Terabyte Interconnection and Package Laboratory
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Recent Updates at Teralab
DesignCon 2025 Acceptance
Four papers by Dr. Taein Shin, Ph.D students Keeyoung Son, Haeyeon Kim, and a master student, Hyunjun An, got accepted to DesignCon 2025.
IEEE EPEPS 2024 Acceptance
9 papers by Dr. Taein Shin, Ph.D students, Keunwoo Kim, Keeyoung Son, Haeyeon Kim, Junghyun Lee, and master students, Hyunah Park, Haeseok Suh, Jungmin Ahn and Huynjun An, got accepted to EPEPS 2023.
Naver-Intel-KAIST AI Research Center
NIK AI research center kick-off workshop held in Daejeon on July 4, 2024.
ICML 2023 Acceptance
Ph.D student, Haeyeon Kim's first authored paper "DevFormer: A Symmetric Transformer for Context-Award Device Placement" got accepted to ICML 2023.
KAIST Cross-Generation Collaborative Lab
Opening ceremony for KAIST cross-generation collaborative lab was held on January 12, 2022.
DesignCon 2022 Best Paper Awards
Four Ph.D students, Seongguk Kim, Taein Shin, Seonguk Choi, and Haeyeon Kim, received Best Paper Awards on Feburary 1st, 2023.
IEEE EDAPS 2022 Best Poster Award
Hyunwoo Kim, a master student, received Best Poster Paper Award.
IEEE EPEPS 2022 Best Poster Award
Doctor Hyunwook Park received Best Poster Award.
Teralab Missouri S&T and Georgia Tech Visiting Seminar 2022
KAIST & SK Hynix Invited Seminar on AI-based Design 2022
KAIST & SK Hynix Technical Workshop 2020
Teralab Silicon Valley Visiting Seminar 2019
KAIST & Samsung Technical Workshop 2019
Teralab Silicon Valley Visiting Seminar 2018
Teralab Graduates in Silicon Valley & the U.S.
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Teralab Research Overview
Core Research Fields at Teralab: 5I (SI, PI, TI, EMI, AI)
- Signal and Power Integrity
- Generative and Reinforcement Learning Models
Teralab Design Innovations: 5 Is
Artificial Intelligence (AI) World Design
AI-X Architect for Engineering Problems
< AI-X Architect for AI Engineering >
Ref) Jihun Kim, Teralab
Generative AI-based Package and Interconnect Design Optimization
< Adaptive Gramian-Angular-Field Segmentation Integration Based Generative Adversarial Network (AGSI-GAN) for HBM I/O Design >
Ref) Junghyun Lee, Teralab
< AGSI-GAN Framework for Accurate Eye Diagram Estimation >
Ref) Junghyun Lee, Teralab
< Overview of Diffusion Rewarded Generative Flow Network (DRGF Net) based TSV array placement in next generation HBM >
Ref) Hyunjun Ahn, Teralab
< Structure of Diffusion Model for Reward Estimation System >
Ref) Hyunjun Ahn, Teralab
(a) Signal degradation of high-speed memory channel in HBM
(b) Process of eye diagram generation of GAN model
(c) Various key parameters driven from the generated eye diagram
(d) Model architecture of Pix2Pix-based GAN for Eye Diagram Estimation
< Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based Eye Diagram Estimation for Design of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Interposer Considering Signal Integrity >
Ref) Junghyun Lee, Teralab
Explainable AI-based Package and Interconnect Design Optimization
< XRL-based Decoupling Capacitor Placement using GPT-based Explanation Generator for HBM >
Ref) Keunwoo Kim, Teralab
< Explanation using GPT-based Explanation Generator >
Ref) Keunwoo Kim, Teralab
DRL-based Package and Interconnect Design Optimization
< RL-Based Various Package and Interconnect Design Area within HBM Package >
Ref) Jihun Kim, Teralab
< Schemetic diagram of RL-X Architect for SI/PI Design >
Ref) Hyunwook Park, Teralab
(a) Proposed sequential policy-based PEQ optimization for memory channel of HBM using advantage actor-critic (A2C)
(b) Physical dimensions of PEQ in memory channel of HBM
(c) Result of eye-diagram with each optimization method for a random test case
< DRL-based passive equalizer (PEQ) optimization method for high bandwidth memory (HBM) >
Ref) Seonguk Choi, Teralab
(a) Decap Placement Problem (DPP) on Hierarchical PDN
(b) A Novel Device Transformer (DevFormer) Structure
< Imitation Learning and DevFormer-based Optimal Decoupling Capacitor Placement on Power Distribution Network >
Ref) Haeyeon Kim, Teralab
Teralab HBM 2.5D/3D Integration Research Roadmap
< High-Bandwidth Memory(HBM) Integrated in 2.5D Interposer Package >
< Improvements in HBM Technology Over Time >
Ref) Haeyeon Kim, Teralab
< Teralab HBM 2.5/3D Integration Research Roadmap >
Ref) Kyungjun Cho, Teralab
Teralab HBM Packaging-Based Research
< Signal Integrity Design Considerations in High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Interposer >
Ref) Kyungjun Cho, Teralab
< Power Integrity Design Considerations in High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Interposer >
Ref) Kyungjun Cho, Teralab
< Thermal Transmission Line(TTL) and Fluidic Through Silicon Via(F-TSV) based Embedded Cooling Structure for Next-Generation HBM Module >
Ref) Keeyoung Son, Teralab
Teralab Next Generation HBM Packaging-Based Research
< Near-Memory Computing HBM (NMC-HBM) Architecture for Energy-Efficient and High Performance Computing >
Ref) Seongguk Kim, Teralab
< Proposed Novel 3D Heterogeneous Integration-based Near-Memory-Computing Architecture on HBM for Large-scale AI >
Ref) Jiwon Yoon, Teralab
< Twin-Tower High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) with Near Memory Computing (NMC) Architecture for Generative Artificial Intelligence >
Ref) Taesoo Kim, Teralab
< L3 Cache Embedded GPU-High Bandwidth Memory
(L3E-GPU-HBM) Interposer Architecture for Large Language Model (LLM) >
Ref) Haeseok Suh, Teralab
< Level 3(L3) cache stacked GPU architecture with high bandwidth memory(HBM) for high performance in large language models(LLMs) >
Ref) Hyunah Park, Teralab
< 3D Stacked Neural Processing Unit-System on Chip (NPU-SoC) Architecture for Generative Artificial Intelligence >
Ref) Taesoo Kim, Teralab
< 3-Dimensional (3D) System on Chip - Neural Processing Unit (SoC - NPU) Architecture for High Performance Computing (HPC) for Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) >
Ref) Jungmin Ahn, Teralab
< Memory-Centric Computing Architecture with Memory Coherent Interface >
Ref) Jiwon Yoon, Teralab
< Large-scale Chiplet Package on RDL Interposer with Local Silicon Bridge >
Ref) Jihun Kim, Teralab
Full Wafer Scale Chip (FWSC)
< Specification of FWSC, WSE-2 of Cerebras >
Ref) Hyunwoo Kim, Teralab
< Cross-section view of the proposed hierarchical PDN structure for FWSC package >
Ref) Hyunwoo Kim, Teralab
Any Questions?
Please contact our lab representative Seonguk Choi
E-mail: seonguk@kaist.ac.kr