Diminishing benefits from technology scaling have pushed designers to look for new
sources of computing efficiency. Multicores and heterogeneous accelerator-based …

Variations in process parameters affect the operation of integrated circuits (ICs) and pose a
significant threat to the continued scaling of transistor dimensions. Such parameter …

Recent years have witnessed significant interest in the area of approximate computing.
Much of this interest stems from the quest for new sources of computing efficiency in the face …

In recent years, physical unclonable functions (PUFs) have gained a lot of attention as
mechanisms for hardware-rooted device authentication. While the majority of the previously …

In this paper, we present a novel discrete cosine transform (DCT) architecture that allows
aggressive voltage scaling for low-power dissipation, even under process parameter …

Recently many imprecise circuit design techniques have been proposed for implementation
of error-tolerant applications, such as multimedia and communications. These algorithms do …

Nanometer circuits are becoming increasingly prone to timing errors due to worsening
parametric variations and operation close to voltage and frequency limits. Such errors …

Error resiliency has demonstrated significant robustness and energy benefits in
superthreshold performance-constrained applications (Shanbhag, Proc. Des. Autom. Conf …

In this paper, we present a unique cross-layer design framework that allows systematic
exploration of the energy-delay-quality trade-offs at the algorithm, architecture and circuit …

Continued progressive downscaling of CMOS technologies threatens the reliability of chips
for future embedded systems. We developed a novel design methodology for dependable …