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  • A low-power, high-performance speech recognition accelerator 

    Yazdani, Reza; Arnau Montañés, José María; González Colás, Antonio María (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019-12-01)
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    Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, especially in the mobile segment. Fast and accurate ASR comes at high energy cost, not being affordable for the tiny power-budgeted mobile devices. ...

  • CGPA: Coarse-Grained Pruning of Activations for Energy-Efficient RNN Inference 

    Riera Villanueva, Marc; Arnau Montañés, José María; González Colás, Antonio María (2019-09-01)
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    Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) perform element-wise multiplications across the activations of gates. We show that a significant percentage of activations are saturated and propose coarse-grained pruning of activations ...

  • 2018 International Symposium on Computer Architecture influential paper award 

    González Colás, Antonio María (2018-07-01)
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    The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) recognizes every year the most influential paper published in this conference 15 years earlier, based on its impact on research, development, products or ideas. ...

  • Performance analysis and optimization of automatic speech recognition 

    Tabani, Hamid; Arnau Montañés, José María; Tubella Murgadas, Jordi; González Colás, Antonio María (2018-10-01)
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    Fast and accurate Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is emerging as a key application for mobile devices. Delivering ASR on such devices is challenging due to the compute-intensive nature of the problem and the power ...

  • SyRA: early system reliability analysis for cross-layer soft errors resilience in memory arrays of microprocessor systems 

    Vallero, Alessandro; Savino, Alessandro; Chatzidimitriou, Athanansios; Kaliorakis, Manolis; Kooli, Maha; Riera Villanueva, Marc; Di Natale, Giorgio; Bosio, Alberto; Canal Corretger, Ramon; Gizopoulos, Dimitris; Di Carlo, Stefano; Anglada Sanchez , Martí; González Colás, Antonio María; Mariani, R. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-01-01)
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    Cross-layer reliability is becoming the preferred solution when reliability is a concern in the design of a microprocessor-based system. Nevertheless, deciding how to distribute the error management across the different ...

  • Visibility rendering order: Improving energy efficiency on mobile GPUs through frame coherence 

    Lucas Casamayor, Enrique de; Marcuello Pascual, Pedro; Parcerisa Bundó, Joan Manuel; González Colás, Antonio María (2019-02-01)
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    During real-time graphics rendering, objects are processed by the GPU in the order they are submitted by the CPU, and occluded surfaces are often processed even though they will end up not being part of the final image, ...

  • Strategies to enhance the 3T1D-DRAM cell variability robustness beyond 22 nm 

    Amat Bertran, Esteve; García Almudéver, Carmen; Aymerich, N.; Canal Corretger, Ramon; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio (2014-10-01)
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    3T1D cell has been stated as a valid alternative to be implemented on L1 memory cache to substitute 6T, highly affected by device variability as technology dimensions are reduced. In this work, we have shown that 22 nm ...

  • Low-power automatic speech recognition through a mobile GPU and a Viterbi accelerator 

    Yazdani Aminabadi, Reza; Segura Salvador, Albert; Arnau Montañés, José María; González Colás, Antonio María (2017-04-12)
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    Open Access
    Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become a core technology for mobile devices. Delivering real-time and accurate ASR has a huge computational cost, which is challenging to achieve in tightly energy-constrained platforms ...

  • Statistical analysis and comparison of 2T and 3T1D e-DRAM minimum energy operation 

    Rana, Manish; Canal Corretger, Ramon; Amat Bertran, Esteve; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio (2017-03-01)
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    Bio-medical wearable devices restricted to their small-capacity embedded-battery require energy-efficiency of the highest order. However, minimum-energy point (MEP) at sub-threshold voltages is unattainable with SRAM memory, ...

  • Executing algorithms with hypercube topology on torus multicomputers 

    González Colás, Antonio María; Valero García, Miguel; Díaz de Cerio Ripalda, Luis Manuel (1995-08)
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    Many parallel algorithms use hypercubes as the communication topology among their processes. When such algorithms are executed on hypercube multicomputers the communication cost is kept minimum since processes can be ...

  • Exploiting narrow values for soft error tolerance 

    Ergin, Oguz; Unsal, Osman Sabri; Vera Rivera, Francisco Javier; González Colás, Antonio María (2006-07)
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    Soft errors are an important challenge in contemporary microprocessors. Particle hits on the components of a processor are expected to create an increasing number of transient errors with each new microprocessor generation. ...

  • Reliability: fallacy or reality? 

    González Colás, Antonio María; Mahlke, Scott; Mukherjee, Shubu; Sendag, Resit; Chiou, Derek; Yi, Joshua J. (2007-11)
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    Open Access
    As chip architects and manufacturers plumb ever-smaller process technologies, new species of faults are compromising device reliability, following an introduction by the authors debate whether reliability is a legitimate ...

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