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  ==Selected Projects in Progress== ''For a complete list, see [[:Category:In progress|Projects in Progress]].''
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• Ultra-low power processor design
  In this project, you will contribute to a new and exciting project at the IIS ...ded systems. The goal is to achieve a computing platform which is superior in energy efficiency.
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• Project Meetings
  ...ssistants schedule. These meetings will be used to evaluate the status and progress of the project. Beside these regular meetings, additional meetings can be o
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• Variability Tolerant Ultra Low Power Cluster
  shared-memory cluster realized in 28nm SOI technology. In this project, you By doing this project, you will gain experience in designing strategies for
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• Template
  ===Status: In Progress === [[Category:In progress]]
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• Efficient Digital Signal Processing in High-Channel-Count High-Frame-Rate 3D Ultrasound Imaging Systems
  ...cial challenge pose the high-speed output pin drivers. In case of interest in analog design, investigations and a dedicated layout implementation are wel ...turization allows the physician to carry a small ultrasound imaging device in his pocket which can be used anytime with the same naturalness as the iconi
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• Norbert Felber
  == Projects in Progress== category = In progress
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• Flexible Electronic Systems and Embedded Epidermal Devices
  ...ned closely to or even attached to the human body (as epidermal devices). In addition, and through the integration of '''digital electronic components,' ...ignal stack, as well as interface challenges at all levels of integration. In addition, advanced and specialized manufacturing techniques are required fo
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• Adaptively Controlled Polarization And Hysteresis Curve Tracing For Polymer Piezoelectrics (1 S/B)
  ...ial by reorienting the crystal structure and aligning the electric dipoles in the direction of the electric field. ...electric field. The '''frequency response''' of the applied signal results in a '''hysteresis-shaped curve that is used to evaluate the piezoelectric pro
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• Weekly Reports
  ...rojects. It is therefore important to update the rest of the group of your progress regularly. One way for such updates are posting weekly reports.if you are w ...in the email, and makes it difficult to link responses to specific points in your email.
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• Bandwidth Extension with Carrier Aggregation for Mobile Gigabit-Communication
  ...rove the performance of this parallel bank of ADCs both in the digital and in the analog domain. : Interest in mobile communications
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• Digital Transmitter for Mobile Communications
  ...ver a high-speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) transmitter will be realized in VHDL during this thesis. The transmitter takes the raw data and takes care of putting it in a TD-HSPA compliant frame structure, applies the error correction coding an
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• 3D Turbo Decoder ASIC Realization
  ...plementation. After the back-end design, the final ASIC will be fabricated in high-end CMOS technology. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Channel Estimation and Equalization for LTE Advanced
  ...mator and equalizer for LTE Advanced. You will compare existing algorithms in MATLAB and come up with an efficient solution suitable for hardware impleme ...rform the back-end design such that the resulting chip can be manufactured in high-end CMOS technology. During this thesis you will get an insight into t
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• ASIC Implementation of High-Throughput Next Generation Turbo Decoders
  ...s even further. In this project you will implement a proof-of-concept chip in VHDL, to demonstrate the efficiency of the new architectures. To that end, ...from more theoretical/simulation based projects to the VLSI implementation in form of chip design projects.
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• Reconfigurability of SHA-3 candidates
  In December 2010, the 5 finalists of the SHA-3 competition were announced. The : Interest in Cryptography
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• Power Optimization in Multipliers
  [[File:Power Optimization in Multipliers.jpg|thumb|160px]] ...lemented with standard-cells and that can be automated in order to be used in a synthesis-based flow.
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• Low-power chip-to-chip communication network
  In this work, we will assume that we have already an efficient serial interfac ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Accelerators for object detection and tracking
  shared-memory cluster realized in 28nm SOI technology. One of the applications for this system is in real-time video applications, expecially
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• Hardware Accelerated Derivative Pricing
  other financial institutions invest heavily in grid computing for them in a Monte-Carlo framework for option pricing. A Matlab framework
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• Analog Layout Engine
  ...rogramming languages to automatically generate parametrized cells (PCELLS) in Cadence. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Successive Approximation Register (SAR) ADC
  ===Status: In Progress === [[Category:In progress]]
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• Assessment of novel photovoltaic architectures by circuit simulation
  ...fy some of the simulation results experimentally. An extension of the work in form of a master thesis or lab assistant is possible. : Interest in circuit simulation
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• Processing of 3D Micro-tomography data for Lithium Ion Batteries
  ...mulations on the already obtained data. The student should have experience in computer programming (preferentially image processing or distributed comput ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Developing High Efficiency Batteries for Electric Cars
  ...project is a collaboration with MIT and a battery start-up company located in Cambridge, MA. You will carry out your work at the Integrated Systems Labor : Interest in 3D Modelling
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• Simulation of Li-ion batteries and comparison with experimental data
  ...e capacity of batteries is becoming a critical issue in our modern society in order to fully exploit the potential of renewable energies such as wind or : Interest in Device Modelling
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• Ab-initio Simulation of Strained Thermoelectric Materials
  ...e3, PbTe, or PbSe. If ZT>2 values are obtained, the work will be published in a journal paper. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Implementation of a 2-D model for Li-ion batteries
  Standard 1-D simulation models, as popularized in the mid 90's, are computationally very efficient to fulfill this task, but ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Putting Together What Fits Together - GrÆStl
  ...and hash algorithms are two of the most important cryptographic primitives in security protocols. ...alists of the NIST SHA-3 hash competition, which presented its winner late in 2012.
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• High-Throughput Authenticated Encryption Architectures based on Block Ciphers
  In order to fulfill today’s high-throughput requirements in secure environments with data rates beyond 100 Gbit/s, so-called authentica ...e of operation (GCM-AES) represents a de-facto standard in the literature. In this project we investigate potential high-speed alternatives to GCM- AES b
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• A Multiview Synthesis Core in 65 nm CMOS
  ...9) renders content creation an increasingly difficult process, and results in higher transmission bandwith and storage requirements. Moreover, the number The ASIC developed in this project implements an image domain warping (IDW) based rendering stage
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• Feature Extraction with Binarized Descriptors: ASIC Implementation and FPGA Environment
  ...ll image patches around those interest points are extracted and normalized in size. Third, feature descriptors are calculated from those normalized patch ...nses are thresholded in order to yield a binary descriptor, which is small in size and can be matched very efficiently using the Hamming distance.
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• Compressed Sensing Reconstruction on FPGA
  ...rithms were found to benefit strongly from parallel processing. Challenges in the design were parallel memory access to provide input for all multipliers ...RTL implementations of the two similar algorithms allowed for comparisons in terms of resource usage and performance. We could show which algorithm perf
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• Pirmin Vogel
  ...from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. During his Ph.D. his research focus was on dig ...ombination of skills, expertise and vision. Since Nov 2019, Pirmin is back in the Integrated Systems Laboratory where he is working for lowRISC.
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• Image Sensor Interface and Pre-processing
  ...o access data from the image sensors. The main part of the project will be in designing the pre-processing stage which will perform a set of filtering an : Interest in video processing and machine learning
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• Digitally-Controlled Analog Subtractive Sound Synthesis
  ...th popular synthesizers from Moog Music, Sequential, ARP Instruments, etc. In recent years, building such music synthesizers became accessible and afford ...oftware must be developed in order to control the synthesizer's parameters in real-time.
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• IcySoC
  ...of the integrated circuit design using reliable transistors, particularly in Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology. However, semicon ...rch and data mining, lend themselves readily for such a design philosophy. In fact, all of which can tolerate inaccuracies to varying extents or can synt
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• A Wireless Sensor Network for a Smart LED Lighting control
  ...ghting control can be made based on the light intensity and human presence in the monitored area sensed by light sensors and motion sensors. This approac ...e students. Measurements of the system will be performed from the students in order to evaluate power consumption reduction, reliability, functionality a
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• Accelerator for Spatio-Temporal Video Filtering
  large optimization problems in real-time is difficult and sometimes even unfeasible. However, the mathemat ...r filtering in the spatial and temporal domain. These filters scale better in terms of computational complexity than the corresponding optimization probl
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• Sandro Belfanti
  ...ical engineering and information technology from ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in 2011. Since then he is pursuing There are several projects currently available, which are listed in this section. Most of them can be adapted to a Masters or a Semester thesis
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• Praxisgerechte Berechnung von Switching Noise in VLSI-Schaltungen
  [[Category:In progress]]
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• Wiederverwendung (reuse) ganzer Funktionsblöcke beim VLSI-Entwurf
  ...dingten Sachzwängen (Timing, Latenz, Protokoll, Interface, Taktung, usw.) in einer elektronischen Schaltung steht diesem Bedürfnis im Wege. Ausgehend v [[Category:In progress]]
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• Glitches Reduce Listening Time of Your iPod
  [[File:Power Optimization in Multipliers.jpg|thumb]] ...and to investigate various glitch reduction techniques for their efficency in reducing glitching power and suitability for incorporation into an automati
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• Hybrid Analog/Digital Leveling Loop for Very-Low-Distortion Oscillator
  : Interest in high-performance mixed signal circuit design; : Background in hardware design and low-level sofware implementation (e.g. VHDL or assemble
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• Audio DAC Conversion Jitter Measurement System
  : Interest in high-performance mixed signal circuit design : Experience in analog circuit design beneficial
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• Improving Scene Labeling with Hyperspectral Data
  ...very interesting opportunities to outperform even the best-trained humans; in fact you can see it as a step towards spectroscopic analysis of materials. ...YPERSPECTRAL%20SNAPSHOT%20MOSAIC%20IMAGER%2020150421.pdf pdf]] and adopted in first industrial computer vision cameras [[http://www.ximea.com/files/broch
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• Design and Implementation of Digital Spiking Neurons for Ultra-Low-Power In-Cluster Coprocessors
  Current interest in brain-inspired and neuromorphic computer architectures is enormous, due to ...u will integrate the complete accelerator inside the PULP platform (either in the simulation platform or the FPGA emulation platform).
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• High-Throughput Hardware Implementations of Authenticated Encryption Algorithms
  These days, security breaches are omnipresent in our daily news thanks to the NSA and others. Therefore, new cryptographic a ...ikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard AES]. If you are interested in working on hardware implementations of state-of-the-art security algorithms
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• Android Software Design
  ...th improved display, signal processing for, e.g., heart-beat rate read-out in an ECG is desirable. The software should further include a GUI for the conf ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Investigation of the source starvation effect in III-V MOSFET
  ...ion model capable of capturing the distribution of the electron population in the source contact of III-V MOSFETs and of determining whether or not sourc : Interest in device modeling
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• Full-band simulations of InP/GaAsSb/InP Double Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (DHBTs)
  ...mulator what happens if the GaAsSb/InP junction contains atomic roughness. In this case, momentum conservation is broken and L-valley electrons might eve : Interest in device modeling
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• Design study of tunneling transistors based on a core/shell nanowire structures
  ...could provide better performance than standard ones. The key idea consists in using a core/shell nanowire structure where the core and the shell have dif : Interest in device modeling
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• Computation of Phonon Bandstructure in III-V Nanostructures
  [[File:Computation of Phonon Bandstructure in III-V Nanostructures.png|280px|thumb]] ...ld's summation method in bulk structures, it is not clear how to handle it in nanostructures without too much increasing the computational burden.
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• Simulation of Negative Capacitance Ferroelectric Transistor
  ...ring ON-OFF switching processes. In FETs, the major difficulty to overcome in order to minimize their power consumption is the value of their inverse sub ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Investigation of Redox Processes in CBRAM
  ...a large number of different metal/oxide pairs so that their applicability in CBRAM applications can be validated. ...developed an electrochemical model in COMSOL to simulate ON/OFF switching in CBRAM. So far, the model still depends on a number of free input parameters
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• Investigation of Metal Diffusion in Oxides for CBRAM Applications
  ...umber of metal/oxide pairs and analyze them regarding their applicability in CBRAM applications ...group has developed a model in COMSOL to simulate ON/OFF switching in CBRAM. So far, the model depends on a number of free input parameters, amon
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• Development of an efficient algorithm for quantum transport codes
  :Good knowledge in solid state physics and quantum mechanics ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Integrated silicon photonic structures
  physical effect available in integrated photonics circuits has been a scientific and internship project is placed in the heart of our R&D activities and covers topics related
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• Analysis and Design of Power Efficient RF/ mm-Wave LC-tank Oscillator in 28nm for 5G communication applications
  ...ch means the high purity frequency carriers are required to be synthesized in the range from 15 GHz to even 60 GHz. ...lution (PLL), VCO is the key part of the whole frequency solution since it in general consumes 70% to even 80% of the full power budget of a PLL as well
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• A Unified-Multiplier Based Hardware Architecture for Elliptic Curve Cryptography
  In addition to the "pseudo-processor-controlled approach", the [[Category:In progress]]
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• Hardware Support for IDE in Multicore Environment
  [[File:Hardware support for IDE in multicore.jpg|thumb]] ===Status: In Progress ===
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• FPGA-Based Digital Frontend for 3G Receivers
  ...n receiver for 3G mobile communications standard, such as the ones present in any mobile phone, consist of many digital blocks which process the received ...s in the receiver, such as a DC-offset, have to be corrected. This is done in the Digital Frontend (DFE).
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• ASIC
  In an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) project you will be worki ...nding on the project, your design may be sent for manufacturing to be used in future projects.
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• FPGA
  ...prototypes and/or testbeds used to simulate the behavior of large systems. In such a project you will ==Projects in Progress==
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• Indoor Positioning with Bluetooth
  : Interest in wireless communications : Knowledge in Matlab, C and/or VHDL is of advantage
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• Advanced 5G Repetition Combining
  ...s to a brute-force approach to combining this information. As a first step in your project, you will study ways to reduce the complexity on an algorithmi ===Status: In Progress ===
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• OpenRISC SoC for Sensor Applications
  ...cessor design | previous semester thesis]]. We are already using this core in our [[:Category:PULP|multi-core projects]] and we continue to make improvem : SPI is used as a standard interface in many applications, especially in resource limited systems where the number of I/O pins are limited. We alrea
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• Hardware Accelerator for Model Predictive Controller
  In the latest years model predictive controller has been successfully applied ...ion enabling the use of model predictive control in a real case scenario. In addition to that thermal evolution of multicore platforms are characterized
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• NORX - an AEAD algorithm for the CAESAR competition
  A detailed description of the algorithm can be found in the specification [http://competitions.cr.yp.to/round1/norxv1.pdf PDF]. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Digital Beamforming for Ultrasound Imaging
  ...n body, with both diagnostic and therapeutic applications. IIS is involved in a project developing a high-performance, portable 3D ultrasound platform. ...r elements, it is definitely the computationally most intensive operation. In order to allow for portable 3D ultrasound systems, new algorithms and hardw
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• An FPGA-Based Evaluation Platform for Mobile Communications
  In this project you will implement a simulation environment for mobile communi All parts of a wireless receiver have to be carefully optimized in order to
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• Real-Time Pedestrian Detection For Privacy Enhancement
  ...n public places are being monitored: real-time surveillance is not allowed in such cases, and stored data can (even for internal use) only be accessed wi : Interest in video processing and machine learning
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• Karim Badawi
  == Projects in Progress== category = In progress
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• GSM Voice Capacity Evolution - VAMOS
  ...Evolved EDGE even allows 1 Mobile Station (MS) to use 2 frequency carriers in the downlink. This further provides less time slots available for Voice con ...ections are transmitted simultaneously on the same time slot. This results in 4 simultaneous voice connections if half rate voice codecs are used. The VA
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• Design of an LTE Module for the Internet of Things
  ...g low-power and low-cost of IoT components, especially on the client side. In the latest release of the LTE standard, a new user-equipment category (Cat- ...owards Category-0 devices. In a second stage you will implement the design in a hardware description language (HDL) and deploy it to the LTE transceiver
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• Design and Implementation of a Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator ASIC
  ...of recognizing and classifying objects in a scene. Many popular algorithms in this area require the evaluations of multiple layers of filter banks. Almos ...n public places are being monitored: real-time surveillance is not allowed in such cases, and stored data can (even for internal use) only be accessed wi
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• Low-power Clock Generation Solutions for 65nm Technology
  planning a series of [[PULP]] chips in this technology. Depending on the 100 and 800 MHz. In this work, a low power clock generation solution is
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• Evaluating the RiscV Architecture
  ...de size etc.) The plan is to manufacture the Risc V based [[PULP]] cluster in UMC 65nm technology, to obtain also measurement results. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Hardware/software co-programming on the Parallella platform
  [[Category:In progress]]
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• Gomeza old project4
  ...ency and generality than traditional computer vision techniques. With that in mind, we want to explore their effectiveness on batteryless (e.g. solar-pow ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Ultra-High-Efficiency Power Supply Management for Ultra-Low-Power Systems on Chip
  ...portant as a high-efficiency is controllability: lowest energy consumption in VLSI chips requires several dynamically adaptable voltages: # Unused units need to be fully shut down due to the leakage present even in absence of clock and signal transitions.
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• Gomeza old project1
  ...geneity has been a common approach to reach this goal in high-end systems. In this project, your main task will be to design and implement an energy-awar ...rallelism, a typical application can be mapped to both cores. This results in a lower active time, allowing the system to enter a low-power sleep mode, a
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• Birds Long Term Monitoring With Ultra Low Power Wireless Sensor Node
  ...ess sensors are most commonly used for monitoring, detection of events and in general collecting/processing/sending sensors data (i.e temperature, humidi ...sing of the data could be part of the project as well. The project is done in collaboration with Institute of Neuroinformatics Prof. Richard Hahnloser
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• Gomeza old project2
  ...ying capacity. By the end of this project a functional node will be tested in a simulated environment. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Energy Neutral Multi Sensors Wearable Device
  ...mount of easily obtained prior information without resorting to supervised in situ training. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Digital
  ...f the time negotiable with the supervisor. Don't hesitate to show interest in a master thesis topic even though you are e.g. looking for a semester thesi ...our projects categories or added a new project, you need to open this page in edit mode and save it (without changing anything) for the list to get refre
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• Acceleration and Transprecision
  ...cient. Such accelerators are not limited to high performance sector alone. In low power computing, they allow complex tasks such as computer vision or cr ===Projects In Progress===
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• Telecommunications
  ...telecommunications. Feel free to contact them if you want to do a project in this field. ==Projects in Progress==
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• Ultrafast Medical Ultrasound imaging on a GPU
  In conventional ultrasound imaging each image line is acquired sequentially. S In ultrafast imaging, on the other hand, the entire field of view is acquired
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• Philipp Schönle
  ==Projects in Progress== category = In progress
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• Benjamin Sporrer
  ==Projects in Progress== category = In progress
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• Real-Time Optical Flow Using Neural Networks
  ...others work by looking at few well-trackable points (corners, edges, ...) in both images to find correspondences and then solve complex optimization pro ...re computer vision is most interesting: on low-power and mobile platforms, in cars, ...
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• PULPonFPGA: Lightweight Virtual Memory Support - Software Cache
  ...re virtual address pointers between the host processor and the accelerator in a completely transparent manner, it still requires the programmer to manual ...TCDM to filter the accelerator's accesses to shared data structures living in main memory, and to spare the programmer from manually setting up the DMA t
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• DigitalUltrasoundHead
  ...r a large cable containing hundreds of small coaxial cables. This is shown in the figure below: We plan to replace this analog connection by a digital link as shown in the next figure:
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• Audio
  ==Projects in Progress== category = In progress
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• Pascal Hager
  == Projects in Progress== category = In progress
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• Software
  In this category the projects require you to do programming ==Projects in Progress==
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• Vector Processor for In-Memory Computing
  ...ors - and these would have direct access to the DRAM. The concept of such "in-memory computing" ...so far it has not been viable on an industrial scale. Recent developments in process technology combined with industrial efforts to bring them
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• Signal to Noise Ratio Estimation for 3G standards
  ...to-noise ratio (SNR) is the basis for almost any digital signal processing in a receiver. ...semester project you will implement an efficient SNR-estimation algorithm in order to obtain an energy and area-efficient solution. This can be done as
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• FFT-based Convolutional Network Accelerator
  ...or FPGA accelerator to perform this step faster and more power-efficiently in the frequency domain. * Interest in computer vision, signal processing and VLSI design
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• High-speed Scene Labeling on FPGA
  ...of recognizing and classifying objects in a scene. Many popular algorithms in this area require the evaluations of multiple layers of filter banks. Almos ...are codesign work is much more applicable in industry and less constrained in terms of memory and interfaces. If desired by the student, also the use of
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• Michael Muehlberghuber
  ...an the ones listed below. So just drop me an e-mail or come into my office in order to discuss any security- or cryptography-related topics. ===Projects in Progress===
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• Cryptography
  ...eld of cryptography. Feel free to contact them if you want to do a project in this field. <!-- ==Projects in Progress==
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• Time Synchronization for 3G Mobile Communications
  ...are around and which synchronization codes are used. Solving this problem in dedicated hardware will be the topic of this thesis. Synchronization in time will detect the position of the frame boundaries and reveal the Cell I
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• PULPonFPGA: Lightweight Virtual Memory Support - Coherency Extensions
  ...on to enable lightweight virtual memory support for many-core accelerators in heterogeneous embedded SoCs. Based on a content-addressable memory (CAM), e ...L. Benini, "Lightweight Virtual Memory Support for Many-Core Accelerators in Heterogeneous Embedded SoCs", ''Proceedings of the 10th International Confe
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• PULPonFPGA: Lightweight Virtual Memory Support - Multi-Level TLB
  ...on to enable lightweight virtual memory support for many-core accelerators in heterogeneous embedded SoCs. Based on a content-addressable memory (CAM), e ...with a multi-level TLB and lightweight hardware support for TLB management in order to support dynamic self-updating of the TLB without frequent host int
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• Autonomous Sensing For Trains In The IoT Era
  ...and railways applications in collaboration with Bombardier that (i) can go in a zero-power but with change status fast when important events are detected
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• Switched Capacitor Based Bandgap-Reference
  ...or driven by a posititive to absolute temperature (PTAT) current to result in a temperature independent voltage of about 1.2V. Such a voltage is not comp ...they create an intrinsic voltage ripple that has to be heavily suppressed in the case of a reference.
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• Scattering Networks for Scene Labeling
  ...es) were successfully employed in a number of classification tasks [1,3]. In contrast to traditional convolutional neural networks which learn the filt ===Status: {Available, Reserved, In Progress, Completed}===
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• Autonomous Smart Watches: Toward an ultra low power microphone detector with events classification
  ...uccess in wearable devices and sensors in several real-world applications. In this project we address the challenges of context recognition on low energy You will investigate the possibility to implement neural network in a ultra low power energy efficient micro-controller (Ambiq Apollo). The mai
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• Low Power Neural Network For Multi Sensors Wearable Devices
  ...itoring, and detection of events related to the wearer (e.g. abnormalities in physiological functions, detection of seizures and symptoms, patterns of mo ...rate (e.g. sampling frequency) sufficient for the particular application, in order not to miss the event. However, the rate of occurrence of the event
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• GUI-developement for an action-cam-based eye tracking device
  ...ior of novice and expert athletes and the ability to drive in the elderly. In such cases, it is impertinent to record the participants’ behavior under ...t, pause, stop) and all its settings. The live preview should be displayed in the app and a possibility to incorporate a live eye position overlay should
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• David J. Mack
  ...ard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany. In 2015, he acquired his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the same university. Since 2015 he If you are interested in eye tracking, biological signal processing or even a neuroscience research
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• Improving our Smart Camera System
  ...sify every pixel in an image using convolutional neural networks. However, in the mean time we have developed several new approaches to process the acqui Now we would like to include those in our prototype, and otherwise improve it by building a more compact system,
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• Implementing Hibernation on the ARM Cortex M0
  ...rocontroller in this environment requires special measurements to be taken in order to avoid restarting the entire task after each power outage. Both scenarios require a mechanism to save a snapshot of the processor state in a non-volatile memory. This mechanism is commonly known as '''hibernation''
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• Ultra-Efficient Visual Classification on Movidius Myriad2
  ...lown floating point data that is often unnecessary to achieve good results in trained models. On the other hand, ASICs are often orders of magnitude more ...yriad architecture can provide more than 10 GOPS of processing performance in a power envelope of less than 0.5W. It consists of two general-purpose SPAR
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• Efficient Implementation of an Active-Set QP Solver for FPGAs
  Quadratic programming (QP) problems arise in various embedded optimization applications such as model predictive control In this master project you will be working on an efficient FPGA implementation
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• FPGA System Design for Computer Vision with Convolutional Neural Networks
  ...of recognizing and classifying objects in a scene. Many popular algorithms in this area require the evaluations of multiple layers of filter banks. Almos ...stem on a FPGA and further improve the accelerator. This is where you come in. We have several aspects which we would like to explore: porting the Origam
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• Learning Image Decompression with Convolutional Networks
  In this project, we have developed several ConvNets to remove compression arti ===Status: {Available, Reserved, In Progress, Completed}===
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• Covariant Feature Detector on Parallel Ultra Low Power Architecture
  ...ULP) accelerators we are developing the first Computer Vision (CV) library in such domain. ...form designed to operate on a large range of operating voltages, achieving in this way a high level of energy efficiency over a wide range of application
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• Gomeza old project3
  ...harvesting applications, sensor nodes are able to store any excess energy in a storage device such as battery or supercapacitor for future use. A correc # Test final design in real-world scenarios
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• Bateryless Heart Rate Monitoring
  ...ombination wearable sensors and wireless communication. We are interested in building small wearable, bateryless devices which can perform different dif # Test final design in real-world scenarios.
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• Change-based Evaluation of Convolutional Neural Networks
  ...e next (consider a fixed camera and just some people or cars moving around in the scene). This project would look into updating intermediate results only * Interest in computer vision and system engineering
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• Rethinking our Convolutional Network Accelerator Architecture
  ...ns such as the synthesis-time fixed filter sizes and room for improvements in terms of energy efficiency. We are looking for your creativity to completel * Interest in VLSI architecture exploration and computer vision
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• Using Motion Sensors to Support Indoor Localization
  sound, optical, vision, or a combination of them. In the context of low-cost embedded systems, as observed in some previous work [1]. This project abstracts from the specific localizati
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• Turbo Equalization for Cellular IoT
  ...ds which is one of the reasons why Turbo equalization is found only seldom in practical receiver implementations today. ...ution can be completely hidden making Turbo equalization a viable solution in practical communication systems.
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• PULPonFPGA: Hardware L2 Cache
  ...on to enable lightweight virtual memory support for many-core accelerators in heterogeneous embedded SoCs [1,2]. Recently, we have switched to a new eval ...to be adapted to use the widely adopted AXI4 protocol [6], which has built-in cache control signals that shall be used by your new IP. Besides designing
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• NextGenChannelDec
  [[File:channel_decoder_intro.jpg|thumb|400px|Channel Decoder in Today's Communication Systems]] ...TE standard bases for example on Turbo codes, LDPC codes have been adopted in the Wifi standard IEEE802.11n/ac/ax. With that the question arises: What co
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• Next Generation Channel Decoder
  [[File:channel_decoder_intro.jpg|thumb|400px|Channel Decoder in Today's Communication Systems]] ...TE standard bases for example on Turbo codes, LDPC codes have been adopted in the WiFi standard IEEE802.11n/ac/ax. With that the question arises: What co
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• Implementation of a NB-IoT Positioning System
  ...een satellite and receiver making the location estimation very inaccurate. In indoor environments satellite-based positioning completely fails. Furthermo ...DOA) algorithm the base stations transmit reference signals as illustrated in the figure. The User Equipment (UE) detects the time difference of arrival
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• Towards Self Sustainable UAVs
  '''Motivation''' In recent years, the popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s) has soar ...on, it suffers from very large charging times and very short flight times. In this
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• PULPonFPGA: Lightweight Virtual Memory Support - Page Table Walker
  ...easily portable to other host CPU architectures, but it cannot be executed in interrupt context which causes substantial scheduling delays and an overall ...orted to a dedicated microcontroller core inside the RAB or be implemented in dedicated hardware. While the first step allows to remove the scheduling de
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• PULPonFPGA: Lightweight Virtual Memory Support - Physically Contiguous Memory
  ...nt of the page size of the Linux operating system running on the host CPU. In a student project [4], a second, set-associative IOTLB has been designed wh ...d with the accelerator is placed in this section, requiring a single entry in the first IOTLB only.
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• Self-Learning Drones based on Neural Networks
  Neural Nets are achieving record-breaking results in all common machine learning tasks and reached high attention of the machine ...nd made the headline by beating the 2nd best player in the world Lee Sedol in the game Go [1]. A game which were considered to be too complex to be solve
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• Ultra Low Power Conversion Circuit For Batteryless Applications
  ...the expensive and obtrusive storage element. One of the biggest challenges in batteryless system design is the cold start phase, where the harvesting cir ...10 uW input power range, they are unable to operate in the nanowatt range. In this project, we want to design a DC-DC converter optimized for very low in
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• Gomeza old project5
  ...ave several prototypes of batteryless sensor nodes which we want to deploy in a wide area network. * Integrating a LoRa radio in a batteryless sensor node
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• 3D Ultrasound Bubble Tracking
  ...Ultrafast Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (uULM) [http://fultrasound.eu/in-vivo-super-resolution-vascular-imaging link]. This semester/master thesis focuses on the ultrafast tracking of bubbles in 3D.
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• Towards The Integration of E-skin into Prosthetic Devices
  ...n) and energy harvesting during the project. The project will be supervise in collaboration with Cosmic Lab, University of Genova (prof. Maurizio Valle / ...lations), measuring power-consumption, and assessing detection performance in lab. conditions
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• A Wireless Sensor Network for a Smart Building Monitor and Control
  ...ghting control can be made based on the light intensity and human presence in the monitored area sensed by light sensors and motion sensors. This approac ...e students. Measurements of the system will be performed from the students in order to evaluate power consumption reduction, reliability, functionality a
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• A Wireless Sensor Network for HPC monitoring
  The rapid progress of wireless communications and embedded technologies has made wireless sens ...e students. Measurements of the system will be performed from the students in order to evaluate power consumption reduction, reliability, functionality a
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• Mauro Salomon
  == Projects in Progress== category = In progress
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• Charging System for Implantable Electronics
  such an extent that its size is small enough to be implantable in rodents for charge the implant's battery while the animal is in its cage from an IR-LED
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• Libria
  == Projects in Progress== category = In progress
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• Learning Image Compression with Convolutional Networks
  ...a ConvNet for a different encoding has been done several times before, but in order to optimize for best compression we need to quantize intermediate res In this project you learn the basics of ConvNets, develop such a quantization
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• Bringing XNOR-nets (ConvNets) to Silicon
  ...of recognizing and classifying objects in a scene. Many popular algorithms in this area require the evaluations of multiple layers of filter banks. Almos ...it/pixel instead of ~12bit/pixel like before. The current state-of-the-art in this direction are XNOR-nets, but we want to understand them better and use
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• Signal-Processing and Data-Compression on Beaglebone Black used as embedded HPC-performance-monitoring device
  ...t run-time. Aiming at bridging this gap, we designed and developed at IIS, in collaboration with some Commercial Partners, a scalable and highly accurate [[Category:In progress]]
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• 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
  ...t run-time. Aiming at bridging this gap, we designed and developed at IIS, in collaboration with some Commercial Partners, a scalable and highly accurate ...t''' → Implementation and testing of a Linux Device Driver for the built-in Beaglebone Black ADC, using DMA support for the data-copy from the ADC HW-F
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• Control an external ADC using Programmable Real-Time Unit (PRU) Subsystem on Beaglebone Black used as embedded HPC-performance-monitoring device
  ...t run-time. Aiming at bridging this gap, we designed and developed at IIS, in collaboration with some Commercial Partners, a scalable and highly accurate ...te a high-speed high-resolution ADC, which will be controlled by the built-in Programmable Real-Time Unit ([http://beagleboard.org/pru PRU]) of the Beagl
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• Open Power-On Chip Controller Study and Integration
  In recent years, energy-efficiency is becoming a key challenge in the High Performance Computing (HPC) domain. Until today Intel-based comput ...aracterizing its behavioral (B) and implementing an extension of the built-in power management policy (C) which links run-time architectural information,
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• Linux Driver for fine-grain and low overhead access to on-chip performance counters
  In recent years, energy-efficiency is becoming a key challenge in the High Performance Computing (HPC) domain. Indeed, while the demand for m ...experience with Linux Kernel Programming, IIO Linux Subsystem (widely used in Linux-Based SoCs for handling ADCs) and architectural performance counters.
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• Ultra Low-Power Oscillator
  ...research results and to achieve a comparable efficiency as the best design in the figure. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• High performance continous-time Delta-Sigma ADC for biomedical applications
  ...us-time converter for up to 10kHz bandwidth with 80dB SNR will be designed in 130nm CMOS. It will be possible to learn the whole the design cycle includi ===Status: In Progress ===
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• High performance continuous-time Delta-Sigma ADC for magnetic resonance imaging
  ...ll be investigated first at behavioral level, followed by a circuit design in 130nm CMOS. It will be possible to learn the whole the design cycle includi ===Status: In Progress ===
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• PVT Dynamic Adaptation in PULPv3
  ...controller algorithm is then needed to always configure the PULP processor in the most energy efficient point. The goal of this project is to compensate the process variation in the PULP v3 SoCs by (1) characterize and correlate the PVT sensors respons
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• Design of low-offset dynamic comparators
  ...ated comparators with similar delay time (determined by the clock period). In this thesis different topologies will be compared to each other for resolut ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Radio Signal Direction Detection For Smart Glasses For Augmented Reality Applications
  consists in applying electronic warfare concepts to estimate the conducted in collaboration with said company. Information on the
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• Desing and Implementation Of Long Lasting Key Finder With Bleetooth Low Energy
  ...o life several months without change the battery. THe project will be done in collaboration with Keyfinder.ch : Interest in Computer Architectures at system level
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• High Power Efficient Digitally Controlled Oscillator Design for Cellular IOT
  ...t imposed by cellular applications have been a key driver for PLL research in recent years. As the age of cellular internet of things is coming, motivati ===Status: In Progress ===
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• High Performance Digitally-Assisted Time Domain ADC Design for DPLL used in Cellular IOT
  ...project is to analyze and build a time domain ADC innovatively so that the in-band jitter contribution of the DPLL could be lower than 500fs while consum ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Design of Charge-Pump PLL in 22nm for 5G communication applications
  ...ch means the high purity frequency carriers are required to be synthesized in the range from 15 GHz to even 60 GHz. ...n in the figure above, there are quite many smart architectures introduced in recent years, such as injection-locking (ILPLL) and subsampling (SSPLL). Al
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• Nanoscale Hybrid III-V Plasmonic Laser for Low-Power Photonic ICs
  ...quantum-transport based hybrid plasmonic laser simulator by extending our in-house quantum-transport solver with electron-photon coupling. The functiona ...by using plasmonics. By coupling photons to collective motion of electrons in metals, surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are formed at a metal/dielectric
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• Sensor Fusion for Rockfall Sensor Node
  ...complete reconstruction of the rock trajectories. Depending on the project progress, novel approaches introducing additional sources of information can be eval
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• Interfacing PULP with a Brain-Inspired Ultra-Low Power Spiking Cochlea
  ...the past two years. PULP is intended to be used for near-sensor computing in smart sensors, particularly on sensors that have a high need for extremely ...icial cochlea strives to replicate this functionality in a silicon sensor. In nature, the spiking representation conveys enough information for us to rec
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• Towards Online Training of CNNs: Hebbian-Based Deep Learning
  ...s possible to greatly reduce the amount of data that needs to be collected in a ULP sensor node and sent to a higher-level computing device (e.g. a smart 2. implement Adaptive Hebbian Learning (AHL) as proposed in Wadhwa and Madhow [Wadhwa16] within the framework, using classification of
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• Deep Learning Projects
  ...gradient descent) is linear in the data set size, making it more appealing in big data contexts than, for instance, support vector machines (SVMs). DNNs ...the pressure of DNNs on the underlying computing infrastructure, research in computational deep learning has focussed on two families of optimizations:
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• Deep-Learning Based Phoneme Recognition from a Ultra-Low Power Spiking Cochlea
  ...s possible to greatly reduce the amount of data that needs to be collected in a ULP sensor node and sent to a higher-level computing device (e.g. a smart ...icial cochlea strives to replicate this functionality in a silicon sensor. In nature, the spiking representation conveys enough information for us to rec
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• Single-Bit-Synapse Spiking Neural System-on-Chip
  Current interest in brain-inspired and neuromorphic computer architectures is enormous, due to ...starting point for the development of a novel spiking-based architecture, in this project we would like to develop a concrete proof of concept low power
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• Tiny CNNs for Ultra-Efficient Object Detection on PULP
  ...s possible to greatly reduce the amount of data that needs to be collected in a ULP sensor node and sent to a higher-level computing device (e.g. a smart ...e-of-the-art. Relatively small CNNs with object detection accuracy results in the order of the best models available have recently been proposed [Iandola
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• PULP-Shield for Autonomous UAV
  ...s the inspection of industrial facilities or cultivated fields, assistance in natural disaster or hazardous areas, etc. ...no-scale, featuring only few centimeters in diameter and few tens of grams in weight.
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• Convolution Neural Networks on our Ultra-Low Power Mult-Core Plattform PULP
  Neural Nets are achieving record-breaking results in all common machine learning tasks and reached high attention of the machine ...own to be reduced by about 10% or less. (75% instead of 85% Top-1 accuracy in the sound recognition CNN.)
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• VLSI Implementation Polar Decoder using High Level Synthesis
  ...nnels. This is why Polar codes have been one of the main focus of research in the communication’s society. The recent decision by the 3GPP standardizat ...architectures can be quantitatively evaluated based on the generated RTL. In order to improve the quality of results, manually optimized RTL code or eve
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• FPGA-based Testbed Implementation of an Extended-Coverage Point-to-Point Communication Link for the Internet of Things
  ...all these use cases makes new communication protocols inevitable resulting in today’s IoT standardization efforts including cellular IoT (Extended-Cove ...the work throughout the project requires embedded C coding, with some work in HDL being required eventually.
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• Energy-Efficient Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing
  ...most failure mechanisms and noise. There have been successful applications in variety of tasks such as: language recognition, text classification, biosig In this project, your goal would be to develop an RTL implementation of HD com
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• Autoencoder Accelerator for On-Chip Semi-Supervised Learning
  ...which can be exploited by an application-specific integrated circuit ASIC, in contrast to CPUs or even GPUs. In this thesis, the students will develop an optimized Deconvolution Accelerat
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• Hardware Accelerators for Lossless Quantized Deep Neural Networks
  ...level semantically rich information out of raw data is deep learning, and in particular deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The task of inference ...tand-alone ASICs for aggressively quantized CNNs (''YodaNN'' [Andri2017]), in the Ergo project we want to design a PULP-based entire computation cluster
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• Low-Energy Cluster-Coupled Vector Coprocessor for Special-Purpose PULP Acceleration
  ...past with our platform, with the additional advantage of more flexibility in the target application. ...ith the shared memory of the PULP clusters. Techniques and ideas developed in the context of PULP HW accelerators [Conti2017][Azarkhish2017] can be used
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• Embedded Audio Source Localization Exploiting Coincidence Detection in Asynchronous Spike Streams
  ...ip asynchronously outputs a stream of address-events representing activity in different audio frequency ranges. ...difference (ITD); in other words, the difference in the azimuth direction in the arrival timing of sound waves, at the two ears. Similarly to what is do
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• A computational memory unit using phase-change memory devices
  ...ces are used to perform certain computational tasks within the memory unit in a non-von Neumann manner. ...riety of application areas such as machine learning and signal processing. In IBM Research - Zurich we have shown experimental demonstrations of this con
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• Deep Learning for Brain-Computer Interface
  ...akes it particularly challenging, however, is its susceptibility to errors in the recognition of human intentions. Indeed, the recent success of deep lea ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Variable Bit Precision Logic for Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  ...orking principles of the brain, allowed to achieve superhuman performances in many fields, redefining the state of the art for computer vision, text and ...fixed-point precision arithmetic, aligned with the standard precision used in deep learning field.
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• Resilient Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing Architectures
  ...ting platforms, allowing to implement resilient controllers. Its tolerance in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions and for faulty components is ach In this project, your goal would be to design and develop an end-to-end robust
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• Trace Debugger for custom RISC-V Core
  ...ing up silicon quickly and makes a software developer's life a lot easier. In smaller processors like the ones developed at IIS we rely on an external de External, in-contrast to self-hosted, debugging relies on a more powerful host machine a
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• Efficient Search Design for Hyperdimensional Computing
  ...tor by using a distance metric. When the dimensionality of hypervectors is in the thousands (e.g.,100,000 bits), an efficient search operation is challen ...l would be to design an efficient and general module for search operations in HD computing. You would develop RTL implementation with FPGA prototyping.
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• BigPULP: Multicluster Synchronization Extensions
  ...stantial number of tape outs of various single-cluster PULP configurations in multiple technology nodes [1]. A key component allowing for high energy-eff ...formance, e.g., to use use PULP as a high-performance parallel accelerator in heterogeneous systems. To this end, we also study the seamless integration
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• BigPULP: Shared Virtual Memory Multicluster Extensions
  ...stantial number of tape outs of various single-cluster PULP configurations in multiple technology nodes [1]. A key component allowing for high energy-eff ...formance, e.g., to use use PULP as a high-performance parallel accelerator in heterogeneous systems. To this end, we also study the seamless integration
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• Hyper Meccano: Acceleration of Hyperdimensional Computing
  ...al component or its immediate neighbors. Other operations can be performed in a distributed fashion. ...omputational paradigm that is easily applied to various learning problems. In this project, your goal is to accelerate, optimize, and autotune execution
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• Stefan Lippuner
  Stefan left the IIS in 2022. == Projects in Progress==
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• LTE IoT Network Synchronization
  ...ings. Two new variants of LTE have been standardized as part of Release 13 in 2016 for this kind of device: LTE Cat-M1 (eMTC) and NB-IoT. They both offer Network synchronization is the first step in the communication between the user equipment (UE) and the base station. It
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• IoT Turbo Decoder
  ...ceived data iteratively. Several Turbo Decoders have been developed at IIS in the past ([[High_Throughput_Turbo_Decoder_Design|e.g.]]), which were mainly ...the IoT, a new variant of LTE have been standardized as part of Release 13 in 2016: LTE Cat-M1 (eMTC). This category offers only a reduced throughput of
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• High Speed FPGA Trigger Logic for Particle Physics Experiments
  ...pa.phys.ethz.ch/ Physics Department of ETH Zurich]. If you are experienced in FPGA programming (VHDL) and want to spice up your knowledge with a real wor ...ssues a signal for data taking or not). The Xilinx AC701 Development Board in combination with a recently designed and build interface board (see picture
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• Satellite Internet of Things
  ...d in fact the extended-coverage would enable communication with satellites in Low Earth Orbits (LEO). But, the NB-IoT standard is optimized for slowly mo ...able the identification of critical bottlenecks. These shall be eliminated in the second part of the project by algorithmic optimizations and/or changes
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• Neural Networks Framwork for Embedded Plattforms
  ...like Torch or Tensorflow to evaluate and train the network and export it in a compilable form for efficient inference on the previously mentioned platf [[Category:In progress]]
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• BLISS - Battery-Less Identification System for Security
  ...the significant power consumption prevent this technology to be exploited in small, wearable, battery-powered and autonomous devices. ...task, the project is split into 2 projects, which can possibly be combined in the end.
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• HERO: TLB Invalidation
  ...stantial number of tape outs of various single-cluster PULP configurations in multiple technology nodes. ...formance, e.g., to use use PULP as a high-performance parallel accelerator in heterogeneous systems. To this end, we also study the seamless integration
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• Shared Correlation Accelerator for an RF SoC
  ...rk synchronization rely on performing a large number of cross-correlations in real-time. Due to the large throughput requirements, large accelerators are ...cross-correlations. Using this knowledge, you will develop the accelerator in VHDL, or using High-Level Synthesis (HLS). It should be able to meet the th
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• Deep Convolutional Autoencoder for iEEG Signals
  In this thesis, the students will develop a deep convolutional autoencoder to * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary)
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• Heterogeneous SoCs
  ...le:Apple_heterogeneous_integration.png|700px|thumb|center|Uniting many ICs in a single one: Heterogeneous integration has allowed (not only) Apple to get ...currently one of the main drivers for performance-per-energy advancements in various application domains.
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• Event-Driven Computing
  ...orth to run expensive computations or whether there is not enough activity in the environment. This approach is called event-driven computing. ===Projects In Progress===
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• Predictable Execution
  ...on the same chip as the host CPU, sharing a single DRAM. This has benefits in both programability and performance, due to the removal of the need for dat ...l-time guarantees can be provided, enabling the use of these architectures in a real-time setting.
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• Aliasing-Free Wavetable Music Synthesizer
  ...digital signal processors (DSPs) or field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in order to generate the wavetable synthesis oscillator signals, to the best o ...LAB with the goal of minimizing aliasing while offering great flexibility. In the second step, a VLSI architecture and ASIC will be designed. The goal is
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• Modular Frequency-Modulation (FM) Music Synthesizer
  ...IC that provides a large number of freely programmable operators resulting in endless sound-design possibilities compared to existing FM synthesizers. ...imultaneous voices). Third, the student(s) will implement the architecture in a modern CMOS process and send the modular FM synthesis ASIC to fabrication
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• Digital Medical Ultrasound Imaging
  ...s include the efficient processing and transmission of this data off-head. In addition, we are actively working on developing strategies to manage the po ...project area. If you are interested in the topic and want to do something in the areas mentioned above, come to see us to discuss up-to-date project opp
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• Hyperdimensional Computing
  ...at can enable fast and one-shot learning (no need of back-propagation like in neural networks). Furthermore it is memory-centric with embarrassingly para ...and one-shot learning make HD computing a prime candidate for utilization in application domains such as: brain-computer interfaces, biosignal processin
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• Level Crossing ADC For a Many Channels Neural Recording Interface
  ...tal Converters (LC-ADC) could reduce the amount of information to transfer in case of low activity of the input signal, compared to more common Uniform-S In this project, it is proposed to the student the implementation of a low-pow
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• Integrated Information Processing
  ...thz.ch Integrated Information Processing (IIP) Group] carries out research in the following areas: rect 2853 1 3702 740 [[All-Digital In-Memory Processing]]
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• Neural Network Algorithms and Interfaces with Accelerators for Embedded Platforms with Real World Applications
  ...networks and other machine learning approaches accurately predict patterns in image and time-based data when large historical datasets with curated datas ...y living of elderly and to evaluate psychological and physiological stress in firemen by using leading hardware (HW) accelerators.
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• Andreas Kurth
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• CMOS power amplifier for field measurements in MRI systems
  ...modalities in medical diagnostics and research. One of the foremost trends in MRI technology has been multiple‐channel signal acquisition with detector ...amplifier is necessary. In this project such an amplifier (NMR Probe Amp. in the picture) will be designed an ev. also implemented. The thesis offers th
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• Real-Time Implementation of Quantum State Identification using an FPGA
  ...much more efficiently than current computer technology for certain tasks. In this project, your goal will be to implement real-time quantum state identi ...u will use a Virtex-6 FPGA to perform quantum signal processing operations in real time, and an FMC110 ADC board to sample analog signal outputs of Circu
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• Design of a 25 Gbps SerDes for optical chip-to-chip communication
  ...lized on the same chip, it will demonstrate the first 25 Gbps optical link in a zero-change CMOS technology. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Inductive Charging Circuit for Implantable Devices
  Implantable devices have seen a large growth in the past years. For humans pacemakers are most common, but more recently ot ...arging will be investigated. It includes the whole transfer chain as shown in the picture, with the transmit driver, the coils and the charging part on t
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• Low Power Geolocalization And Indoor Localization
  ...g products and people’s everyday life. Sensors and wearable technologies in particular are gaining popularity, with people surrounded by everything... ...he moving target can help improving the localization precision as observed in some previous work [1]. This project abstracts from the specific localizati
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• Wake Up Radio For Energy Efficient Communication System and IC Design
  ...ition, a low power solution, should include addressing capability directly in the wake-up receiver. ...ts of the system will be performed from the students as important activity in order to evaluate power consumption, reliability, functionality, classifica
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• Zero Power Touch Sensor and Reciever For Body Communication
  ...The receiver can be used both as an always-on touch sensor to be deployed in the field and as a body communication wake up radio to other nodes on the h ...ts of the system will be performed from the students as important activity in order to evaluate power consumption, reliability, functionality, classifica
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• Sub-Noise Floor Channel Tracking
  ...ings. Two new variants of LTE have been standardized as part of Release 13 in 2016 [2] for this kind of device: LTE Cat-M1 (eMTC) and NB-IoT. They both o ...mation eventually limits the achievable coverage. In LTE reference symbols in each subframe are used to estimate the channel for the same subframe. Impro
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• A Waypoint-based Navigation System for Nano-Size UAVs in GPS-denied Environments
  * Familiarity with embedded/parallel programming in C. * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary)
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• Monocular Vision-based Object Following on Nano-size Robotic Blimp
  * Familiarity with embedded system programming in C. * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary)
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• Towards Autonomous Navigation for Nano-Blimps
  ...led balloon, the energy requirement for hovering is significantly reduced. In this project we aim to extend the functionality of our first self-sustainab ...end the existing self-sustainable blimp developed at TIK/IIS and presented in [3].
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• Study and Development of Intelligent Capability for Small-Size UAVs
  ...med in order to study the portability and to overcome eventual limitations in the initial MCU. ...on capability where the UAV is able to collected data from sensor deployed in a field.
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• Towards Self-Sustainable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  ...on, it suffers from very large charging times and very short flight times. In this project, we explore another type of UAV, a blimp, whose helium-filled ...used to directly power the blimp, either in a slow continuous movement, or in a burst-like fashion.
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• Stefan Mach
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• Fabian Schuiki
  ...ssionate Rust and C++ programmer and occupies himself with compiler design in his free time. ==Projects in Progress==
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• Real-Time ECG Contractions Classification
  ...equence of atrial and ventricles contractions allow the blood to be pumped in the circulatory systems, essential to enable many physiological functions a ...CG monitoring is currently limited to short-time scales (minutes to hours) in well controlled environments and setups (clinics, expensive devices).
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• Evaluating An Ultra low Power Vision Node
  ...occur and entering an idle mode when there are no events. This can be used in the context of machine learning to only trigger network inference when even In this project, a novel event-driven camera by Qualcomm will be evaluated and
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• SW/HW Predictability and Security
  We are in the processes of creating a top-level information page, in the meantime please continue directly to the specific subsections below. Please continue to [[Real-Time Embedded Systems]] if you are interested in designing hardware or writing software for timing predictable embedded syst
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• Digital Audio Interface for Smart Intensive Computing Triggering
  ...ve already achieved very promising results in this direction. The drawback in such applications is that, to achieve reasonably good classification accura A very promising approach to avoid wasting power in processing meaningless data (e.g. when just noise is coming from a sensor)
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• Predictable Execution on GPU Caches
  ...only offer a major increase in performance, but also promises an increase in energy efficiency due to the use of more efficient accelerators. However, c ...program when the system is not permitting memory accesses from the program in question, the memory phase is tasked with copying all data needed for compu
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• Freedom from Interference in Heterogeneous COTS SoCs
  ...only offer a major increase in performance, but also promises an increase in energy efficiency due to the use of more efficient accelerators. However, c ...pplications that can be executed concurrently on a heterogeneous platform, in accordance with the PREM model. The main outcome of the project is to gain
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• Pulse Oximetry Fachpraktikum
  ...of generating and acquiring signals used in 'photoplethysmography' (PPG). In this thesis, the goal is to '''create''' a new Fachpraktikum where students Each improvement step is compared in size and power with the previous version.
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• Wearables for Sports and Life Enhancement
  ===Status: In Progress === [[Category:In progress]]
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• Engineering For Kids
  To promote the engineering profession and studies in (primary+) schools we're developing an interesting edutainment system for k ...tation which will coordinate and connect the different mini-tasks together in order for a whole group or class to achieve a common goal. This thesis invo
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• Improved Reacquisition for the 5G Cellular IoT
  ...ower-Graph-1024x659.jpg|600px|thumb|LTE Cat-M1 Power Consumption over time in discontinuous reception [1].]] ...hey only receive at certain pre-defined moments (paging occasions) and are in stand-by most of the time. The range between these moments can range from m
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• Improving Cold-Start in Batteryless And Energy Harvesting Systems
  ...distributed fashion has required low-power, battery-based sensing systems. In recent years, batteryless sensing systems have received attention from the In batteryless sensing systems, the smaller the energy storage capacity, the f
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• Ultra-low power sampling front-end for acquisition of physiological signals
  ...a switched capacitor circuit before converting it into the digital domain. In this thesis it will be possible to learn the whole the design cycle includi ===Status: In Progress ===
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• OTDOA Positioning for LTE Cat-M
  ...een satellite and receiver making the location estimation very inaccurate. In indoor environments satellite-based positioning completely fails. Furthermo In the adopted Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA) algorithm the base
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• Switched-capacitor power amplifier for IoT mobile communications: design of signal processing path
  ...ty will first be investigated at a functional level before implementing it in a CMOS process. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Optimal System Duty Cycling for a Mobile Health Platform
  As in every clocked digital circuit, the power consumption consists of leakage po ...urally, this process consumes parasitic energy, labeled E_reboot in the figure.
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• Ultra-low power transceiver for implantable devices
  ...a 130nm CMOS technology and offers to design radio and base-band circuits. In the thesis it will be possible to learn the whole the design cycle includin ===Status: In Progress ===
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• An Industrial-grade Bluetooth LE Mesh Network Solution
  Routing is a critical issue in packet-switched networks, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) meshes, due to ...itting data periodically to a network gateway (which is a default use case in many industrial applications).
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• Contextual Intelligence on Resource-constraint Bluetooth LE IoT Devices
  ...environment and collect individual-level exposure data is a crucial aspect in keeping the workforce and our loved ones safe and healthy. Apart from gas c ...to explore efficient ways to extract relevant information (Sensor Fusion) in real-time on resource-constraint, Bluetooth Low Energy IoT devices.
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• Embedded Gesture Recognition Using Novel Mini Radar Sensors
  ...of the system will be performed from the students as an important activity in order to evaluate power consumption, reliability, functionality, classifica ...lations), measuring power-consumption, and assessing detection performance in lab. Conditions
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• Physics is looking for PULP
  ...tial to discover new and potentially useful phenomena in condensed matter. In such environments, you often have to build new and customized measurement a The group is interested in deploying FPGAs in several of their systems. As a start they would like to have a simple FPGA
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• Ternary Weights Engine For Efficient Many Channels Spike Sorting Applications
  ...eurons. Contrarily to what happens in neural recording employing tetrodes, in this scenario, the data streams that reflect the underlying neuron activity ...er that can be dissipated by brain tissues. In order to achieve this goal, in a second phase of the project we aim at designing a dedicated hardware engi
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• Human Intranet
  ...such systems prototyped or envisioned today serve to address deficiencies in the human sensory or motor control systems due to birth defects, illnesses, Here, in our projects, we mainly focus on '''sensor, computation, communication, and
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• Low Latency Brain-Machine Interfaces
  ===Status: In Progress === * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary)
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• A Wearable Wireless Kidney Function Monitoring System For BioMedical Applications
  ...bacteriuria. Approximately one-third of urinary catheters are applied not in the context of enabling the release of urine, but instead, are used to moni In this project, we aim to develop an alternative, non-invasive method to meas
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• Indoor Smart Tracking of Hospital instrumentation
  ...cuff as a source if its use is linked to the infected patients. Moreover, in case of a single incidence of infection, equipment that has come into con ...best technology in terms of lifetime and precision,and he will evaluate it in University Hospital Zurich.
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• Ultrasound High Speed Microbubble Tracking
  ...Ultrafast Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (uULM) [http://fultrasound.eu/in-vivo-super-resolution-vascular-imaging link]. In a first project, we successfully managed to demonstrate detection and track
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• Wireless Sensing With Long Range Comminication (LoRa)
  ...enging to be achieved in practice since low power microprocessors are weak in terms of computation power. High computation microprocessor are power hungr .... RISC-V has the advantage that it is open-source and avoids license fees. In this thesis, typical image processing or neural network algorithms needs to
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• Optogenetics And Game Theory Applied To Small Side Bird Using Smart Sensing
  ...ess sensors are most commonly used for monitoring, detection of events and in general collecting/processing/sending sensors data (i.e temperature, humidi ...sing of the data could be part of the project as well. The project is done in collaboration with Institute of Neuroinformatics Prof. Richard Hahnloser
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• Edge Computing for Long-Term Wearable Biomedical Systems
  ...n will create formidable research challenges and industrial opportunities. In particular, billions of sensor-rich connected devices are going to produce ...collaboration with the company Mindmaze (https://www.mindmaze.com/) based in Lausanne and Zurich.
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• Analog Compute-in-Memory Accelerator Interface and Integration
  ...gic and arithmetic operations, and function as memories, thus starting the in-memory computing (IMC) paradigm. ...C operation that can significantly outperform the current state-of-the-art in terms of power efficiency (TOPS/W), retention time, and area scalability [2
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• Elliptic Curve Accelerator for zkSNARKs
  ...ash would enable a distributed electronic cash systems with no compromises in user privacy. ...t research tries to improve the performance of these Zero Knowledge Proofs in software but without significant improvements, it is impossible to create a
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• Design and Evaluation of a Small Size Avalanche Beacon
  ...s, led by experts at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Davos, Switzerland, have a profound understanding of how avalanches form. H ...ecting sensor notes after large-scale experiments. The relaxed constraints in terms of no need of a search mode as well as the non-critical application s
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• Outdoor Precision Object Tracking for Rockfall Experiments
  ...[1] For that reason, the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Davos, Switzerland, developed together with the ETH Zurich a rugged low-pow ...of this project is to find the best technology which allows track objects in forested regions with high time and special resolution. Afterward, the stud
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• Cell Measurements for the 5G Internet of Things
  ...rnet connectivity. Potential applications include smart metering, tracking in logistics, environmental sensing, and smart buildings. Two new variants of ...iple neighbouring cells while also performing regular communication tasks. In LTE this includes measuring the received power level and SINR of multiple c
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• AnalogInt
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• Application Specific Frequency Synthesizers (Analog/Digital PLLs)
  In this project, students will learn the key techniques for an advanced freque : Basic knowledge in analog circuit design
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• Real-Time Embedded Classification of Neural Activity in Rat Barrel Cortex
  ...g neural circuits and, in perspective, to operate neuroprosthetic devices. In this context, artificial intelligence combined with low-power embedded devi ...MEA while stimulating the principal whisker. The sensor has been implanted in vivo and 2D images have been acquired from different cortical depths. The d
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• PREM on PULP
  ...ub, please contact [[:User:Bjoernf|Bjoern Forsberg]] if you are interested in this project. Note that this project encompasses many parts, and can be spl [[Category:In progress]]
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• Wearables for Sports and Fitness Tracking
  ...ed, aiding users in setting and achieving fitness goals, and participating in online challenges. These devices can even create personalized training prog '''In sports''', wearables provide athletes with real-time feedback on performanc
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• Multisensory system for performance analysis in ski jumping (M/1-2S/B)
  ...isation problems. Flight trajectories of athletes are decisive for victory in a ski jumping competition. They are influenced by the properties of the inr ...eless data transmission between the flying athlete and the coaching tower. In addition, due to the complexity of such a flight situation, the body-mounte
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• Development Of A Test Bed For Ultrasonic Transducer Characterization (1 S/B)
  ...a high flexibility of the setup. This means that the system can be adapted in operation for a wide variety of transducer types and setups. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• NAND Flash Open Research Platform
  ...sed source and because of it assessing their security is not an easy task. In particular, it most often requires reverse engineering their firmware, whic ===Status: In Progress ===
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• A Demonstrator of Non-Synchronized Hyperdimensional Body Area Networks
  [[Category:Digital]][[Category:In progress]][[Category:Available]] [[Category:Semester Thesis]] [[Category:Master Thes ...obability. Hyperdimensional computing has already shown great capabilities in classifying Electromygraphy (EMG) data for gesture recognition [1].
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• Finite Element Simulations of Transistors for Quantum Computing
  We are seeking a candidate with an interest in numerical methods for engineering simulations and some background in C++ programming. Basic knowledge of semiconductor quantum transport formali
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• Design space exploration of InP Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (DHBTs)
  ...low THz frequency range would offer great cost and portability advantages. In collaboration with the experimentalists, a multi-scale simulation environme ...andidate with a strong interest TCAD simulation as well as basic knowledge in solid state physics, quantum mechanics and Matlab programming.
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• NVDLA meets PULP
  ...take on such an accelerator, called the NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerator. In this Master Thesis we would like to find out if and how NVDLA can be a comp ...n a modern ASIC technology node, and compare it against other accelerators in the PULP project. More specifically we would like to see as a result of thi
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• Herschmi
  == Projects in Progress== category = In progress
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• SmartRing
  ...ate and the oxygen saturation in the blood using a NIRS sensor, integrated in a wearable ring. It worked pretty well: detected holding the breath, output We are searching for motivated students, both bachelor or master in any of the following domains:
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• Scalable Heterogeneous L1 Memory Interconnect for Smart Accelerator Coupling in Ultra-Low Power Multicores
  ...level semantically rich information out of raw data is deep learning, and in particular deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The task of inference ...tand-alone ASICs for aggressively quantized CNNs (''YodaNN'' [Andri2017]), in the Ergo project we want to design a PULP-based entire computation cluster
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• Timing Channel Mitigations for RISC-V Cores
  ...axis). The effect of timing mitigation techniques can be clearly observed in the right matrix, where almost no correlation can be observed anymore. Imag ...are essentially a combination of speculative execution techniques present in today's processors, combined with shared hardware state and timing channels
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• Developing a small portable neutron detector for detecting smuggled nuclear material
  ...s. The main technological challenge of detecting fast neutrons is doing so in a way that distinguishes such detected particles very reliably from detecte ...urity applications. This is the purpose of this project. There is interest in this project for example by Labor Spiez (Swiss ABC-protection agency). Due
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• Design of an on-field adaptable pulse-processing unit for semicondutor radiation detectors
  Semiconductor devices can be exploited as radiation detectors in a variety of applications with their combined use with spectrometry systems ...shortcomings of a basic implementations become apparent when this is used in combination with a non-ideal detector.
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• ML based Quantitative Movement Analysis on a Portable IoT Camera (1-2S/B)
  ...ency and lead to injuries. In clinical biomechanics, understanding changes in muscle and tendon properties is vital for creating effective treatment plan ...em should be easy and quick to use (e.g., time is key for testing patients in clinics) and inexpensive compared to traditional necessary hardware.
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• Floating-Point Divide & Square Root Unit for Transprecision
  ...out all computations at the maximum available precision - double precision in the case of floating-point (FP)workloads. This happens regardless of the ac ...where the precision of the entire system is reduced - often incurring loss in result quality - transprecision computing entails dynamically providing the
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• Design and implementation of the front-end for a portable ionizing radiation detector
  ...emory), or a catastrophic failure of the device (e.g. Single Event Burnout in high power devices). Since the interaction of ionizing particles with matte ...evice reliability is becoming a primary challenge requiring new approaches in terms of device physics, device modelling, physics of failure, thermal mana
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• Channel Estimation for 5G Cellular IoT and Fast Fading Channels
  ...g channels is thus needed to improve the performance of the current system in such scenarios. ...ising complexity-performance trade-off you will implement and compare them in our Matlab framework. You will then select one algorithm, and optimize and
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• Subject specific embeddings for transfer learning in brain-computer interfaces
  ...akes it particularly challenging, however, is its susceptibility to errors in the recognition of human intentions. The underlying reason is the low signa * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary)
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• FPGA Testbed Implementation for Bluetooth Indoor Positioning
  ...LE packets and estimating their received signal power was developed at IIS in previous projects. ...power. The previously developed digital baseband receiver block integrated in a processor system shall be used as a starting point. As a first step you w
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• Experimental Validation of Impact Ionization Models for TCAD Simulation by a Novel Characterization Technique
  Modeling and simulation of impact ionization in semiconductors is fundamental to the design and the robustness of electroni ...se to the breakdown. However, this approach is not very accurate, because, in real devices, the breakdown first occurs at small isolated spots or lines (
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• Design and Exploitation of a Test-Bench for Non-Destructive Characterization of the Susceptibility of Silicon Carbide (SiC) Power Devices to Cosmic Radiation
  ...fferent types of electromagnetic and/or nuclear interactions. This results in the deposition of energy (charge) along the ionization track that may be su ...ated conditions, i.e. by irradiating such devices with light or heavy ions in particle accelerators. However, these experiments require special facilitie
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• PREM Intervals and Loop Tiling
  ...only offer a major increase in performance, but also promises an increase in energy efficiency due to the use of more efficient accelerators. However, c ...program when the system is not permitting memory accesses from the program in question, the memory phase is tasked with copying all data needed for compu
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• Compiler Profiling and Optimizing
  ...only offer a major increase in performance, but also promises an increase in energy efficiency due to the use of more efficient accelerators. However, c ...program when the system is not permitting memory accesses from the program in question, the memory phase is tasked with copying all data needed for compu
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• Extending the RISCV backend of LLVM to support PULP Extensions
  ...V ISA has been rapidly increasing in popularity, in academia, but now also in industry. The LLVM compiler infrastructure has been recently extended to co : Interest in compiler techniques
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• Next Generation Synchronization Signals
  ...oss-correlations, which is one of the most computationally expensive tasks in an IoT modem. Recently, a new kind of synchronization waveforms has been pr ...oject you will look at the proposal in detail and evaluate its performance in comparison to state-of-the-art solutions. For this you can use our existing
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• Energy Efficient Smart Devices For Construction Building Maintenance Hilti Collaboration
  ...n IIS and Hilti that includes the desing of new hardware-software devices. In particular, machine learing, energy harvesting, bluetooth communication and ...nto existing tools and store the real time data while the tool is running. In the range of 100Hz and 1 to 8 IO ports with differing signal types. Possibl
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• Wearable Smart Camera With Deep Learning Algorithms For Automatic Detecion
  ...rator is planned to be achieved by the student. This work can also be done in collaboration with armasuisse. [[Category:In progress]]
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• Adversarial Attacks Against Deep Neural Networks In Wearable Cameras
  ...stringer requirements of low power consumption. This work can also be done in collaboration with armasuisse. [[Category:In progress]]
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• Neuromorphic Intelligence In An Embedded System in Collaboration with AiCTX
  ...ological edge and IP portfolio that comes from over 20 years of experience in mixed-signal neural processor design, advanced neural routing architectures ...from 2019 IIS and aiCTX are providing several semester and master projects in the field of neuromorphic intelligence using their processor to build a who
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• High-throughput Embedded System For Neurotechnology in collaboration with INI
  ...and the main goal is to build a whole working prototype tha will be tested in-field. [[Category:In progress]]
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• Design Of A Biomarker Assay Based On Responsive Magnetic Nanoparticles
  30% Implementation (including construction and testing in the lab) 40% Iteration in design and implementation
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• Manycore System on FPGA (M/S/G)
  In a quest for high-performance computing systems, few architectural models re ...stants’ schedule. These meetings will be used to evaluate the status and progress of the project. Besides these regular meetings, additional meetings can be
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• Hardware Acceleration
  ...t. Such accelerators are not limited to the high-performance sector alone. In low power computing, they allow complex tasks such as computer vision or cr ...monolithic accelerators dedicated to specific tasks are usually unbeatable in terms of throughput and energy efficiency, they also have drawbacks: they a
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• Signal Acquisition and Clock Offset Compensation for High-Rate Pulse UWB PHYs
  [[File:3db_logo.png|600px|thumb|M.S. project in collaboration with 3db Access on UWB-based localization]] ...enting Low-Rate Pulse (LRP) UWB technology. By introducing this technology in a classical key fob, VW demonstrates the feasibility of an ultra-low power,
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• Finite element modeling of electrochemical random access memory
  ...research teams in Zurich and the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. ...ercalation of an ion into a host material, which causes a change in electrical resistance. Compared to other NVMs such as phase-change
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• Phase-change memory devices for emerging computing paradigms
  ...rning inference hardware, where the neural network layers would be encoded in crossbar arrays of memory devices [2]. However, there are several challenge : [1] A. Sebastian et al. Memory devices and applications for in-memory computing. Nature Nanotechnology (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s4
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• Electrothermal characterization of van der Waals Heterostructures with a partial overlap
  simulations in vibrational, optical, and electronic properties and transport properties of monolayers are stacked on top of each other only in their central part.
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• Implementation of Computationally Efficient Scattering Mechanisms for Periodic Devices and 2D Materials
  are periodic in at least one of the three spacial dimensions. 2D materials have seen a surge of interest in recent years for their advantageous electronic properties. For
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• Ferroelectric Memristors for Artificial Neural Networks (IBM-Zurich)
  At the Neuromorphic Devices and Systems laboratory in IBM Research, we have an opening for a Master research project: ...ld-effects and electron tunneling, to understand the conduction mechanisms in the characterized devices.
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• Towards global Brain-Computer Interfaces
  ...akes it particularly challenging, however, is its susceptibility to errors in the recognition of human intentions, especially during motor imagery (MI). ...ed that we can find a global model for 9 subjects on a 4-class MI dataset. In this project, you apply hyperdimensional superposition on a much larger dat
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• EECIS
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• Energy Efficient Circuits and IoT Systems Group
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• Toward hyperdimensional active perception: learning compressed sensorimotor control by demonstration
  ...as well as universal computing, e.g., emulating finite state automata [2]. In this project, your goal would be to improve algorithms, and implementations for robotics applications, especially with the dataset studies in [3].
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• TCNs vs. LSTMs for Embedded Platforms
  ...t task. Another class of neural networks which achieved impressive results in visual tasks is the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a variation of ...e student will proceed with embedded implementation and system integration in order to demonstrate a real-life application using sensor acquisition and m
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• An Energy Efficient Brain-Computer Interface using Mr.Wolf
  ...akes it particularly challenging, however, is its susceptibility to errors in the recognition of human intentions. To cope with high variability of EEG d ...While being successful in image classification, CNNs are gaining attention in MI-BCIs as well [2]. One of the most popular and compact CNNs is EEGNet [3]
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• BirdGuard
  ...or this application. The algorithm shall be validated on a camera/PC setup in the field and later optimized for low power execution on the ML chip to ena ...d distance). The results shall be implemented in a prototype and validated in a field pre-study.
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• Characterization of the susceptibility to cosmic radiation of wide bandgap power devices by radioactive sources and at cryogenic temperatures
  ...erize the internal electric field of silicon power devices has been proven in [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2019.06.035 I]. This solution allows to ...nt at ambient temperature and the low charge deposition of gamma radiation in semiconductor devices, the charge deposition induced signal may be complete
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• Pressure and acoustic Smart Sensors Network for Wind Turbines Monitoring
  In this project, we aim to develop a first-ever MEMS-based surface pressure an ...of the system will be performed from the students as an important activity in order to evaluate power consumption, reliability, functionality, classifica
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• Semi-Custom Digital VLSI for Processing-in-Memory
  ...reak through the memory wall. The concept of PIM has been largely explored in many recent papers, but most of these works have focused on using some kind Recently, we have proposed PPAC (Parallel Processor in Associative Content-Addressable Memory) [1], a PIM architecture that is abl
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• Ibex: FPGA Optimizations
  ...logna under the name Zero-riscy [1], and has been taped out multiple times in a mix of academic and industry projects. Since December 2018, Ibex is activ ...SIC designs and is optimized for low area footprint and energy consumption in ASIC technologies. On FPGAs, Ibex currently has a higher resource utilizati
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• Hyper-Dimensional Computing Based Predictive Maintenance
  the remaining useful lifetime. This allows replacing machine components in a traditional machine learning techniques were data is represented in the form of
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• Ibex: Bit-Manipulation Extension
  ...logna under the name Zero-riscy [1], and has been taped out multiple times in a mix of academic and industry projects. Since December 2018, Ibex is activ ...However, the simplicity currently comes at the price of lower performance in terms of cycles per instruction compared to bigger cores such as RI5CY [1].
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• Contrastive Learning for Self-supervised Clustering of iEEG Data for Epileptic Patients
  ...ging for certain types of data that are highly complex or noisy, resulting in poor quality human annotations at best. A promising alternative is to train the models in a self-supervised way using contrastive learning [1], which was able to lea
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• Exploring features and algorithms for ultra-low-power closed-loop systems for epilepsy control
  ...an abnormal signal that allows tailoring a therapy that is to be delivered in a closed-loop manner. ...s verified in real time. This technique is used in the control of epilepsy in closed-loop fashion, for example. Still, improving the efficiency of the de
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• Deep neural networks for seizure detection
  ...ze both the energy efficiency for years-operating devices and the accuracy in the epilepsy detection. In terms of time-series analysis, a big variety of deep-learning approaches ar
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• Mapping Networks on Reconfigurable Binary Engine Accelerator
  ...flexible and power-scalable way. In this project, you will make us of our in-house developed frameworks NEMO [2] (or Quantlab [3]) and DORY[4,5] to map ...ws the RBE to perform convolutions with configurable arithmetic precisions in a flexible and power-scalable way. BBQ can be applied on both complete NNs
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• Accurate deep learning inference using computational memory
  ...ces are used to perform certain computational tasks within the memory unit in a non-von Neumann manner. ...rning inference hardware, where the neural network layers would be encoded in crossbar arrays of memory devices [2]. However, there are several challenge
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• ASIC Implementation of Jammer Mitigation
  ...the legitimate user equipments. The signal processing for this takes place in a custom ASIC.]] ...be practically viable, such methods will ultimately have to be implemented in hardware (using FPGAs or, more likely, ASICs), since sofware-based signal p
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• Real-Time Motor-Imagery Classification Using Neuromorphic Processor
  ...ation for severely paralyzed users, control of a wheelchair, or assistance in stroke rehabilitation. ...y and a couple of classes motor-imagery and often they are not implemented in a neuromorphic processor, and none of them are presenting a whole system fr
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• Andrea Cossettini
  ...[https://www.infineon.com/cms/austria/en/ Infineon Technologies] (Austria, in 2014-​​​2015). During his PhD, he worked on [https://air.uniud.it/ret '''Most of the projects evolve very fast. If you are interested in the research areas mentioned above, send me a message to discuss up-to-date
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• BCI-controlled Drone
  ...akes it particularly challenging, however, is its susceptibility to errors in the recognition of human intentions, especially during motor imagery (MI). In this project, the student works on the acquisition and processing of electr
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• Compression of iEEG Data
  * project report (in digital form; a hard copy also welcome, but not necessary) ...aud, et al., Unsupervised Learning of Spatiotemporal Interictal Discharges in Focal Epilepsy, 2018
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• Data Augmentation Techniques in Biosignal Classification
  ...student explores data augmentation methods [1][2] to improve the learning in biosignal classification tasks. Applications range from ECG to EEG [3] clas * 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
  ...g neural circuits and, in perspective, to operate neuroprosthetic devices. In this context, artificial intelligence combined with low-power embedded devi ...ion amplitudes. The aim of the project is to assess the performance of HDC in classifying different external stimulus applied to the animal.
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• Improved State Estimation on PULP-based Nano-UAVs
  ...ger in many practical applications such as aerial inspection or assistance in natural disaster areas, to name a few. In this context, the parallel ultra-low-power (PULP) platform[4] developed her
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• Deep Learning-based Global Local Planner for Autonomous Nano-drones
  ...ger in many practical applications such as aerial inspection or assistance in natural disaster areas, to name a few. A common approach in the state-of-the-art (SoA) of autonomous driving systems is represented by
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• RISC-V based Implementation of Secure Ranging According to IEEE 802.15.4z UWB
  ...Events in IoT and Embedded]. After Apple quietly introduced the U1 chipset in its high-end iPhone 11, Volkswagen, the largest automaker, also unveiled fi ...ng the Low-Rate Pulse (LRP) UWB technology. By introducing this technology in a classical key fob, VW demonstrates the feasibility of an ultra-low-power,
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• An all Standard-Cell Based Energy Efficient HW Accelerator for DSP and Deep Learning Applications
  In the past couple of years the Integrated Systems Laboratory (IIS) developed ...ifferences in minimal operating voltage can thus lead to large differences in power consumption and to a certain degree also energy efficiency.
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• Memory Augmented Neural Networks in Brain-Computer Interfaces
  ...sage of pure convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures very limited in this area, and less practical for multi-users deployment. A viable option a ...at the beginning of a new session to mitigate high inter-session variance in EEG.
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• Combining Spiking Neural Networks with Hyperdimensional Computing for Autonomous Navigation
  In the last 10 years, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) revolutionized many sci popular approach which allowed to reach state-of-the-art accuracies in many different machine
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• High Performance SoCs
  ...data increases. Despite continuous advances, memory lags behind computing in scaling, and many data-driven problems today are memory-bound. ...n streams of cores may compete for valuable memory bandwidth and interfere in a destructive way.
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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 ye ...l system for high-performance and energy-efficient SoCs and demonstrate it in a compact RISC-V-based microcontroller on real silicon.
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• Tbenz
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• A Snitch-based Compute Accelerator for HERO (M/1-2S)
  ...ts default configuration [<nowiki/>[[#ref-snitch|4]]] |The Snitch cluster in its default configuration [<nowiki/>[[#ref-snitch|4]]] ]] ..., peripherals, and a tightly-coupled memory form a Snitch cluster as shown in [[#fig:snitch_bd|2]].
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• Peak-to-average power Reduction
  ...plementation, or purely VLSI implementation based. The tools to be learned in this project are numerical (convex) optimization and deep unfolding, a rece : For students interested in the theory: Communication Systems (''recommended'')
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• Hardware Constrained Neural Architechture Search
  ...nsumption, and latency. This results in the search space for manual design in being combinatorially large. A method of tackling the problem of manual des ...akes it particularly challenging, however, is its susceptibility to errors in the recognition of human intentions, especially during motor imagery (MI).
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• Visualization of Neural Architecture Search Spaces
  ...nsumption, and latency. This results in the search space for manual design in being combinatorially large. A method of tackling the problem of manual des In this project, the student will work with a tool engineered at the lab for t
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• Knowledge Distillation for Embedded Machine Learning
  ...hows a lot of potential for deploying models to embedded devices when used in conjunction with well-established quantization techniques. The goal of this The main goals (not all have to be met in a single semester project) of the project are:
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• Energy Efficient SoCs
  As part of our research activities we regularly tape-out PULP based SoC in various sizes, from smaller student tape-outs incorporating novel hardware ===Projects In Progress===
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• VLSI Implementation of a 5G Ciphering Accelerator
  ...s and self-driving cars demand for reliable and secure communication links in order to avoid dangerous malfunctions or external attacks. 5G cellular netw ...fficient ciphering architecture meeting the low-latency demands for URLLC. In a second part of the project, the accelerator architecture will be ported t
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• Nils Wistoff
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• Coherence-Capable Write-Back L1 Data Cache for Ariane (M)
  [[Category:In progress]] == Status: In Progress ==
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• Event-Driven Vision on an embedded platform
  ...occur and entering an idle mode when there are no events. This can be used in the context of machine learning to only trigger network inference when even ...ognition on embedded platforms. Depending on the student’s interests and progress, a full working sensor node including Bluetooth communication and deploymen
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• Physical Implementation of MemPool, PULP's Manycore System (1M/1-2S)
  In a quest for high-performance computing systems, few architectural models re Our example system, in GlobalFoundries 22nm 22FDX technology, runs at 500MHz, and the L1 memory ca
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• Feature Extraction and Architecture Clustering for Keyword Spotting (1S)
  ...be largely influenced by this choice, the aim of this project is to do an in-depth evaluation of feature extraction methods for KWS and their pairing wi ...xtraction, defining the former as the techniques applied to alter the data in order to emphasize or remove certain characteristics. To better understand
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• Self-Supervised User Positioning in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
  ...NSS information and satellite-based localization is unreliable indoors and in dense rural scenarios. As a consequence, current research focuses on develo ...uted APs has the potential to significantly increase localization accuracy in indoor and rural scenarios, while avoiding the need of labeled training dat
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• Matteo Perotti
  I am interested in everything is hardware, from highly efficient low-power implementations to I mainly work on RISC-​V architectures, and I am secretly in love with the SW-​side of the world.
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• An RPC DRAM Implementation for Energy-Efficient ASICs (1-2S)
  * Experience with HDLs (preferably SystemVerliog) such as taught in VLSI I * Must have visit VLSI2 in a previous semester or take it alongside the thesis
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• Efficient TNN compression
  ...asks. Further, it has been shown that ternary feature maps are very smooth in the sense that moving from one pixel to a neighbouring pixel, very few bit Making use of this smoothness property in TNNs by implementing an efficient compression algorithm directly allows sav
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• ISA extensions in the Snitch Processor for Signal Processing (M)
  ...ge quality, even on mobile devices, has lead to an increase in pixel count in smartphone cameras over the last decade [<nowiki/>[[#ref-Skafisk2017|1]]]. ...division instructions, or with custom user extensions. The processor used in MemPool is Snitch, a lightweight 32-bit RISC-V core developed at ETH Zurich
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• Cell-Free mmWave Massive MIMO Communication
  ...on (6G) wireless systems are expected to exploit technologies already used in 5G such as massive MIMO and distributed antenna systems (DASs), but at high ...ving all users in the same time-frequency resource. Channels are estimated in each AP and the information is sent to the CPU, which performs detection, p
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• Practical Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)
  ...on, the expectation is to have more than 50 billions connected devices [1] in the network. To meet this demand, technologies that improve energy efficien ...able intelligent surfaces (RISs) are a promising solution that has emerged in recent years with the goal of altering electromagnetic fields by controllin
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• Design-Space Exploration of Low-Resolution Matrix-Vector Multipliers
  ...le different ways to operate a matrix-vector product that we will consider in this project: The top row performs a naïve sum of outer products, while th ...ite their importance, there exist no systematic studies that have compared in-depth the different methods to compute a matrix-vector product.
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• Low-Resolution 5G Beamforming Codebook Design
  ...control of the beam pattern to focus energy to/from a specific direction. In this example, we want to focus energy on the user located at 60°, while av ...an be tackled in several ways. For example, one can try to find a solution in real time (online), but then this solution needs to be found within a very
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• Deep Unfolding of Iterative Optimization Algorithms
  ...xample of algorithm unrolled using Deep Unfolding. The parameters to learn in this example are delta and tau.]] ...gorithm to reach an adequate solution within a small number of iterations. In general, tuning these parameters is a time-consuming, manual effort that be
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• ASIC Development of 5G-NR LDPC Decoder
  ...r-correcting codes, and therefore, have been adopted for data transmission in the 5G New-Radio (NR). VLSI implementation of the 5G-NR LDPC decoder is a c : An interest in digital signal processing
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• Exploring schedules for incremental and annealing quantization algorithms
  Empirical evidence is supporting confidence in the fact that quantisation-aware training algorithms are necessary when tar Most algorithms in this family interpret the quantisation problem as an approximation task, wh
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• Probabilistic training algorithms for quantized neural networks
  In recent theoretical research work, we have identified principled ways to com In contrast, the parameters of QNNs live in discrete spaces, where the meaning of gradient-based rules is less clear.
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• FFT HDL Code Generator for Multi-Antenna mmWave Communication
  ...wever, the practical deployment of massive MIMO at mmWave faces challenges in terms of implementation costs and power consumption. ...ential to substantially reduce power consumption and implementation costs (in silicon area).
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• Hypervisor Extension for Ariane (M)
  ...Machine-, Supervisor-, and User-Mode) and address translation as described in the RISC-V privileged ISA [2]. ...stems and cloud computing to allow running untrusted OSes or multiple OSes in parallel.
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• Beamspace processing for 5G mmWave massive MIMO on GPU
  ...proach exploits channel sparsity during baseband processing, which results in reduced complexity compared to conventional antenna-domain processing. ...essing. Additionally, there is growing interest from GPU vendors to invest in the wireless communication industry. Hence, it is the perfect time to proto
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• Autonomus Drones With Novel Sensors And Ultra Wide Band
  ...gies to enable high-precision and energy-efficient localization of sensors in the field as well as complete autonomous drones. The students will follow t * Indoor Localization using Ultra wide band and unique wake up radio designed in ITET will be used and evaluated by the students.
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• Smart Patch For Heath Care And Rehabilitation
  ...in Zurich and Lausanne University Hospital and Neural Control of Movement in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST prof Nicole Wender ...re development IDE, PCB Design etc.) as well as to sensors that are unique in the world provided as early access by collaborative companies (such as STMi
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• Matheus Cavalcante
  ...d my M.Sc. in integrated electronic systems from the Grenoble INP (Phelma) in 2018. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree under the Digital Circuits and ==Projects In Progress==
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• Short Range Radars For Biomedical Application
  ...evices. However, their performance has not been tested and reported either in practical scenarios and very few works exploit machine learning to further ...ardware design, on the hardware-software co-design or in all of them (i.e. in the case of a master thesis) . Moreover, the project has the goal of acquir
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• Bringup and Evaluation of an Energy-efficient Heterogeneous Manycore Compute Platform (1-2S)
  * RTL Design in SystemVerilog and Xilinx FPGA flow as taught in VLSI I * Programming in C
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• Exploring feature selection and classification algorithms for ultra-low-power closed-loop systems for epilepsy control
  ...an abnormal signal that allows tailoring a therapy that is to be delivered in a closed-loop manner. ...s verified in real time. This technique is used in the control of epilepsy in closed-loop fashion, for example. Still, improving the efficiency of the de
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• Efficient Synchronization of Manycore Systems (M/1S)
  ...C. The LR/SC instruction pair allows implementing locks and is widely used in lock-free algorithms. ..., one major drawback is their need for polling, which increases congestion in the interconnect, wastes energy, and can interfere with the thread holding
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• Transforming MemPool into a CGRA (M)
  ...ge quality, even on mobile devices, has lead to an increase in pixel count in smartphone cameras over the last decade [[#ref-Skafisk2017|&#91;1&#93;]]. ...c array is the coarse grained reconfigurable architecture (CGRA). As shown in [[#fig:cgra|1]], these architectures implement a systolic array of configur
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• Physical Implementation of Ara, PULP's Vector Machine (1-2S)
  In instruction-based programmable architectures, the key challenge is how to m In particular, multi-core designs, although highly flexible, do not explore th
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• Towards the Ariane Desktop: Display Output for Ariane on FPGA under Linux (S/B/G)
  * Hand-In: June 28, 2021 ...feature set, making it possible to run RISC-V programs on custom hardware in real time.
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• A Snitch-Based SoC on iCE40 FPGAs (1-2S/B)
  * Interest in computer architecture * Experience with HDLs as taught in ''VLSI I''
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• Ottocore: A Minimal RISC-V Core Designed for Teaching (B/2G)
  * Interest in computer architecture * Preferably: Experience with HDLs as taught in VLSI I
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• LLVM and DaCe for Snitch (1-2S)
  * Interest in code generation * Interest in or experience with the LLVM/Clang codebase
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• Implementing A Low-Power Sensor Node Network
  In the current age of pervasive computing, the most common processing platform One of the key issues in enabling deployment of such Internet of Things devices is communication. Wh
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• Efficient TNN Inference on PULP Systems
  * In the '''Hardware Track''', one student will implement TNN-specific ISA exten ...upport for the baseline architecture with the pre-existing ISA extensions. In a second step, the new TNN-specific ISA extensions developed on the hardwar
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• Wearables in Fashion
  ...the spotlight of the Paris Fashion Week than in a dimly lit cellar office in the Gloriastrasse? Then we may have the right project for you! In this project, you will work in close cooperation with the University of Arts London to combine the latest
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• Online Learning of User Features (1S)
  ...system. We want to explore how the user-specific features can be exploited in order to improve the accuracy of a small-footprint KWS model. ...ures belonging to a certain class. A schematic of a KWS system can be seen in Figure 1.
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• Graph neural networks for epileptic seizure detection
  ..., 7, 8] using iEEG signals to detect two distinct states of brain activity in patients with epilepsy, i.e., interictal (= between seizures) and ictal (= ...with convolutional networks (GCNs), achieving state-of-the-art performance in public datasets [13].[14] proposed a temporal GCN to tackle the task of sei
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• Securing Block Ciphers against SCA and SIFA
  ...y measure timing, power consumption or electromagnetic emanation of a chip in operation, and from these measurements try to extract secret information su ...p, e.g. by manipulating clock and reset inputs or with the use of a laser, in order to manipulate device operation.
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• Implementation of an AES Hardware Processing Engine (B/S)
  ...an encryption algorithm used in many of today's applications. It operates in multiple rounds on fixed-size data blocks, converting a clear-text data str Depending on the progress, the component can furthermore be integrated into PULPissimo [4], and prepa
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• Ibex: Tightly-Coupled Accelerators and ISA Extensions
  ...open source and it comes with an industry-grade verification environment. In addition, there are several configuration options such as optional support ...nsion interface has been started at ETH Zürich and University of Bologna. In the meantime, a working group has been formed connecting academia with indu
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• Ultrasound
  ...working with [[:Category:Digital|digital]] ultrasound platforms developed in our lab, spanning from ultra-low-power wearable systems, to high-speed high ==Projects in Progress==
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• Novel Metastability Mitigation Technique
  ...tching clock. As a result, the circuit persists in an unstable equilibrium in metastability, which influences the correctness of the data and the power c ...against metastability, but it does not ensure the correctness of the data. In this project, the student will explore a novel approach that employs passiv
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• Evaluating SoA Post-Training Quantization Algorithms
  ...optimal quantized weight values and/or activation quantization parameters. In this thesis, you will be implementing one or multiple of these algorithms a ...antization by Block Reconstruction ''(this is the current state of the art in post-training quantization)''
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• Characterization techniques for silicon photonics-Lumiphase
  physical effect available in integrated photonics circuits has been a scientific and placed in the heart of our R&D activities and bridges topics related to materials
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• Integrated silicon photonic structures-Lumiphase
  physical effect available in integrated photonics circuits has been a scientific and internship project is placed in the heart of our R&D activities and covers topics related
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• Training and Deploying Next-Generation Quantized Neural Networks on Microcontrollers
  ...lass systems (MCUs) has seen intense attention from the research community in recent times, with the current state of the art being represented by MCUNet ...and deploy mixed-precision networks on PULP-based systems. More precisely, in this project, you will:
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• Ternary Neural Networks for Face Recognition
  ...aset, optimize it for accuracy and prepare it for deployment on CUTIE, our in-house TNN accelerator. * [http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/] Labelled Faces in the Wild
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• Unconventional phase change memory device concepts for in-memory and neuromorphic computin
  ...ith the student. By the end of the thesis, the student will gain know-how in many aspects of the “chip” industry. ...ectronic phase-change synapses, broadly referred to by phase change memory in-memory computing.
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• Fast Simulation of Manycore Systems (1S)
  In a quest for high-performance computing systems, few architectural models re ...s very tricky and an efficient model requires that the HDL code is written in an efficient manner. This thesis will profile MemPool’s Verilator model t
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• Implementation of a Small and Energy-Efficient RISC-V-based Vector Accelerator (1M)
  == Status: In progress == ...age quality, even on mobile devices, has led to an increase in pixel count in smartphone cameras over the last decade.
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• Universal Stream Semantic Registers for Snitch (1S)
  ...terns. Recent architectural extensions [1-2] propose handling such streams in hardware. This frees processors from explicitly computing addresses and iss ...(SSRs) [1]. These map memory streams directly to general-purpose registers in a RISC-V core, such that simply accessing a register loads or stores data.
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• Efficient Memory Stream Handling in RISC-V-based Systems (M/1-2S)
  <!-- Efficient Memory Stream Handling in RISC-V-based Systems (M/1-2S) --> == Status: In Progress ==
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• EEG artifact detection for epilepsy monitoring
  Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal, causing seizures or periods of unusu In this project, the student works with an EEG headband with dry and wet elect
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• Novel Methods for Jammer Mitigation
  ...this project, we consider a scenario in which user equipments (UEs) try---in the presence of a jamming attack---to transmit data to a cellular basestati ...es in order to obtain the jammer-free UE signals. Things are not so simple in practice, however, when the jammer is "smart": Whenever the basestation tri
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• EEG artifact detection with machine learning
  Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal, causing seizures or periods of unusu In this project, the student works with the Temple University (TUH) EEG Corpus
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• Bluetooth Low Energy network with optimized data throughput
  ...i, F., & Chaudhry, F. J. (2010). Routing technique for inter slave bonding in Bluetooth scatternets formation. situations, 4, 6.)]] ...t sensors used to detect the movement during the scan, a Bluetooth network in master/slave (central/peripheral) configuration is needed.
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• Every individual on the planet should have a real chance to obtain personalized medical therapy
  ...y forever. This project is not for the faint at heart. We operate in a highly competitive, globally distributed field. In particular, we are looking for one or several students who will contribute
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• Probing the limits of fake-quantised neural networks
  However, in many applications where latency and data privacy are essential constraints, ...ing DNNs more efficient from several angles: optimising network topologies in terms of accuracy-per-parameter or accuracy-per-operation; reducing model s
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• Feature Extraction for Speech Recognition (1S)
  ...be largely influenced by this choice, the aim of this project is to do an in-depth evaluation of feature extraction methods for KWS. ...xtraction, defining the former as the techniques applied to alter the data in order to emphasize or remove certain characteristics. To better understand
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• Resource-Constrained Few-Shot Learning for Keyword Spotting (1S)
  ...eviate the limited access to data, yet its scope can feasibly be extended. In the current work, our goal is to obtain a few-shot learning pipeline target ...ent rates are low and data sets at each single institution are too small". In this occasions, one possible solution is few-shot learning.
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• VLSI Design of an Asynchronous LDPC Decoder
  ...enerated layout of a simple processor implemented using ACT and fabricated in 65nm CMOS. ]] ...until now, not supported by EDA tools and, hence, enjoyed only limited use in practice.
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• Mixed-Precision Neural Networks for Brain-Computer Interface Applications
  ...vices. Once fully functional, such a system would be of immeasurable value in the design of, e.g., motorized prostheses. ...rained edge devices such as microcontrollers, setting the state of the art in terms of efficiency for low-power motor imagery systems. However, the deplo
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• Fault Tolerance
  ...ors, however they can induce a large overhead or are not always applicable in case data changes. Furthermore, for certain applications (e.g. handling imp ===Projects In Progress===
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• Michael Rogenmoser
  ...h in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Since summer 2021, I am pursuing a Ph.D. in the Circuits and Systems group of Prof. Luca Benini. * Reliability in SoCs
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• XNORLAX: Fused XNOR-LATCH Custom-Standard-Cell-Based Processing-in-Memory
  ...ions, such as machine learning, data mining, or 5G wireless communication, in which massive amounts of data need to be processed at high rates. ...der to break through the memory wall. The concept of PIM has been explored in many recent papers, but most of these works have focused on analog computat
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• Robert Balas
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• Integration Of A Smart Vision System
  ...require power in the order of Watts, which precludes them from being used in a portable system. Furthermore, surveillance system typically do not come w In this project, a novel, distributed and energy-efficient surveillance system
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• Flexfloat DL Training Framework
  ...round the minimal RISC-V Snitch integer core, only about 15 thousand gates in size, which is tightly coupled to accelerators such as an FPU or a DMA engi ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Non-blocking Algorithms in Real-Time Operating Systems
  ...ep interrupt handling routines and critical sections as short as possible. In fact, the maximum interrupt latency (the worst-case) is largely determined ...oject is to look at data structures and task communication primitives used in FreeRTOS [4] [5], an open-source real-time operating system (RTOS) used by
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• Real-Time Embedded Systems
  ...t also on the '''physical instant''' at which these results are produced. In fact, a real-time system changes its state as a function of physical time. ...ise it is a '''firm deadline'''. When missing a firm deadline results in a system failure (e.g. airplane sensor and autopilot systems, spacecrafts a
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• Implementing DSP Instructions in Banshee (1S)
  <!-- Implementing DSP Instructions in Banshee (M/1S) --> * Experience or interest in learning Rust
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• Accelerating Applications Relying on Matrix-Vector-Product-Like Operations
  [[File:IIP_ppac_row.png|800px|thumb|Array of processing-in-memory (PIM) bit-cells used by PPAC.]] ...ns. Depending on the application, such matrix-vector products are executed in different number formats (for example, GF2 arithmetic for forward-error cor
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• HW/SW Safety and Security
  Please continue to [[Predictable_Execution]] if you are interested in timing predictable/safety critical embedded systems. Please continue to [[Real-Time Embedded Systems]] if you are interested in designing hardware or writing software for timing predictable embedded syst
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• Low Resolution Neural Networks
  ...novel method developed in our group to reduce the complexity of inference in a network. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Wireless EEG Acquisition and Processing
  ...cessing unit that is not worn directly on the head. This must then be done in a way which the data is transmitted with short delay to the processing unit ...iable EEG signals during motion, transmitting them wirelessly with BioWolf in real time. An on-board accelerometer will empower the student to perform se
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• Neural Architecture Search using Reinforcement Learning and Search Space Reduction
  ...nsumption, and latency. This results in the search space for manual design in being combinatorially large. A method of tackling the problem of manual des In this project, the student will explore NAS-subspaces generated using a meth
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• New RVV 1.0 Vector Instructions for Ara
  [[Category:In progress]] ...1 processor. For example, “FUGAKU”, the most performant supercomputer in the world, is a vector processor!
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• Passive Radar for UAV Detection using Machine Learning
  ...without actively transmitting any signals. The project will be carried out in collaboration with the Swiss startup company YOTASYS [2] and develop signal ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Through Wall Radar Imaging using Machine Learning
  ...real-world data and software simulations. The project will be carried out in collaboration with the Swiss startup company YOTASYS [2]. ...and target differentiation have been identified as the main open questions in the field of TWRI. These challenges could potentially be addressed using ML
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• Improved Collision Avoidance for Nano-drones
  In this project, we want to improve the reliability and accuracy of the obstac More in the details, the nano-drone platform is the Bitcraze Crazyflie 2.1 [4] exte
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• Bridging QuantLab with LPDNN
  However, in many applications where latency and data privacy are essential constraints, ...ing DNNs more efficient from several angles: optimising network topologies in terms of accuracy-per-parameter or accuracy-per-operation; reducing model s
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• Exploring NAS spaces with C-BRED
  ...ns, the deep learning research community has invested considerable efforts in neural architecture search (NAS). In a previous project, we developed Clustering-Based REDuction (C-BRED), a new
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• Development of statistics and contention monitoring unit for PULP
  == Status: In progress == ...opular in the domain of '''Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTES)'''. In such systems, validation and verification (V&V) are a synergetic process th
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• Ultrasound Doppler system development
  ...emission of acoustic waves, and for the analyses of the received signals, in order to generate doppler images. The verification of the performance of th In this project, you will develop an Ultrasound power doppler imaging modality
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• Development of an implantable Force sensor for orthopedic applications
  ...onitoring are a few examples that have brought transformational advantages in terms of accurate, individualized, and timely patient-centered care. Unfort The challenge in this project is to design an ultra low power bridge-to-digital converter fo
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• A Novel Execution Scheme for Ultra-tiny CNNs Aboard Nano-UAVs
  ...ger in many practical applications such as aerial inspection or assistance in natural disaster areas, to name a few. ...will work on the State-of-the-Art open-source framework DORY [4], which is in charge of translating high-level PyTorch models into the final C implementa
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• Low-Complexity MIMO Detection
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• Forward error-correction ASIC using GRAND
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• Low-power time synchronization for IoT applications
  ...chronization algorithm for multi-antenna wireless systems and implement it in hardware while minimizing area and power. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Quantum Transport Modeling of Interband Cascade Lasers (ICL)
  ...to find. To address this issue, quantum cascade lasers (QCL) were invented in 1994. The idea consists of taking advantage of intersubband electron-hole r ...interband cascade lasers based on the InAs-GaInSb material system with an in-house quantum transport solver called OMEN and to determine their performan
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• Weak-strong massive MIMO communication with low-resolution ADCs
  ...the implementation of massive MIMO systems creates significant challenges in terms of power consumption, circuit complexity, and cost. To address these ...g for all users. Otherwise, stronger users would simply drown weaker users in quantization noise.
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• Creating a Free and Open-Source Verification Environment for Our New DMA Engine (1-3S/B)
  [[Category:In progress]] == Status: In Progress ==
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• Spatz grows wings: Physical Implementation of a Vector-Powered Manycore System (2S)
  ...age quality, even on mobile devices, has led to an increase in pixel count in smartphone cameras over the last decade. These image sensors, boasting tens In the quest to improve MemPool's peak performance, last semester, we proposed
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• Analysis of Low-Power Wide Area Network Technologies for the Internet of Things
  ...1], mioty [2,3], or LTE-M [4]. The mioty standard is a promising candidate in terms of its excellent power consumption, security, range, and reliability. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Event-based navigation on autonomous nano-drones
  ...ing-based (DL) brains with novel event-based dynamic vision sensors (DVS). In this scenario, the DVS sensor will cover the role of a primary source of hi * Knowledge/experience in embedded programming and/or parallel programming is favorable.
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• Bandwidth Efficient NEureka
  ...ompute budgets, task-specific acceleration has proven to be indispensable. In a heterogeneous subsystem with shared memory, it is very important to effic In this project, we will explore the bandwidth used by NEureka to execute a va
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• Zephyr RTOS on PULP
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• Marco Bertuletti
  ...ted my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in July 2019 and December 2021, respectively. Since March 2022, I am pursuing a Ph.D. in the Circuits and Systems group of Prof. Luca Benini.
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• A Flexible FPGA-Based Peripheral Platform Extending Linux-Capable Systems on Chip (1-3S/B)
  ...'Integration of PAPER:''' Integrate PAPER, a DVI/HDMI peripheral developed in previous student projects. * '''U-Boot and Linux Device Drivers:''' Integrate the necessary drivers in U-Boot and Linux to use the integrated peripherals
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• On-Device Training Sparse Sub-Tensor Update Scheme Optimization for CNN-based tasks (SA or MA)
  ...on inference, under the train-then-deploy paradigm. However, this results in a device unable to face real-life phenomena such as data distribution shift ...ce still requires a considerable amount of memory, a significant challenge in the context of tightly memory constrained devices such as Microcontrollers
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• Alias-Free Oscillator Synchronization for Arbitrary Waveforms
  ...g-free synchronization of a simple sine waveform is still ongoing research in 2022 [3]. ...cillator (BFO) project, to enable aliasing-free oscillator synchronization in real-time.
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• Virtual Memory Ara
  [[Category:In progress]] ...1 processor. For example, “FUGAKU”, the most performant supercomputer in the world, is a vector processor!
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• Audio Visual Speech Separation and Recognition (1S/1M)
  ...ang2018|&#91;7&#93;]]. This aim to mimic the cocktail party effect present in humans, which denotes our capability of focusing on an individual conversat In the current work, we investigate the potential of performing Audio-Visual S
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• Runtime partitioning of L1 memory in Mempool (M)
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• GDBTrace: A Post-Simulation Trace-Based RISC-V GDB Debugging Server (1S)
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• Radiation Testing of a PULP ASIC
  [[Category:In progress]] ...ned to allow us to sample as much data as possible during the short window in which we will have access to the facilities.
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• Towards a Technology-independent and Synthesizable AXI4 Performance Monitoring and Throttling Unit (1-2S)
  == Status: In Progress == [[Category:In Progress]]
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• Big Data Analytics Benchmarks for Ara
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• Creating A Technology-independent USB1.0 Host Implementation Targetting ASICSs (1-3S/B)
  [[Category:In progress]] ...requires a lot of effort. A simple solution to this problem was introduced in 1996 with USB 1.0.
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• Molecular Binding Kinetics Modelling of NO2 on Graphene/hBN Heterostructure
  ...face exposed to molecules, as shown above, allows to explore its potential in gas sensor applications. To study the influence of certain reactive molecu • Strong interest in semiconductor device physics and simulation
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• Vector-based Parallel Programming Optimization of Communication Algorithm (1-2S/B)
  ...1024 Snitch cores and 4096 banks of shared tightly coupled L1 data-memory. In this project, we will exhibit considerable DLP and implement the typical ke In the initial phase of the project, your primary objective will be to acquain
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• Design of an Area-Optimized Soft-Error Resilient Processing Core for Safety-Critical Systems (1M)
  ...soft error resilient processing core, leveraging the concept of repetition in-time. ...ted, cycle-by-cycle, by a majority voter. If the voter detects discrepancy in the results, it alerts the system that a system failure happened and recove
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• Design of a Reconfigurable Vector Processor Cluster for Area Efficient Radar Processing (1M)
  ...units and scalar processors into a heterogeneous fabric is very expensive in terms of area and power budget, especially when we consider embedded system ...efficient, radar signal processing. The vector cluster will operate either in scalar or vector mode and will efficiently sustain control tasks as well as
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• Design of an Energy-Efficient Ethernet Interface for Linux-capable Systems
  ...s (WAN) [1]. It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 1983 as IEEE 802.3 ...roject by investigating the challenges and opportunities of using Ethernet in real-time systems for automotive-oriented applications [3].
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• Design of a CAN Interface to Enable Reliable Sensors-to-Processors Communication for Automotive-oriented Embedded Applications (1M)
  ...utomation and other areas of networked embedded control, with applications in diverse products such as combustion and electric vehicles, agriculture, avi ...vices, including by the transmitting device. More information can be found in [1].
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• Predict eye movement through brain activity
  ...approaches to this problem is a measurement of brain activity with sensors in glasses or a headband. The advertised project aims to provide a proof of co [[File:Headband v2 in-min.jpeg|thumb|right|200px]]
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• Super Resolution Radar/Imaging at mm-Wave frequencies
  ...l-time precise localization between transmitters (TXs) and receivers (RXs) in dynamic mobile applications. ...alignment and reliable communication, especially in mobile wireless links. In parallel, array-based mm-Wave radars require large arrays for precise angul
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• Machine Learning Assisted Direct Synthesis of Passive Networks
  ...of the passive network structure grows, simulation times may easily reach in the excess of several hours. This prevents the designer from performing opt ...or automating the design of transformers to achieve optimal power matching in electrical systems. The solution will be based on a mathematical model that
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• Continual Learning for Adaptive EEG Monitoring in Epileptic Seizure Detection
  <!-- Continual Learning for Adaptive EEG Monitoring in Epileptic Seizure Detection: A Wearable Approach --> In this project, the student will focus on using Continual Learning to improve
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• Audio Visual Speech Separation (1S/1M)
  ...ang2018|&#91;7&#93;]]. This aim to mimic the cocktail party effect present in humans, which denotes our capability of focusing on an individual conversat In the current work, we investigate the potential of performing Audio-Visual S
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• Charge and heat transport through graphene nanoribbon based devices
  ...However, their use as quantum heat engines has not been demonstrated yet. Progress on the experimental, as well as on the theoretical side is required to gain Interest in quantum transport theory and nano-device modeling.
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• Efficient Banded Matrix Multiplication for Quantum Transport Simulations
  ...sparse matrices are unstructured. Therefore, using these libraries results in sub-optimal performance and/or much higher memory usage than necessary comp ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Artificial Reverberation for Embedded Systems
  ...ounts of memory to model the propagation of acoustic waves in large rooms. In fact, storing 24-bit stereo samples at a 96kHz sampling rate for one second ...fabricated chip should be able to apply the "tiny" reverberation algorithm in real-time to signals sampled at a stereo ADC.
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• On-Board Software for PULP on a Satellite
  [[Category:In progress]] ...enos aims to be onboard, but still requires software both to run its tests in space and interface with the main On-Board Computer.
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• A FPGA-based data streaming system that enables real-time monitoring of cell culture and neuroactivities
  ...information such as the drug efficacy and toxicity can be readily assessed in vitro. As such, the development of CMOS biosensors for cell monitoring and : Programming experience in Python and C++
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• Real-time Linux on RISC-V
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• Wireless In Action Data Streaming in Ski Jumping (1 B/S)
  ...ta with a body-worn sensor node and transmits the information to the coach in real time. This requires reliable wireless communication with sufficient ba ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Cycle-Accurate Event-Based Simulation of Snitch Core
  ...hitectures. In this scenario, high-level simulators play an essential role in breaking the speed and design effort bottlenecks of cycle-accurate simulato ...with the flexibility of Python configuration scripts. An overview is shown in the Figure. GVSoC combines the following concepts:
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• Smart Goggles for Visual In-Action Feedback in Ski Jumping (1 M 1-2B/S)
  In ski jumping, low repetition rates of jumps limit effectiveness of training. ===Status: In Progress ===
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• On - Device Continual Learning for Seizure Detection on GAP9
  == Status: In progress == [[Category:In progress]]
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• Pretraining Foundational Models for EEG Signal Analysis Using Open Source Large Scale Datasets
  ...r capturing the brain's electrical activity, playing an indispensable role in both neurological research and clinical diagnostics. It acts as a portal to ...s inherent in these signals. This initiative recognizes a significant void in AI applications: while foundation models have revolutionized areas like ima
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• Skin coupling media characterization for fitnesstracker applications (1 B/S)
  ...uman anatomy, which is hard to achieve with current transducer technology. In this work, we develop strategies and prototypes to advance ultrasound into ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Integrating Ultrasound Technology into a Fitness Tracking Device (1M, 2 B/S)
  ...uman anatomy, which is hard to achieve with current transducer technology. In this work, we develop strategies and prototypes to advance ultrasound into * Showing participation in non-curricular analog/digital projects is a plus.
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• Skin Coupling Media Characterization For Fitness Tracker Applications (1 B/S)
  ...uman anatomy, which is hard to achieve with current transducer technology. In this work, we develop strategies and prototypes to advance ultrasound into ===Status: In Progress ===
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• Implementation of a Cache Reliability Mechanism (1S/M)
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• A RISC-V ISA Extension for Pseudo Dual-Issue Monte Carlo in Snitch (1M/2S)
  <!-- A RISC-V ISA Extension for Pseudo Dual-Issue Monte Carlo in Snitch (1M/2S) --> [[Category:In progress]]
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• Transformer Deployment on Heterogeneous Many-Core Systems
  ...processing, and machine learning are offloaded to accelerators, resulting in improved performance and energy efficiency. .... The self-attention mechanism is a key component of the model but results in a high computational load and a complicated operational scheme. For this re
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• Fault-Tolerant Floating-Point Units (M)
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• Audio Visual Speech Recognition (1S/1M)
  ...ang2018|&#91;7&#93;]]. This aim to mimic the cocktail party effect present in humans, which denotes our capability of focusing on an individual conversat In the current work, we investigate the potential of performing Audio-Visual S
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• Extreme-Edge Experience Replay for Keyword Spotting
  ...s)[[#ref-Hemati2023|&#91;2&#93;]] are added directly in the target device. In such contexts, on-device continual learning -- both domain incremental and ...ce catastrophic forgetting by maintaining a subset of already-seen samples in a memory buffer, also called reservoir. During the adaptation stage, the su
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• Accelerating Matrix Multiplication on a 216-core MPSoC (1M)
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• Learning at the Edge with Hardware-Aware Algorithms
  ...le to face real-life phenomena such as data distribution shifts or changes in the target classes. ...trated on MCUs with straightforward memory hierarchies like ARM Cortex-M4. In contrast, cutting-edge Edge processors such as GAP9 [[#ref-gwt|&#91;2&#93;]
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• Ultrasound-EMG combined hand gesture recognition
  ...uous hand and wrist kinematics is much poorer. At the same time, EMG fails in detecting some specific arm movements (e.g., wrist rotations). Combining EM ...ith minimal power consumption and reduced count of piezoelectric elements. In fact, meaningful physiological information can be derived also from single-
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• Reliability by Switching the Embedded ISA in Ibex (1-2S/B/1M)
  <!-- Reliability by Switching the Embedded ISA in Ibex --> ...PULP group, we have started developing reliable hardware designed for use in space, where high levels of radiation have a significant impact on the corr
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• Designing a Scalable Miniature I/O DMA (1-2B/1-3S/M)
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• Physical Implementation of ITA (2S)
  [[Category:In progress]] Transformers [1], initially popularized in Natural Language Processing (NLP), have found applications beyond and are n
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• 3D Matrix Multiplication Unit for ITA (1S)
  [[Category:In progress]] Transformers [1], initially popularized in Natural Language Processing (NLP), have found applications beyond and are n
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• Streaming Layer Normalization in ITA (M/1-2S)
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• Vector-based Manycore HPC Cluster Exploration for 5G Communication Algorithm (1-2M)
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• A RISC-V fault-tolerant many-core accelerator for 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (1-2S/B)
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• Design of a Scalable High-Performance and Low-Power Interface Based on the I3C Protocol (1-3S/B)
  ...ion interfaces are required to control and transmit data with high speeds, in energy-saving and space-saving designs. ...t-benches, (following the UVM methodology [4] if the student is interested in this topic). Eventually, the project can be completed with the integration
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• Creating an At-memory Low-overhead Bufferless Matrix Transposition Accelerator (1-3S/B)
  ...ible family of DMA engines, called iDMA [1]. iDMA is the cluster-level DMA in both the Snitch and PULP clusters. When implemented as this cluster-level e ...a matrix, an accelerator requires a huge internal buffer to read the data in a dense format, reshuffle it, and write it out again as a dense stream. Thi
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• Efficient collective communications in FlooNoC (1M)
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• Investigation of Quantization Strategies for Retentive Networks (1S)
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• Advanced Data Movers for Modern Neural Networks
  In the current era of AI everything, efficient neural network inference has be In this uniquely vertical project, the student will have the opportunity to
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• Deep Learning Based Anomaly Detection in ECG Signals Using Foundation Models
  ...l representation of the heart's electrical activity. ECGs are instrumental in identifying various heart conditions, including arrhythmias, myocardial inf ...for detecting anomalies in ECG signals, utilizing the latest advancements in deep learning and foundational models. This system is designed to leverage
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• Exploratory Development of a Unified Foundational Model for Multi Biosignal Analysis
  ...le in diagnosing, monitoring, and understanding various health conditions. In the realm of biosignal interpretation, diverse types of signals like electr ...a more comprehensive and holistic view of a patient's physiological state. In medical research, this approach can facilitate a more integrated understand
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