Revision as of 15:52, 11 August 2020

In this page you will find student and research projects at the Integrated Systems Laboratory of the ETH Zurich.

Institute Organization

The IIS Consists of 5 main research groups

• Analog and Mixed Signal Design
• Digital Circuits and Systems
• Energy Efficient Circuits and IoT Systems
• Nano-TCAD
• Physical Characterization

Analog and Mixed Signal Design Group (Prof. Huang)

• Analog IC Design
• Biomedical System on Chips
• RF SoCs for the Internet of Things
• High-Performance & V2X Cellular Communications

Digital Circuits and Systems Group (Prof. Benini)

• High Performance SoCs
• Computer Architecture
• Acceleration and Transprecision
• Heterogeneous Acceleration Systems
• Event-Driven Computing
• Predictable Execution
• Low Power Embedded Systems and Wireless Sensors Networks
• Embedded Artificial Intelligence:Systems And Applications
• Students' International Competitions: F1(AMZ), Swissloop, Educational Rockets
• Transient Computing
• RF SoCs for the Internet of Things
• Energy Efficient Autonomous UAVs
• Biomedical System on Chips
• Digital Medical Ultrasound Imaging
• Cryptographic Hardware
• Deep Learning Acceleration
• Human Intranet
• IBM Research

Energy Efficient Circuits and IoT Systems Group (Prof. Jang)

• Palm size chip NMR probe
• MmWave PLL: 100GHz PLL using reference oversampling scheme
• Energy Efficient Circuits for Wireless Neural Recording
• Design of key building blocks for miniaturized sensor systems
• Application Specific Frequency Synthesizers (Analog/Digital PLLs)

Nano-TCAD Group (Prof. Luisier)

• Electrical characterization and optimization of electrochemical random-access memory for analog computing
• Optical Weights for Photonic Neural Networks
• Ab-initio modeling of ballistic thermal transport

Physical Characterization Group (Dr.Ciappa)

• 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
• 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

Collaborations with other groups/departments

• Real-Time Implementation of Quantum State Identification using an FPGA

Selected Projects in Progress

For a complete list, see Projects in Progress.

• Beamspace processing for 5G mmWave massive MIMO on GPU
• Semi-Custom Digital VLSI for Processing-in-Memory
• Efficient TNN compression
• Event-Driven Vision on an embedded platform
• LLVM and DaCe for Snitch (1-2S)

Selected Completed Projects

For a complete list, see Completed Projects.

• Design and Evaluation of a Small Size Avalanche Beacon
• A Snitch-based Compute Accelerator for HERO (M/1-2S)
• MemPool on HERO (1S)
• NVDLA meets PULP
• Hardware Accelerators for Lossless Quantized Deep Neural Networks

Selected Research Projects

For a complete list, see Research Projects.

• Design and Evaluation of a Small Size Avalanche Beacon
• A Snitch-based Compute Accelerator for HERO (M/1-2S)
• MemPool on HERO (1S)
• NVDLA meets PULP
• Hardware Accelerators for Lossless Quantized Deep Neural Networks

Links to Other IIS Webpages

http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch

Integrated Systems Laboratory Main homepage

http://www.nano-tcad.ethz.ch

Nano-TCAD group homepage

http://www.dz.ee.ethz.ch

Microelectronics Design Center

http://asic.ethz.ch/cg

The IIS-ASIC Chip Gallery

http://eda.ee.ethz.ch

EDA Wiki (ETH Zurich internal access only!)