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Hot Projects

• Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) System (1-2S/M)
• Spectrometry for Environmental Monitoring (1-2S/M)
• Waterflow Monitoring with Doppler Ultrasound (1S)
• Sound-Based Vehicle Classification and Counting (1-2S)
• Multi-Modal Environmental Sensing With GAP9 (1-2S)
• Benchmarking RISC-V-based Accelerator Cards for Inference (multiple SA)
• Benchmarking a RISC-V-based Server on LLMs/Foundation Models (SA or MA)
• On-Device Learnable Embeddings for Acoustic Environments
• Neural Recording Interface and Spike Sorting Algorithm
• Extreme-Edge Experience Replay for Keyword Spotting
• Energy-Efficient Edge-Pursuit comparator for ultra-low power ADC
• GPT on the edge
• Exploratory Development of a Unified Foundational Model for Multi Biosignal Analysis
• Deep Learning Based Anomaly Detection in ECG Signals Using Foundation Models
• Pretraining Foundational Models for EEG Signal Analysis Using Open Source Large Scale Datasets
• Design of Streaming Data Platform for High-Speed ADC Data
• EEG-based drowsiness detection
• In-ear EEG signal acquisition
• EEG earbud
• NeuroSoC RISC-V Component (M/1-2S)
• Design of Power-Noise-Efficient Discrete-Time Amplifier Using Open-Source Tools
• An Ultra-Low-Power Neuromorphic Spiking Neuron Design
• Realtime Gaze Tracking on Siracusa
• System Emulation for AR and VR devices
• Learning at the Edge with Hardware-Aware Algorithms
• Advanced EEG glasses
• Softmax for Transformers (M/1-2S)
• Testbed Design for Self-sustainable IoT Sensors
• Towards Flexible and Printable Wearables
• Modular Distributed Data Collection Platform
• Object Detection and Tracking on the Edge
• Design of a Low Power Smart Sensing Multi-modal Vision Platform
• Design of a High-​performance Hybrid PTZ for Multimodal Vision Systems
• Efficient Banded Matrix Multiplication for Quantum Transport Simulations
• Charge and heat transport through graphene nanoribbon based devices
• Energy Efficient Serial Link
• Audio Visual Speech Separation and Recognition (1S/1M)
• Predict eye movement through brain activity
• Design of low mismatch DAC used for VAD
• Design of a Reconfigurable Vector Processor Cluster for Area Efficient Radar Processing (1M)
• Molecular Binding Kinetics Modelling of NO2 on Graphene/hBN Heterostructure
• Benchmarking a heterogeneous 217-core MPSoC on HPC applications (M/1-3S)
• Integration Of A Smart Vision System
• Event-based navigation on autonomous nano-drones
• Development of an implantable Force sensor for orthopedic applications
• Quantum Transport Modeling of Interband Cascade Lasers (ICL)
• A Novel Execution Scheme for Ultra-tiny CNNs Aboard Nano-UAVs
• Improved Collision Avoidance for Nano-drones
• Deep Learning-based Global Local Planner for Autonomous Nano-drones
• Fast Accelerator Context Switch for PULP
• Visualization of Neural Architecture Search Spaces
• Self Aware Epilepsy Monitoring
• Energy-efficient Circuits for Fully Wireless Brain-machine Interfaces
• Non-blocking Algorithms in Real-Time Operating Systems
• Every individual on the planet should have a real chance to obtain personalized medical therapy
• EEG artifact detection with machine learning
• Design of Time-Encoded Spiking Neural Networks (IBM-Zurich)
• EEG artifact detection for epilepsy monitoring
• Fast Simulation of Manycore Systems (1S)
• Training and Deploying Next-Generation Quantized Neural Networks on Microcontrollers
• Spiking Neural Network for Motor Function Decoding Based on Neural Dust
• Integrated silicon photonic structures-Lumiphase
• Characterization techniques for silicon photonics-Lumiphase
• Hardware/software codesign neural decoding algorithm for “neural dust”
• Huawei Research
• IBM Research
• RISC-V based Implementation of Secure Ranging According to IEEE 802.15.4z UWB
• BCI-controlled Drone
• Spiking Neural Network for Autonomous Navigation
• Event-Driven Convolutional Neural Network Modular Accelerator
• Characterization of the susceptibility to cosmic radiation of wide bandgap power devices by radioactive sources and at cryogenic temperatures
• Design of an on-field adaptable pulse-processing unit for semicondutor radiation detectors
• Implementation of Computationally Efficient Scattering Mechanisms for Periodic Devices and 2D Materials
• Electrothermal characterization of van der Waals Heterostructures with a partial overlap
• Phase-change memory devices for emerging computing paradigms
• Finite element modeling of electrochemical random access memory
• Influence of the Initial Filament Geometry on the Forming Step in CBRAM.
• Nanoscale Hybrid III-V Plasmonic Laser for Low-Power Photonic ICs
• Design space exploration of InP Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (DHBTs)
• Quantum transport in 2D heterostructures
• Implementation of the RISC-V Bit Manipulation (RVB) extensions for our RISC-V core
• Implementation of the RISC-V Bit Manipulation (RVB) extensions for our RI5CY core
• Design and Exploitation of a Test-Bench for Non-Destructive Characterization of the Susceptibility of Silicon Carbide (SiC) Power Devices to Cosmic Radiation
• Experimental Validation of Impact Ionization Models for TCAD Simulation by a Novel Characterization Technique
• Design and implementation of the front-end for a portable ionizing radiation detector
• Level Crossing ADC For a Many Channels Neural Recording Interface
• Cerebellum: Design of a Programmable Smart-Peripheral for the Ariane Core
• Application Specific Frequency Synthesizers (Analog/Digital PLLs)
• Monocular Vision-based Object Following on Nano-size Robotic Blimp
• A Waypoint-based Navigation System for Nano-Size UAVs in GPS-denied Environments
• Real-Time Implementation of Quantum State Identification using an FPGA
• Autonomous Sensors For Underwater Monitoring In Smart Navy Systems
• Variable Bit Precision Logic for Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence
• Towards Online Training of CNNs: Hebbian-Based Deep Learning
• Embedded Audio Source Localization Exploiting Coincidence Detection in Asynchronous Spike Streams
• Development of a syringe label reader for the neurocritical care unit
• Smart Wearable System For Vital Sign Monitoring Exploiting On Board and Cloud Machine Learning
• Design of Charge-Pump PLL in 22nm for 5G communication applications
• PVT Dynamic Adaptation in PULPv3
• Linux Driver for fine-grain and low overhead access to on-chip performance counters
• Open Power-On Chip Controller Study and Integration
• Passive and Self Sustaining Receivers For On and Intra Body Communication For Wearable Sensors Networks
• A Wearable System To Control Phone And Electronic Device Without Hands
• Ultra Low Power Conversion Circuit For Batteryless Applications
• Using Motion Sensors to Support Indoor Localization
• Birds Long Term Monitoring With Ultra Low Power Wireless Sensor Node
• Development of an efficient algorithm for quantum transport codes
• Investigation of Metal Diffusion in Oxides for CBRAM Applications
• Investigation of Redox Processes in CBRAM
• Developing High Efficiency Batteries for Electric Cars
• Processing of 3D Micro-tomography data for Lithium Ion Batteries

Digital Design

• Extending the HERO SDK to support asynchronous offloading (M/1-3S)
• Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) System (1-2S/M)
• Spectrometry for Environmental Monitoring (1-2S/M)
• Waterflow Monitoring with Doppler Ultrasound (1S)
• Sound-Based Vehicle Classification and Counting (1-2S)
• Multi-Modal Environmental Sensing With GAP9 (1-2S)
• Benchmarking RISC-V-based Accelerator Cards for Inference (multiple SA)
• Benchmarking a RISC-V-based Server on LLMs/Foundation Models (SA or MA)
• On-Device Learnable Embeddings for Acoustic Environments
• Extending our FPU with Internal High-Precision Accumulation (M)
• Extreme-Edge Experience Replay for Keyword Spotting
• Low Precision Ara for ML
• Extending the HERO RISC-V HPC stack to support multiple devices on heterogeneous SoCs (M/1-3S)
• FPGA mapping of RPC DRAM
• GPT on the edge
• Exploratory Development of a Unified Foundational Model for Multi Biosignal Analysis
• Deep Learning Based Anomaly Detection in ECG Signals Using Foundation Models
• Pretraining Foundational Models for EEG Signal Analysis Using Open Source Large Scale Datasets
• Modeling FlooNoC in GVSoC (S/M)
• Advanced Data Movers for Modern Neural Networks
• Designing a Fault-Tolerant On-Chip Interconnect (1-2S/M)
• Hardware Exploration of Shared-Exponent MiniFloats (M)
• Scaleout Study on Interleaved Memory Transfers in Huge Manycore Systems with Multiple HBM Channels (M/1-3S)
• Creating an At-memory Low-overhead Bufferless Matrix Transposition Accelerator (1-3S/B)
• Advanced Physical Design: Reinforcement Learning for Macro Placement and Mix-Placer (B/1-2S)
• Vector-based Parallel Programming Optimization of Communication Algorithm (1-2S/B)
• EEG-based drowsiness detection
• In-ear EEG signal acquisition
• EEG earbud
• NeuroSoC RISC-V Component (M/1-2S)
• Scan Chain Fault Injection in a PULP SoC (1S)
• Routing 1000s of wires in Network-on-Chips (1-2S/M)
• Network-on-Chip for coherent and non-coherent traffic (M)
• Realtime Gaze Tracking on Siracusa
• Development Of An FPGA-Based Optoacoustic Image Reconstruction Platform for Clinical Applications
• Ultrasound measurement of microbubble stiffness for in situ detection of protease activity in clinical settings
• System Emulation for AR and VR devices
• Learning at the Edge with Hardware-Aware Algorithms
• Evaluating The Use of Snitch In The PsPIN RISC-V In-network Accelerator (M)
• Advanced EEG glasses
• Softmax for Transformers (M/1-2S)
• Skin Coupling Media Characterization For Fitness Tracker Applications (1 B/S)
• Integrating Ultrasound Technology into a Fitness Tracking Device (1M, 2 B/S)
• Testbed Design for Self-sustainable IoT Sensors
• Towards Flexible and Printable Wearables
• Modular Distributed Data Collection Platform
• Cycle-Accurate Event-Based Simulation of Snitch Core
• Smart Goggles for Visual In-Action Feedback in Ski Jumping (1 M 1-2B/S)
• Wireless In Action Data Streaming in Ski Jumping (1 B/S)
• A FPGA-based data streaming system that enables real-time monitoring of cell culture and neuroactivities
• Object Detection and Tracking on the Edge
• Design of a Low Power Smart Sensing Multi-modal Vision Platform
• Design of a High-​performance Hybrid PTZ for Multimodal Vision Systems
• Energy Efficient AXI Interface to Serial Link Physical Layer
• Energy Efficient Serial Link
• Adaptively Controlled Polarization And Hysteresis Curve Tracing For Polymer Piezoelectrics (1 S/B)
• Development Of A Test Bed For Ultrasonic Transducer Characterization (1 S/B)
• BirdGuard
• ML based Quantitative Movement Analysis on a Portable IoT Camera (1-2S/B)
• Multisensory system for performance analysis in ski jumping (M/1-2S/B)
• Audio Visual Speech Separation and Recognition (1S/1M)
• Predict eye movement through brain activity
• Design of a Reconfigurable Vector Processor Cluster for Area Efficient Radar Processing (1M)
• Implementation of a Coherent Application-Class Multicore System (1-2S)
• Resource Partitioning of RPC DRAM
• Finalizing and Releasing Our Open-source AXI4 IPs (1-3S/B/2-3G)
• Towards a High-performance Open-source Verification Suite for AXI-based Systems (M/1-3S/B)
• All the flavours of FFT on MemPool (1-2S/B)
• Approximate Matrix Multiplication based Hardware Accelerator to achieve the next 10x in Energy Efficiency: Full System Intregration
• Ultrasound image data recycler
• Benchmarking a heterogeneous 217-core MPSoC on HPC applications (M/1-3S)
• Extended Verification for Ara
• Design of combined Ultrasound and PPG systems
• Accelerating Stencil Workloads on Snitch using ISSRs (1-2S/B)
• An Efficient Compiler Backend for Snitch (1S/B)
• PULP Freertos with LLVM
• Integration Of A Smart Vision System
• Towards Formal Verification of the iDMA Engine (1-3S/B)
• Event-based navigation on autonomous nano-drones
• Improving datarate and efficiency of ultra low power wearable ultrasound
• A Novel Execution Scheme for Ultra-tiny CNNs Aboard Nano-UAVs
• Battery indifferent wearable Ultrasound
• Wearable Ultrasound for Artery monitoring
• Machine Learning for extracting Muscle features from Ultrasound raw data
• Improved Collision Avoidance for Nano-drones
• Autonomous Mapping with Nano-Drones UWB and Novel Depth Sensors
• Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance with Nano-Drones and Novel Depth Sensors
• Deep Learning-based Global Local Planner for Autonomous Nano-drones
• Ultra-wideband Concurrent Ranging
• Enhancing our DMA Engine with Fault Tolerance
• Fast Accelerator Context Switch for PULP
• Visualization of Neural Architecture Search Spaces
• Self Aware Epilepsy Monitoring
• Serverless Benchmarks on RISC-V (M)
• Non-blocking Algorithms in Real-Time Operating Systems
• EEG artifact detection with machine learning
• Design of Time-Encoded Spiking Neural Networks (IBM-Zurich)
• EEG artifact detection for epilepsy monitoring
• Fast Simulation of Manycore Systems (1S)
• Training and Deploying Next-Generation Quantized Neural Networks on Microcontrollers
• Spiking Neural Network for Motor Function Decoding Based on Neural Dust
• Hardware/software codesign neural decoding algorithm for “neural dust”
• Automatic unplugging detection for Ultrasound probes
• Ibex: Tightly-Coupled Accelerators and ISA Extensions
• Huawei Research
• Securing Block Ciphers against SCA and SIFA
• RVfplib
• Exploring feature selection and classification algorithms for ultra-low-power closed-loop systems for epilepsy control
• Short Range Radars For Biomedical Application
• Smart Patch For Heath Care And Rehabilitation
• Autonomus Drones With Novel Sensors And Ultra Wide Band
• Evaluating memory access pattern specializations in OoO, server-grade cores (M)
• Machine Learning on Ultrasound Images
• IP-Based SoC Generation and Configuration (1-3S/B)
• Efficient Search Design for Hyperdimensional Computing
• PREM Runtime Scheduling Policies
• IBM Research
• RISC-V based Implementation of Secure Ranging According to IEEE 802.15.4z UWB
• BCI-controlled Drone
• Nanoelectrode array biosensors - programmable non-overlapping clocks generator project
• Accurate deep learning inference using computational memory
• Spiking Neural Network for Autonomous Navigation
• Event-Driven Convolutional Neural Network Modular Accelerator
• Pressure and acoustic Smart Sensors Network for Wind Turbines Monitoring
• Design Of A Biomarker Assay Based On Responsive Magnetic Nanoparticles
• High-throughput Embedded System For Neurotechnology in collaboration with INI
• Neuromorphic Intelligence In An Embedded System in Collaboration with AiCTX
• Adversarial Attacks Against Deep Neural Networks In Wearable Cameras
• Wearable Smart Camera With Deep Learning Algorithms For Automatic Detecion
• Visualizing Functional Microbubbles using Ultrasound Imaging
• Energy Efficient Smart Devices For Construction Building Maintenance Hilti Collaboration
• Extending the RISCV backend of LLVM to support PULP Extensions
• Compiler Profiling and Optimizing
• PREM Intervals and Loop Tiling
• Implementation of the RISC-V Bit Manipulation (RVB) extensions for our RISC-V core
• Implementation of the RISC-V Bit Manipulation (RVB) extensions for our RI5CY core
• Level Crossing ADC For a Many Channels Neural Recording Interface
• Scalable Heterogeneous L1 Memory Interconnect for Smart Accelerator Coupling in Ultra-Low Power Multicores
• Improving Cold-Start in Batteryless And Energy Harvesting Systems
• Cerebellum: Design of a Programmable Smart-Peripheral for the Ariane Core
• PREM on PULP
• Edge Computing for Long-Term Wearable Biomedical Systems
• AMZ Driverless Competition Embedded Systems Projects
• Optogenetics And Game Theory Applied To Small Side Bird Using Smart Sensing
• Wireless Sensing With Long Range Comminication (LoRa)
• Indoor Smart Tracking of Hospital instrumentation
• A Wearable Wireless Kidney Function Monitoring System For BioMedical Applications
• Physics is looking for PULP
• Embedded Gesture Recognition Using Novel Mini Radar Sensors
• Contextual Intelligence on Resource-constraint Bluetooth LE IoT Devices
• An Industrial-grade Bluetooth LE Mesh Network Solution
• BLISS - Battery-Less Identification System for Security
• Monocular Vision-based Object Following on Nano-size Robotic Blimp
• A Waypoint-based Navigation System for Nano-Size UAVs in GPS-denied Environments
• Zero Power Touch Sensor and Reciever For Body Communication
• Wake Up Radio For Energy Efficient Communication System and IC Design
• A Wireless Sensor Network for HPC monitoring
• High Speed FPGA Trigger Logic for Particle Physics Experiments
• Low Power One bit Microphone for Acoustic Imaging Using A Parallel Processor
• Low Power Geolocalization And Indoor Localization
• Real-Time Implementation of Quantum State Identification using an FPGA
• Neural Networks Framwork for Embedded Plattforms
• Hyper Meccano: Acceleration of Hyperdimensional Computing
• Autonomous Sensors For Underwater Monitoring In Smart Navy Systems
• Resilient Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing Architectures
• Variable Bit Precision Logic for Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence
• Smart Wearable System For Vital Sign Monitoring Exploiting On Board and Cloud Machine Learning
• Tiny CNNs for Ultra-Efficient Object Detection on PULP
• Single-Bit-Synapse Spiking Neural System-on-Chip
• OpenRISC SoC for Sensor Applications
• Desing and Implementation Of Long Lasting Key Finder With Bleetooth Low Energy
• Radio Signal Direction Detection For Smart Glasses For Augmented Reality Applications
• PVT Dynamic Adaptation in PULPv3
• Passive and Self Sustaining Receivers For On and Intra Body Communication For Wearable Sensors Networks
• A Wearable System To Control Phone And Electronic Device Without Hands
• Towards The Integration of E-skin into Prosthetic Devices
• Ultra Low Power Conversion Circuit For Batteryless Applications
• Towards Self Sustainable UAVs
• Using Motion Sensors to Support Indoor Localization
• Low Power Neural Network For Multi Sensors Wearable Devices
• Bateryless Heart Rate Monitoring
• Birds Long Term Monitoring With Ultra Low Power Wireless Sensor Node
• Covariant Feature Detector on Parallel Ultra Low Power Architecture
• Ultra-Efficient Visual Classification on Movidius Myriad2
• Kinetic Energy Harvesting For Autonomous Smart Watches
• A Wearable System for long term monitoring of human physiological parameters with E skin sensors
• Autonomous Smart Watches: Toward an ultra low power microphone detector with events classification
• Autonomous Smart Watches: Hardware and Software Desing
• A Wireless Sensor Network for a Smart LED Lighting control
• Compressed Sensing vs JPEG
• Ultra-High-Efficiency Power Supply Management for Ultra-Low-Power Systems on Chip
• Real-Time Pedestrian Detection For Privacy Enhancement
• Thermal Control of Mobile Devices
• Android reliability governor
• Infrared Wake Up Radio
• Ambient RF Energy harvesting for Wireless Sensor Network
• Hardware Support for IDE in Multicore Environment
• Audio DAC Conversion Jitter Measurement System
• Hybrid Analog/Digital Leveling Loop for Very-Low-Distortion Oscillator
• Wiederverwendung (reuse) ganzer Funktionsblöcke beim VLSI-Entwurf

Analog Design

• Digital Control of a DC/DC Buck Converter
• High-Speed Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) for massive MIMO testing in 65nm CMOS
• High-Speed SAR ADC for next generation wireless communication in 12nm FinFET
• Analog building blocks for mmWave manipulation
• A mmWave Voltage-Controlled-Oscillator (VCO) for beyond 5G applications
• Bluetooth Low Energy network with optimized data throughput
• Event-Driven Convolutional Neural Network Modular Accelerator
• Level Crossing ADC For a Many Channels Neural Recording Interface
• 5G Cellular RF Front-end Design in 22nm CMOS Technology
• Design of Charge-Pump PLL in 22nm for 5G communication applications

Nano Electronics

• Developing High Efficiency Batteries for Electric Cars
• Processing of 3D Micro-tomography data for Lithium Ion Batteries
• Assessment of novel photovoltaic architectures by circuit simulation

Nano-TCAD

• Efficient Banded Matrix Multiplication for Quantum Transport Simulations
• Charge and heat transport through graphene nanoribbon based devices
• Molecular Binding Kinetics Modelling of NO2 on Graphene/hBN Heterostructure
• Quantum Transport Modeling of Interband Cascade Lasers (ICL)
• Every individual on the planet should have a real chance to obtain personalized medical therapy
• Unconventional phase change memory device concepts for in-memory and neuromorphic computin
• Integrated silicon photonic structures-Lumiphase
• Ferroelectric Memristors for Artificial Neural Networks (IBM-Zurich)
• Characterization techniques for silicon photonics-Lumiphase
• Implementation of Computationally Efficient Scattering Mechanisms for Periodic Devices and 2D Materials
• Electrothermal characterization of van der Waals Heterostructures with a partial overlap
• Phase-change memory devices for emerging computing paradigms
• Finite element modeling of electrochemical random access memory
• Influence of the Initial Filament Geometry on the Forming Step in CBRAM.
• Nanoscale Hybrid III-V Plasmonic Laser for Low-Power Photonic ICs
• Design space exploration of InP Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (DHBTs)
• Quantum transport in 2D heterostructures
• Development of an efficient algorithm for quantum transport codes
• Investigation of Metal Diffusion in Oxides for CBRAM Applications
• Investigation of Redox Processes in CBRAM

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