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Estimating aging of integrated circuits with machine learning

October 20, 2020 19:05 ,

Ke Huang; Xinqiao Zhang; Naghmeh Karimi, Real-Time Prediction for IC Aging Based on Machine Learning, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Volume: 68, Issue: 12, Dec. 2019, DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2019.2899477.

Estimating the aging-related degradation and failure of nanoscale integrated circuits (ICs), before they actually occur, is crucial for developing aging prevention/mitigation actions and in turn avoiding unexpected in-field circuit failures. Real-time monitoring of IC operating conditions can be efficiently used for predicting aging degradation and in turn timing failures caused by device aging. The existing approaches only take some specific operating conditions (e.g., workload or temperature) into account. In this paper, we propose a novel method for real-time IC aging prediction by extending the prediction schemes to a comprehensive model which takes into account any time-variant dynamic operating conditions relevant to aging prediction. Using a machine learning prediction model and the notion of equivalent aging time, we show that our approach outperforms the existing methods in terms of aging-prediction accuracy under different scenarios of time-variant operating conditions.

Posted in: Electronics, Machine learning

For compilers to be WCET-aware

October 20, 2020 15:47 ,

Heiko Falk, Paul Lokuciejewski, A compiler framework for the reduction of worst-case execution times, Real-Time Systems volume 46, pages251–300(2010), DOI: 10.1007/s11241-019-09337-9.

The current practice to design software for real-time systems is tedious. There is almost no tool support that assists the designer in automatically deriving safe bounds of the worst-case execution time (WCET) of a system during code generation and in systematically optimizing code to reduce WCET. This article presents concepts and infrastructures for WCET-aware code generation and optimization techniques for WCET reduction. All together, they help to obtain code explicitly optimized for its worst-case timing, to automate large parts of the real-time software design flow, and to reduce costs of a real-time system by allowing to use tailored hardware.

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Reinforcement learning for improving autonomy of mobile robots in calibrating visual sensors

October 20, 2020 15:31 ,

Fernando Nobre, Christoffer Heckman, Learning to calibrate: Reinforcement learning for guided calibration of visual–inertial rigs,. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 38(12–13), 1352–1374, DOI: 10.1177/0278364919844824.

We present a new approach to assisted intrinsic and extrinsic calibration with an observability-aware visual–inertial calibration system that guides the user through the calibration procedure by suggesting easy-to-perform motions that render the calibration parameters observable. This is done by identifying which subset of the parameter space is rendered observable with a rank-revealing decomposition of the Fisher information matrix, modeling calibration as a Markov decision process and using reinforcement learning to establish which discrete sequence of motions optimizes for the regression of the desired parameters. The goal is to address the assumption common to most calibration solutions: that sufficiently informative motions are provided by the operator. We do not make use of a process model and instead leverage an experience-based approach that is broadly applicable to any platform in the context of simultaneous localization and mapping. This is a step in the direction of long-term autonomy and “power-on-and-go” robotic systems, making repeatable and reliable calibration accessible to the non-expert operator.

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