The SLICE Lab at UC Berkeley aims to democratize the design, programming, and integration of domain-specific computing at scale so that a wide-range of applications can benefit from specialized hardware, extending the continued growth in computational capabilities for future-generation computing ecosystems.
News
Hansung Kim received the Apple Ph.D Fellowship in Integrated Systems Award
March 31, 2025
Congrats to Hansung Kim on winning the 2025-26 Apple Ph.D Fellowship in Integrated Systems Award!
CRA-WP Names Yakun Sophia Shao as 2024 Anita Borg Early Career Award Recipient
June 28, 2024
Congrats to Sophia Shao on winning the 2024 Anita Borg Early Career Award!
Kris Pister, Bora Nikolic & Ali Niknejad Win the 2024 IEEE SSCS Innovative Education Award
February 21, 2024
We are very pleased to announce that Kris Pister, Bora Nikolic, and Ali Niknejad have won the 2024 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Innovative Education Award in recognition of the integrated circuit tapeout class that they pioneered and polished over the past few years. This class has garnered worldwide attention from educators and industry practitioners alike, with other universities now mimicking its format. Please join me in congratulating Kris, Bora, and Ali!
Events
SLICE retreat – Summer 2025
May 21, 2025
SLICE Lab summer retreat may 21-23, 2025 in Half Moon Bay, CA
Slice Retreat – Winter 2025
January 13, 2025
Slice lab winter 2025 retreat in Santa Cruz, CA
SLICE Summer Retreat 2024
May 20, 2024
Oceano Hotel & Spa Half Moon Bay Harbor 280 Capistrano Road Half Moon Bay, California 94019
SLICE Winter Retreat 2024
January 10-12, 2024
SLICE Lab winter Retreat in Santa Cruz, CA
Thank You To Our Sponsors
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Introduction
Decades of exponential growth in computing capabilities have yielded transformative societal benefits. To sustain this growth as Moore’s Law benefits fade, heterogeneous architectures, where hardware is specialized to individual application domains with domain-specific compute systems, will be the main drivers of energy-efficient computation in the next decade and beyond. However, domain-specific architectures break many aspects of existing computing paradigms and will disrupt the hardware, software, and application development, demanding new technologies, circuits, design methodologies, architectural ideas, algorithms, and system-level innovations.
Open Source Statement
The SLICE Lab pledges to use and develop open-source software and hardware, and it is the intention of all SLICE Lab researchers that any software and hardware will be released under an open-source license, such as modified BSD or apache 2.0