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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL

Nano-Tera IcySoC

Vincent Camus, EPFL-ICLAB Nano-Tera Annual Plenary Meeting 2015

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Going to Ultra-Low Power

Data Center & Cloud

PC

Mobility

Wearable

IoT

SERVER

2 in 1

TABLET

GLASSES

SMART CITIES

STORAGE

DESKTOP

SMARTPHONE

PERSONAL ASSISTANT

SMART AGRICULTURE

NETWORKING

ALL IN ONE

PHABLET

SPORTS FASHION

SMART FACTORIES

 Ian Yang, Intel Developer Forum - Shenzhen 2014. Nano-Tera Annual Plenary Meeting 2015 - IcySoC Project

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Gene’s Law

Power consumption reductions enable autonomous microsystems  Gene A. Frantz, TI Developer Conf., 2008. Nano-Tera Annual Plenary Meeting 2015 - IcySoC Project

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The IcySoC Mission

Inexact Sub/Near-Threshold Systems for Ultra-Low-Power Devices Wearable health monitoring Environmental monitoring Internet of Things Personal electronics

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PULP – Parallel Ultra-Low-Power Platform

PULP OpenRISC multi-core platform

Variation/performance adaptative architecture

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Near/Sub-Threshold Circuits

Sub/near-threshold logic & memories Minimum energy point High process variation High frequency decrease Supply Voltage (V)

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Approximate Circuits – A New Dimension Energy Fast Design, Considerable Energy

Slow Design, Low Energy

Delay Faster Design, Moderate Energy, Inexact

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Approximate Circuits – A New Dimension

Errors Energy

Errors Energy

Errors Energy

Errors Energy

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Approximate Computing – A New Paradigm

Multimedia

Perceptual limitations

Data mining no golden result

Web search

Application Resilience Noisy real world inputs

Communications

Iterative self healing

Pattern Recognition

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The IcySoC Project

Technology

System

Approximate circuits

Sub/near-threshold logic & memories

PULP OpenRISC multi-core platform

Inexact arithmetic operators (adders, multipliers)

ALP 180 nm TSMC 65 nm FDSOI 28 nm

Variation/performance adaptative architecture

Reconfigurable and optimized accelerators (JPEG, MPEG4, G722)

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