• “Optimizing Private Local Memories in Heterogeneous Architectures”

    Title: "Optimizing Private Local Memories in Heterogeneous Architectures" Speaker: Christian Pilato, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland Date and Time: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 11:00AM-12:00PM Location: ICS 432 Abstract: Modern Systems-on-Chip (SoC) architectures and state-of-the-art computing platforms that integrate CPUs with FPGAs are heterogeneous systems featuring an increasing number of hardware accelerators. Private […]

  • Mobile and Emerging Computing Systems: challenges and research opportunities

    Title: "Mobile and Emerging Computing Systems: challenges and research opportunities" Speaker: Dr. Raid Ayoub, Intel Strategic CAD Lab, Portland, Oregon, USA Date and Time: Friday, June 23, 2017 at 11:00AM-12:00PM Location: DBH 3011 Abstract: The computing systems have been evolving at a fast pace and they are increasingly ubiquitous. This trend is driven by advancements […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 Hall 2430) Host: Prof. Payam Heydari Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss variability challenges in VLSI systems and our recent research efforts on variation-adaptive […]

  • 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. Location:  Harut Barsamian Colloquia Room (Engineering Hall 2430) Host:  Prof. Jean-Luc Gaudiot Abstract: Resilience is a critical issue for large-scale platforms. This talk will survey […]

  • Hardware Security in the Zynq All-Programmable Soc

    Title: “Hardware Security in the Zynq All-Programmable Soc” Speaker: Dr. Steve Trimberger, Xilinx Date:  Friday, October 2, 2015 Time:  2:00 p.m. Location:  Donald Bren Hall 4011 Host: Prof. Fadi J. Kurdahi Abstract: FPGAs have grown from a simple logic replacement to fully-programmable SoC, with multi-core CPU subsystems, a broad spectrum of peripherals, hundreds of thousands […]

  • The Confluence of Communications, Sensing and Control in Large Scale Wireless Networks

    Speaker:  Prof. Urbashi Mitra, Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California Title:  The Confluence of Communications, Sensing and Control in Large Scale Wireless Networks Date:  Friday, November 8, 2013 Time:  11:00am – 12:00pm Location:  Donald Bren Hall 6011 Abstract: Modern wireless technology enables the vision of future large scale systems such as the SmartGrid, a network […]