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The 23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Technical Program

Remark: The presenter of each paper is marked with "*".
Technical Program:   SIMPLE version   DETAILED version with abstract
Author Index:   HERE

Session Schedule


Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Room 302Room 401Room 402ARoom 402B
1K  (Halla HALL)
Opening & Keynote I

9:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
1A  (SS-1) Deep Learning for Applications that Live on Big Data
11:00 - 12:15
1B  System Level Management and Optimization
11:00 - 12:15
1C  Advances in Bio-Chip and Bio-Data-Processing
11:00 - 12:15
1D  Resource-Constrained Scheduling
11:00 - 12:15
Lunch Break
12:15 - 13:45
2A  (SS-2) New Advances in Hardware Security
13:45 - 15:25
2B  Energy-Efficient CNN Accelerators
13:45 - 15:25
2C  Networks on Chips and Beyond
13:45 - 15:25
2D  Timing Exploration: Modeling, Analysis and Optimization
13:45 - 15:25
Coffee Break
15:25 - 15:55
3A  Machine Learning Architecture Design and Its Applications
15:55 - 17:35
3B  Advanced Memory Architecture
15:55 - 17:35
3C  Advanced Testing and Diagnosis Techniques
15:55 - 17:35
3D  Split Manufacturing, Logic Obfuscation and Camouflaging
15:55 - 17:35
Break
17:35 - 18:00
ACM SIGDA Student Research Forum (Samda Hall)
18:00 - 20:00



Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Room 302Room 401Room 402ARoom 402B
2K  (Halla HALL)
Keynote II

9:00 - 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
4A  University Design Contest
10:30 - 12:10
4B  System Architectures
10:30 - 12:10
4C  Emerging Technologies for Energy Efficient Computing
10:30 - 12:10
4D  Design for Manufacturability and Reliability
10:30 - 12:10
Lunch Break / UDC Posters
12:10 - 13:40
5A  (IS) Machine/Deep Learning for Semiconductor Design, EDA Technologies, and Application
13:40 - 15:45
5B  System Design Methodologies
13:40 - 15:45
5C  Synthesis, Routing and Timing
13:40 - 15:45
5D  Advanced Placement and Routing Techniques
13:40 - 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15
6A  (SS-3) Training Deep Neural Networks: Algorithms and Architectures
16:15 - 17:30
6B  Emerging Memory Management Techniques
16:15 - 17:30
6C  Intelligent System Designs with Neuromorphic and Stochastic Technologies
16:15 - 17:30
6D  New Flavors of Logic and Arithmetic Synthesis
16:15 - 17:30
Break
17:30 - 18:00
Banquet (Tamna Hall, ICC 5F)
18:00 - 20:00



Thursday, January 25, 2018

Room 302Room 401Room 402ARoom 402B
3K  (Halla HALL)
Keynote III

8:30 - 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
7A  Multiplier Design: From Accurate to Approximate
10:30 - 11:45
7B  (SS-4) Reliability and Aging-Aware Designs for sub-10nm ICs
10:30 - 11:45
7C  (SS-5) Design Automation and Methodology for Flexible Electronics
10:30 - 11:45
7D  Novel Synthesis Techniques for Quantum Circuits
10:30 - 11:45
Lunch Break
11:45 - 13:15
8A  Energy Efficient System Design
13:15 - 14:30
Embedded Workshop I
(EDA Winter Workshop)
Embedded Workshop II
(Workshop on Memory and Storage Devices and Systems)

Coffee Break
14:30 - 15:00
9A  Hardware Security Primitive Design and Implementation
15:00 - 16:15
Coffee Break
16:15 - 16:45
10A  Deep Learning and Architectural Security
16:45 - 18:00


IS: Industry Session, SS: Special Session

List of papers

Remark: The presenter of each paper is marked with "*".

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Session 1K  Opening & Keynote I
Time: 9:00 - 10:30 Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Location: Halla HALL
Chair: Youngsoo Shin (KAIST, Republic of Korea)

1K-1 (Time: 9:30 - 10:30)
Title(Keynote Address) Designing Heterogeneous Systems in the AI Era: Challenges and Opportunities
AuthorJeff Burns (IBM, U.S.A.)
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Session 1A  (SS-1) Deep Learning for Applications that Live on Big Data
Time: 11:00 - 12:15 Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Location: Room 302
Organizer: Deming Chen (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

1A-1 (Time: 11:00 - 11:25)
Title(Invited Paper) Quantized Deep Neural Networks for Energy Efficient Hardware-based Inference
AuthorRuizhou Ding, Zeye Liu, *R. D. (Shawn) Blanton, Diana Marculescu (Carnegie Mellon Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 1 - 8
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1A-2 (Time: 11:25 - 11:50)
Title(Invited Paper) Intelligent Corner Synthesis via Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks for Efficient Validation of Autonomous Driving Systems
AuthorHandi Yu (Duke Univ., U.S.A.), *Xin Li (Duke Univ. / Duke Kunshan Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 9 - 15
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1A-3 (Time: 11:50 - 12:15)
Title(Invited Paper) Deep Learning for Better Variant Calling for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
AuthorAnand Ramachandran, Huiren Li, Eric Klee, Steven S. Lumetta, *Deming Chen (UIUC, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 16 - 21
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Session 1B  System Level Management and Optimization
Time: 11:00 - 12:15 Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Location: Room 401
Chairs: Ji-Hoon Kim (Seoul National Univ. of Science and Tech., Republic of Korea), Youngjoo Lee (POSTECH, Republic of Korea)

1B-1 (Time: 11:00 - 11:25)
TitleMulti-Device Collaborative Management Through Knowledge Sharing
Author*Zhongyuan Tian (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong), Zhe Wang (Huawei Technologies, China), Haoran Li, Peng Yang, Rafael Kioji Vivas Maeda, Jiang Xu (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 22 - 27
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1B-2 (Time: 11:25 - 11:50)
TitleSQLiteKV: An Efficient LSM-tree-based SQLite-like Database Engine for Mobile Devices
Author*Yuanjing Shi, Zhaoyan Shen, Zili Shao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 28 - 33
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1B-3 (Time: 11:50 - 12:15)
TitleDI-SSD: Desymmetrized Interconnection Architecture and Dynamic Timing Calibration for Solid-State Drives
AuthorRen-Shuo Liu, *Jian-Hao Huang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 34 - 39
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Session 1C  Advances in Bio-Chip and Bio-Data-Processing
Time: 11:00 - 12:15 Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Location: Room 402A
Chairs: Yanzhi Wang (Syracuse Univ., U.S.A.), Juinn-Dar Huang (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)

1C-1 (Time: 11:00 - 11:25)
TitleSound Valve-Control for Programmable Microfluidic Devices
Author*Andreas Grimmer, Berislav Klepic (Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria), Tsung-Yi Ho (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria)
Pagepp. 40 - 45
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1C-2 (Time: 11:25 - 11:50)
TitleMulti-Level Droplet Routing in Active-Matrix Based Digital-Microfluidic Biochips
Author*Guan-Ruei Lu (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan), Bhargab B. Bhattacharya (Indian Statistical Institute, India), Tsung-Yi Ho (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Hung-Ming Chen (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 46 - 51
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1C-3 (Time: 11:50 - 12:15)
TitleMESGA: An MPSoC Based Embedded System Solution for Short Read Genome Alignment
Author*Vikkitharan Gnanasambandapillai, Arash Bayat, Sri Parameswaran (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
Pagepp. 52 - 57
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Session 1D  Resource-Constrained Scheduling
Time: 11:00 - 12:15 Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Location: Room 402B
Chairs: Jingtong Hu (Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.), Yuan-Hao Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

1D-1 (Time: 11:00 - 11:25)
TitleScheduling and Shaping of Complex Task Activations for Mixed-Criticality Systems
AuthorBiao Hu (Beijing Univ. of Chemical Tech., China), *Kai Huang (Sun Yat-sen Univ., China)
Pagepp. 58 - 63
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1D-2 (Time: 11:25 - 11:50)
TitleBUQS: Battery- and User-aware QoS Scaling for Interactive Mobile Devices
Author*Wooseok Lee, Reena Panda (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.), Dam Sunwoo, Jose Joao (ARM R&D, U.S.A.), Andreas Gerstlauer, Lizy K. John (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 64 - 69
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1D-3 (Time: 11:50 - 12:15)
TitlePower Conversion Efficiency-Aware Mapping of Multithreaded Applications on Heterogeneous Architectures: A Comprehensive Parameter Tuning
Author*Hossein Sayadi (George Mason Univ., U.S.A.), Divya Pathak, Ioannis Savidis (Drexel Univ., U.S.A.), Houman Homayoun (George Mason Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 70 - 75
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Session 2A  (SS-2) New Advances in Hardware Security
Time: 13:45 - 15:25 Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Location: Room 302
Organizer: Gang Qu (Univ. of Maryland, U.S.A.)

2A-1 (Time: 13:45 - 14:10)
Title(Invited Paper) Effect of Aging on Linear and Nonlinear MUX PUFs by Statistical Modeling
AuthorAnoop Koyily, S.V. Sandeep Avvaru, Chen Zhou, Chris H. Kim, *Keshab K. Parhi (Univ. of Minnesota, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 76 - 83
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2A-2 (Time: 14:10 - 14:35)
Title(Invited Paper) ASAX: Automatic Security Assertion Extraction for Detecting Hardware Trojans
Author*Chenguang Wang, Yici Cai, Qiang Zhou, Haoyi Wang (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 84 - 89
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2A-3 (Time: 14:35 - 15:00)
Title(Invited Paper) Polymorphic Gate based IC Watermarking Techniques
Author*Tian Wang, Xiaoxin Cui, Dunshan Yu (Peking Univ., China), Omid Aramoon, Timothy Dunlap, Gang Qu (Univ. of Maryland, U.S.A.), Xiaole Cui (Peking Univ. Shenzhen Graduate School, China)
Pagepp. 90 - 96
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2A-4 (Time: 15:00 - 15:25)
Title(Invited Paper) A Machine Learning Attack Resistant Multi-PUF Design on FPGA
AuthorQingqing Ma (Nanjing Univ. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China), Chongyan Gu, Neil Hanley (Queen's Univ. Belfast, U.K.), Chenghua Wang, *Weiqiang Liu (Nanjing Univ. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China), Maire O'Neill (Queen's Univ. Belfast, U.K.)
Pagepp. 97 - 104
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Session 2B  Energy-Efficient CNN Accelerators
Time: 13:45 - 15:25 Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Location: Room 401
Chairs: Chun-Yi Lee (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Shao-Yun Fang (National Taiwan Univ. of Science and Tech., Taiwan)

2B-1 (Time: 13:45 - 14:10)
TitleSupporting Compressed-Sparse Activations and Weights on SIMD-like Accelerator for Sparse Convolutional Neural Networks
Author*Chien-Yu Lin, Bo-Cheng Lai (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 105 - 110
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2B-2 (Time: 14:10 - 14:35)
TitleIMCE: Energy-Efficient Bit-Wise In-Memory Convolution Engine for Deep Neural Network
AuthorShaahin Angizi, Zhezhi He, Farhana Parveen, *Deliang Fan (Univ. of Central Florida, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 111 - 116
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2B-3 (Time: 14:35 - 15:00)
TitleTraining Low Bitwidth Convolutional Neural Network on RRAM
Author*Yi Cai, Tianqi Tang, Lixue Xia, Ming Cheng, Zhenhua Zhu, Yu Wang, Huazhong Yang (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 117 - 122
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2B-4 (Time: 15:00 - 15:25)
TitleA High-Throughput and Energy-Efficient RRAM-based Convolutional Neural Network using Data Encoding and Dynamic Quantization
Author*Xizi Chen, Jingbo Jiang, Jingyang Zhu, Chi-Ying Tsui (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., China)
Pagepp. 123 - 128
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Session 2C  Networks on Chips and Beyond
Time: 13:45 - 15:25 Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Location: Room 402A
Chairs: Mehdi Tahoori (Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech., Germany), John Kim (KAIST, Republic of Korea)

2C-1 (Time: 13:45 - 14:10)
TitleDRL-Cloud: Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Resource Provisioning and Task Scheduling for Cloud Service Providers
AuthorMingxi Cheng (Duke Univ., U.S.A.), Ji Li, *Shahin Nazarian (Univ. of Sourthern California, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 129 - 134
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2C-2 (Time: 14:10 - 14:35)
TitlePairing of Microring-based Silicon Photonic Transceivers for Tuning Power Optimization
AuthorRui Wu (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.), M. Ashkan Seyedi (Hewlett Packard Labs, U.S.A.), *Yuyang Wang (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.), Jared Hulme, Marco Fiorentino, Raymond G. Beausoleil (Hewlett Packard Labs, U.S.A.), Kwang-Ting Cheng (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 135 - 140
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2C-3 (Time: 14:35 - 15:00)
TitleNeu-NoC: A High-efficient Interconnection Network for Accelerated Neuromorphic Systems
AuthorXiaoxiao Liu, Wei Wen (Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.), Xuehai Qian (Univ. of Southern California, U.S.A.), Hai Li, *Yiran Chen (Duke Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 141 - 146
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2C-4 (Time: 15:00 - 15:25)
TitleA Lifetime-aware Mapping Algorithm to Extend MTTF of Networks-on-Chip
Author*Letian Huang, Shuyu Chen, Qiong Wu (Univ. of Electronic Science and Tech. of China, China), Masoumeh Ebrahimi (Royal Inst. of Tech., Sweden), Junshi Wang, Shuyan Jiang, Qiang Li (Univ. of Electronic Science and Tech. of China, China)
Pagepp. 147 - 152
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Session 2D  Timing Exploration: Modeling, Analysis and Optimization
Time: 13:45 - 15:25 Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Location: Room 402B
Chairs: Ting-Chi Wang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Sheldon Tan (Univ. of California, Riverside, U.S.A.)

2D-1 (Time: 13:45 - 14:10)
TitleLayout-Dependent Aging Mitigation for Critical Path Timing
AuthorChe-Lun Hsu (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.), Shaofeng Guo (Peking Univ., China), Yibo Lin, Xiaoqing Xu, *Meng Li (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.), Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang (Peking Univ., China), David Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 153 - 158
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2D-2 (Time: 14:10 - 14:35)
TitleMTTF-aware Design Methodology of Error Prediction Based Adaptively Voltage-scaled Circuits
Author*Yutaka Masuda, Masanori Hashimoto (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 159 - 165
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2D-3 (Time: 14:35 - 15:00)
TitleA Highly Compressed Timing Macro-modeling Algorithm for Hierarchical and Incremental Timing Analysis
Author*Tin-Yin Lai, Martin D. F. Wong (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 166 - 171
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2D-4 (Time: 15:00 - 15:25)
TitleFastPass: Fast Timing Path Search for Generalized Timing Exception Handling
Author*Pei-Yu Lee (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan), Iris Hui-Ru Jiang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), Tung-Chieh Chen (Maxeda Technology, Taiwan)
Pagepp. 172 - 177
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Session 3A  Machine Learning Architecture Design and Its Applications
Time: 15:55 - 17:35 Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Location: Room 302
Chairs: Tsung-Yi Ho (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Donghwa Shin (Yeungnam Univ., Republic of Korea)

3A-1 (Time: 15:55 - 16:20)
TitleReGAN: A Pipelined ReRAM-Based Accelerator for Generative Adversarial Networks
Author*Fan Chen, Linghao Song, Yiran Chen (Duke Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 178 - 183
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3A-2 (Time: 16:20 - 16:45)
TitleQuad-Multiplier Packing Based on Customized Floating Point for Convolutional Neural Networks on FPGA
Author*Zhifeng Zhang, Dajiang Zhou, Shihao Wang, Shinji Kimura (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 184 - 189
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3A-3 (Time: 16:45 - 17:10)
TitleSparse Ternary Connect: Convolutional Neural Networks Using Ternarized Weights with Enhanced Sparsity
Author*Canran Jin, Heming Sun, Shinji Kimura (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 190 - 195
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3A-4 (Time: 17:10 - 17:35)
TitleA Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Optimizing Fuel Economy of Hybrid Electric Vehicles
AuthorPu Zhao (Northeastern Univ., U.S.A.), *Yanzhi Wang (Syracuse Univ., U.S.A.), Naehyuck Chang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering, Republic of Korea), Qi Zhu (Northwestern Univ., U.S.A.), Xue Lin (Northeastern Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 196 - 202
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Session 3B  Advanced Memory Architecture
Time: 15:55 - 17:35 Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Location: Room 401
Chairs: Hyung Gyu Lee (Daegu Univ., Republic of Korea), Hoeseok Yang (Ajou Univ., Republic of Korea)

3B-1 (Time: 15:55 - 16:20)
TitleProcess Variation and Temperature Aware Adaptive Scrubbing for Retention Failures in STT-MRAM
AuthorNour Sayed, Sarath Mohanachandran Nair, Rajendra Bishnoi, *Mehdi Tahoori (Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech., Germany)
Pagepp. 203 - 208
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3B-2 (Time: 16:20 - 16:45)
TitlePIMCH: Cooperative Memory Prefetching in Processing-In-Memory Architecture
Author*Sheng Xu, Ying Wang, Yinhe Han, Xiaowei Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Pagepp. 209 - 214
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3B-3 (Time: 16:45 - 17:10)
TitleCAMO: A Novel Cache Management Organization for GPGPUs
Author*Debiprasanna Sahoo, Swaraj Sha, Manoranjan Satpathy (Indian Inst. of Tech., Bhubaneswar, India), Madhu Mutyam (Indian Inst. of Tech. Madras, India), Laxmi Narayan Bhuyan (Univ. of California, Riverside, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 215 - 220
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Best Paper Award
3B-4 (Time: 17:10 - 17:35)
TitleProcess Variation Aware Data Management for Magnetic Skyrmions Racetrack Memory
Author*Fan Chen (Duke Univ., U.S.A.), Zheng Li (Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.), Wang Kang, Weisheng Zhao (Beihang Univ., China), Hai Li, Yiran Chen (Duke Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 221 - 226
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Session 3C  Advanced Testing and Diagnosis Techniques
Time: 15:55 - 17:35 Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Location: Room 402A
Chairs: Jin-Fu Li (National Central Univ., Taiwan), Jing-Jia Liou (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)

3C-1 (Time: 15:55 - 16:20)
TitleOptimizing Dynamic Mapping Techniques for On-Line NoC Test
AuthorShuyan Jiang, *Qiong Wu, Shuyu Chen, Junshi Wang (Univ. of Electronic Science and Tech. of China, China), Masoumeh Ebrahimi (Royal Inst. of Tech., Sweden), Letian Huang, Qiang Li (Univ. of Electronic Science and Tech. of China, China)
Pagepp. 227 - 232
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3C-2 (Time: 16:20 - 16:45)
TitleOn Enabling Diagnosis for 1-Pin Test Fails in an Industrial Flow
Author*Daniel Tille, Benedikt Gottinger, Ulrike Pfannkuchen (Infineon Technologies AG, Germany), Helmut Graeb, Ulf Schlichtmann (Tech. Univ. of Munich, Germany)
Pagepp. 233 - 238
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3C-3 (Time: 16:45 - 17:10)
TitleApproximation-aware Testing for Approximate Circuits
AuthorArun Chandrasekharan, Stephan Eggersglüß, *Daniel Große, Rolf Drechsler (Univ. of Bremen, Germany)
Pagepp. 239 - 244
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3C-4 (Time: 17:10 - 17:35)
TitleA Channel-Sharable Built-In Self-Test Scheme for Multi-Channel DRAMs
Author*Kuan-Te Wu, Jin-Fu Li (National Central Univ., Taiwan), Chin-Yen Lo, Jenn-Shiang Lai, Ding-Ming Kwai, Yung-Fa Chou (ITRI, Taiwan)
Pagepp. 245 - 250
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Session 3D  Split Manufacturing, Logic Obfuscation and Camouflaging
Time: 15:55 - 17:35 Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Location: Room 402B
Chairs: Gang Qu (Univ. of Maryland, U.S.A.), Weiqiang Liu (Nanjing Univ. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

3D-1 (Time: 15:55 - 16:20)
TitleConcerted Wire Lifting: Enabling Secure and Cost-Effective Split Manufacturing
Author*Satwik Patnaik (New York Univ., U.S.A.), Johann Knechtel, Mohammed Ashraf, Ozgur Sinanoglu (New York Univ. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Pagepp. 251 - 258
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3D-2 (Time: 16:20 - 16:45)
TitleA Conflict-Free Approach for Parallelizing SAT-Based De-Camouflaging Attacks
Author*Xueyan Wang, Qiang Zhou, Yici Cai (Tsinghua Univ., China), Gang Qu (Univ. of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 259 - 264
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3D-3 (Time: 16:45 - 17:10)
TitleA Practical Split Manufacturing Framework for Trojan Prevention via Simultaneous Wire Lifting and Cell Insertion
Author*Meng Li (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.), Bei Yu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Yibo Lin, Xiaoqing Xu, Wuxi Li, David Z. Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 265 - 270
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3D-4 (Time: 17:10 - 17:35)
TitleA Comparative Investigation of Approximate Attacks on Logic Encryptions
AuthorYuanqi Shen, Amin Rezaei, *Hai Zhou (Northwestern Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 271 - 276
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Session 2K  Keynote II
Time: 9:00 - 10:00 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Location: Halla HALL
Chair: Youngsoo Shin (KAIST, Republic of Korea)

2K-1 (Time: 9:00 - 10:00)
Title(Keynote Address) Quality, Schedule and Cost: Design Technology and the Last Semiconductor Scaling Levers
AuthorAndrew B. Kahng (UCSD, U.S.A.)
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Session 4A  University Design Contest
Time: 10:30 - 12:10 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Location: Room 302
Chairs: Minkyu Je (KAIST, Republic of Korea), Ikjoon Chang (Kyung Hee Univ., Republic of Korea)

Best Design Award
4A-1 (Time: 10:30 - 10:33)
TitleAn Ultra-Low-Noise Differential Relaxation Oscillator based on a Swing-Boosting Scheme
AuthorJunghyup Lee, *Arup George (Daegu Gyeongbuk Inst. of Science and Tech., Republic of Korea), Minkyu Je (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 277 - 278
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Best Design Award
4A-2 (Time: 10:33 - 10:36)
TitleA Nonvolatile Flip-Flop-Enabled Cryptographic Wireless Authentication Tag with Per-Query Key Update and Power-Glitch Attack Countermeasures
AuthorChiraag S. Juvekar (MIT, U.S.A.), Joyce Kwong (Texas Instruments, U.S.A.), *Hyung-Min Lee (Korea Univ., Republic of Korea), Anantha P. Chandrakasan (MIT, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 279 - 280
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Special Feature Award
4A-3 (Time: 10:36 - 10:39)
TitleA 42nJ/conversion On-Demand State-of-Charge Indicator for Miniature IoT Li-ion Batteries
Author*Junwon Jeong (Korea Univ., Republic of Korea), Seokhyeon Jeong (Univ. of Michigan, U.S.A.), Chulwoo Kim (Korea Univ., Republic of Korea), Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw (Univ. of Michigan, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 281 - 282
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Special Feature Award
4A-4 (Time: 10:39 - 10:42)
TitleA Supply Noise Insensitive PLL with a Rail-to-Rail Swing Ring Oscillator and a Wideband Noise Suppression Loop
Author*Dongin Kim, SeongHwan Cho (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 283 - 284
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Special Feature Award
4A-5 (Time: 10:42 - 10:45)
TitleA Dual-Output SC Converter with Dynamic Power Allocation for Multi-Core Application Processors
AuthorJunmin Jiang (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong), *Yan Lu (Univ. of Macau, Macau), Xun Liu, Wing-Hung Ki, Philip K. T. Mok (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong), Seng-Pan U, Rui P. Martins (Univ. of Macau, Macau)
Pagepp. 285 - 286
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4A-6 (Time: 10:45 - 10:48)
Title12Gb/s Over Four Balanced Lines Utilizing NRZ Braid Clock Signaling with 100% Data Payload and Spread Transition Scheme for 8K UHD Intra-Panel Interface
AuthorYeonho Lee, *Yoonjae Choi, Chulwoo Kim (Korea Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 287 - 288
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4A-7 (Time: 10:48 - 10:51)
TitleA Digital SC Converter with High Efficiency and Low Voltage Ripple
AuthorJunmin Jiang, *Wing-Hung Ki (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong), Yan Lu (Univ. of Macau, Macau)
Pagepp. 289 - 290
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4A-8 (Time: 10:51 - 10:54)
TitleA Reconfigurable SIMO System with 10-Output Dual-Bus DC-DC Converter using the Load Balancing Function in Group Allocator for Diversified Load Condition
Author*Se-Un Shin, Sang-Hui Park, Gyu-Hyeong Cho (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 291 - 292
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4A-9 (Time: 10:54 - 10:57)
TitleReal-time Depth Map Processor for Offset Aperture based Single Camera System
AuthorHyeji Kim, Jinyeon Lim, *Yeongmin Lee, Woojin Yun, Young-Gyu Kim, Wonseok Choi, Asim Khan (KAIST, Republic of Korea), Muhammad Umar Karim Khan, Said Homidov (Center for Integrated Smart Sensors, Republic of Korea), Hyun Sang Park (Kongju National Univ., Republic of Korea), Chong-Min Kyung (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 293 - 294
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4A-10 (Time: 10:57 - 11:00)
TitleEdge Pursuit Comparator with Application in a 74.1dB SNDR, 20KS/s 15b SAR ADC
Author*Minseob Shim (Korea Univ., Republic of Korea), Seokhyeon Jeong (Univ. of Michigan, U.S.A.), Paul Myers (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., U.S.A.), Suyoung Bang (Intel Circuit Research Lab, U.S.A.), Junhua Shen (Analog Devices, U.S.A.), Chulwoo Kim (Korea Univ., Republic of Korea), Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, Wanyeong Jung (Univ. of Michigan, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 295 - 296
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4A-11 (Time: 11:00 - 11:03)
TitleA 300-μW Audio ΔΣ Modulator with 100.5-dB DR Using Dynamic Bias Inverter
Author*Sangwoo Lee, Woojin Jo, Seungwoo Song, Youngcheol Chae (Yonsei Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 297 - 298
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4A-12 (Time: 11:03 - 11:06)
TitleAn External-Capacitor-Less High PSR Low-Dropout Regulator Using an Adaptive Supply-Ripple Cancellation Technique to the Body-Gate
Author*Younghyun Lim, Jeonghyun Lee, Suneui Park, Jaehyouk Choi (UNIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 299 - 300
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4A-13 (Time: 11:06 - 11:09)
TitleA 230-260GHz Wideband Amplifier in 65nm CMOS Based on Dual-Peak Gmax-core
Author*Dae-Woong Park, Dzuhri Utomo (KAIST, Republic of Korea), Jong-Phil Hong (Chungbuk National Univ., Republic of Korea), Sang-Gug Lee (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 301 - 302
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4A-14 (Time: 11:09 - 11:12)
TitleInjection-Locked Frequency Multiplier with a Continuous Frequency-Tracking Loop for 5G Transceivers
Author*Seyeon Yoo, Seojin Choi, Juyeop Kim, Heein Yoon, Yongsun Lee, Jaehyouk Choi (Ulsan National Inst. of Science and Tech., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 303 - 304
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4A-15 (Time: 11:12 - 11:15)
TitleA 6.9mW 120fps 28×50 Capacitive Touch Sensor for 1mm-φ Stylus Using Current-Driven ΔΣ ADCs
Author*Hyunseok Hwang, Hyeyeon Lee, Youngcheol Chae (Yonsei Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 305 - 306
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4A-16 (Time: 11:15 - 11:18)
TitleA Switched-Loop-Filter PLL with Fast Phase-Error Correction Technique
Author*Yongsun Lee, Taeho Seong, Seyeon Yoo, Jaehyouk Choi (UNIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 307 - 308
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4A-17 (Time: 11:18 - 11:21)
TitleA 9.3 nW All-in-One Bandgap Voltage and Current Reference Circuit using Leakage-based PTAT Generation and DIBL Characteristic
Author*Youngwoo Ji, Cheonhoo Jeon, Hyunwoo Son, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim (POSTECH, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 309 - 310
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4A-18 (Time: 11:21 - 11:24)
TitleA 16.6-pJ/b 150-Mb/s Body-Channel Communication Transceiver with Decision Feedback Equalization Improving >200x Area Efficiency
Author*Ji-Hoon Lee (KIST, Republic of Korea), Kwangmin Kim, Minsoo Choi, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park, Byungsub Kim (POSTECH, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 311 - 312
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4A-19 (Time: 11:24 - 11:27)
TitleLow Power FSK Transceiver using ADPLL with Direct Modulation and Integrated SPDT for BLE Application
Author*Dongsoo Lee, Sungjin Kim, Seongjin Oh, Gyusub Won, Thi kim nga Truong, Imran Ali, Hamed Abbasizadeh, Behnam Samadpoor Rikan, Kang-Yoon Lee (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 313 - 314
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4A-20 (Time: 11:27 - 11:30)
TitleA 2.22 Gbps High-Throughput NB-LDPC Decoder in 65nm CMOS with Aggressive Overlap Scheduling
AuthorInjun Choi (Silicon Works, Republic of Korea), *Ji-Hoon Kim (Seoul National Univ. of Science and Tech., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 315 - 316
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4A-21 (Time: 11:30 - 11:33)
TitleDesign of Resource Sharing Reconfigurable ΔΣ SAR-ADC
Author*Motomi Ishizuka, Kohei Yamada, Hiroki Ishikuro (Keio Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 317 - 318
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4A-22 (Time: 11:33 - 11:36)
TitleA 2.4GHz, -102dBm-Sensitivity, 25kb/s, 0.466mW Interference Resistant BFSK Multi-Channel Sliding-IF ULP Receiver
Author*Hyun-Gi Seok, Oh-Yong Jung, Anjana Dissanayake, Sang-Gug Lee (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 319 - 320
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4A-23 (Time: 11:36 - 11:39)
TitleHighly Sensitive Fingerprint Readout IC for Glass-Covered Mutual Capacitive Fingerprint Sensor
Author*Kyeongmin Park, Joohyeob Song, Franklin Bien (Ulsan National Inst. of Science and Tech., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 321 - 322
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4A-24 (Time: 11:39 - 11:42)
TitleA 5.8 GHz DSRC Digitally Controlled CMOS RF-SoC Transceiver for China ETC
AuthorHuimin Liu, Xiongfei Qu, Lingling Cao (Tianjin Univ. of Tech., China), Ruifeng Liu (RF Microelectronics, China), Yuanzhi Zhang (Southern Illinois Univ. Carbondale, U.S.A.), Meijuan Zhang, Xiaoqiang Li, Wenshen Wang (Tianjin Univ. of Tech., China), *Chao Lu (Southern Illinois Univ. Carbondale, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 323 - 324
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4A-25 (Time: 11:42 - 11:45)
TitleA Low-Power Wide Dynamic-Range Current Readout Circuit for Biosensors
Author*Hyunwoo Son, Hwasuk Cho, Jahyun Koo, Youngwoo Ji, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim (POSTECH, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 325 - 326
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4A-26 (Time: 11:45 - 11:48)
TitleAn Efficient Fixed-point Arithmetic Processor Using a Hybrid CORDIC Algorithm
Author*Hong-Thu Nguyen, Xuan-Thuan Nguyen, Cong-Kha Pham (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Pagepp. 327 - 328
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4A-27 (Time: 11:48 - 11:51)
TitleA 2.4pJ/bit, 6.37Gb/s SPC-enhanced BC-BCH Decoder in 65nm CMOS for NAND Flash Storage Systems
Author*Jaehwan Jung, In-Cheol Park (KAIST, Republic of Korea), Youngjoo Lee (POSTECH, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 329 - 330
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Session 4B  System Architectures
Time: 10:30 - 12:10 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Location: Room 401
Chairs: Sri Parameswaran (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia), Jing-Jia Liou (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)

4B-1 (Time: 10:30 - 10:55)
TitleExploring Energy and Accuracy Tradeoff in Structure Simplification of Trained Deep Neural Networks
Author*Boyu Zhang, Azadeh Davoodi, Yu-Hen Hu (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 331 - 336
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4B-2 (Time: 10:55 - 11:20)
TitleLow Latency Parallel Implementation of Traditionally-Called Stochastic Circuits using Deterministic Shuffling Networks
Author*Zhiheng Wang, Soheil Mohajer, Kia Bazargan (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 337 - 342
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4B-3 (Time: 11:20 - 11:45)
TitleOptimizing FPGA-based Convolutional Neural Networks Accelerator for Image Super-Resolution
Author*Jung-Woo Chang, Suk-Ju Kang (Sogang Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 343 - 348
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4B-4 (Time: 11:45 - 12:10)
TitleXORiM: A Case of In-Memory Bit-Comparator Implementation and Its Performance Implications
Author*Kaiwei Zou, Ying Wang, Huawei Li, Xiaowei Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Pagepp. 349 - 354
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Session 4C  Emerging Technologies for Energy Efficient Computing
Time: 10:30 - 12:10 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Location: Room 402A
Chairs: Shigeru Yamashita (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan), Wujie Wen (Florida International Univ., U.S.A.)

4C-1 (Time: 10:30 - 10:55)
TitleLogic Synthesis for Energy-Efficient Photonic Integrated Circuits
AuthorZheng Zhao, Zheng Wang, Zhoufeng Ying, Shounak Dhar, Ray T. Chen, *David Z. Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 355 - 360
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4C-2 (Time: 10:55 - 11:20)
TitleHieIM: Highly Flexible In-Memory Computing using STT MRAM
AuthorFarhana Parveen, Zhezhi He, Shaahin Angizi, *Deliang Fan (Univ. of Central Florida, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 361 - 366
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4C-3 (Time: 11:20 - 11:45)
TitlePerformance Analysis on Structure of Racetrack Memory
Author*Hongbin Zhang (Tsinghua Univ., China), Chao Zhang (Peking Univ., China), Qingda Hu (Tsinghua Univ., China), Chengmo Yang (Univ. of Delaware, U.S.A.), Jiwu Shu (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 367 - 374
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4C-4 (Time: 11:45 - 12:10)
TitleModeling of Biaxial Magnetic Tunneling Junction for Multi-level Cell STT-RAM Realization
AuthorEnes Eken, Ismail Bayram (Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.), Hai (Helen) Li, *Yiran Chen (Duke Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 375 - 380
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Session 4D  Design for Manufacturability and Reliability
Time: 10:30 - 12:10 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Location: Room 402B
Chair: Masanori Hashimoto (Osaka Univ., Japan)

4D-1 (Time: 10:30 - 10:55)
TitleAutomatic Insertion of Airgap with Design Rule Constraints
Author*Daijoon Hyun, Youngsoo Shin (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 381 - 386
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4D-2 (Time: 10:55 - 11:20)
TitleOn Coloring Rectangular and Diagonal Grid Graphs for Multiple Patterning Lithography
AuthorDaifeng Guo (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.), Hongbo Zhang (Facebook, U.S.A.), *Martin D.F. Wong (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 387 - 392
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4D-3 (Time: 11:20 - 11:45)
TitleLifetime-aware Design Methodology for Dynamic Partially Reconfigurable Systems
Author*Siva Satyendra Sahoo, Tuan D. A. Nguyen, Bharadwaj Veeravalli (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore), Akash Kumar (Tech. Univ. Dresden, Germany)
Pagepp. 393 - 398
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4D-4 (Time: 11:45 - 12:10)
TitleElectromigration-Lifetime Constrained Power Grid Optimization Considering Multi-Segment Interconnect Wires
AuthorHan Zhou, Yijing Sun, Zeyu Sun, Hengyang Zhao, *Sheldon X.-D. Tan (Univ. of California, Riverside, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 399 - 404
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Session 5A  (IS) Machine/Deep Learning for Semiconductor Design, EDA Technologies, and Application
Time: 13:40 - 15:45 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Location: Room 302
Organizer: Kyu Myung Choi (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea)

5A-1 (Time: 13:40 - 14:05)
Title(Invited Paper) New Directions for Learning-Based IC Design Tools and Methodologies
Author*Andrew B. Kahng (Univ. of California, San Diego, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 405 - 410
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5A-2 (Time: 14:05 - 14:30)
Title(Invited Paper) Machine Learning and Systems for Building the Next Generation of EDA tools
Author*Manish Pandey (Synopsys, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 411 - 415
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5A-3 (Time: 14:30 - 14:55)
Title(Invited Paper) Machine Learning based Generic Violation Waiver System with Application on Electromigration Sign-off
Author*Norman Chang, Ajay Baranwal, Hao Zhuang, Ming-Chih Shih, Rahul Rajan, Yaowei Jia, Hui-Lun Liao, Ying-Shiun Li (ANSYS, U.S.A.), Ting Ku, Rex Lin (Nvidia, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 416 - 421
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5A-4 (Time: 14:55 - 15:20)
Title(Invited Paper) Machine Learning for Engineering
Author*Jeff Dyck (Solido Design Automation, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 422 - 427
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5A-5 (Time: 15:20 - 15:45)
Title(Invited Paper) Large-scale Short-term Urban Taxi Demand Forecasting Using Deep Learning
AuthorSiyu Liao (City Univ. of New York, U.S.A.), Liutong Zhou, Xuan Di (Columbia Univ., U.S.A.), Bo Yuan (City Univ. of New York, U.S.A.), *Jinjun Xiong (IBM, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 428 - 433
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Session 5B  System Design Methodologies
Time: 13:40 - 15:45 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Location: Room 401
Chairs: Naehyuck Chang (KAIST, Republic of Korea), Akash Kumar (Tech. Univ. Dresden, Germany)

5B-1 (Time: 13:40 - 14:05)
TitleUtilizing Quad-Trees for Efficient Design Space Exploration with Partial Assignment Evaluation
Author*Kai Neubauer (Univ. of Rostock, Germany), Philipp Wanko, Torsten Schaub (Univ. of Potsdam, Germany), Christian Haubelt (Univ. of Rostock, Germany)
Pagepp. 434 - 439
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5B-2 (Time: 14:05 - 14:30)
TitleSCBench: A Benchmark Design Suite for SystemC Verification and Validation
Author*Bin Lin, Fei Xie (Portland State Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 440 - 445
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5B-3 (Time: 14:30 - 14:55)
TitleMemFlow: Memory-Driven Data Scheduling with Datapath Co-design in Accelerators for Large-Scale Inference Applications
Author*Qi Nie, Sharad Malik (Princeton Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 446 - 451
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5B-4 (Time: 14:55 - 15:20)
TitleA Mapping Approach between IR and Binary CFGs Dealing with Aggressive Compiler Optimizations for Performance Estimation
Author*Omayma Matoussi, Frédéric Pétrot (Tima Laboratory, Grenoble INP, France)
Pagepp. 452 - 457
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5B-5 (Time: 15:20 - 15:45)
TitleSystem Level Performance Analysis and Optimization for the Adaptive Clocking based Multi-Core Processor
Author*Byung Su Kim (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea), Joon-Sung Yang (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 458 - 463
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Session 5C  Synthesis, Routing and Timing
Time: 13:40 - 15:45 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Location: Room 402A
Chairs: Jason C. Verley (Sandia National Laboratory, U.S.A.), Chien-Nan (Jimmy) Liu (National Central Univ., Taiwan)

Best Paper Candidate
5C-1 (Time: 13:40 - 14:05)
TitleDetecting Non-Functional Circuit Activity in SoC Designs
Author*Dustin Peterson, Yannick Boekle, Oliver Bringmann (Univ. of Tübingen, Germany)
Pagepp. 464 - 469
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5C-2 (Time: 14:05 - 14:30)
TitleMulti-Level Timing Simulation on GPUs
Author*Eric Schneider, Michael A. Kochte, Hans-Joachim Wunderlich (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany)
Pagepp. 470 - 475
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5C-3 (Time: 14:30 - 14:55)
TitleAn Optimal Gate Design for the Synthesis of Ternary Logic Circuits
Author*Sunmean Kim, Taeho Lim, Seokhyeong Kang (Ulsan National Inst. of Science and Tech., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 476 - 481
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5C-4 (Time: 14:55 - 15:20)
TitlePerformance-Preserved Analog Routing Methodology via Wire Load Reduction
Author*Hao-Yu Chi, Hwa-Yi Tseng, Chien-Nan Jimmy Liu (National Central Univ., Taiwan), Hung-Ming Chen (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 482 - 487
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5C-5 (Time: 15:20 - 15:45)
TitleStatic Timing Analysis for Ring Oscillators
Author*David M. Moore (Univ. of Michigan, U.S.A.), Jeffrey A. Fredenburg, Muhammad Faisal (Movellus, U.S.A.), David D. Wentzloff (Univ. of Michigan, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 488 - 493
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Session 5D  Advanced Placement and Routing Techniques
Time: 13:40 - 15:45 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Location: Room 402B
Chairs: Yasuhiro Takashima (Univ. of Kitakyushu, Japan), Ting-Chi Wang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)

5D-1 (Time: 13:40 - 14:05)
TitleOCV Guided Clock Tree Topology Reconstruction
AuthorNecati Uysal, *Rickard Ewetz (Univ. of Central Florida, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 494 - 499
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5D-2 (Time: 14:05 - 14:30)
TitleCohesive Techniques for Cell Layout Optimization Supporting 2D Metal-1 Routing Completion
Author*Kyeongrok Jo, Seyong Ahn, Taewhan Kim, Kyumyung Choi (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 500 - 506
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5D-3 (Time: 14:30 - 14:55)
TitleClustering of Flip-Flops for Useful-Skew Clock Tree Synthesis
Author*Chuan Yean Tan (Purdue Univ., U.S.A.), Rickard Ewetz (Univ. of Central Florida, U.S.A.), Cheng-Kok Koh (Purdue Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 507 - 512
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5D-4 (Time: 14:55 - 15:20)
TitleOptimal Die Placement for Interposer-Based 3D ICs
Author*Sergii Osmolovskyi (Dresden Univ. of Tech., Germany), Johann Knechtel (New York Univ. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Igor L. Markov (Univ. of Michigan, U.S.A.), Jens Lienig (Dresden Univ. of Tech., Germany)
Pagepp. 513 - 520
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5D-5 (Time: 15:20 - 15:45)
TitleFlip-Chip Routing with IO Planning Considering Practical Pad Assignment Constraints
Author*Tao-Chun Yu, Shao-Yun Fang (National Taiwan Univ. of Science and Tech., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 521 - 526
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Session 6A  (SS-3) Training Deep Neural Networks: Algorithms and Architectures
Time: 16:15 - 17:30 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Location: Room 302
Organizer: Kiyoung Choi (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea)

6A-1 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
Title(Invited Paper) Accelerator-centric Deep Learning Systems for Enhanced Scalability, Energy-Efficiency, and Programmability
Author*Minsoo Rhu (POSTECH, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 527 - 533
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6A-2 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
Title(Invited Paper) Running Sparse and Low-Precision Neural Network: When Algorithm Meets Hardware
AuthorBing Li, Wei Wen, Jiachen Mao (Duke Univ., U.S.A.), Sicheng Li (Hewlett Packard Labs, U.S.A.), *Yiran Chen, Hai(Helen) Li (Duke Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 534 - 539
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6A-3 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
Title(Invited Paper) Architectures and Algorithms for User Customization of CNNs
AuthorBarend Harris, Mansureh S. Moghaddam, Duseok Kang, Inpyo Bae, Euiseok Kim, Hyemi Min (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea), Hansu Cho, Sukjin Kim (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea), *Bernhard Egger, Soonhoi Ha, Kiyoung Choi (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 540 - 547
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Session 6B  Emerging Memory Management Techniques
Time: 16:15 - 17:30 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Location: Room 401
Chairs: Minsoo Rhu (POSTECH, Republic of Korea), Pi-Cheng Hsiu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

6B-1 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleRethinking Self-balancing Binary Search Tree over Phase Change Memory with Write Asymmetry
Author*Chieh-Fu Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Che-Wei Chang (Chang Gung Univ., Taiwan), Yuan-Hao Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Ming-Chang Yang (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 548 - 553
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6B-2 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleEnergy, Latency, and Lifetime Improvements in MLC NVM with Enhanced WOM Code
Author*Huizhang Luo, Liang Shi, Qiao Li (Chongqing Univ., China), Chun Jason Xue (City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Edwin H.-M. Sha (Chongqing Univ., China)
Pagepp. 554 - 559
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6B-3 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleScheduling Multi-Rate Real-Time Applications on Clustered Many-Core Architectures with Memory Constraints
Author*Matthias Becker, Saad Mubeen (Mälardalen Univ., Sweden), Dakshina Dasari (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany), Moris Behnam, Thomas Nolte (Mälardalen Univ., Sweden)
Pagepp. 560 - 567
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Session 6C  Intelligent System Designs with Neuromorphic and Stochastic Technologies
Time: 16:15 - 17:30 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Location: Room 402A
Chairs: Deliang Fan (Univ. of Central Florida, U.S.A.), Bing Li (Duke Univ., U.S.A.)

6C-1 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitlePT-Spike: A Precise-Time-Dependent Single Spike Neuromorphic Architecture with Efficient Supervised Learning
AuthorTao Liu (Florida International Univ., U.S.A.), Lei Jiang (Indiana Univ., U.S.A.), Yier Jin (Univ. of Florida, U.S.A.), Gang Quan, *Wujie Wen (Florida International Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 568 - 573
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6C-2 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleFully Parallel RRAM Synaptic Array for Implementing Binary Neural Network with (+1, -1) Weights and (+1, 0) Neurons
AuthorXiaoyu Sun, Xiaochen Peng, Pai-Yu Chen, Rui Liu, Jae-sun Seo, *Shimeng Yu (Arizona State Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 574 - 579
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6C-3 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleSpintronics based Stochastic Computing for Efficient Bayesian Inference System
AuthorXiaotao Jia, *Jianlei Yang, Zhaohao Wang (Beihang Univ., China), Yiran Chen, Hai (Helen) Li (Duke Univ., U.S.A.), Weisheng Zhao (Beihang Univ., China)
Pagepp. 580 - 585
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Session 6D  New Flavors of Logic and Arithmetic Synthesis
Time: 16:15 - 17:30 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Location: Room 402B
Chairs: Shouyi Yin (Tsinghua Univ., China), Jaeyong Chung (Incheon National Univ., Republic of Korea)

6D-1 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleSAT-Based Area Recovery in Structural Technology Mapping
Author*Bruno Schmitt (EPFL, Switzerland), Alan Mishchenko, Robert Brayton (UC Berkeley, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 586 - 591
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6D-2 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleA Two-Step Search Engine for Large Scale Boolean Matching under NP3 Equivalence
Author*Chak-Wa Pui, Peishan Tu, Haocheng Li, Gengjie Chen, Evangeline F.Y. Young (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 592 - 598
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6D-3 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleLow-Cost Hardware Architectures for Mersenne Modulo Functional Units
AuthorKeith Campbell, Chen-Hsuan Lin, *Deming Chen (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 599 - 604
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Thursday, January 25, 2018

Session 3K  Keynote III
Time: 8:30 - 10:00 Thursday, January 25, 2018
Location: Halla HALL
Chair: Youngsoo Shin (KAIST, Republic of Korea)

3K-1 (Time: 8:30 - 9:15)
Title(Keynote Address) CAE challenge on High Capacity/High Bandwidth Memory Design
AuthorWoojong Han (SK Hynix, Republic of Korea)
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3K-2 (Time: 9:15 - 10:00)
Title(Keynote Address) TeraByte/s Bandwidth 2.5D HBM (High-bandwidth Memory Module) Designs for Deep Learning Artificial Intelligent Servers
AuthorJoungho Kim (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
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Session 7A  Multiplier Design: From Accurate to Approximate
Time: 10:30 - 11:45 Thursday, January 25, 2018
Location: Room 302
Chairs: Kazuyoshi Takagi (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Youngjoo Lee (POSTECH)

7A-1 (Time: 10:30 - 10:55)
TitleA Low-Power High-Speed Accuracy-Controllable Approximate Multiplier Design
Author*Tongxin Yang, Tomoaki Ukezono, Toshinori Sato (Fukuoka Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 605 - 610
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7A-2 (Time: 10:55 - 11:20)
TitleExploration of Approximate Multipliers Design Space using Carry Propagation Free Compressors
AuthorSina Boroumand (Univ. of Tehran, Iran), Hadi P. Afshar (Qualcomm Research, U.S.A.), *Philip Brisk (Univ. of California, Riverside, U.S.A.), Siamak Mohammadi (Univ. of Tehran, Iran)
Pagepp. 611 - 616
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7A-3 (Time: 11:20 - 11:45)
TitleLow-power Implementation of Mitchell’s Approximate Logarithmic Multiplication for Convolutional Neural Networks
Author*Min Soo Kim (Univ. of California, Irvine, U.S.A.), Alberto Antonio Del Barrio, Román Hermida (Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Nader Bagherzadeh (Univ. of California, Irvine, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 617 - 622
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Session 7B  (SS-4) Reliability and Aging-Aware Designs for sub-10nm ICs
Time: 10:30 - 11:45 Thursday, January 25, 2018
Location: Room 401
Organizer: Sheldon Tan (UC Riverside, U.S.A.)

7B-1 (Time: 10:30 - 10:55)
Title(Invited Paper) Accelerating Electromigration Aging for Fast Failure Detection for Nanometer ICs
AuthorZeyu Sun, Sheriff Sadiqbatcha, Hengyang Zhao, *Sheldon X.-D. Tan (Univ. of California, Riverside, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 623 - 630
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7B-2 (Time: 10:55 - 11:20)
Title(Invited Paper) Efficient Worst-case Timing Analysis of Critical-path Delay under Workload-dependent Aging Degradation
Author*Shumpei Morita, Song Bian (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Michihiro Shintani (NAIST, Japan), Masayuki Hiromoto, Takashi Sato (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 631 - 636
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7B-3 (Time: 11:20 - 11:45)
Title(Invited Paper) Balancing Resiliency and Energy Efficiency of Functional Units in Ultra-low Power Systems
AuthorMohammad Saber Golanbari, Anteneh Gebregiorgis, Elyas Moradi, Saman Kiamehr, *Mehdi B. Tahoori (Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech., Germany)
Pagepp. 637 - 644
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Session 7C  (SS-5) Design Automation and Methodology for Flexible Electronics
Time: 10:30 - 11:45 Thursday, January 25, 2018
Location: Room 402A
Organizers: Mehdi Tahoori (Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech., Germany), Jim Huang (Hewlett Packard Labs)

7C-1 (Time: 10:30 - 10:55)
Title(Invited Paper) Mechanical Strain and Temperature Aware Design Methodology for Thin-Film Transistor Based Pseudo-CMOS Logic Array
Author*Wenyu Sun, Yuxuan Huang, Qinghang Zhao, Fei Qiao (Tsinghua Univ., China), Tsung-Yi Ho (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Xiaojun Guo (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China), Huazhong Yang, Yongpan Liu (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 645 - 650
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7C-2 (Time: 10:55 - 11:20)
Title(Invited Paper) Process Design Kit for Flexible Hybrid Electronics
Author*Leilai Shao (UCSB, U.S.A.), Tsung-Ching Huang (Hewlett Packard Labs, U.S.A.), Ting Lei, Zhenan Bao (Stanford Univ., U.S.A.), Raymond Beausoleil (Hewlett Packard Labs, U.S.A.), Kwang-Ting Cheng (Hong-Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., China)
Pagepp. 651 - 657
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7C-3 (Time: 11:20 - 11:45)
Title(Invited Paper) From Silicon to Printed Electronics: A Coherent Modeling and Design Flow Approach Based on Printed Electrolyte Gated FETs
AuthorGabriel Cadilha Marques, Farhan Rasheed, Jasmin Aghassi-Hagmann, *Mehdi B. Tahoori (Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech., Germany)
Pagepp. 658 - 663
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Session 7D  Novel Synthesis Techniques for Quantum Circuits
Time: 10:30 - 11:45 Thursday, January 25, 2018
Location: Room 402B
Chairs: Kyu-Myung Choi (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea), Sangdo Park (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)

7D-1 (Time: 10:30 - 10:55)
TitleA Best-Fit Mapping Algorithm to Facilitate ESOP-Decomposition in Clifford+T Quantum Network Synthesis
Author*Giulia Meuli, Mathias Soeken (EPFL, Switzerland), Martin Roetteler, Nathan Wiebe (Microsoft Research, U.S.A.), Giovanni De Micheli (EPFL, Switzerland)
Pagepp. 664 - 669
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7D-2 (Time: 10:55 - 11:20)
TitleExploiting Coding Techniques for Logic Synthesis of Reversible Circuits
Author*Alwin Zulehner, Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria)
Pagepp. 670 - 675
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7D-3 (Time: 11:20 - 11:45)
TitleFunctional Decomposition Using Majority
Author*Zhufei Chu (Ningbo Univ., China), Mathias Soeken (EPFL, Switzerland), Yinshui Xia (Ningbo Univ., China), Giovanni De Micheli (EPFL, Switzerland)
Pagepp. 676 - 681
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Session 8A  Energy Efficient System Design
Time: 13:15 - 14:30 Thursday, January 25, 2018
Location: Room 302
Chairs: Jae-Joon Kim (POSTECH, Republic of Korea), Jaeyong Chung (Incheon National Univ., Republic of Korea)

8A-1 (Time: 13:15 - 13:40)
TitleCANNA: Neural Network Acceleration using Configurable Approximation on GPGPU
AuthorMohsen Imani, Max Masich, *Daniel Peroni, Pushen Wang, Tajana Rosing (Univ. of California, San Diego, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 682 - 689
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8A-2 (Time: 13:40 - 14:05)
TitleTask Assignment and Scheduling in MPSoC under Process Variation: A Stochastic Approach
Author*Behnam Khodabandeloo, Ahmad Khonsari (Univ. of Tehran/Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran), Alireza Majidi (Texas A&M Univ., U.S.A.), Mohammad Hassan Hajiesmaili (Univ. of Tehran/Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran)
Pagepp. 690 - 695
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8A-3 (Time: 14:05 - 14:30)
TitleDarkMem: Fine-Grained Power Management of Local Memories for Accelerators in Embedded Systems
Author*Christian Pilato (Univ. della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland), Luca P. Carloni (Columbia Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 696 - 701
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Session 9A  Hardware Security Primitive Design and Implementation
Time: 15:00 - 16:15 Thursday, January 25, 2018
Location: Room 302
Chairs: Wujie Wen (Florida International Univ., U.S.A.), Taewhan Kim (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea)

9A-1 (Time: 15:00 - 15:25)
TitleCryptoBlaze: A Partially Homomorphic Processor with Multiple Instructions and Non-Deterministic Encryption Support
Author*Florencia Irena, Daniel Murphy, Sri Parameswaran (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
Pagepp. 702 - 708
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9A-2 (Time: 15:25 - 15:50)
TitlePMU-Trojan: On Exploiting Power Management Side Channel for Information Leakage
Author*Md Nazmul Islam, Sandip Kundu (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 709 - 714
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9A-3 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
TitleA Low-overhead PUF based on Parallel Scan Design
Author*Wenxuan Wang, Aijiao Cui (Harbin Inst. of Tech. Shenzhen Graduate School, China), Gang Qu (Univ. of Maryland, U.S.A.), Huawei Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Pagepp. 715 - 720
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Session 10A  Deep Learning and Architectural Security
Time: 16:45 - 18:00 Thursday, January 25, 2018
Location: Room 302
Chairs: Taewhan Kim (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea), Ji-Hoon Kim (Seoul National Univ. of Science and Tech., Republic of Korea)

Best Paper Candidate
10A-1 (Time: 16:45 - 17:10)
TitleSecurity Analysis and Enhancement of Model Compressed Deep Learning Systems under Adversarial Attacks
AuthorQi Liu, Tao Liu, Zihao Liu (Florida International Univ., U.S.A.), Yanzhi Wang (Syracuse Univ., U.S.A.), Yier Jin (Univ. of Florida, U.S.A.), *Wujie Wen (Florida International Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 721 - 726
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10A-2 (Time: 17:10 - 17:35)
TitleHLIFT: A High-level Information Flow Tracking Method for Detecting Hardware Trojans
Author*Chenguang Wang, Yici Cai, Qiang Zhou (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 727 - 732
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10A-3 (Time: 17:35 - 18:00)
TitleSystem-on-Chip Security Architecture and CAD Framework for Hardware Patch
Author*Atul Prasad Deb Nath (Univ. of Florida, U.S.A.), Sandip Ray (NXP Semiconductors, U.S.A.), Abhishek Basak (Intel, U.S.A.), Swarup Bhunia (Univ. of Florida, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 733 - 738
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