• 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Specification and Runtime Verification of Distributed Multiprocessor Systems: Languages, Tools and Architectures

    Name: Ahmed Nassar Date: September 2, 2016 Time: 12:00 P.M. Location: EH 3403 Committee: Fadi Kurdahi (Chair), Rainer Doemer, Ahmed Eltawil Abstract: Post-Deployment runtime verification (RV) has recently emerged as a complementary technology to extend coverage of conventional software verification and testing methods. This thesis is an attempt to tackle three major barriers that need […]

  • 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 […]

  • IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Webinar

    “Fundamentals of Millimeter-Wave Frequency Generation and Synthesis in Silicon”, Presented by Payam Heydari This webinar is free and open to all SSCS members. Tue, May 31, 2016 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PDT  

  • Addressing Supply Chain Security with Split Manufacturing

    Speaker: Dr. Ted Huffmire, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CATitle: Addressing Supply Chain Security with Split Manufacturing Date: July 27, 2012 Time:11:00am Location: Donald Bren Hall 3011 CECS Host: Prof. Nikil Dutt Abstract: Security is an essential design goal in computer architecture, and security is a concern throughout the entire lifecycle of a system. The process of designing hardware requires trusting […]

  • 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 […]

  • A Client-centric Approach to Interoperable Clouds

    Speaker: Mukesh Singhal, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Merced Title: A Client-centric Approach to Interoperable Clouds Date: Friday, December 6, 2013 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Location: Donald Bren Hall 6011 Abstract: Cloud computing offers several benefits in terms of scalability, cost and performance. These benefits have contributed to the wide-scale acceptance of the […]

  • 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 P.M. Location: Engineering Hall 2430 Hosts: Professor Payam Heydari Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss variability challenges in VLSI systems and our recent research […]