Computing is an indispensable tool in addressing climate change, but it also contributes to a
significant and steadily increasing carbon footprint, partly due to the exponential growth in …

The slowing and forecasted end of Moore's Law have forced designers to look beyond
simply adding transistors, encouraging them to employ other unused resources as a manner …

On-chip power-management techniques have evolved over several processor generations.
However, response time and scalability constraints have made it difficult to translate existing …

Resource-constrained system-on-chips (SoCs) are increasingly heterogeneous with
specialized accelerators for various tasks. Acceleration taxes due to control and data …

Data movement latency when using on-chip accelerators in emerging heterogeneous
architectures is a serious performance bottleneck. While hardware/software mechanisms …

The diversity of smart city scenarios makes it difficult for Internet of Things terminals (IoTT) to
accurately match their differential demands for computing, storage, and communication …

Managing cache coherence is essential for optimizing computing performance and energy
efficiency in modern multi-/many-core systems. Enabling cache coherence in scalable agile …

The slowdown of Moore's Law has decreased the rate that transistor density has been
increasing in silicon chips. These circumstances increasingly force computer architects to …

High-Level Design of Hardware Accelerators of Typical DNN LIn recent years, Convolutional
Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained significant prominence across a multitude of …

POLITECNICO DI TORINO Page 1 POLITECNICO DI TORINO Master’s Degree in
Electronic Engineering Master’s Degree Thesis Hierarchical Architecture of a 2D-CNN …