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Energy-Efficient Capacitance-to-Digital Converters for Low-Energy Sensor Nodes

Title: “Energy-Efficient Capacitance-to-Digital Converters for Low-Energy Sensor Nodes” Speaker: Professor Khaled N. Salama, King Abdullah, University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Date and Time: Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 11:00 A.M. Location: Engineering Hall 2430 Hosts: Fadi J. Kurdahi and Ahmed Eltawil Abstract: Energy efficiency is a key requirement for wireless sensor nodes, biomedical […]

Power Optimization for Medical Sensing Systems

Name:  Jun Luan Location:  EH 4106 Date: February 24, 2016 Time: 1:00pm Committee: Pai Chou (Chair), Mohammad Al Faruque, Fadi Kurdahi Abstract:  Medical sensing systems collect and analyze the patients’ physiological data for monitoring, aid or diagnostic purposes. System designers are faced with stringent requirements on not only correctness and safety but also power. Reference […]

Frameworks and Algorithms for Wearable Medical Applications

Name:  SeungJae Lee Date:  April, 5, 2016 Time:  3:00p.m. Location:  EH 4106 Committee:  Pai H. Chou (Chair), Fadi Kurdahi, Tony Givargis Abstract: Wearable embedded systems with sensing, communication, and computing capabilities have given rise to innovations in e-health and telemedicine in general. The scope of such systems ranges from devices and mobile apps to cloud […]

“Towards Computer-Aided Design of Electrical Energy Systems: Challenges and Solutions”

Title: "Towards Computer-Aided Design of Electrical Energy Systems: Challenges and Solutions" Speaker: Professor Massimo Poncino, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy Date and Time: Friday, April 22, 2016 at 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Location: Engineering Hall 2430 Hosts: Professor Mohammad Al Faruque Abstract: Electrical energy systems (EESs) include energy generation, distribution, storage, and consumption, and […]

Area/speed tradeoffs in a retargetable FPGA-optimized processor core

Speaker:  Marco Zec, University of Zagreb Title:  "Area/speed tradeoffs in a retargetable FPGA-optimized processor core" Date:  Friday, July 15, 2016 Time:  11:00 AM Location:  CECS Conference Room (Engineering Hall 3206) Host:  Prof. Daniel Gajski Abstract: Can portable yet efficient, FPGA-optimized processor cores be constructed using generic HDL, without depending on any vendor-specific primitives?  In this talk […]

Progression and Edge Intelligence Framework for IoT Systems

Name:  Zhenqiu Huang Date: July 29, 2016 Time: 10:00am Location:  EH 4106 Committee: Kwei-Jay Lin (Chair), Fadi Kurdahi, Mohammad Al Faruque Abstract: This thesis studies the issues on building and managing future Internet of Things (IoT) systems. IoT systems consist of distributed components with services for sensing, processing, and controlling through devices deployed in our […]

PhD Defense:

Name:  Aras Pirbadian Date: August 29, 2016 Time: 3:30pm Location:  EH 3403 Committee: Ahmed Eltawil (Chair), Fadi Kurdahi, Rainer Doemer With the continued scaling of chip manufacturing technologies, the significance of process variation in performance of the systems is increasing. Specifically, process variation results in growing voltage and frequency overhead margins required to ensure error […]

Distinguished Lecture at CECS

Speaker: Prof. Massimo Poncino, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy Title: Towards Computer-Aided Design of Electrical Energy Systems:Challenges and Solutions Date: Friday, April 22, 2016 Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm Location: Engineering […]

Circuits and Systems Seminar Series

Title: "Adaptive Design: Tackling Variability Challenges in VLSI Circuits" Speaker: Prof Mingoo Seok, Columbia University, New York, NY Date and Time: Friday, April 22, 2016 at 3:00 P.M. - 4:00 […]