4 papers
DICE: Detailed Inter-Chiplet End-to-End PHY Modeling for Accurate Chiplet Simulation
Rashid Aligholipour, Stefanos kaxiras, Yuan Yao
Scaling monolithic multicores is increasingly constrained by power/thermal limits, yield, and rising manufacturing and testing costs. Chiplet designs address these challenges by pa…
Who Needs DRAM? We Have Fiber
Hannah Atmer, Thiemo Voigt, Yuan Yao +1
The rising pressure on DRAM availability and contract pricing reflects generative AI's massive high-performance memory requirements. This pressure is heavily compounded by hypersca…
Efficient CNN Inference on Ultra-Low-Power MCUs via Saturation-Aware Convolution
Shiming Li, Luca Mottola, Yuan Yao +1
Quantized CNN inference on ultra-low-power MCUs incurs unnecessary computations in neurons that produce saturated output values. These values are too extreme and are eventually cla…
Prefill vs. Decode Bottlenecks: SRAM-Frequency Tradeoffs and the Memory-Bandwidth Ceiling
Hannah Atmer, Yuan Yao, Thiemo Voigt +1
Energy consumption dictates the cost and environmental impact of deploying Large Language Models. This paper investigates the impact of on-chip SRAM size and operating frequency on…