IEEE COOL Chips 28 Final Program [pdf] is here.
**All programs are in JST (UTC+9)
Wed. April 16, 2025
| Day 1 | |
| 13:00-13:20 | Session I : Welcome & Opening Remarks |
| 13:20-14:10 | Session II : Keynote Presentation 1 Chairs: T. Ishihara (Nagoya Univ.) Y. Kobayashi (NEC) |
| "A Content-Addressable Engine for Associative Processing" Jose Martinez (Cornell University) |
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| 14:10-14:30 | Break |
| 14:30-15:10 | Session III : Invited Presentation Chairs: T. Ueda (IBM Japan) S. Sasaki (Toshiba) |
| "Device-Algorithm Co-optimization for Analog In-Memory Computing" Sangbum Kim (Seoul National University) |
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| 15:10-15:30 | Break |
| 15:30-16:45 | Session IV : Security Chairs: R. Sakamoto (Science Tokyo) K. Shimamura (Hitachi) |
| 15:30-15:55 | "UniCrypt: Universal Crypto Engine with Optimized Resource Sharing for Security Applications" Vu Trung Duong Le, Hoai Luan Pham, Tuan Hai Vu, Van Duy Tran and Yasuhiko Nakashima |
| 15:55-16:20 | "A High-Performance Hardware Design for Polynomial Multiplication in the CRYSTALS-Kyber Algorithm" Hsueh Chen, Hsiu-Wei Chen, Shih-Hsu Huang and Po-Yuan Chen |
| 16:20-16:45 | "Accelerating Elliptic Curve Point Additions on Versal AI Engine for Multi-scalar Multiplication" Ayumi Ohno, Kotaro Shimamura and Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki |
| 16:45-17:35 | Session V : Keynote Presentation 2 Chairs: R. Egawa (Tokyo Denki Univ.) H. Iwasaki (TUAT) |
| "Advanced Package Substrate Technology for Heterogenous Integration" Sriram Dattaguru (Intel) |
Thu. April 17, 2025
| Day 2 | |
| 09:00-09:50 | Session VI : Memory Chairs: R. Kobayashi (Science Tokyo) M. Sato (Tohoku University) |
| 09:00-09:25 | "Hybrid ReRAM-NMC & SRAM-CiM Matrix Multiplication for Large Language Model" Tao Wang, Daqi Lin, Kenshin Yamauchi, Naoko Misawa, Chihiro Matsui and Ken Takeuchi |
| 09:25-09:50 | "A Compute-in-Memory Ascon Implementation Based on a Novel 11T SRAM Processing Macro" Mark Lee, Chris Clark and Saibal Mukhopadhyay |
| 09:50-10:10 | Break |
| 10:10-11:00 | Session VII : Keynote Presentation 3 Chairs: F. Arakawa (U. of Tokyo) T. Sakata (TIER IV) |
| "Open Source RiscV CPU and AI for Edge Applications" Jim Keller (Tenstorrent) |
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| 11:00-12:00 | Poster Session Chair: K. Hashimoto (Fukuoka Univ.) |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:30 | Special Invited Lecture 1 Chair: J. Shiomi (Osaka Univ.) |
| "Reliability and Efficiency in Deep Learning Processing Systems" Alex Orailoglu (UC San Diego) |
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| 14:30-14:50 | Break |
| 14:50-16:20 | Special Invited Lecture 2 Chair: J. Shiomi (Osaka Univ.) |
| "Next-Generation Quantum Computing: A Computer Architect's Perspective" Jangwoo Kim (Seoul National University) |
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| 16:20-16:40 | Break |
| 16:40-18:00 | Session VIII : Panel Discussion |
| "Sustainable AI: Emerging Architectures, Devices, and Quantum Computing Towards Future Computing" Moderator: T. Ishihara (Nagoya Univ.) Panelist: J. Kim (Seoul National University), K. Kobayashi (Kyoto Institute of Technology), J. Martinez (Cornell University) |
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| 18:30-20:30 | Banquet |
Fri, April 18, 2025
| Day 3 | |
| 09:00-09:50 | Session IX: Keynote Presentation 4 Chairs: Y. Kobayashi (NEC) Y. Inoguchi (JAIST) |
| "The Challenges of Delivering Power to and Cooling the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine" Jean-Philippe Fricker (Cerebras Systems, Inc.) |
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| 09:50-10:10 | Break |
| 10:10-11:00 | Session X : Reconfigurable logic and system Chairs: R. Kobayashi (Science Tokyo) T. Ueno (RIKEN) |
| 10:10-10:35 | "Proposal for Non-Volatilization of eFPGA Core" Keizo Hiraga, Kenshu Seto, Kazuhiro Bessho and Masahiro Iida |
| 10:35-11:00 | "A Power-Efficient Reconfigurable Hybrid CNN-SNN Accelerator for High Performance AI Applications" Heuijee Yun and Daejin Park |
| 11:00-11:20 | Break |
| 11:20-12:15 | Session XI : Image processing Chairs: T. Van Chu (Science Tokyo) T. Hirotsu (DENSO) |
| 11:20-11:45 | "GUPA: Group-Wise Uniform Pruning Accelerator for Depthwise Separable Convolution" Yi Chen, Malte Wabnitz, Jie Lou, Christian Lanius and Tobias Gemmeke |
| 11:45-12:00 | "HOPE: An Efficient Accelerator with Head-wise Overlap Processing for Sparse Attention in Vision Transformer" Jihyeon Heo, Soomin Rho, Kwangrae Kim and Ki-Seok Chung |
| 12:00-12:15 | "Exploring the Versal AI Engine for 3D Gaussian Splatting" Kotaro Shimamura, Ayumi Ohno and Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15-14:35 | Poster Break Chair: K. Hashimoto (Fukuoka Univ.) |
| 14:35-15:25 | Session XII : Keynote Presentation 5 Chairs: R. Kobayashi (Science Tokyo) Y. Wada (Meiji Gakuin Univ.) |
| "Specialized Hardware and Open-Source Tools for Scientific Computing and Instruments" Kazutomo Yoshii (Argonne National Lab.) |
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| 15:25-15:45 | Break |
| 15:45-16:50 | Session XIII : Circuit design and its environment Chairs: R. Sakamoto (Science Tokyo) N. Niwa (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Tech.) |
| 15:45-16:10 | "RustSFQ: A Domain-Specific Language for SFQ Circuit Design" Mebuki Oishi, Sun Tanaka and Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki |
| 16:10-16:35 | "Evaluation of Trade-off between Compression Ratio and Hardware Cost for Adaptive Bandwidth Compression Hardware Platform" Tomohiro Ueno, Kaito Kitazume, Masato Kiyama, Kazutomo Yoshii, Kento Sato, Norihisa Fujita, Ryohei Kobayashi, Taisuke Boku and Kentaro Sano |
| 16:35-16:50 | "Can the Agile-chip platform carve out a niche between ASICs and FPGAs?" Hideharu Amano, Atsutake Kosuge, Hirofumi Sumi, Naonobu Shimamoto, Yukinori Ochiai, Yurie Inoue, Tohru Mogami, Yoshio Mita and Makoto Ikeda |
| 16:50-17:00 | Break |
| 17:00-17:50 | Session XIV : Efficient AI models Chairs: R. Kobayashi (Science Tokyo) Y. Sasagawa (Socionext) |
| 17:00-17:25 | "TTF-GNN: Memory-Efficient GNNs via Tensor Train Decomposition and Network Folding" Hiroaki Ito, Jiale Yan, Kazushi Kawamura, Masato Motomura, Thiem Van Chu and Daichi Fujiki |
| 17:25-17:50 | "A Lightweight Transformer Model With Dynamic Sparse Mask for Neural Machine Translation" Nastaran Asadi, Babak Golbabaei, Yirong Kan, Renyuan Zhang and Yasuhiko Nakashima |
| 17:50-18:15 | Session XV : Poster Award and Closing Remarks Chairs: Y. Wada (Meiji Gakuin Univ.) R. Egawa (Tokyo Denki Univ.) |