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Resilience is a Critical Issue for Large-scale Platform

Speaker:  Prof. Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France Title:  Resilience is a Critical Issue for Large-scale Platform Date:  Monday, May 18, 2015 Time:  11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. […]

Adaptive Design: Tackling Variability Challenges in VLSI Circuits

Title: “Adaptive Design: Tackling Variability Challenges in VLSI Circuits” Speaker: Professor Mingoo Seok, Columbia University, New York Date:  Friday, April 22, 2016 Time:  3:00PM Location:  Harut Barsamian Colloquia Room (Engineering […]

Malicious LUT: A Stealthy FPGA Trojan Injected and Triggered by the Design Flow

Title:  “Malicious LUT: A Stealthy FPGA Trojan Injected and Triggered by the Design Flow” Speaker: Christian Krieg, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Date and Time: Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 2:00 PM Location: Donald Bren Hall 3011 Host:  Professor Nikil Dutt Abstract: We present a novel type of Trojan trigger targeted at the field-programmable […]

High Level Synthesis – Some Challenging Problems

Title: "High Level Synthesis - Some Challenging Problems" Speaker: George A. Constantinides, Imperial College London, UK Date and Time: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 11:00 A.M. Location: Engineering Hall 2430 Host: Professor Nikil Dutt Abstract: High Level Synthesis - synthesis of circuits from behavioral descriptions - is a long-standing problem, but one that appears to now have come to […]

Low Energy, a New Trend for Lightweight Cryptography

Title: “Low Energy, a New Trend for Lightweight Cryptography” Speaker: Dr. Francesco Regazzoni, ALaRI Institute of Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland Date and Time:  Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. Location: DBH 4011 Host: Prof. Nikil Dutt Abstract: In the last decade, several lightweight block ciphers and hash functions have been proposed. One […]

Heterogeneous Chip Architectures for Big Data Analytics

Title: "Heterogeneous Chip Architectures for Big Data Analytics" Speaker: Houman Homayoun, George Mason University, Virginia Date and Time: Friday, April 28, 2017 at 11:00AM Location: 2430 Engineering Hall Abstract: There is a fundamental shift underway now in various industry sectors to transport their big data to the clouds, thus increasing their efficiency and improving cash flow. In […]

Self-Awareness in Remote Health Monitoring Systems using Wearable Electronics

Title:  "Self-Awareness in Remote Health Monitoring Systems using Wearable Electronics" Speaker: Prof. Axel Jantsch, TU Wien Date and Time:  Friday,  June 16, 2017 at 11 A.M. Location: 2430 Engineering Hall Host: Prof. Nikil Dutt Abstract: In healthcare, effective monitoring of patients plays a key role in detecting health deterioration early enough. Many signs of deterioration exist as early as […]

Accelerators and Enablement for Application-Specific Multicore Platforms

Title: "Accelerators and Enablement for Application-Specific Multicore Platforms" Speaker: Dr. Andreas Herkersdorf, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Technische Universität München Date and Time: Monday, July 31, 2017 at 2:00PM-3:00PM Location: DBH […]

Part I: “Development of Low-End Embedded Processors for Some SoC Applications” Part II: “The Application-Specific Design for Signal Processing Applications”

Title: Part I: "Development of Low-End Embedded Processors for Some SoC Applications"Part II: "The Application-Specific Design for Signal Processing Applications" Speaker: Prof. Fitzgerald Sungkyung Park, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea Prof. Chester Park, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea Date and Time: Monday, August 7, 2017, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Location: Donald Bren Hall 3011 Abstract: Low-end processor cores can […]

“Detecting Hardware Trojans Hidden in Unspecified Design Functionality”

Title: “Detecting Hardware Trojans Hidden in Unspecified Design Functionality” Speaker: Dr. Nicole Fern, University of California, Santa Barbara Date and Time: Thursday, November 16th, 2017 at 2:00PM-3:00PM Location: Donald Bren Hall 3011 Abstract: Traditional verification methods and metrics attempt to answer the question: does my design correctly perform the intended functionality?  This talk will look at […]