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• Ultra-low power processor design
  ...ionality which will never be used in the target system and it is therefore not necessary to maintain all this functionality. Removing caches, IMMU, DMMU, ..., at least one processor will have to wait(stall) until the memory becomes available. To simulate such a miss in a single core structure, an acknowledge will be
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• Final Report
  ...a problem, it means that solutions offered in ''related work'' were simply not good enough. Explain what is missing in the related work, and lead into you * Introduction (and Conclusion) are more easy to finish last, do not get stuck at the beginning trying to write a good introduction.
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• Efficient Digital Signal Processing in High-Channel-Count High-Frame-Rate 3D Ultrasound Imaging Systems
  ...ime with the same naturalness as the iconic stethoscope. These new systems not only enable new diagnostic possibilities, but also push the limits of the t [[Category:Available]]
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• Flexible Electronic Systems and Embedded Epidermal Devices
  ...pment''' of such systems faces a '''number of challenges'''. These include not only material properties per se (e.g., flexibility, stretchability, or bioc ===Available Projects===
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• Design and VLSI Implementation of a Constrained-Viterbi Algorithm Equalizer for 3GPP TD-HSPA
  is not feasible due to prohibitive complexity. This is due to the fact that the co
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• Weekly Reports
  Please use ASCII text, if needed with embedded figures. Do not send your report as pdf or .docx in attachment. This prevents Prof. Benini * Address your mail to Prof. Benini, do not forget to add your supervisors in CC
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• Power Optimization in Multipliers
  ...th little hardware overhead and speed penalty. Such techniques however are not compatible with standard-cell technologies. The goal of this project is to [[Category:Available]]
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• Low-power chip-to-chip communication network
  ...aller chips (like the ones relevant for our research) as there are usually not enough number of I/O pins to take advantage of parallelization. Most soluti ===Status: Available ===
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• Hardware Accelerated Derivative Pricing
  students who have broad interests, not just in hardware, but also in ===Status: Available ===
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• Harald Kröll
  ==Available Projects== category = Available
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• CPS Software-Configurable State-Machine
  To save power, this unit will not be a conventional fully synchronously clocked design: the configurable stat ===Status: Available ===
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• Successive Interference Cancellation for 3G Downlink
  ...stems, (optimum) joint maximum-likelihood sequence detection is in general not feasible. Instead, power- and area-efficient linear algorithms, such as lin
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• Ab-initio Simulation of Strained Thermoelectric Materials
  ===Status: Available === ...ructure calculations and the Boltzmann Transport Equation appreciated, but not required
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• Implementation of a 2-D model for Li-ion batteries
  ...ar and wind power will become true alternatives to fossil fuels if they do not need to be consumed instantaneously, but can be stored first and then used ...mid 90's, are computationally very efficient to fulfill this task, but do not capture the shape of the electrode active components. The goal of this proj
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• Design and Implementation of an Approximate Floating Point Unit
  ...gy efficient implementation because ''floating point'' (FP)-operations are not always used which means they remain idle for lots of cycles. Sharing FPUs
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• A Multiview Synthesis Core in 65 nm CMOS
  ...cement of image pixels allowed to design a hardware architecture that does not require an off-chip memory. The complexity of the chip is 6.75 MGE (includi [[Category:Available]]
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• Compressed Sensing Reconstruction on FPGA
  ...he OMP (bottom) hardware architecture utilizing the multipliers (VMU unit) available on today’s FPGA platforms.]] ...ly for applications with real-time requirements, software realizations are not fast enough. We therefore implemented generic high- speed FPGA implementati
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• Pirmin Vogel
  ...19, he joined [https://www.lowrisc.org lowRISC C.I.C.], a Cambridge-based, not-for-profit company using collaborative engineering to develop and maintain ==Available Projects==
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• Multi-Band Receiver Design for LTE Mobile Communication
  ...are becoming more and more important in our daily life. A mobile phone is not primarily a wireless phone anymore. It is rather a lifestyle device connec
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• High Performance Cellular Receivers in Very Advanced CMOS
  ...frequency range. Using one input pin for every frecuency band to cover is not feasible for a transceiver that operates on latest cellular communication s
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• Near-Optimal Reduced-Complexity Sequence Detectors for TD-HSPA
  UE. However, this task is not a trivial one in an environment such as that of the TD-HSPA standard (deplo
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• IcySoC
  ...ng blocks that were mostly ad-hoc targeting some specific examples and did not consider well-understood complete platforms based on these inexact and extr
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• Infrared Wake Up Radio
  ...g order of magnitude less power than in active mode, and this allows to do not waste precious energy. However, it is important to implement mechanisms an ===Status: Available ===
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• Sandro Belfanti
  ==Available Projects== There are several projects currently available, which are listed in this section. Most of them can be adapted to a Masters
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• Glitches Reduce Listening Time of Your iPod
  ...many years, it hasn't found its way into EDA. Current synthesis tools are not able to report nor optimize glitching. As a result glitching power goes mai [[Category:Available]]
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• Improving Scene Labeling with Hyperspectral Data
  ...three spectral bins (red, green, blue), but many more (e.g. 16 or 25) and not necessarily in the visual range of the spectrum. This allows the camera to ...rovide a large number of channels and were very heavy, ultra expensive and not mobile [[http://www.helimetrex.com.au/tetra.html link], [http://www.fluxdat
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• Design and Implementation of Digital Spiking Neurons for Ultra-Low-Power In-Cluster Coprocessors
  If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t [[Category:Available]]
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• Investigation of the source starvation effect in III-V MOSFET
  ...ation in the source contact of III-V MOSFETs and of determining whether or not source starvation plays a significant role. ===Status: Available ===
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• Design study of tunneling transistors based on a core/shell nanowire structures
  ...eld-effect transistors (MOSFETs), the sub-threshold slope (SS) of TFETs is not limited to 60 mV/dec at room temperature, but could theoretically be reduce ===Status: Available ===
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• Computation of Phonon Bandstructure in III-V Nanostructures
  ...rm can be treated using Ewald's summation method in bulk structures, it is not clear how to handle it in nanostructures without too much increasing the co ===Status: Available ===
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• Investigation of Redox Processes in CBRAM
  ...ntal measurements, but could also be used to predict the behaviour of new, not-yet-fabricated devices. ===Status: Available ===
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• Investigation of Metal Diffusion in Oxides for CBRAM Applications
  ...ements, but could also be used to predict the behavior of new, not-yet-fabricated devices. ===Status: Available ===
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• Advanced 5G Repetition Combining
  ...y 20 dB. For the so-called PBCH this is especially difficult, since it has not been changed from legacy LTE. While it is transmitted continuously, the dat ===Status: Available ===
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• OpenRISC SoC for Sensor Applications
  ...IIS we have started developing our own implementation of the OpenRISC core available from the [http://www.opencores.org Opencores] community. A brand new optimi At the moment, the processor does not have a working interrupt system. We expect this support to be present at th
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• Hardware Accelerator for Model Predictive Controller
  ...ny core system. However, the performance of the software implementation is not sufficient to fulfill the real-time requirements of the system. Therefore w ===Status: Available ===
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• 4th Generation Synchronization
  in case the transmitter and receiver are not synchronized. Strongly available at all times. Therefore, the BTS transmits synchronization
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• Android reliability governor
  Reliability (R(t)) is the probability that a given system does not fail before time t. It is becoming a major concern in modern multiprocessor ===Status: Available ===
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• Real-Time Pedestrian Detection For Privacy Enhancement
  ...obstacle when public places are being monitored: real-time surveillance is not allowed in such cases, and stored data can (even for internal use) only be ===Status: Available ===
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• Digital Transmitter for Cellular IoT
  ...support before synthesis in order to save silicon area if Evolved EDGE is not required. The transmitter will eventually replace the transmitter in the ex
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• Design and Implementation of a Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator ASIC
  ...obstacle when public places are being monitored: real-time surveillance is not allowed in such cases, and stored data can (even for internal use) only be * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary)
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• Birds Long Term Monitoring With Ultra Low Power Wireless Sensor Node
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Real-Time Stereo to Multiview Conversion
  Today, most commercially available 3D display Ideally, a 3D display system should not require the users to
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• Acceleration and Transprecision
  ...ery tight power budget. Without a dedicated accelerator, these tasks would not be feasible. ===Available Projects===
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• Modeling FlooNoC in GVSoC (S/M)
  [[Category:Available]] == Status: Available ==
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• Ultrafast Medical Ultrasound imaging on a GPU
  ===Status: Available === : First experiences with GPU Programming (CUDA) are beneficial but not required
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• Baseband Meets CPU
  [[File:2G_soc.png|thumb|Vision of modem SoC (external power amplifier not shown). The bold interfaces can be implemented during this project.]] File:2G_soc.png|Vision of modem SoC (external power amplifier not shown). The bold interfaces can be implemented during this project.
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• Real-Time Optical Flow Using Neural Networks
  ...networks is usually to get a large enough, (hand-)labeled dataset. This is not a problem here, since we can take a high-quality algorithm's output as our * Implement the most promissing candidate(s) (or make use of available implementations)
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• PULPonFPGA: Lightweight Virtual Memory Support - Software Cache
  ===Status: Not Available === [[Category:Available]]
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• Vector Processor for In-Memory Computing
  architectures has already been around for decades, but so far it has not been viable on an industrial scale. Recent developments in process technolo
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• FFT-based Convolutional Network Accelerator
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary) * two not-yet-published papers by our group on acceleration of ConvNets
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• High-speed Scene Labeling on FPGA
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary) * two not-yet-published papers by our group on acceleration of ConvNets
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• Time Synchronization for 3G Mobile Communications
  ...e phone and the base station is no trivial task. Initially the mobile does not know anything about the base-station. It does not know when the different frames start, what cells are around and which synch
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• Autonomous Sensing For Trains In The IoT Era
  (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate) ...ioning with operational amplifiers: amplifiers, filters, integrators etc. (not mandatory)
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• Switched Capacitor Based Bandgap-Reference
  ...sult in a temperature independent voltage of about 1.2V. Such a voltage is not compliant with modern CMOS processes that have supply voltages below 1V. En [[Category:Available]]
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• EvalEDGE: A 2G Cellular Transceiver FMC
  ...1.0. However, it has been superseded by the [[evaLTE]] board, which offers not only 2G but also 3G and 4G transceiver functionality.
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• Autonomous Smart Watches: Toward an ultra low power microphone detector with events classification
  ...ect will be implement and evaluate a complete neural network using already available framework to achieve context recognition. The idea behind this project woul ===Status: Available ===
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• Low Power Neural Network For Multi Sensors Wearable Devices
  ...g. sampling frequency) sufficient for the particular application, in order not to miss the event. However, the rate of occurrence of the event of interes ===Status: Available ===
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• David J. Mack
  ==Available Projects== category = Available
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• Improving our Smart Camera System
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary) * two not-yet-published papers by our group on acceleration of ConvNets
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• Eye tracking
  ...n connected to a contact lens made of plaster-of-Paris. Obviously, this is not the most pleasant recording technique since it affects the eye and its move
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• Beat DigRF
  ...good candidates for the communication interface. Whenever a power plug is not an option ultra long battery life is a key requirement. And, as the number ...at the institute in the [[stoneEDGE]] project. It combines a commercially available RF IC from ACP AG [1] and Digital Baseband (DBB) developed at the institute
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• Kinetic Energy Harvesting For Autonomous Smart Watches
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Ultra-Efficient Visual Classification on Movidius Myriad2
  ...rs and 9 billions of operations on a VGA image. The goal of the project is not only to have this state-of-the-art deep network running on a low-power embe [[Category:Available]]
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• Design of State Retentive Flip-Flops
  ...ting is a well-established method to save power in circuit parts currently not in use in a system on chip (SoC). In contrast to clock gating, where the cl ...rator with no relevant information to be retained between two calls, it is not acceptable for an entire processor core idling, for example while waiting f
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• Standard Cell Compatible Memory Array Design
  ...hat this project can deliver the most efficient ''small memory'' generator available to us, and beat the performance of what we can achieve with standard SRAM g * Familiarity with transistor level design is a plus, but is not necessary (i.e AIC)
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• Learning Image Decompression with Convolutional Networks
  ...ce aspect of this application is that the usually limited training data is not an issue, since randomly acquired images our the internet can be used to tr ===Status: {Available, Reserved, In Progress, Completed}===
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• Internet of Things Network Synchronizer
  ...vel lies above the noise level (10 dB SNR or higher). Lower SNR ranges are not interesting for normal communication. With the introduction of EC-GSM-IoT, ...um time to synchronize (successfully decode EC-SCH data) is 2 s. This does not mean that requirements R1a and R1b need to be met after 2 s, it only means
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• Covariant Feature Detector on Parallel Ultra Low Power Architecture
  ...]] [[Category:Software]] [[Category:Digital]] [[Category:PULP]] [[Category:Available]] [[Category:Semester Thesis]] [[Category:Dpalossi]] The goal of the project is not only to achieve good performance in term of execution time, but also to fin
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• Bateryless Heart Rate Monitoring
  ...city. In some cases, due to very restrictive form factors, batteries might not even be a design option. In these scenarios, small energy harvesters can be ===Status: Available ===
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• Change-based Evaluation of Convolutional Neural Networks
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary) * two not-yet-published papers by our group on acceleration of ConvNets
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• Rethinking our Convolutional Network Accelerator Architecture
  ===Status: Not Available=== [[Category:Digital]] [[Category:FPGA]] [[Category:ASIC]] [[Category:Not available]] [[Category:Semester Thesis]] [[Category:Master Thesis]]
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• Design of a VLIW processor architecture based on RISC-V
  ...e cores are based on an in-order, 4 stage 32b pipeline. However, RISC-V is not only proposing 32b instructions, but also 16b(so-called compressed instruct
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• Minimal Cost RISC-V core
  A simple micro-controller on the other hand, does not need the full support of all the extensions. Instead minimal hardware costs
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• Matthias Korb
  ==Available Projects== category = Available
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• Fast Wakeup From Deep Sleep State
  Most of the applications do not need an always-on system and often implement aggressive duty cycling to min ===Status: Available ===
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• Implementation of a NB-IoT Positioning System
  ...mpletely fails. Furthermore, GNSS receivers are very power-hungry which is not suitable for most of IoT applications. The 3GPP consortium responds to this ...orithm. The next task will be the integration of the UE algorithm into the available NB-IoT-baseband implementation. This step includes a hardware-software co-d
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• Design of a Fused Multiply Add Floating Point Unit
  ...gy efficient implementation because ''floating point'' (FP)-operations are not always used which means they remain idle for lots of cycles. Sharing FPUs ===Status: Available ===
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• PULPonFPGA: Lightweight Virtual Memory Support - Page Table Walker
  : Experience with Linux kernel-level driver development is of advantage, but not strictly required. [[Category:Available]]
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• PULPonFPGA: Lightweight Virtual Memory Support - Physically Contiguous Memory
  ===Status: Not Available === ...development and GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) hacking is of advantage, but not strictly required.
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• Self-Learning Drones based on Neural Networks
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary)
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• Towards The Integration of E-skin into Prosthetic Devices
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• A Wearable System To Control Phone And Electronic Device Without Hands
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Passive and Self Sustaining Receivers For On and Intra Body Communication For Wearable Sensors Networks
  ...devices are using today a Bluetooth interface to communicate, but this is not the optimal solution as also the new generation of low energy bluetooth are ===Status: Available ===
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• LightProbe - Frontend Firmware and Control Side Channel
  ...orms, which are later emitted into the tissue for imaging. The special ADC not only converts the received echos from the analog domain into the digital do Configuring and controlling such a frontend properly is not a trivial task.
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• Learning Image Compression with Convolutional Networks
  ...ce aspect of this application is that the usually limited training data is not an issue, since randomly acquired images our the internet can be used to tr ===Status: {Available, Reserved, In Progress, Completed}===
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• Bringing XNOR-nets (ConvNets) to Silicon
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary) [[Category:Available]]
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• Linux Driver for fine-grain and low overhead access to on-chip performance counters
  [[Category:Software]] [[Category:Available]] [[Category:Hot]] [[Category:Semester Thesis]] [[Category:2016]] [[Categor ...ethods. However, this is only used to interface with external monitors and not with the internal per-core architectural performance counters.
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• Ultra Low-Power Oscillator
  ...often achieved by heavy duty-cycling of operation, i.e. everything that is not needed for a particular operating state is switched off. This puts a big pr ===Status: Available ===
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• High performance continous-time Delta-Sigma ADC for biomedical applications
  ...ome small and wearable with the requirement of low power consumption while not degrading performance. As the frequency range of physiological signals is l [[Category:Available]]
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• High performance continuous-time Delta-Sigma ADC for magnetic resonance imaging
  ...nuous-time, RC based structures, because they offer implicit filtering, do not need as much buffering in front and can be realized with less power consump [[Category:Available]]
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• Radio Signal Direction Detection For Smart Glasses For Augmented Reality Applications
  is resource intensive and may not work indoor. An innovative approach theoretically, does not necessitate of the same amount of data and
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• High Power Efficient Digitally Controlled Oscillator Design for Cellular IOT
  ...wer) is getting stronger than ever. Locating at the heart of PLL, VCO does not only determine the phase noise performance of PLL (especially far out part) [[Category:Available]]
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• Nanoscale Hybrid III-V Plasmonic Laser for Low-Power Photonic ICs
  ..., optics and numerical simulation. Knowledge with plasmonics is a plus but not required. [[Category:Available]]
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• Interfacing PULP with a Brain-Inspired Ultra-Low Power Spiking Cochlea
  ...l have to be interfaced with the PULP interface subsystem using one of the available sensor interfaces, e.g. SPI or I2S. The bulk of the project will therefore If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t
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• LightProbe - Implementation of compressed-sensing algorithms
  ...important diagnostic procedures in modern medicine. Being non-invasive and not emitting any potentially harmful radiation (like X-Rays), ===Status: Available ===
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• LightProbe - Thermal-Power aware on-head Beamforming
  ...ct with human skin. Thus it must be able to throttle it's performance when not needed, e.g. , a 30 fps image is sufficient to find the right placement of ===Status: Available ===
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• Deep Learning Projects
  ...data contexts than, for instance, support vector machines (SVMs). DNNs do not use branching instructions, making them predictable programs and allowing t ...nimize the number of effective arithmetic operations (i.e., the operations not involving zero-valued operands, which must be actually executed). '''Hardwa
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• Deep-Learning Based Phoneme Recognition from a Ultra-Low Power Spiking Cochlea
  If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t ===Status: Available ===
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• Single-Bit-Synapse Spiking Neural System-on-Chip
  If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t ===Status: Available ===
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• Tiny CNNs for Ultra-Efficient Object Detection on PULP
  ...NNs with object detection accuracy results in the order of the best models available have recently been proposed [Iandola2016] that would be a good match for th ...[[http://asic.ethz.ch/2015/Fulmine.html]]) board and an attached camera is available. The project will consist of several subtasks:
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• PULP-Shield for Autonomous UAV
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary) [[Category:Available]]
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• Convolution Neural Networks on our Ultra-Low Power Mult-Core Plattform PULP
  ...pplication development on the newest PULP architecture, even though it may not be taped-out yet (in real). ===Status: Available ===
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• Smart Wearable System For Vital Sign Monitoring Exploiting On Board and Cloud Machine Learning
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• VLSI Implementation Polar Decoder using High Level Synthesis
  ...n using high-level synthesis. Such a high-level synthesis design flow does not only reduce the design time itself, it also allows for an architectural des ===Status: Available ===
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• Energy-Efficient Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing
  ...identically distributed components and holographically distributed (i.e., not microcoded). Hypervectors can use various coding: dense or sparse, bipolar [[Category:Available]]
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• Autoencoder Accelerator for On-Chip Semi-Supervised Learning
  ...not really desirable. E.g. for autonomous IoT systems or data which should not be sent to a server for security or privacy reason (e.g. Siri could be trai ===Status: Available ===
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• Hardware Accelerators for Lossless Quantized Deep Neural Networks
  ...ework for the development of cluster-coupled processing engines is already available and in use for the XNOR Neural Engine (XNE), a coprocessor for binarized ne If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t
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• Low-Energy Cluster-Coupled Vector Coprocessor for Special-Purpose PULP Acceleration
  ...e design''. The design should be a base to build specialized accelerators, not a fully autonomous core. The base core should include mostly the instructio * ''Design for minimum energy''. This particular coprocessor will be designed not to maximize performance, but to minimize energy spent on highly data-parall
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• Embedded Audio Source Localization Exploiting Coincidence Detection in Asynchronous Spike Streams
  Since the burst transmission is not easily predictable, both the algorithm and the power management policy of t If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t
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• A computational memory unit using phase-change memory devices
  ...r knowledge on emerging memory technologies such as phase-change memory is not necessary. ===Status: Available ===
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• Variable Bit Precision Logic for Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t ===Status: Available ===
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• Trace Debugger for custom RISC-V Core
  ...Moreover external debug solutions are obtrusive in the sense that they do not resemble the actual execution flow but break it into smaller pieces like ha ...ifficulty in developing a trace debugger relies on the fact that it should not have any impact on the maximum achievable clock speed of the processor. Ano
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• Creating a HDMI Video Interface for PULP
  ...narrow power envelope to various IoT devices. Many of the applications are not only meant for machine-machine interfacing but also aim at directly interfa [[Category:Available]]
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• Smart Virtual Memory Sharing
  While heterogeneously shared virtual memory (SVM) is still not a high-end, high-performance GPGPUs, it is probably not affordable for PMCAs
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• Autonomous Sensors For Underwater Monitoring In Smart Navy Systems
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• High Speed FPGA Trigger Logic for Particle Physics Experiments
  ...based on multiple inputs decides if it issues a signal for data taking or not). The Xilinx AC701 Development Board in combination with a recently designe ===Status: Available ===
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• Satellite Internet of Things
  ...verage features, truely world-wide coverage using those technologies would not be viable from an economical point of view. Satellite-borne communication s ===Status: Available ===
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• HERO: TLB Invalidation
  The entries of the TLB itself, however, are not coherent with the host memory. [[Category:Available]]
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• Interference Cancellation for the cellular Internet of Things
  ...e upgrade. The mobile station, however, requires a redesign. The latter is not only due to changes in the protocol but also due to new and more stringed p
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• Deep Convolutional Autoencoder for iEEG Signals
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary) [[Category:Available]]
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• Heterogeneous SoCs
  ...r|Uniting many ICs in a single one: Heterogeneous integration has allowed (not only) Apple to get high computing performance under tight power constraints ==Available Projects==
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• Event-Driven Computing
  ...mine whether it is worth to run expensive computations or whether there is not enough activity in the environment. This approach is called event-driven co ===Available Projects===
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• Predictable Execution
  ...heir specified deadline. Because of this, such architectures are currently not used in real-time critical applications, such as self-driving cars, even th ===Available Projects===
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• Low Power Embedded Systems
  (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate) ...ing (C/C++, preferably microcontroller with Bluetooth Low Energy but it is not mandatory)
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• Embedded Systems and autonomous UAVs
  ...n new insights by batch-processing and off-line analysis. However, this is not sufficient: in-situ real-time feature extraction, analysis, classification, ...en in a more global context. However, neural networks approaches are still not suitable for wearable, ultra-miniaturized IoT devices, because, in their cu
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• Energy Efficient Autonomous UAVs
  ...the computational load required to implement the UAV cognitive skills does not vary with the vehicle size, and will thus constitute an increasingly larger ...lly demanding. Furthermore, while SLAM can be used for perception, it does not solve the challenging issue of inferring the control commands from the 3D m
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• Aliasing-Free Wavetable Music Synthesizer
  ...ore, it is practically challenging to design wavetable oscillators that do not produce aliasing artifacts, especially if the oscillator signals are played ===Status: Available ===
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• Modular Frequency-Modulation (FM) Music Synthesizer
  ===Status: Available === : VLSI 2 (recommended but not mandatory)
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• Hyperdimensional Computing
  ...identically distributed components and holographically distributed (i.e., not microcoded). Hypervectors can use various coding: dense or sparse, bipolar =Available Projects=
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• Integrated Information Processing
  ...RF) chains. Such RF chains are extremely accurate sensors that can be used not only for high-rate data transmission but also for sensing. The projects in =Available Projects=
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• Neural Network Algorithms and Interfaces with Accelerators for Embedded Platforms with Real World Applications
  ...ounts of time are available. For most applications these prerequisites are not given, and it is important to achieve good predictive results for models th ...(IoT) applications. It is an open source platform and it comes with an SDK available on GitHub (https://github.com/pulp-platform/pulp-sdk).
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• CMOS power amplifier for field measurements in MRI systems
  ...chnique relies on a homogeneous static magnetic field in the bore which is not the case in reality. When the exact field strength is known this informatio ===Status: Available ===
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• Low Power Geolocalization And Indoor Localization
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Low Power One bit Microphone for Acoustic Imaging Using A Parallel Processor
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Wake Up Radio For Energy Efficient Communication System and IC Design
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Zero Power Touch Sensor and Reciever For Body Communication
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• A Waypoint-based Navigation System for Nano-Size UAVs in GPS-denied Environments
  ...]] [[Category:Software]] [[Category:Digital]] [[Category:PULP]] [[Category:Available]] [[Category:Master Thesis]] [[Category:Dpalossi]] ===Status: Available ===
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• Monocular Vision-based Object Following on Nano-size Robotic Blimp
  ...]] [[Category:Software]] [[Category:Digital]] [[Category:PULP]] [[Category:Available]] [[Category:Master Thesis]] [[Category:Semester Thesis]] [[Category:Dpalos ===Status: Available ===
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• Towards Autonomous Navigation for Nano-Blimps
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary) [[Category:Available]]
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• Study and Development of Intelligent Capability for Small-Size UAVs
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary) [[Category:Available]]
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• Towards Self-Sustainable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  ...gnificantly less power for horizontal propulsion. Furthermore, a blimp’s available surface area on the balloon. This can be exploited ...bring it as close as possible to self-sustainability. Using a commercially available platform [1], the student will make all
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• Real-Time ECG Contractions Classification
  Similarly, drifting over time of ECG parameters may not be noticed with normal ECG acquisitions, as the time scale is very short. ...by the patient, but by which are known to anticipated important disease if not timely cured [1]. Given the constrained conditions under which we operate,
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• Digital Audio Interface for Smart Intensive Computing Triggering
  If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t [[Category:Available]]
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• Predictable Execution on GPU Caches
  ...nabling the use of heterogeneous platforms in safety-critical systems does not only offer a major increase in performance, but also promises an increase i ...tem at one point in time. To avoid stalling the program when the system is not permitting memory accesses from the program in question, the memory phase i
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• Freedom from Interference in Heterogeneous COTS SoCs
  ...nabling the use of heterogeneous platforms in safety-critical systems does not only offer a major increase in performance, but also promises an increase i [[Category:Available]]
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• Engineering For Kids
  ===Status: Available === : Experience with hardware design and embedded software is advantageous, but not mandatory
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• Improving Cold-Start in Batteryless And Energy Harvesting Systems
  (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate) ...less communication, and circuit design at a components level (IC design is NOT involved)
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• OTDOA Positioning for LTE Cat-M
  ...mpletely fails. Furthermore, GNSS receivers are very power-hungry which is not suitable for most of IoT applications. The 3GPP consortium responded to thi ...tware and dedicated hardware implementation. Ideally the resources already available on the platform should be used but if needed dedicated hardware blocks can
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• Design and Implementation of a multi-mode multi-master I2C peripheral
  So far, this feature is only available in the commercial RF-SoC and not in the chips that we designed ourselves, rendering many low-level system ma ===Status: Available ===
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• An Industrial-grade Bluetooth LE Mesh Network Solution
  ...tency when transmitting critical control messages (e.g. on/off switch) has not been addressed specifically in SIGmesh. ===Status: Available ===
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• Embedded Artificial Intelligence:Systems And Applications
  ...n new insights by batch-processing and off-line analysis. However, this is not sufficient: in-situ real-time feature extraction, analysis, classification, ...en in a more global context. However, neural networks approaches are still not suitable for wearable, ultra-miniaturized IoT devices, because, in their cu
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• Contextual Intelligence on Resource-constraint Bluetooth LE IoT Devices
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Low Power Embedded Systems and Wireless Sensors Networks
  (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate) ...ing (C/C++, preferably microcontroller with Bluetooth Low Energy but it is not mandatory)
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• Embedded Gesture Recognition Using Novel Mini Radar Sensors
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Design of Scalable Event-driven Neural-Recording Digital Interface
  The human activity can be extracted invasively or not. Invasive methods can be used to sense: the extracellular single neuron act ...omputer only portion of the signal that contains the actual seizure and do not send anything when the brain acts normally.
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• LightProbe - 200G Remote DMA for GPU FPGA Data Transfers
  ...processing architectures are used today. However, these architectures are not very flexible to program, which makes it time-consuming and costly to bring ...data from the ultrasound frontend (connected over PCIe) into to the GPU is not trivial:
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• Ternary Weights Engine For Efficient Many Channels Spike Sorting Applications
  ...d processing of those signals, since standard spike sorting approaches can not efficiently employed anymore. ...et implantable applications (e.g. Brain Machine Interfaces), therefore the available power budget allocated for the algorithm execution is highly constrained by
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• Human Intranet
  =Available Projects= ...the projects can be adapted based on your interests and skills. Please do not hesitate to come and talk to us for more details.
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• Low Latency Brain-Machine Interfaces
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary) [[Category:Available]]
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• A Wearable Wireless Kidney Function Monitoring System For BioMedical Applications
  ...for bacteriuria. Approximately one-third of urinary catheters are applied not in the context of enabling the release of urine, but instead, are used to m ===Status: Available ===
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• Indoor Smart Tracking of Hospital instrumentation
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Wireless Sensing With Long Range Comminication (LoRa)
  ...ions, assuming that only the calculated key information is transferred and not the image. The sensor is meant to run battery supplied and make clever use ===Status: Available ===
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• Optogenetics And Game Theory Applied To Small Side Bird Using Smart Sensing
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Students' Interanational Competitions: F1(AMZ), Swissloop, Educational Rockets
  (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate) ===Available Projects===
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• AMZ Driverless Competition Embedded Systems Projects
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Students' International Competitions: F1(AMZ), Swissloop, Educational Rockets
  (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate) ===Available Projects===
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• Edge Computing for Long-Term Wearable Biomedical Systems
  ...ata and potentially useful information. However, the data by themselves do not provide value unless we can turn them into actionable, contextualized infor ===Status: Available ===
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• IBM Research
  [[Category:Available]] ...es and architectures to algorithms and applications. <!--Here is a list of available projects:
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• FPGA Optimizations of Dense Binary Hyperdimensional Computing
  ...computing the composite hypervectors whose individual seed hypervectors do not need to be stored in memory. (2) Bundling a series of hypervectors over tim
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• Design and Evaluation of a Small Size Avalanche Beacon
  ...and, have a profound understanding of how avalanches form. However, it’s not possible yet to predict precisely why, when, and where an avalanche will be (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Outdoor Precision Object Tracking for Rockfall Experiments
  ..., mountain slopes, high humidity etc.) The investigation will include, but not limited to, promising radio frequencies technologies, for instance, Global (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Stand-Alone Edge Computing with GAP8
  (not all need to be met by the single candidate)
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• Multisensory system for performance analysis in ski jumping (M/1-2S/B)
  ...nsors and devices must be tiny and barely perceptible to the athlete so as not to disturb his/her sensitive jumping system. ===Status: Available ===
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• Development Of A Test Bed For Ultrasonic Transducer Characterization (1 S/B)
  ===Status: Available === : Network Theory (helpful but not required)
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• NAND Flash Open Research Platform
  ...t trivial, even when the SSD's firmware image can be obtained, it is still not easy to observe the I/O behavior of the NAND flash. While communication wit [[Category:Available]]
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• A Demonstrator of Non-Synchronized Hyperdimensional Body Area Networks
  <!-- Not active atm [[Category:Digital]][[Category:In progress]][[Category:Available]] [[Category:Semester Thesis]] [[Category:Master Thesis]] [[Category:2019]]
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• Finite Element Simulations of Transistors for Quantum Computing
  ===Status: Available === helpful, but is not required. Similarly, knowledge of C++ parallelization libraries such as MPI
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• Cerebellum: Design of a Programmable Smart-Peripheral for the Ariane Core
  ...r, therefore minimizing the transmitted bandwidth towards the servers does not only help to minimize the traffic and congestions, but it also helps the sm ...-classification on the image to recognize whether the picture is a face or not. In this case, only a small part of the algorithm is needed with respect th
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• Scalable Heterogeneous L1 Memory Interconnect for Smart Accelerator Coupling in Ultra-Low Power Multicores
  If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t ===Status: Available ===
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• Timing Channel Mitigations for RISC-V Cores
  ...e and Meltdown vulnerabilities that publicly surfaced about a year ago did not only severely impact companies and cloud service providers, but also shook [[Category:Available]]
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• Developing a small portable neutron detector for detecting smuggled nuclear material
  ...ng high-pressure gas cylinders) not suitable for hand-held application, or not sufficiently sensitive for real-world use. ...been designed and tested, but the signal processing hardware is currently not small-scale or mobile, and is therefore in need of further development in o
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• Design of an on-field adaptable pulse-processing unit for semicondutor radiation detectors
  ...their use as radiation detectors. Low to medium ionization interaction may not be observable due the noise affecting the device and the spectrometer. Amon ===Status: Available ===
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• LightProbe - 192cha Multiplexer Stage (Rigid-Flex-PCB Project)
  * Microcontroller programming experience is a plus but not required ===Status: Available ===
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• Floating-Point Divide & Square Root Unit for Transprecision
  ...r example, most programmers tend carry out all computations at the maximum available precision - double precision in the case of floating-point (FP)workloads. T ...ivision and sqare-root (DIV/SQRT) unit is currently non-parametrizable and not fully compliant with the IEEE standard for FP arithmetic.
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• LightProbe - CNN-Based-Image-Reconstruction
  (The idea is more concrete, but we do not want to post it publicly here :-) ) ===Status: Available ===
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• Channel Estimation for 5G Cellular IoT and Fast Fading Channels
  ...de-off at very low SNRs and with slow fading channel conditions, but it is not well suited for fast fading channels with Doppler shifts that can be as hig ...luate the different channel estimation algorithms for fast fading channels available in literature. After selecting the candidates that may provide the most pro
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• Subject specific embeddings for transfer learning in brain-computer interfaces
  ===Status: Available === * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary)
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• Experimental Validation of Impact Ionization Models for TCAD Simulation by a Novel Characterization Technique
  Among the available models, the most accepted are the Chynoweth’s law, the Van Overstraeten a ...iased at a voltage quite close to the breakdown. However, this approach is not very accurate, because, in real devices, the breakdown first occurs at smal
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• Implementation of the RISC-V Bit Manipulation (RVB) extensions for our RI5CY core
  ...loped for the PULP project and some are not. Some are missing and some are not present part of the PULP extensions. If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t
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• Heroino: Design of the next CORE-V Microcontroller
  If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t ===Status: Available ===
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• PREM Intervals and Loop Tiling
  ...nabling the use of heterogeneous platforms in safety-critical systems does not only offer a major increase in performance, but also promises an increase i ...tem at one point in time. To avoid stalling the program when the system is not permitting memory accesses from the program in question, the memory phase i
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• Implementation of the RISC-V Bit Manipulation (RVB) extensions for our RISC-V core
  ...loped for the PULP project and some are not. Some are missing and some are not present part of the PULP extensions. If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t
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• Compiler Profiling and Optimizing
  ...nabling the use of heterogeneous platforms in safety-critical systems does not only offer a major increase in performance, but also promises an increase i ...tem at one point in time. To avoid stalling the program when the system is not permitting memory accesses from the program in question, the memory phase i
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• Energy Efficient Smart Devices For Construction Building Maintenance Hilti Collaboration
  ...gy efficiency will be the main topic. Currently the following projects are available for master and/or semester projects (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• PULP in space - Fault Tolerant PULP System for Critical Space Applications
  ...be dynamically added at the cost of performance by reducing the number of available registers. Finally, redundancy techniques can also be applied to the memory ...cy [3] and is now maintained and developed by the [https://www.lowrisc.org not-for-profit company lowRISC C.I.C.]. In contrast to RI5CY, Ibex has a much s
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• Wearable Smart Camera With Deep Learning Algorithms For Automatic Detecion
  (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate) ...less communication, and circuit design at a components level (IC design is NOT involved)
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• Adversarial Attacks Against Deep Neural Networks In Wearable Cameras
  (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate) ===Status: Available ===
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• Neuromorphic Intelligence In An Embedded System in Collaboration with AiCTX
  (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate) ...less communication, and circuit design at a components level (IC design is NOT involved)
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• High-throughput Embedded System For Neurotechnology in collaboration with INI
  (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate) ...less communication, and circuit design at a components level (IC design is NOT involved)
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• Design Of A Biomarker Assay Based On Responsive Magnetic Nanoparticles
  (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate) ...less communication, and circuit design at a components level (IC design is NOT involved)
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• Manycore System on FPGA (M/S/G)
  Semester Thesis: The student is advised, but not required, to write a weekly report at the end of each week and to send it t
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• Hardware Acceleration
  ...ery tight power budget. Without a dedicated accelerator, these tasks would not be feasible. If you are looking for a project and these ideas sound interesting to you, do not hesitate to contact us!
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• Signal Acquisition and Clock Offset Compensation for High-Rate Pulse UWB PHYs
  ...ed from a small coin-cell battery: a technical achievement that was simply not possible a few years ago. ===Status: Available ===
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• Phase-change memory devices for emerging computing paradigms
  An existing device concept and experimental work is available as starting point. The materials used for the devices have been develop ===Status: Available ===
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• Electrothermal characterization of van der Waals Heterostructures with a partial overlap
  respectively. To obtain accurate results and predict the characteristics of not-yet-fabricated structures, DFT and ===Status: Available ===
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• Implementation of Computationally Efficient Scattering Mechanisms for Periodic Devices and 2D Materials
  ===Status: Available === [[Category:Available]]
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• Towards global Brain-Computer Interfaces
  ===Status: Available === * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary)
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• Ara: Update PULP's Vector Processor with the recent RISC-V Vector Extension Development
  Multi-core designs, although highly flexible, do not explore the regularity of regularity of data-parallel applications.
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• Pressure and acoustic Smart Sensors Network for Wind Turbines Monitoring
  ===Status: Available === (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Semi-Custom Digital VLSI for Processing-in-Memory
  ...rate to other technology nodes, due to their analog component, and/or (ii) not applicable today, due to the use of immature semiconductor technology. ...e can reap the benefits from PIM even with technology that is commercially available nowadays.
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• Ibex: FPGA Optimizations
  ...Ibex is actively maintained and developed by the [https://www.lowrisc.org not-for-profit company lowRISC C.I.C.]. Besides making the design fully complia ...g performance monitors. These take up a lot of resources and are currently not mapped efficiently to the FPGA logic.
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• Hyper-Dimensional Computing Based Predictive Maintenance
  If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t [[Category:Available]]
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• Ibex: Bit-Manipulation Extension
  ...Ibex is actively maintained and developed by the [https://www.lowrisc.org not-for-profit company lowRISC C.I.C.]. Besides making the design fully complia ...truction set extensions beyond M and C (E can optionally be enabled but is not beneficial for performance).
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• Contrastive Learning for Self-supervised Clustering of iEEG Data for Epileptic Patients
  ...eizure detection and apply it to contrastive learning. We use the publicly available long-term dataset [2] consisting of a total of 2656 hours iEEG recordings. ===Status: Currently Not Available ===
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• Deep neural networks for seizure detection
  ===Status: Currently Not Available === * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary)
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• Accurate deep learning inference using computational memory
  ...on emerging memory technologies such as phase-change memory is a bonus but not necessary. ===Status: Available ===
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• ASIC Implementation of Jammer Mitigation
  ===Status: Available === : Familiarity with the basics of digital communication is recommended but not strictly required
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• Real-Time Motor-Imagery Classification Using Neuromorphic Processor
  ...rt use still very and a couple of classes motor-imagery and often they are not implemented in a neuromorphic processor, and none of them are presenting a (''not all need to be met'' by the single candidate)
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• Nanoelectrode array biosensors - programmable non-overlapping clocks generator project
  ===Status: Available === * Microcontroller programming experience is a plus but not required
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• BCI-controlled Drone
  ===Status: Available === * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary)
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• Compression of iEEG Data
  ...data from long-term recordings of epileptic patients. We use the publicly available long-term dataset [3] consisting of a total of 2656 hours iEEG recordings. ===Status: Currently Not Available ===
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• Data Augmentation Techniques in Biosignal Classification
  ===Status: Currently Not Available === * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary)
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• Classification of Evoked Local-Field Potentials in Rat Barrel Cortex using Hyper-dimensional Computing
  ===Status: Currently Not Available === [[Category:Available]]
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• RISC-V based Implementation of Secure Ranging According to IEEE 802.15.4z UWB
  ...ed from a small coin-cell battery: a technical achievement that was simply not possible a few years ago. ...between the hardware and the software. If a good instruction set was open, available for use by all, it should dramatically reduce the cost of software by permi
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• An all Standard-Cell Based Energy Efficient HW Accelerator for DSP and Deep Learning Applications
  ...nm multi-project-waver (MPW) run, which will give you practical experience not only in frontend- but also backend-design. If you want to work on this project, but you think that you do not match some the required skills, we can give you some preliminary exercise t
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• Memory Augmented Neural Networks in Brain-Computer Interfaces
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary) [[Category:Available]]
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• Combining Spiking Neural Networks with Hyperdimensional Computing for Autonomous Navigation
  ...driven cameras. You start by applying an already given SNN on the publicly available MVSEC dataset [3], and later extend it with an HDC regressor. ===Status: Available ===
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• High Performance SoCs
  ...erformant and usually offer predetermined data movement. However, they are not or barely programmable, inflexible, and monolithic in their design. ...o you, consider joining us for a project or thesis! You can find currently available projects and our contact information below.
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• A Flexible Peripheral System for High-Performance Systems on Chip (M)
  Although our idea works well in theory, we have not implemented any peripherals or a demonstrator system yet. If we had such a
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• A Snitch-based Compute Accelerator for HERO (M/1-2S)
  ...izing its configuration and connection to the ARM Host with respect to the available fabric resources. The student is advised, but not required, to a write a weekly report at the end of each week and to send it
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• Hardware Constrained Neural Architechture Search
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary) [[Category:Available]]
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• Visualization of Neural Architecture Search Spaces
  ...ory:Hot]][[Category:Thoriri]][[Category:Deep Learning Projects]][[Category:Available]] ...lect a subspace (e.g., all the networks whose peak memory utilization does not exceed threshold X)
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• Knowledge Distillation for Embedded Machine Learning
  The main goals (not all have to be met in a single semester project) of the project are: ===Status: Available ===
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• Software-Defined Paging in the Snitch Cluster (2-3S)
  ...replaced; this is fine for most double-buffered data movement schemes, but not ideal for other applications. ...ests a missing page, the '''scratchpad blocks the access until the page is available'''; the necessary page replacement be done fully in software on the DMA cor
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• SSR combined with FREP in LLVM/Clang (M/1-3S)
  ...k can be done directly by the compiler, such that leveraging SSR/FREP does not require manual assembly, but “only” adherence to a specific “loop cod
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• PREM Runtime Scheduling Policies
  ...ed before their respective ''deadlines''. To ensure that the deadlines are not violated, real-time systems are designed in accordance with their Worst-Cas ===Status: Available===
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• Multi issue OoO Ariane Backend (M)
  ...superscalar. A second performance improvement can come from the fact that not all instructions depend on each other. Clever architecture can issue indepe
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• Minimum Variance Beamforming for Wearable Ultrasound Probes
  ...f the acquired ultrasound images. Standard beamforming techniques are thus not well suited to obtain higher image qualities.
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• IP-Based SoC Generation and Configuration (1-3S/B)
  [[Category:Available]] * Experience with software development (''not'' only ML) in Python
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• Physical Implementation of MemPool, PULP's Manycore System (1M/1-2S)
  We do not know how many of such tiles we can instantiate before degrading timing or l The naming conventions we follow in the PULP project are available [https://github.com/pulp-platform/style-guidelines here].
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• Feature Extraction and Architecture Clustering for Keyword Spotting (1S)
  ...ffort within the processing pipeline. Nonetheless, such techniques should not affect the integrity of the data; the extracted features should still accu ...e recent years, it was shown that state-of-the-art results can be achieved not only by using the MFCCs, but also by employing the results of an intermedia
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• Self-Supervised User Positioning in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
  ...y used to provide this kind of information. However, the base station does not have access to GNSS information and satellite-based localization is unrelia ...ese methods have been proposed for conventional cellular wireless systems, not much is known about their efficacy for cell-free wireless networks, which c
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• MemPool on HERO (1S)
  ...at ETH Zurich, called Snitch [5]. In contrast to CV32E40P, Snitchcores do not implement any domain-specific instruction, making them much smaller and all ...del, MemPool GitLab Repository, 2020 (accessed August 18, 2020). [Online]. Available: https://iis-git.ee.ethz.ch/mempool/mempool
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• An RPC DRAM Implementation for Energy-Efficient ASICs (1-2S)
  ...ons increasingly require more memory, but we only have little silicon area available for on-chip memory. Using off-chip memory alleviates this discrepancy by pr ...s: there are currently three different packaging options, including WLCSP, available]]
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• ISA extensions in the Snitch Processor for Signal Processing (M)
  ...ISCV_P|8]]]. The set of instructions that should be added to the system is not fixed, but the student should implement and evaluate different image proces ...e, the focus lies on the interface between Snitch and the co-processor and not on optimizing the co-processors functional unit.
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• Practical Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)
  ...terms of energy efficiency. A design focused on this purpose is developed not only for the transmit power allocation but also for the phase shifts of the ===Status: Not available ===
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• Biomedical Circuits, Systems, and Applications
  ...lated parameters in innovative ways. Example applications include (but are not limited to): heart rate and respiration rate monitoring, blood pressure mon Example devices include (but are not limited to): smart patches, smart glasses, smart earbuds, ...
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• Quest for the smallest Turing-complete core (2-3G)
  ...ications. Ad-hoc and synthetic examples, like a simple shift register, are not complex enough and frankly just boring whereas fully-developed IPs, like a
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• Design-Space Exploration of Low-Resolution Matrix-Vector Multipliers
  ...explore processing-in-memory approaches as well. Part of the objective is not only to identify the regimes in which each matrix-vector-product architectu ===Status: Available ===
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• Low-Resolution 5G Beamforming Codebook Design
  ...significantly improves the communication data-rates. The same idea applies not only for transmission of data, but also for reception: By adequately combin ===Status: Available ===
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