Information: info@dresd.org

.:: Active ::.

.:: EPFL: David A. Atienza, Giovanni De Micheli
.:: Politecnico di Milano: Marco D. Santambrogio, Vincenzo Rana, Donatella Sciuto



.:: Involved ::.

EPFL: Nicolas Genko



.:: Research Projects ::.

.:: XYPE: Reconfigurable Network on Chip, the XYPE project website.



.:: EPFL Overview ::.
- Integrated Systems Laboratory (EPFL-LSI) -

The Integrated Systems Laboratory (EPFL-LSI) is part of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences of EPFL. Headed by Prof. Giovanni De Micheli, it consists of 15 members. The LSI personnel have a long and deep experience in digital system design and power management methodologies for them, and have been interacting with companies such as STMicroelectronics and Freescale on this topic. Overall EPFL has been a leader in low-power systems-on-chip design. LSI can provide the project with infrastructure, consisting in CAD tools and methodologies for analysis, synthesis and manufacturing technologies of ultra-low power processing architectures as well as power optimization techniques at hardware and middleware layers. EPFL-LSI studies efficient emulation technologies for circuits and systems, design technologies for silicon-based integrated systems and beyond, and design of reliable, safe and secure integrated systems. The objective is to study the interplay of hardware and software design for traditional (computation on silicon) and efficient integration methods of digital electronics in non-traditional (biosensors and nanotechnology) systems.



.:: EPFL-LSI key persons in XIPE ::.

Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPFL, Switzerland, and President of the Scientific Committee of CSEM, Switzerland. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering (EE) at Stanford University, USA. He has a Ph.D. degree in EE and Computer Science (U.C. Berkeley, 1983). His research interests include several aspects of design technologies for integrated circuits and systems, such as synthesis, hw/sw codesign and low-power design, as well as systems on heterogeneous platforms including electrical, micromechanical and biological components. He is author of: Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1994, co-author and/or co-editor of six other books and of over 300 technical articles in the most prestigious international journals and conferences. He is, or has been, member of the technical advisory board of Magma Design Automation, Coware, Aplus Design Technologies, Ambit Design Systems and STMicroelectronics. He is the recipient of the 2003 IEEE Emanuel Piore Award for contributions to computer-aided synthesis of digital systems. He is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE, and received the Golden Jubilee Medal for outstanding contributions to the IEEE CAS Society in 2000. He has been serving IEEE as Division 1 Director (2008-9), co-founder/President Elect of IEEE Council on EDA (2005-7) and President of IEEE CAS Society (2003).

David Atienza-Alonso is Associate Professor at the Computer Architecture and Automation Department (DACYA) of UCM and Senior Research Associate at the Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI) at EPFL, Switzerland. He received the M.Sc. and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain, and Inter-University Micro-Electronics Center (IMEC), Belgium, in June 2001 and June 2005, respectively. His research interests focus on design methodologies for integrated systems and high-performance embedded systems, including new modeling frameworks to explore thermal management techniques for Multi-Processor System-on-Chip, novel reconfigurable architectures for logic and memories in forthcoming nano-scale electronics, dynamic memory management and memory hierarchy optimizations for embedded systems and Networks-on-Chip interconnection design. In these fields, he is co-author of more than 90 publications in prestigious journals and international conferences, such as, IEEE TCAD, IEEE Micro, IEEE T-VLSI Systems, ACM TODAES, DAC, ICCAD, DATE, ASP-DAC, etc. Also, he is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on CAD (in the area of System-Level Design) and Elsevier Integration: The VLSI Journal, as well as part of the Technical Program Committee of the of the IEEE/ACM DATE, IEEE/ACM ICCAD, IEEE Great Lakes VLSI (GLSVLSI), ACM VLSI-SoC, and PATMOS conferences. He is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Council of Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) since 2008.