Digital

Topics for Projects

• Computer Architecture
• Acceleration and Transprecision
• Heterogeneous Acceleration Systems
• Event-Driven Computing
• Predictable Execution
• Low Power Embedded Systems
• 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
• Hyperdimensional Computing

Active Projects

These are the projects that are currently active

• ASR-Waveformer
• GDBTrace: A Post-Simulation Trace-Based RISC-V GDB Debugging Server (1S)
• A RISC-V ISA Extension for Scalar Chaining in Snitch (M)
• Designing a Scalable Miniature I/O DMA (1-2B/1-3S/M)
• Fault-Tolerant Floating-Point Units (M)
• Creating a Free and Open-Source Verification Environment for Our New DMA Engine (1-3S/B)
• Implementation of a Cache Reliability Mechanism (1S/M)
• Efficient collective communications in FlooNoC (1M)
• On-Board Software for PULP on a Satellite
• A RISC-V fault-tolerant many-core accelerator for 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (1-2S/B)
• Zephyr RTOS on PULP
• Investigation of Quantization Strategies for Retentive Networks (1S)
• Streaming Layer Normalization in ITA (M/1-2S)
• Physical Implementation of ITA (2S)
• 3D Matrix Multiplication Unit for ITA (1S)
• Virtual Memory Ara
• New RVV 1.0 Vector Instructions for Ara
• Big Data Analytics Benchmarks for Ara
• Creating A Technology-independent USB1.0 Host Implementation Targetting ASICSs (1-3S/B)
• Runtime partitioning of L1 memory in Mempool (M)
• Vector-based Manycore HPC Cluster Exploration for 5G Communication Algorithm (1-2M)
• Radiation Testing of a PULP ASIC
• Ultrasound Doppler system development
• On - Device Continual Learning for Seizure Detection on GAP9
• Ultrasound-EMG combined hand gesture recognition
• A RISC-V ISA Extension for Pseudo Dual-Issue Monte Carlo in Snitch (1M/2S)
• Accelerating Matrix Multiplication on a 216-core MPSoC (1M)
• Ternary Neural Networks for Face Recognition
• Coherence-Capable Write-Back L1 Data Cache for Ariane (M)
• 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

Completed Projects

These are projects that were completed in the last few years

2017

• A computational memory unit using phase-change memory devices
• Deep Learning for Brain-Computer Interface
• Low-Energy Cluster-Coupled Vector Coprocessor for Special-Purpose PULP Acceleration
• Turbo Equalization for Cellular IoT
• Sensor Fusion for Rockfall Sensor Node
• Development of a Rockfall Sensor Node
• FPGA Optimizations of Dense Binary Hyperdimensional Computing
• Fast and Accurate Multiclass Inference for Brain–Computer Interfaces
• A Wireless Sensor Network for a Smart Building Monitor and Control
• BigPULP: Multicluster Synchronization Extensions
• Sub Noise Floor Channel Estimation for the Cellular Internet of Things
• PULPonFPGA: Lightweight Virtual Memory Support - Page Table Walker
• StoneEDGE: An EC-GSM-IoT and Evolved EDGE PHY ASIC

2016

• A Recurrent Neural Network Speech Recognition Chip
• Efficient NB-IoT Uplink Design
• Internet of Things Network Synchronizer
• Accelerator for Boosted Binary Features
• Accelerator for Spatio-Temporal Video Filtering
• Interfacing PULP with a Brain-Inspired Ultra-Low Power Spiking Cochlea
• Design and Implementation of Digital Spiking Neurons for Ultra-Low-Power In-Cluster Coprocessors
• System Analysis and VLSI Design of NB-IoT Baseband Processing
• High-speed Scene Labeling on FPGA
• Learning Image Decompression with Convolutional Networks
• FPGA System Design for Computer Vision with Convolutional Neural Networks
• PULPonFPGA: Lightweight Virtual Memory Support - Multi-Level TLB
• Implementing Hibernation on the ARM Cortex M0
• High-Throughput Hardware Implementations of Authenticated Encryption Algorithms
• Spatio-Temporal Video Filtering
• PULPonFPGA: Lightweight Virtual Memory Support - Coherency Extensions

2015

• Hardware Accelerated Derivative Pricing
• Glitches Reduce Listening Time of Your iPod
• FFT-based Convolutional Network Accelerator
• Real-Time Optical Flow Using Neural Networks
• EvaLTE: A 2G/3G/4G Cellular Transceiver FMC
• Synchronisation and Cyclic Prefix Handling For LTE Testbed
• An FPGA-Based Testbed for 3G Mobile Communications Receivers
• Reading The GSM Beacon Carrier with OsmocomBB and stoneEDGE
• Baseband Meets CPU
• Active-Set QP Solver on FPGA
• Vector Processor for In-Memory Computing
• StoneEDGE: An EC-GSM-IoT and Evolved EDGE PHY ASIC
• Hardware/software co-programming on the Parallella platform
• Design and VLSI Implementation of a Constrained-Viterbi Algorithm Equalizer for 3GPP TD-HSPA
• Time and Frequency Synchronization in LTE Cat-0 Devices
• Real-Time Stereo to Multiview Conversion

2014

• EvalEDGE: A 2G Cellular Transceiver FMC
• Real-Time Stereo to Multiview Conversion
• Design and Implementation of a Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator ASIC
• Design and Implementation of an Approximate Floating Point Unit

2013

• RazorEDGE: An Evolved EDGE DBB ASIC
• Real-Time Stereo to Multiview Conversion
• NORX - an AEAD algorithm for the CAESAR competition
• A Unified-Multiplier Based Hardware Architecture for Elliptic Curve Cryptography
• SHAre - An application Specific Instruction Set Processor for SHA-2/3
• Quantum Key Secured 100 Gbit/s Payload Encryption and its High-Speed Network Interfaces
• Feature Extraction with Binarized Descriptors: ASIC Implementation and FPGA Environment
• Real-time View Synthesis using Image Domain Warping
• Ultra-low power processor design

2012

• A Multiview Synthesis Core in 65 nm CMOS
• Real-time View Synthesis using Image Domain Warping
• High-Throughput Authenticated Encryption Architectures based on Block Ciphers

2011

• Compressed Sensing Reconstruction on FPGA
• A Multiview Synthesis Core in 65 nm CMOS
• Real-time View Synthesis using Image Domain Warping
• Putting Together What Fits Together - GrÆStl