FinFET technologies are becoming the mainstream process as technology scales down. Based on a 28-nm bulk p- FinFET device, we have investigated the fin width and height dependence of bipolar amplification for heavy-io...
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FinFET technologies are becoming the mainstream process as technology scales down. Based on a 28-nm bulk p- FinFET device, we have investigated the fin width and height dependence of bipolar amplification for heavy-ion-irradiated FinFETs by 3D TCAD numerical simulation. Simulation results show that due to a well bipolar conduction mechanism rather than a channel （fin） conduction path, the transistors with narrower fins exhibit a diminished bipolar amplification effect, while the fin height presents a trivial effect on the bipolar amplification and charge collection. The results also indicate that the single event transient （SET） pulse width can be mitigated about 35% at least by optimizing the ratio of fin width and height, which can provide guidance for radiation-hardened applications in bulk FinFET technology.
The internal single-event transient(SET) induced upset in flip-flops is becoming significant with the increase of the operating frequency. However, the conventional soft error rate(SER) evaluation approach could only ...
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The internal single-event transient(SET) induced upset in flip-flops is becoming significant with the increase of the operating frequency. However, the conventional soft error rate(SER) evaluation approach could only produce an approximate upset prediction result caused by the internal SET. In this paper, we propose an improved SER evaluation approach based on Monte Carlo simulation. A novel SET-based upset model is implemented in the proposed evaluation approach to accurately predict upsets caused by the internal SET. A test chip was fabricated in a commercial 65 nm bulk process to validate the accuracy of the improved SER evaluation approach. The predicted single-event upset cross-sections are consistent with the experimental data.
Single event upset (SEU) is one of the most important origins of soft errors in aerospace *** technology scales down persistently, charge sharing is playing a more and more significant effect on SEU of flip-flop. Char...
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Single event upset (SEU) is one of the most important origins of soft errors in aerospace *** technology scales down persistently, charge sharing is playing a more and more significant effect on SEU of flip-flop. Charge sharing can often bring about multi-node charge collection in storage nodes and non-storage nodes in a flip-flop. In this paper, multi-node charge collection in flip-flop data input and flip-flop clock signal is investigated by 3D TCAD mixed-mode simulations, and the simulate results indicate that single event double transient (SEDT) in flip-flop data input and flip-flop clock signal can also cause a SEU in flip-flop. This novel mechanism is called the SEDT-induced SEU, and it is also verified by heavy-ion experiment in 65 nm twin-well process. The simulation results also indicate that this mechanism is closely related with the well-structure,and the triple-well structure is more effective to increase the SEU threshold of this mechanism than twin-well structure.
The proliferation of massive datasets has led to significant interests in distributed algorithms for solving large-scale machine learning ***,the communication overhead is a major bottleneck that hampers the scalabili...
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The proliferation of massive datasets has led to significant interests in distributed algorithms for solving large-scale machine learning ***,the communication overhead is a major bottleneck that hampers the scalability of distributed machine learning *** this paper,we design two communication-efficient algorithms for distributed learning *** first one is named EF-SIGNGD,in which we use the 1-bit(sign-based) gradient quantization method to save the communication ***,the error feedback technique,i.e.,incorporating the error made by the compression operator into the next step,is employed for the convergence *** second algorithm is called LE-SIGNGD,in which we introduce a well-designed lazy gradient aggregation rule to EF-SIGNGD that can detect the gradients with small changes and reuse the outdated ***-SIGNGD saves communication costs both in transmitted bits and communication ***,we show that LE-SIGNGD is convergent under some mild *** effectiveness of the two proposed algorithms is demonstrated through experiments on both real and synthetic data.
Concurrency bugs widely exist in concurrent programs and have caused severe failures in the real world. Researchers have made significant progress in detecting concurrency bugs, which improves software reliability. In...
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Concurrency bugs widely exist in concurrent programs and have caused severe failures in the real world. Researchers have made significant progress in detecting concurrency bugs, which improves software reliability. In this paper, we survey the most up-to-date and well-known concurrency bug detectors. We categorize the existing detectors based on the types of concurrency bugs. Consequently, we analyze data race detectors, atomicity violation detectors, order violation detectors, and deadlock detectors, respectively. We also discuss some other techniques which are mostly related to concurrency bug detection, including schedule bounding techniques, interleaving optimizing techniques, path expanding techniques, and deterministic replay techniques. Additionally, we statistically analyze the reviewed detectors and get some interesting findings, for instance, nearly 86% of previous detectors focus on data races and atomicity violations, and dynamic approaches are popular(74%). We also discuss the limitations of previous detectors, finding that 91% of previous detectors suffer from false negatives and 64% of previous detectors suffer from runtime overhead. Based on the reviewed detectors and statistical analysis, we conclude some future research directions, including accuracy, performance,applicability, and integrality.
The contribution of parasitic bipolar amplification to SETs is experimentally verified using two P-hit target chains in the normal layout and in the special layout. For PMOSs in the normal layout, the single-event cha...
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The contribution of parasitic bipolar amplification to SETs is experimentally verified using two P-hit target chains in the normal layout and in the special layout. For PMOSs in the normal layout, the single-event charge collection is composed of diffusion, drift, and the parasitic bipolar effect, while for PMOSs in the special layout, the parasitic bipolar junction transistor cannot turn on. Heavy ion experimental results show that PMOSs without parasitic bipolar amplification have a 21.4% decrease in the average SET pulse width and roughly a 40.2% reduction in the SET cross-section.
In data center networks, resource allocation based on workload is an effective way to allocate the infrastructure resources to diverse cloud applications and satisfy the quality of service for the users, which refers ...
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In data center networks, resource allocation based on workload is an effective way to allocate the infrastructure resources to diverse cloud applications and satisfy the quality of service for the users, which refers to mapping a large number of workloads provided by cloud users/tenants to substrate network provided by cloud providers. Although the existing heuristic approaches are able to find a feasible solution, the quality of the solution is not guaranteed. Concerning this issue, based on the minimum mapping cost, this paper solves the resource allocation problem by modeling it as a distributed constraint optimization problem. Then an efficient approach is proposed to solve the resource allocation problem, aiming to find a feasible solution and ensuring the optimality of the solution. Finally, theoretical analysis and extensive experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed approach.
As the fourth passive circuit component, a memristor is a nonlinear resistor that can ＂remember＂ the amount of charge passing through it. The characteristic of ＂remembering＂ the charge and non-volatility makes mem...
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As the fourth passive circuit component, a memristor is a nonlinear resistor that can ＂remember＂ the amount of charge passing through it. The characteristic of ＂remembering＂ the charge and non-volatility makes memristors great potential candidates in many fields. Nowadays, only a few groups have the ability to fabricate memristors, and most researchers study them by theoretic analysis and simulation. In this paper, we first analyse the theoretical base and characteristics of memristors, then use a simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis as our tool to simulate the theoretical model of memristors and change the parameters in the model to see the influence of each parameter on the characteristics. Our work supplies researchers engaged in memristor-based circuits with advice on how to choose the proper parameters.
The publish/subscribe(pub/sub)paradigm is a popular communication model for data dissemination in large-scale distributed ***,scalability comes with a contradiction between the delivery latency and the memory *** one ...
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The publish/subscribe(pub/sub)paradigm is a popular communication model for data dissemination in large-scale distributed ***,scalability comes with a contradiction between the delivery latency and the memory *** one hand,constructing a separate overly per topic guarantees real-time dissemination,while the number of node degrees rapidly increases with the number of *** the other hand,maintaining a bounded number of connections per node guarantees small memory cost,while each message has to traverse a large number of uninterested nodes before reaching the *** this paper,we propose Feverfew,a coverage-based hybrid overlay that disseminates messages to all subscribers without uninterested nodes involved in,and increases the average number of node connections slowly with an increase in the number of subscribers and *** major novelty of Feverfew lies in its heuristic coverage mechanism implemented by combining a gossip-based sampling protocol with a probabilistic searching *** on the practical workload,our experimental results show that Feverfew significantly outperforms existing coverage-based overlay and DHT-based overlay in various dynamic network environments.
Recently correlation filter based trackers have attracted considerable attention for their high computational efficiency. However, they cannot handle occlusion and scale variation well enough. This paper aims at preve...
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Recently correlation filter based trackers have attracted considerable attention for their high computational efficiency. However, they cannot handle occlusion and scale variation well enough. This paper aims at preventing the tracker from failure in these two situations by integrating the depth information into a correlation filter based tracker. By using RGB-D data, we construct a depth context model to reveal the spatial correlation between the target and its surrounding regions. Furthermore, we adopt a region growing method to make our tracker robust to occlusion and scale variation. Additional optimizations such as a model updating scheme are applied to improve the performance for longer video sequences. Both qualitative and quantitative evaluations on challenging benchmark image sequences demonstrate that the proposed tracker performs favourably against state-of-the-art algorithms.
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