Category:Semester Thesis

Semester thesis at the IIS is for 1-3 students for a duration of 14 weeks and should take 50% of the time of the students. The available projects in this category are meant primarily for a semester thesis. However if you are interested in the topic, you can discuss with the supervisor, in most cases the content of the project can be expanded to fit a master thesis as well.

Available Projects

• 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
• Integrating an Open-Source Double-Precision Floating-Point DivSqrt Unit into CVFPU (1S)
• Digital Control of a DC/DC Buck Converter
• Design of a D-Band Variable Gain Amplifier for 6G Communication
• Noise Figure Measurement for Cryogenic System
• Simulation of 2D artificial cilia metasurface in COMSOL
• An Ultra-Compact High-Power CMOS Power Amplifier for Millimeter-Wave 5G Communications
• Configurable Ultra Low Power LDO
• 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)
• High-Speed Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) for massive MIMO testing in 65nm CMOS
• Feature Extraction and Architecture Clustering for Keyword Spotting (1S)
• High-Speed SAR ADC for next generation wireless communication in 12nm FinFET
• Design of low mismatch DAC used for VAD
• Implementation of a Coherent Application-Class Multicore System (1-2S)
• Resource Partitioning of RPC DRAM
• Bandwidth Efficient NEureka
• Vector-based Parallel Programming Optimization of Communication Algorithm (1-2S/B)
• Finalizing and Releasing Our Open-source AXI4 IPs (1-3S/B/2-3G)
• Extending Our DMA Architecture with SiFives TileLink Protocol (1-3S/B)
• Enhancing Our DMA Engine With Virtual Memory (M/1-3S/B)
• Design and Implementation of a Fully-digital Platform-independent Integrated Temperature Sensor Enabling DVFS in Open-source Tapeouts (1-3S/B)
• Towards a High-performance Open-source Verification Suite for AXI-based Systems (M/1-3S/B)
• Big Data Analytics Benchmarks for Ara
• 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
• AXI-based Network on Chip (NoC) system
• Radiation Testing of a PULP ASIC
• Virtual Memory Ara
• Ultrasound image data recycler
• Runtime partitioning of L1 memory in Mempool (1-2S/B)
• GDBTrace: A Post-Simulation Trace-Based RISC-V GDB Debugging Server (1S)
• Extended Verification for Ara
• On-Device Training Sparse Sub-Tensor Update Scheme Optimization for CNN-based tasks (SA or MA)
• Design of combined Ultrasound and PPG systems
• Improving SystemVerilog Support for Free And Open-Source EDA Tools (1-3S/B)
• Accelerating Stencil Workloads on Snitch using ISSRs (1-2S/B)
• An Efficient Compiler Backend for Snitch (1S/B)
• PULP Freertos with LLVM
• Zephyr RTOS on PULP
• Integration Of A Smart Vision System
• Towards Formal Verification of the iDMA Engine (1-3S/B)
• Event-based navigation on autonomous nano-drones
• Modeling High Bandwidth Memory for Rapid Design Space Exploration (1-3S/B)
• Development of an implantable Force sensor for orthopedic applications
• Spatz grows wings: Physical Implementation of a Vector-Powered Manycore System (2S)
• Creating a Free and Open-Source Verification Environment for Our New DMA Engine (1-3S/B)
• 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
• Ultrasound Doppler system development
• Exploring NAS spaces with C-BRED
• 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
• New RVV 1.0 Vector Instructions for Ara
• Deep Learning-based Global Local Planner for Autonomous Nano-drones
• Ultra-wideband Concurrent Ranging
• Smart e-glasses for concealed recording of EEG signals
• Enhancing our DMA Engine with Fault Tolerance
• Visualization of Neural Architecture Search Spaces
• Energy-efficient Circuits for Fully Wireless Brain-machine Interfaces
• Non-blocking Algorithms in Real-Time Operating Systems
• Mixed-Precision Neural Networks for Brain-Computer Interface Applications
• Probing the limits of fake-quantised neural networks
• Every individual on the planet should have a real chance to obtain personalized medical therapy
• Analog building blocks for mmWave manipulation
• A mmWave Voltage-Controlled-Oscillator (VCO) for beyond 5G applications
• Bluetooth Low Energy network with optimized data throughput
• Fast Simulation of Manycore Systems (1S)
• Unconventional phase change memory device concepts for in-memory and neuromorphic computin
• 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
• Graph neural networks for epileptic seizure detection
• RVfplib
• Short Range Radars For Biomedical Application
• Smart Patch For Heath Care And Rehabilitation
• Autonomus Drones With Novel Sensors And Ultra Wide Band
• Machine Learning on Ultrasound Images
• IP-Based SoC Generation and Configuration (1-3S/B)
• PREM Runtime Scheduling Policies
• IBM Research
• Classification of Evoked Local-Field Potentials in Rat Barrel Cortex using Hyper-dimensional Computing
• Data Augmentation Techniques in Biosignal Classification
• Compression of iEEG Data
• BCI-controlled Drone
• Contrastive Learning for Self-supervised Clustering of iEEG Data for Epileptic Patients
• Nanoelectrode array biosensors - programmable non-overlapping clocks generator project
• Real-Time Motor-Imagery Classification Using Neuromorphic Processor
• Deep neural networks for seizure detection
• Spiking Neural Network for Autonomous Navigation
• Event-Driven Convolutional Neural Network Modular Accelerator
• Pressure and acoustic Smart Sensors Network for Wind Turbines Monitoring
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Application Specific Frequency Synthesizers (Analog/Digital PLLs)
• 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
• 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
• Low Power One bit Microphone for Acoustic Imaging Using A Parallel Processor
• Low Power Geolocalization And Indoor Localization
• 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
• Towards Online Training of CNNs: Hebbian-Based Deep Learning
• Embedded Audio Source Localization Exploiting Coincidence Detection in Asynchronous Spike Streams
• 5G Cellular RF Front-end Design in 22nm CMOS Technology
• 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
• Tiny CNNs for Ultra-Efficient Object Detection on PULP
• OpenRISC SoC for Sensor Applications
• Design of Charge-Pump PLL in 22nm for 5G communication 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
• Linux Driver for fine-grain and low overhead access to on-chip performance counters
• Open Power-On Chip Controller Study and Integration
• Control an external ADC using Programmable Real-Time Unit (PRU) Subsystem on Beaglebone Black used as embedded HPC-performance-monitoring device
• 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
• Using Motion Sensors to Support Indoor Localization
• Low Power Neural Network For Multi Sensors Wearable Devices
• Birds Long Term Monitoring With Ultra Low Power Wireless Sensor Node
• Covariant Feature Detector on Parallel Ultra Low Power Architecture
• 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
• 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
• Praxisgerechte Berechnung von Switching Noise in VLSI-Schaltungen
• Ultra Low Power Wake Up Radio for Wireless Sensor Network
• Assessment of novel photovoltaic architectures by circuit simulation
• Variability Tolerant Ultra Low Power Cluster

Active Projects

• Investigating the Cost of Special-Case Handling in Low-Precision Floating-Point Dot Product Units (1S)
• Smart Meters
• Ternary Neural Networks for Face Recognition
• Resource-Constrained Few-Shot Learning for Keyword Spotting (1S)
• Resource Partitioning of Caches
• Super Resolution Radar/Imaging at mm-Wave frequencies
• Ultrasound based hand gesture recognition
• Evaluating SoA Post-Training Quantization Algorithms
• Coherence-Capable Write-Back L1 Data Cache for Ariane (M)
• Fitting Power Consumption of an IP-based HLS Approach to Real Hardware (1-3S)
• Extension and Evaluation of TinyDMA (1-2S/B/2-3G)
• Developing a Transposition Unit to Accelerate ML Workloads (1-3S/B)
• Implementing Configurable Dual-Core Redundancy
• Efficient TNN compression
• Event-Driven Vision on an embedded platform
• ASIC Development of 5G-NR LDPC Decoder
• Channel Estimation for 5G Cellular IoT and Fast Fading Channels
• An all Standard-Cell Based Energy Efficient HW Accelerator for DSP and Deep Learning Applications
• Pulse Oximetry Fachpraktikum

Completed Projects

• Optimizing the Pipeline in our Floating Point Architectures (1S)
• Design of a Prototype Chip with Interleaved Memory and Network-on-Chip
• Mapping Networks on Reconfigurable Binary Engine Accelerator
• Peripheral Event Linking System for Real-time Capable Energy Efficient SoCs
• Neural Architecture Search using Reinforcement Learning and Search Space Reduction
• Bridging QuantLab with LPDNN
• Bluetooth Low Energy receiver in 65nm CMOS
• Precise Ultra-low-power Timer
• Novel Metastability Mitigation Technique
• Analog Compute-in-Memory Accelerator Interface and Integration
• Wearables in Fashion
• Outdoor Precision Object Tracking for Rockfall Experiments
• Autonomous Sensing For Trains In The IoT Era
• Flexfloat DL Training Framework
• Online Learning of User Features (1S)
• Feature Extraction for Speech Recognition (1S)
• SCMI Support for Power Controller Subsystem
• Augmenting Our IPs with AXI Stream Extensions (M/1-2S)
• Implementing DSP Instructions in Banshee (1S)
• Efficient Synchronization of Manycore Systems (M/1S)
• Design of combined Ultrasound and Electromyography systems
• Designing a Power Management Unit for PULP SoCs
• PULP’s CLIC extensions for fast interrupt handling
• Enhancing our DMA Engine with Vector Processing Capabilities (1-2S/B)
• Adding Linux Support to our DMA Engine (1-2S/B)
• Triple-Core PULPissimo
• Watchdog Timer for PULP
• Hypervisor Extension for Ariane (M)
• Advanced 5G Repetition Combining
• Next Generation Synchronization Signals
• Efficient Memory Stream Handling in RISC-V-based Systems (M/1-2S)
• Low-power Temperature-insensitive Timer
• Improved State Estimation on PULP-based Nano-UAVs
• Ultra low power wearable ultrasound probe
• Machine Learning for extracting Muscle features using Ultrasound 2
• Hardware Constrained Neural Architechture Search
• Implementation of an AES Hardware Processing Engine (B/S)
• Neural Network Algorithms and Interfaces with Accelerators for Embedded Platforms with Real World Applications
• Multi issue OoO Ariane Backend (M)
• Exploring schedules for incremental and annealing quantization algorithms
• Memory Augmented Neural Networks in Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Hyper-Dimensional Computing Based Predictive Maintenance
• Low Latency Brain-Machine Interfaces
• Ultrasound Low power WiFi with IMX7
• Ultrasound signal processing acceleration with CUDA
• Minimum Variance Beamforming for Wearable Ultrasound Probes
• Machine Learning for extracting Muscle features using Ultrasound
• Compression of Ultrasound data on FPGA
• High Power Efficient Digitally Controlled Oscillator Design for Cellular IOT
• High Performance Digitally-Assisted Time Domain ADC Design for DPLL used in Cellular IOT
• Design of a 25 Gbps SerDes for optical chip-to-chip communication
• Inductive Charging Circuit for Implantable Devices
• Ultra-low power transceiver for implantable devices
• Low-Dropout Regulators for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• DC-DC Buck converter in 65nm CMOS
• Physical Implementation of Ara, PULP's Vector Machine (1-2S)
• Towards the Ariane Desktop: Display Output for Ariane on FPGA under Linux (S/B/G)
• LLVM and DaCe for Snitch (1-2S)
• Investigation of the high-performance multi-threaded OoO IBM A2O Core (1-3S)
• Bringup and Evaluation of an Energy-efficient Heterogeneous Manycore Compute Platform (1-2S)
• An RPC DRAM Implementation for Energy-Efficient ASICs (1-2S)
• Physical Implementation of MemPool, PULP's Manycore System (1M/1-2S)
• Manycore System on FPGA (M/S/G)
• PULP in space - Fault Tolerant PULP System for Critical Space Applications
• LightProbe - 200G Remote DMA for GPU FPGA Data Transfers
• Time Gain Compensation for Ultrasound Imaging
• Neural Networks Framwork for Embedded Plattforms
• Stand-Alone Edge Computing with GAP8
• Securing Block Ciphers against SCA and SIFA
• Design and Evaluation of a Small Size Avalanche Beacon
• A Snitch-based Compute Accelerator for HERO (M/1-2S)
• MemPool on HERO (1S)
• Hardware Accelerators for Lossless Quantized Deep Neural Networks
• Energy-Efficient Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing
• A Recurrent Neural Network Speech Recognition Chip
• Implementation of a Heterogeneous System for Image Processing on an FPGA (S)
• Ara: Update PULP's Vector Processor with the recent RISC-V Vector Extension Development
• Deep Convolutional Autoencoder for iEEG Signals
• Ibex: FPGA Optimizations
• Ibex: Bit-Manipulation Extension
• Floating-Point Divide & Square Root Unit for Transprecision
• An Energy Efficient Brain-Computer Interface using Mr.Wolf
• Real-Time Embedded Classification of Neural Activity in Rat Barrel Cortex
• Real-Time ECG Contractions Classification
• Toward hyperdimensional active perception: learning compressed sensorimotor control by demonstration
• HERO: TLB Invalidation
• Indoor Positioning with Bluetooth
• Improving Resiliency of Hyperdimensional Computing
• Toward Superposition of Brain-Computer Interface Models
• Predictable Execution on GPU Caches
• Freedom from Interference in Heterogeneous COTS SoCs
• Analysis and Design of Power Efficient RF/ mm-Wave LC-tank Oscillator in 28nm for 5G communication applications
• Ultra-low power sampling front-end for acquisition of physiological signals
• Switched-capacitor power amplifier for IoT mobile communications: design of signal processing path
• Deep Learning for Brain-Computer Interface
• LightProbe - WIFI extension (PCB)
• Digital Audio Interface for Smart Intensive Computing Triggering
• Trace Debugger for custom RISC-V Core
• Low-Energy Cluster-Coupled Vector Coprocessor for Special-Purpose PULP Acceleration
• Shared Correlation Accelerator for an RF SoC
• IoT Turbo Decoder
• Development of a Rockfall Sensor Node
• Intelligent Power Management Unit (iPMU)
• Ultrafast Medical Ultrasound imaging on a GPU
• LightProbe - Implementation of compressed-sensing algorithms
• A Wireless Sensor Network for a Smart Building Monitor and Control
• Creating a HDMI Video Interface for PULP
• Standard Cell Compatible Memory Array Design
• Efficient NB-IoT Uplink Design
• Interference Cancellation for EC-GSM-IoT
• A Wireless Sensor Network for HPC monitoring
• Linux Driver for built-in ADC using DMA and Programmable Real-Time Unit (PRU) support on Beaglebone Black used as embedded HPC-performance-monitoring device
• Signal-Processing and Data-Compression on Beaglebone Black used as embedded HPC-performance-monitoring device
• Towards Self-Sustainable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Towards Autonomous Navigation for Nano-Blimps
• PULP-Shield for Autonomous UAV
• Self-Learning Drones based on Neural Networks
• BigPULP: Multicluster Synchronization Extensions
• LTE-Advanced RF Front-end Design in 28nm CMOS Technology
• Design of low-offset dynamic comparators
• VLSI Implementation of a Low-Complexity Channel Shortener for 2G EC-GSM-IoT and Evolved EDGE
• PULPonFPGA: Lightweight Virtual Memory Support - Page Table Walker
• Accelerator for Boosted Binary Features
• Accelerator for Spatio-Temporal Video Filtering
• Charging System for Implantable Electronics
• GUI-developement for an action-cam-based eye tracking device
• Ultra Low-Power Oscillator
• High-speed Scene Labeling on FPGA
• Learning Image Decompression with Convolutional Networks
• FPGA System Design for Computer Vision with Convolutional Neural Networks
• Change-based Evaluation of Convolutional Neural Networks
• Implementing Hibernation on the ARM Cortex M0
• 3D Turbo Decoder ASIC Realization
• High-Throughput Hardware Implementations of Authenticated Encryption Algorithms
• ASIC Implementation of High-Throughput Next Generation Turbo Decoders
• Digital Transmitter for Mobile Communications
• Spatio-Temporal Video Filtering
• PULPonFPGA: Lightweight Virtual Memory Support - Coherency Extensions
• FFT-based Convolutional Network Accelerator
• Real-Time Optical Flow Using Neural Networks
• Improving Scene Labeling with Hyperspectral Data
• Scattering Networks for Scene Labeling
• Synchronisation and Cyclic Prefix Handling For LTE Testbed
• Reading The GSM Beacon Carrier with OsmocomBB and stoneEDGE
• Design and VLSI Implementation of a Constrained-Viterbi Algorithm Equalizer for 3GPP TD-HSPA
• Time and Frequency Synchronization in LTE Cat-0 Devices
• Design and Implementation of ultra low power vision system
• Design and Implementation of a Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator ASIC
• Design and Implementation of an Approximate Floating Point Unit
• NORX - an AEAD algorithm for the CAESAR competition
• A Unified-Multiplier Based Hardware Architecture for Elliptic Curve Cryptography
• Reconfigurability of SHA-3 candidates
• Feature Extraction with Binarized Descriptors: ASIC Implementation and FPGA Environment
• Ultra-low power processor design