Chip Design & Architectures

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.