹Brookhaven National Laboratory, ²University of South Florida

SESSION 1B

Wednesday April 6

Modeling and Simulation Methodologies in Electronic Designs

Chair: Srini Krishnamoorthy, Intel Corp.
Co-Chair: Rui Zhang, Cadence

2	10:10AM 1B.1 Low-IR-Drop Test Pattern Regeneration Using A Fast Predictor Shi-Tang Liu¹, Jia-Xian Chen¹, Yu-Tsung Wu¹, Chao-Ho Hsieh¹, Ying-Shiun Li², Wen-Tze Chuang², Norman Chang², Chien-Mo Li¹ ¹National Taiwan University, ²Ansys

33	10:30AM 1B.2 Simulation methodology for timing analysis and design optimization in digital Superconducting Electronics Sam Lo, Aaron Barker, Stephen Whiteley, Eric Mlinar, Jiajun Chen, Dehuang Wu, Kishore Singhal Synopsys

34	10:50AM 1B.3 Functional Level Abstraction and Simulation of Verilog-AMS Piecewise Linear Models SADIA AZAM¹, Nicola Dall'Ora², Enrico Fraccaroli³, Franco Fummi⁴ ¹University of Verona ,italy, ²University of Verona, ³Università degli Studi di Verona, ⁴Universita' di Verona

45	11:10AM 1B.4 Predicting Post Route Quality of Results Estimates for HLS Designs using Machine Learning Pingakshya Goswami and Dinesh Bhatia University of Texas at Dallas

SESSION 1C

Wednesday April 6

Testing and Formal Verification of Circuits

Chair: Deepashree Sengupta, Synopsys Inc.
Co-Chair: Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation

10:10AM
1C.1
Investigation on Realistic Stuck-on/off Defects to Complement IEEE P2427 Draft Standard
SADIA AZAM¹, Nicola Dall'Ora², Enrico Fraccaroli³, André Alberts⁴, Renaud Gillon⁵, Franco Fummi⁶
¹University of Verona ,italy, ²University of Verona, ³Università degli Studi di Verona, ⁴Sydelity B.V., Kruisem, Belgium, ⁵Sydelity B.V., Kruisem, Belgium, ⁶Universita' di Verona

24	10:30AM 1C.2 Formal Analysis of Integer Multipliers by building Binary Decision Diagram of Adder Trees Jitendra Kumar¹, Asutosh Srivastava¹, Masahiro Fujita² ¹Jawaharlal Nehru University, ²University of Tokyo

78	10:50AM 1C.3 DEEQ: Data-driven End-to-End EQuivalence Checking of High-level Synthesis Mohammed Abderehman, Chandan Karfa, Rakesh Reddy Indian Institute Of Technology–Guwahati

69	11:10AM 1C.4 Transaction Level Stimulus Optimization in Functional Verification Using Machine Learning Predictors Saumil Gogri, Aakash Tyagi, Mike Quinn, Jiang Hu Texas A&M University

SESSION 1D

Wednesday April 6

Recent Advances in Hardware-Assisted Security

Chair: Hossein Sayadi, California State University, Long Beach

116	10:10AM 1D.1 Accelerated Machine Learning for On-Device Hardware-Assisted Cybersecurity in Edge Platforms Hosein Mohammadi Makrani¹, Zhangying He², Setareh Rafatirad¹, Hossein Sayadi² ¹University of California, Davis, ²California State University, Long Beach

128	10:30AM 1D.2 Does Aging Matter? The Curious Case of Fault Sensitivity Analysis Mohammad Ebrahimabadi¹, Bijan Fadaeinia², Amir Moradi², Naghmeh Karimi¹ ¹University of Maryland Baltimore County, ²Ruhr University Bochum

132	10:50AM 1D.3 Challenges and Opportunities for Hardware-Assisted Security Improvements in the Field Benjamin Tan University of Calgary

145	11:10AM 1D.4 Adaptive-Gravity: A Defense Against Adversarial Samples Ali Mirzaeian¹, Zhi Tian¹, Sai Manoj P D¹, Banafsheh Saber Latibari², Ioannis Savidis³, Houman Homayoun², Avesta Sasan² ¹George Mason University, ²University of California, Davis, ³Drexel University

SESSION 2A

Wednesday April 6

Design & Automation for Low-power Real-time System

Chair: Yu Bai, California State University Fullerton
Co-Chair: Shiyan Hu, University of Southampton

83	12:45PM 2A.1 An Efficient Error Estimation Technique for Pruning Approximate Data-Flow Graphs in Design Space Exploration Marzieh Vaeztourshizi and Massoud Pedram USC

95	1:05PM 2A.2 A Heterogeneous Solution to the All-pairs Shortest Path Problem using FPGAs Mihnea Chirila¹, Paolo D'Alberto², Hsin-Yu Ting¹, Alexander Veidenbaum¹, Alexandru Nicolau¹ ¹University of California, Irvine, ²Xilinx Inc.

19	1:25PM 2A.3 Integrated Power Delivery Methodology for 3D ICs Yousef Safari and Boris Vaisband McGill University

7	1:45PM 2A.4 FastMem: A Fast Architecture-aware Memory Layout Design Alok Parmar¹, Kailash Prasad², Nanditha Rao¹, Joycee Mekie² ¹International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, ²Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar

SESSION 2B

Wednesday April 6

Estimation and Optimization Methodologies in VLSI Designs

Chair: Siddhartha Nath, Nvidia
Co-Chair: Emre Salman, Stony Brook University

47	12:45PM 2B.1 Reinforcement-Learning-based Mixed-Signal IC Placement for Fogging Effect Control Mohammad Hajijafari, Mehrnaz Ahmadi, Zhenxin Zhao, Lihong Zhang Memorial University of Newfoundland

57	1:05PM 2B.2 Routability-driven Global Routing with 3D Congestion Estimation Using a Customized Neural Network Yuxuan Pan, Zhonghua Zhou, Andre Ivanov the University of British Columbia

58	1:25PM 2B.3 Model Auto Extraction for Gate-All-Around Silicon Nanowire MOSFETs Using A Decomposition-Based Many-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm Ya-Shu Yang¹ and Yiming Li² ¹National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, ²National Chiao Tung University

1:45PM
2B.4
Building Post-layout Performance Model of Analog/RF Circuits by Fine-tuning Technique
Zhikai Wang¹, Wenfei Hu¹, Jingbo Zhou², Wenyuan Zhang³, Ruitao Wang⁴, Jian ZHang⁵, Dejing Dou⁶, Zuochang Ye⁵, Yan Wang⁷
¹School of Integrated Circuits，Tsinghua University, ²Baidu Research, Business Intelligence Lab, ³Beijing Institute of Technology, ⁴Shool of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua University, ⁵School of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua university, ⁶Big Data Lab, Baidu Research, ⁷School of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua University

79	2:05PM 2B.5 On Predicting Solution Quality of Maze Routing Using Convolutional Neural Network Kuei-Huan Chang¹, Hsin-Hung Pan¹, Ting-Chi Wang¹, Po-Yuan Chen², Chin-Fang Shen² ¹National Tsing Hua University, ²Synopsys Taiwan Co., Ltd.

SESSION 2C

Wednesday April 6

Novel AI computing architecture

Chair: Shaahin Angizi, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Co-Chair: Arman Roohi, University of Nebraska Lincoln

25	12:45PM 2C.1 Beta Oscillation Detector Design for Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation of Parkinson’s Disease with Memristive Spiking Neural Networks Zachary Kerman, Chunxiu Yu, Hongyu An Michigan Technological University

94	1:05PM 2C.2 Memristor-based Deep Spiking Neural Network with a Computing-In-Memory Architecture Fabiha Nowshin and Cindy Yang Yi Virginia Tech

28	1:25PM 2C.3 LogGen: A Parameterized Generator for Designing Floating-Point Logarithm Units for Deep Learning Pragnesh Patel, Aman Arora, Earl Swartzlander, Lizy John University of Texas at Austin

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1:45PM
2C.4
Cross-layer Designs against Non-ideal Effects in ReRAM-based Processing-in-Memory System
Chen Nie¹, Zongwu Wang², Qidong Tang², Chenyang Lv², Li Jiang¹, Zhezhi He³
¹Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ²Shanghai Jiaotong University, ³Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

SESSION 2D

Wednesday April 6

Smart Sensing in Internet of Things (IoT)

Chair: Prabha Sundaravadivel, University of Texas at Tyler
Co-Chair: Shawana Tabassum, University of Texas at Tyler

123	12:45PM 2D.1 An IoT-enabled Electronic Textile-based Flexible Body Sensor Network for Real-time Health Monitoring in Assisted Living during Pandemic Nafize Ishtiaque Hossain and Shawana Tabassum The University of Texas at Tyler

124

1:05PM
2D.2
EasyBand2.0: A Framework with Context-Aware Recommendation Mechanism for Safety-Aware Mobility during Pandemic Outbreaks
Seema G. Aarella¹, Ajaya K. Tripathy², Saraju Mohanty³, Elias Kougianos⁴
¹Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas, USA., ²School of Computer Science, Gangadhar Meher University, India., ³University of North Texas, ⁴Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Texas, USA.

133	1:25PM 2D.3 i-lete: An IoT-based physical stress monitoring framework for athletes Prosenjit Ghosh¹ and Prabha Sundaravadivel² ¹The University of Texas at Tyler, ²University of Texas at Tyler

139

1:45PM
2D.4
An Automatic and Efficient BERT Pruning for Edge AI Systems
Shaoyi Huang¹, Ning Liu², Yueying Liang¹, Hongwu Peng¹, Hongjia Li², Dongkuan Xu³, Mimi Xie⁴, Caiwen Ding¹
¹University of Connecticut, ²Northeastern University, ³The Pennsylvania State University, ⁴The University of Texas at San Antonio

SESSION PW1

Thursday April 7

Poster and WIP Session 1

Chair: Cindy Yang Yi, Virginia Tech

75	9:45AM PW1.1 Lightweight Neural Network Architectures for Resource-Limited Devices April Reed¹, Xiaokun Yang¹, Shi Sha² ¹University of Houston Clear Lake, ²Wilkes University

65	9:50AM PW1.2 Computation of Soft Error Rates Considering Test Pattern Sequences Danushka Senarathna and Spyros Tragoudas Southern Illinois University Carbondale

22	9:55AM PW1.3 Machine Learning Approach to Characteristic Fluctuation of Bulk FinFETs Induced by Random Interface Traps Rajat Butola¹, Yiming Li², Sekhar Kola¹ ¹National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, ²National Chiao Tung University

10:00AM
PW1.4
A Unified Statistical Analysis of Comprehensive Fluctuations of Gate-All-Around Silicon Nanosheet MOSFETs Induced by RDF, ITF, and WKF Simultaneously
Sekhar Kola¹, Yiming Li², Chieh-Yang Chen¹, Min-Hui Chuang¹
¹National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, ²National Chiao Tung University

8	10:05AM PW1.5 Hardware Trojans for Confidence Reduction and Misclassifications on Neural Networks Mahdieh Grailoo¹, Mairo Leier², Samuel Pagliarini² ¹Dpt. of Computer Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, ²Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)

10:10AM
PW1.6
Reusing Verification Assertions as Security Checkers for Hardware Trojan Detection
Mohammad Eslami¹, Tara Ghasempouri², Samuel Pagliarini³
¹Department of Computer Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, ²Department of Computer System, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, ³Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)

10:15AM
PW1.7
HPAM: An 8-bit High-Performance Approximate Multiplier Design for Error Resilient Applications
Divy Pandey¹, Vishesh Mishra¹, Saurabh Singh¹, Sagar Satapathy², Babita Jajodia¹, Dip Sankar Banerjee²
¹Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, ²Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

80	10:20AM PW1.8 Hardware-aware 3D Model Workload Selection and Characterization for Graphics and ML Applications Ruihao Li¹, Aman Arora¹, Sikan Li¹, Qinzhe Wu², Lizy John¹ ¹The University of Texas at Austin, ²University of Texas at Austin

SESSION PW2

Thursday April 7

Poster and WIP Session2

Chair: Sara Tehranipoor, Santa Clara University

40	9:45AM PW2.1 Pushing Low Power Limits on Multi-Core High Performance SoC Venkateswar Kowkutla, Siva Kothamasu, Kazunobu Shin, Chunhua Hu Texas Instruments Inc.

87	9:50AM PW2.2 Beyond Verilog: Evaluating Chisel versus High-level Synthesis with Tiny Designs Xiangdong Wei and Xinfei Guo Shanghai Jiao Tong University

29	9:55AM PW2.3 Quantum Technology for Comparator Circuit Hafiz Hasan Babu¹, Khandaker Mohi Uddin², Rownak Himel³, Nitish Biswas² ¹University of Dhaka, ²Dhaka International University, ³Dhaka International University

31	10:00AM PW2.4 Density Aware Cell Library Design for Design-Technology Co-Optimization Shinichi Nishizawa and Toru Nakura Fukuoka University

21	10:05AM PW2.5 Examining Vulnerability of HLS-designed Chaskey-12 Circuits to Power Side-Channel Attacks Saya Inagaki¹, Mingyu Yang¹, Yang Li², Kazuo Sakiyama², Yuko Hara-Azumi¹ ¹Tokyo Institute of Technology, ²The University of Electro-Communications

27	10:10AM PW2.6 Challenges of Securing Low-Power LoRaWAN Devices Deployed in Advanced Manufacturing Mohammad Monjur, Joseph Heacock, Joshua Calzadillas, Rui Sun, Qiaoyan Yu University of New Hampshire

35	10:15AM PW2.7 Sub-Space Modeling: An Enrollment Solution for XOR Arbiter PUF using Machine Learning Amir Alipour¹, David Hély², Vincent Beroulle², Giorgio Di Natale³ ¹Universite Grenoble Alpes - LCIS, ²Grenoble INP LCIS, ³CNRS TIMA

50	10:20AM PW2.8 An Offline Hardware Security Assessment Approach using Symbol Assertion and Code Shredding zahra kazemi¹, Amin Norollah², mahdi fazeli³, David hely³, Vincent Beroulle⁴ ¹PhD. Candidate, ²Computer Engineering Dept., IUST, ³Accosiate Proffessor, ⁴Proffessor

SESSION 3DIC

Thursday April 7

Approximate Computing & Monolithic 3D ICs

Chair: Iraklis Anagnostopoulos, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Co-Chair: Ankur Guha Roy, Broadcom

9:45AM
3DIC.1
EFCSA: An Efficient Carry Speculative Approximate Adder with Rectification
Saurabh Singh¹, Vishesh Mishra¹, Sagar Satapathy², Divy Pandey¹, Kaustav Goswami³, Dip Sankar Banerjee², Babita Jajodia¹
¹Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, ²Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, ³University of California Davis

61	10:05AM 3DIC.2 Thermal Modeling and Design Exploration for Monolithic 3D ICs Baoli Peng¹, Vasilis Pavlidis², Yi-Chung Chen³, Yuanqing Cheng¹ ¹Beihang University, ²University of Manchester, ³Tennessee State University

148	10:25AM 3DIC.3 Discrete Steps towards Approximate Computing Michael Gansen, Jie Lou, Florian Freye, Tobias Gemmeke, Farhad Merchant, Albert Zeyer, Mohammad Zeineldeen, Ralf Schlüter, Xin Fan RWTH Aachen University

SESSION 3SS

Thursday April 7

Intelligent Internet of Battery-less Things

Chair: Mimi Xie, University of Texas at San Antonio

136

9:45AM
3SS.1
An Intermittent OTA Approach to Update the DL Weights on Energy Harvesting Devices
Wei Wei¹, Sahidul Islam², Jishnu Banerjee², Jieren Deng³, Chen Pan⁴, Caiwen Ding³, Mimi Xie²
¹UTSA, ²The University of Texas at San Antonio, ³University of Connecticut, ⁴Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

137	10:05AM 3SS.2 Aperiodic Tasks Scheduling of Energy Harvesting Embedded Systems Hongzhi Xu¹, Binlian Zhang¹, Chen Pan² ¹Jishou University, ²Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

138	10:25AM 3SS.3 Joint-optimization of Node placement and UAV's trajectory for Self-sustaining Air-Ground IoT system Wen Zhang¹, Wenlu Wang¹, Mehdi Sookhak¹, Chen Pan² ¹Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi, ²Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

134

10:45AM
3SS.4
Multilayered Triboelectric Energy Harvester as a Smart Floor Mat
Fatma Özüdoğru¹, Sercan Koca¹, Seval Kınden¹, Shawana Tabassum²
¹Eskisehir Technical University, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Eskisehir, ²The University of Texas at Tyler, Dep. of Electrical Engineering, Tyler, Texas

SESSION 3A

Thursday April 7

Acceleration and Efficiency of Computation and Storage

Chair: Rasit Topaloglu, IBM
Co-Chair: Vita Pi-Ho Hu, National Taiwan University

6	11:15AM 3A.1 A Parallel SystemC Virtual Platform for Neuromorphic Architectures Melvin Galicia¹, Farhad Merchant², Rainer Leupers¹ ¹RWTH Aachen University, ²Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems, RWTH Aachen University

12	11:35AM 3A.2 ReFACE: Efficient Design Methodology for Acceleration of Digital Filter Implementations Arman Roohi¹, Shaahin Angizi², Pooriya Navaeilavasani³, MohammadReza Taheri³ ¹University of Nebraska - Lincoln, ²New Jersey Institute of Technology, ³Independent Researcher

11:55AM
3A.3
In-storage Processing of I/O Intensive Applications on Computational Storage Drives
Ali HeydariGorji¹, Mahdi Torabzadehkashi², Siavash Rezaei³, hossein bobarshad⁴, Vladimir Alves³, Pai Chou⁵
¹University of California, Irvine, ²University of California, Irvine - NGD Systems, Inc, ³NGD Systems, Inc., ⁴NGDSystems, ⁵National Tsing Hua University

129	12:15PM 3A.4 Development of On-Wafer EUV Detector for In-Chamber Monitoring in Advanced CMOS Production Ya-Chin King National Tsing-Hua University

SESSION 3B

Thursday April 7

AI Accelerator Hardware Design

Chair: Soheil Salehi, UC Davis

110	11:15AM 3B.1 FPGA based Reservoir computing with optimized reservoir node architecture Chunxiao Lin, Yibin Liang, Yang (Cindy) Yi Virginia Tech

102	11:35AM 3B.2 A High-Speed CNN Hardware Accelerator with Regular Pruning Yuan Song, Bi Wu, Tian Yuan, Weiqiang Liu Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

11:55AM
3B.3
Low-Precision Quantization Techniques for Hardware-Implementation-Friendly BERT Models
Xinpei Zhang¹, Yi Ding¹, Mingfei Yu¹, Shin-ichi O'uchi², Masahiro Fujita³
¹the University of Tokyo, ²AIST-UTokyo AI Chip Design Open Innovation Laboratory, ³the University of Tokyo, AIST-UTokyo AI Chip Design Open Innovation Laboratory

112	12:15PM 3B.4 Integrated Sensing and Computing using Energy-Efficient Magnetic Synapses Shaahin Angizi¹ and Arman Roohi² ¹New Jersey Institute of Technology, ²University of Nebraska - Lincoln

SESSION 3C

Thursday April 7

Keep the Chip Secrets Safe: Side-channel Attacks and Defenses

Chair: Nima Karimian, San Jose State University

11:15AM
3C.1
BIC: Blind Identification Countermeasure for Malicious Thermal Sensor Attacks in Mobile SoCs
Mostafa Abdelrehim¹, Ahmad Patooghy², Amin Malekmohammadi¹, Abdel-Hameed Badawy³
¹California State University at Bakersfield, ²North Carolina A&T State University, ³New Mexico State University

41	11:35AM 3C.2 Large-Scale Logic-Locking Attack via Simulation Ruben Purdy and R.D. (Shawn) Blanton Carnegie Mellon University

68	11:55AM 3C.3 Stealthy Attack on Algorithmic-Protected DNNs via Smart Bit Flipping Behnam Ghavami, Seyd Movi, Zhenman Fang, Lesley Shannon Simon Fraser University

88	12:15PM 3C.4 Self-timed Sensors for Detecting Static Optical Side Channel Attacks Sourav Roy¹, Tasnuva Farheen¹, Shahin Tajik², Domenic Forte¹ ¹University of Florida, ²Worcester Polytechnic Institute

12:35PM
3C.5
Corruption Exposes You: Statistical Key Recovery from Compound Logic Locking
ARSHDEEP KAUR¹, Sayandeep Saha², Chandan Karfa³, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay⁴
¹Intel India Pvt. Ltd., ²IIT Kharagpur, ³IIT Guwahati, ⁴Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

SESSION 3D

Thursday April 7

Advanced 2.5D and 3D Heterogeneous Integration for State-of-the-Art Computing

Chair: Srinivasan Gopal, Broadcom

142

11:15AM
3D.1
Design methodology for scalable 2.5D/3D heterogenous tiled chiplet systems
srivatsa rangachar srinivasa¹, Jainaveen Sundaram Priya², Dileep Kurian³, Erika Ramirez Lozano¹, Satish Yada¹, Saransh Chhabra¹, Kamakhya Prasad Sahu⁴, Paolo Aseron¹, Ronald Kalim¹, Tanay Karnik⁴, Anuradha Srinivasan⁴
¹Intel Labs, ²Intel Corporation, ³Intel technologies, ⁴Intel

119	11:35AM 3D.2 NoC-enabled 3D Heterogeneous Manycore Systems for Big-Data Applications Biresh Kumar Joardar¹, Jana Doppa², Partha Pratim Pande², Krishnendu Chakrabarty¹ ¹Duke University, ²Washington State University

118	11:55AM 3D.3 Analysis of the Security Vulnerabilities of 2.5-D and 3-D Integrated Circuits Vaibhav Rao¹, Avesta Sasan², Ioannis Savidis¹ ¹Drexel University, ²University of California, Davis

140	12:15PM 3D.4 SCIP to the Next Generation of Computing: Extending More than Moore with Silicon Photonics Chiplets in Package (SCIP) Vivek Raghunathan, Karl Muth, Bapiraju Vinnakota, Prasad Venugopal, Rebecca Schaevitz, Manish Mehta Broadcom

SESSION 4A

Thursday April 7

Machine Learning Systems towards Practical Applications

Chair: Bo Yuan, Rutgers University
Co-Chair: Shiyan Hu, University of Southampton

117	2:15PM 4A.1 An Audio Frequency Unfolding Framework for Ultra-Low Sampling Rate Sensors Zhihui Gao, Minxue Tang, Ang Li, Yiran Chen Duke University

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2:35PM
4A.2
BLCR: Towards Real-time DNN Execution with Block-based Reweighted Pruning
Xiaolong Ma¹, Geng Yuan¹, Zhengang Li¹, Yifan Gong¹, Tianyun Zhang², Wei Niu³, Zheng Zhan¹, Pu Zhao¹, Ning Liu⁴, Jian Tang⁴, Xue Lin¹, Bin Ren³, Yanzhi Wang¹
¹Northeastern University, ²Cleveland State University, ³William & Mary, ⁴Midea Group

113	2:55PM 4A.3 Double Deep Q-Learning Based Irrigation and Chemigation Control Jianfeng Song¹, Dana Porter¹, Jiang Hu¹, Thomas Marek² ¹Texas A&M University, ²Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension

111	3:15PM 4A.4 Enery Consumption and Runtime Performance Optimizations Applied to Hyperspectral Imaging Cancer Detection Eduardo Juarez¹, Raquel Lazcano², Daniel Madroñal², Cesar Sanz¹ ¹Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ²Universitá degli Studi di Sassari

SESSION 4B

Thursday April 7

Physical Implementation Considerations in VLSI Designs

Chair: Srinivas Katkoori, University of South Florida
Co-Chair: Sheikh Ariful Islam, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

2:15PM
4B.1
Path-Based Pre-Routing Timing Prediction for Modern Very Large-Scale Integration Designs
Li-Wei Chen¹, Yao-Nien Sui², Tai-Cheng Lee², I-Ching Tsai³, Tai-Wei Kung³, En-Cheng Liu³, Yun-Chih Chang³, Yih-Lang Li², Mango C.-T. Chao²
¹National Yng-Ming Chiao-Tung University, ²National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, ³Realtek Semiconductor Corp

89	2:35PM 4B.2 Multi-Objective Variation-Aware Sizing for Analog CNFET Circuits Zahra Heshmatpour, Lihong Zhang, Howard Heys Memorial University of Newfoundland

97	2:55PM 4B.3 Layout-based Vulnerability Analysis of LEON3 Processor to Single Event Multiple Transients using Satisfiability Modulo Theories Sowmith Nethula, Vivek Bansal, Ghaith Hamad, Otmane Ait Mohamed Concordia University

101

3:15PM
4B.4
Peak Prediction Using Multi Layer Perceptron(MLP) for Edge Computing ASICs Targeting Scientific Applications
Sandeep Miryala¹, Md Adnan Zaman², Sandeep Mittal¹, Yihui Ren¹, Grzegorz Deptuch¹, Gabriella Carini¹, Sioan Zohar¹, Shinjae Yoo¹, Jack Fried¹, Jin Huang¹, Srinivas Katkoori²
¹Brookhaven National Laboratory, ²University of South Florida

106	3:35PM 4B.5 Improving Pin Accessibility of Standard Cell Libraries in 7nm Technology Tsao-Hsuan Peng, Chih-Chun Hsu, Po-Chun Wang, Rung-Bin Lin Yuan Ze University

SESSION 4C

Thursday April 7

Physical Attacks on PUFs and Secure Hardware Design

Chair: Nima Karimian, San Jose State University

126	2:15PM 4C.1 Joint Optimization of NCL PUF Using Frequency-based Analysis and Evolutionary Algorithm Rabin Yu Acharya and Domenic Forte University of Florida

37	2:35PM 4C.2 An Efficient Approach to Model Strong PUF with Multi-Layer Perceptron using Transfer Learning Amir Alipour¹, David Hély², Vincent Beroulle², Giorgio Di Natale³ ¹Universite Grenoble Alpes - LCIS, ²Grenoble INP LCIS, ³CNRS TIMA

109	2:55PM 4C.3 A Lightweight Neighbor-Averaging Technique for Reducing Systematic Variations in Physically Unclonable Functions Andres Martinez-Sanchez, Deva Borah, Wenjie Che New Mexico State University

127	3:15PM 4C.4 Characterization of mitigation schemes against timing-based side-channel attacks on PCIe hardware Usman Ali, Salman Abdul Khaliq, Omer Khan University of Connecticut

125	3:35PM 4C.5 Strong PUF Security Metrics: Response Sensitivity to Small Challenge Perturbations Fynn Kappelhoff¹, Rasmus Rasche¹, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay², Ulrich Rührmair¹ ¹Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, ²IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpu

SESSION 4D

Thursday April 7

Approximate Computing: From Circuit Design to System Integration

Chair: Tobias Gemmeke, RWTH Aachen University

120	2:15PM 4D.1 How much is too much error? Analyzing the impact of approximate multipliers on DNNs Ourania Spantidi and Iraklis Anagnostopoulos Southern Illinois University Carbondale

121	2:35PM 4D.2 AxBy-ViT: Reconfigurable Approximate Computation Bypass for Vision Transformers Dongning Ma, Xue Qin, Xun Jiao Villanova University

122

2:55PM
4D.3
Approximate Decision Trees For Machine Learning Classification on Tiny Printed Circuits
Konstantinos Balaskas¹, Georgios Zervakis², Kostas Siozios³, Mehdi Tahoori², Joerg Henkel⁴
¹Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, ²Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, ³Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, ⁴KIT

130	3:15PM 4D.4 HW/SW Codesign for Approximate In-Memory Computing Simon Thomann, Hong Nguyen, Hussam Amrouch University of Stuttgart

131	3:35PM 4D.5 On the Resiliency of an Analog Memristive Architecture against Adversarial Attacks Bijay Raj Paudel¹, Vasileios Pentsos², Spyros Tragoudas¹ ¹Southern Illinois University Carbondale, ²Southen Illinois University Carbondale