This study outlines the design, construction and characterization of a tailored low-cost linear birdcage (BC) resonator for magnetic resonance imaging at 7T. Typically, different BC designs found in ...literature are well described in theory but lack crucial information for practical realization. This is challenging, as theoretical and practical aspects often differ greatly from each other, especially in the field of high frequency technology. We propose a simple and open-source 3D printable design which results in a working BC if the instructions in this publication are followed. The aim is to open up the possibility of building a functioning BC with simple means and a budget below 750 €, even for users without a great deal of expertise in MRI coil building. We demonstrate that the BC can achieve a good
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VeriSketch Ardeshiricham, Armaiti; Takashima, Yoshiki; Gao, Sicun ...
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security,
11/2019
Conference Proceeding
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We present VeriSketch, a security-oriented program synthesis framework for developing hardware designs with formal guarantee of functional and security specifications. VeriSketch defines a synthesis ...language, a code instrumentation framework for specifying and inferring timing-sensitive information flow properties, and uses specialized constraint-based synthesis for generating HDL code that enforces the specifications. We show the power of VeriSketch through security-critical hardware design examples, including cache controllers, thread schedulers, and system-on-chip arbiters, with formal guarantee of security properties such as absence of timing side-channels, confidentiality, and isolation.
Behavioral Fingerprinting of IoT Devices Bezawada, Bruhadeshwar; Bachani, Maalvika; Peterson, Jordan ...
Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security,
01/2018
Conference Proceeding
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) has brought in new challenges in device identification --what the device is, and authentication --is the device the one it claims to be. Traditionally, the authentication ...problem is solved by means of a cryptographic protocol. However, the computational complexity of cryptographic protocols and/or problems related to key management, render almost all cryptography based authentication protocols impractical for IoT. The problem of device identification is, on the other hand, sadly neglected. Almost always an artificially created identity is softly associated with the device. We believe that device fingerprinting can be used to solve both these problems effectively. In this work, we present a methodology to perform IoT device behavioral fingerprinting that can be employed to undertake strong device identification. A device behavior is approximated using features extracted from the network traffic of the device. These features are used to train a machine learning model that can be used to detect similar device-types. We validate our approach using five-fold cross validation; we report a identification rate of 93-100 and a mean accuracy of 99%, across all our experiments. Furthermore, we show preliminary results for fingerprinting device categories, i.e., identifying different devices having similar functionality.
Error patterns in MLC NAND flash memory Cai, Yu; Haratsch, Erich F.; Mutlu, Onur ...
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe,
03/2012
Conference Proceeding
As NAND flash memory manufacturers scale down to smaller process technology nodes and store more bits per cell, reliability and endurance of flash memory reduce. Wear-leveling and error correction ...coding can improve both reliability and endurance, but finding effective algorithms requires a strong understanding of flash memory error patterns. To enable such understanding, we have designed and implemented a framework for fast and accurate characterization of flash memory throughout its lifetime. This paper examines the complex flash errors that occur at 30-40nm flash technologies. We demonstrate distinct error patterns, such as cycle-dependency, location-dependency and value-dependency, for various types of flash operations. We analyze the discovered error patterns and explain why they exist from a circuit and device standpoint. Our hope is that the understanding developed from this characterization serves as a building block for new error tolerance algorithms for flash memory.
ShiDianNao Du, Zidong; Fasthuber, Robert; Chen, Tianshi ...
2015 ACM/IEEE 42nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA),
06/2015
Conference Proceeding
In recent years, neural network accelerators have been shown to achieve both high energy efficiency and high performance for a broad application scope within the important category of recognition and ...mining applications.
Still, both the energy efficiency and performance of such accelerators remain limited by memory accesses. In this paper, we focus on image applications, arguably the most important category among recognition and mining applications. The neural networks which are state-of-the-art for these applications are Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), and they have an important property: weights are shared among many neurons, considerably reducing the neural network memory footprint. This property allows to entirely map a CNN within an SRAM, eliminating all DRAM accesses for weights. By further hoisting this accelerator next to the image sensor, it is possible to eliminate all remaining DRAM accesses, i.e., for inputs and outputs.
In this paper, we propose such a CNN accelerator, placed next to a CMOS or CCD sensor. The absence of DRAM accesses combined with a careful exploitation of the specific data access patterns within CNNs allows us to design an accelerator which is 60× more energy efficient than the previous state-of-the-art neural network accelerator. We present a full design down to the layout at 65 nm, with a modest footprint of 4.86mm2 and consuming only 320mW, but still about 30× faster than high-end GPUs.
FANCI Waksman, Adam; Suozzo, Matthew; Sethumadhavan, Simha
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSAC conference on Computer & communications security,
11/2013
Conference Proceeding
Hardware design today bears similarities to software design. Often vendors buy and integrate code acquired from third-party organizations into their designs, especially in embedded/system-on-chip ...designs. Currently, there is no way to determine if third-party designs have built-in backdoors that can compromise security after deployment.
The key observation we use to approach this problem is that hardware backdoors incorporate logic that is nearly-unused, i.e. stealthy. The wires used in stealthy backdoor circuits almost never influence the outputs of those circuits. Typically, they do so only when triggered using external inputs from an attacker. In this paper, we present FANCI, a tool that flags suspicious wires, in a design, which have the potential to be malicious. FANCI uses scalable, approximate, boolean functional analysis to detect these wires.
Our examination of the TrustHub hardware backdoor benchmark suite shows that FANCI is able to flag all suspicious paths in the benchmarks that are associated with backdoors. Unlike prior work in the area, FANCI is not hindered by incomplete test suite coverage and thus is able to operate in practice without false negatives. Furthermore, FANCI reports low false positive rates: less than 1% of wires are reported as suspicious in most cases. All TrustHub designs were analyzed in a day or less. We also analyze a backdoor-free out-of-order microprocessor core to demonstrate applicability beyond benchmarks.
Utility-Based Cache Partitioning Qureshi, Moinuddin K.; Patt, Yale N.
2006 39th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO'06),
12/2006
Conference Proceeding
This paper investigates the problem of partitioning a shared cache between multiple concurrently executing applications. The commonly used LRU policy implicitly partitions a shared cache on a demand ...basis, giving more cache resources to the application that has a high demand and fewer cache resources to the application that has a low demand. However, a higher demand for cache resources does not always correlate with a higher performance from additional cache resources. It is beneficial for performance to invest cache resources in the application that benefits more from the cache resources rather than in the application that has more demand for the cache resources. This paper proposes utility-based cache partitioning (UCP), a low-overhead, runtime mechanism that partitions a shared cache between multiple applications depending on the reduction in cache misses that each application is likely to obtain for a given amount of cache resources. The proposed mechanism monitors each application at runtime using a novel, cost-effective, hardware circuit that requires less than 2kB of storage. The information collected by the monitoring circuits is used by a partitioning algorithm to decide the amount of cache resources allocated to each application. Our evaluation, with 20 multiprogrammed workloads, shows that UCP improves performance of a dual-core system by up to 23% and on average 11% over LRU-based cache partitioning.
Reliable on-chip systems in the nano-era Henkel, Jörg; Bauer, Lars; Dutt, Nikil ...
2013 50th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC),
05/2013
Conference Proceeding
Reliability concerns due to technology scaling have been a major focus of researchers and designers for several technology nodes. Therefore, many new techniques for enhancing and optimizing ...reliability have emerged particularly within the last five to ten years. This perspective paper introduces the most prominent reliability concerns from today's points of view and roughly recapitulates the progress in the community so far. The focus of this paper is on perspective trends from the industrial as well as academic points of view that suggest a way for coping with reliability challenges in upcoming technology nodes.
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