Center for Circuit System Solutions

We are creating fundamental circuits and modules that will seed key components and capabilities for next generation digital systems that contain billions of transistors. Our approaches target the increasing demands for performance, energy-efficiency, and reliability for two specific areas of focus:

Affordable Application-Specific Implementation

• ICIC: Integrated Circuits For Inference Computations (Rutenbar—University of Illinois)
• Generating/Programming/Validating the UnCore (Horowitz—Stanford University)
• Optimizing Computation for Applications or Application Classes (Horowitz—Stanford University)
• Efficient Secure Digital Logic and Memory (Mai—Carnegie Mellon University)
• 3D Microarchitectural Design on Regular Fabric Patterning (Brockman, Kogge—Notre Dame)
• Application-Specific Embedded Logic in Memory (Franchetti, Pileggi, Hoe—Carnegie Mellon University)

Data and Power Delivery

• Using Nonlinearities to Design Energy-Efficient Link Circuits in Deeply Scaled CMOS (Stojanovic—MIT)
• Advanced On-Chip Power Distribution using Block Stacking (Carley—Carnegie Mellon University)
• Power Delivery for High-Performance Digital ICs (Alon—UC Berkeley)
• 3D Voltage Regulator Architectures (Shepard—Columbia University)