Courses

In this page, you can find the list of courses given at NUS by Prof. Massimo Alioto.

Access to the materials is given through the LumiNUS portal, and is restricted to NUS students who have been registered prior to the start of the course (no action is needed from students, they are automatically registered if enrolled in the course). If you are an NUS student and you believe that you have not been registered by mistake, please contact Prof. Alioto.


Courses

EE2026 “Digital design”

EE4415 “Integrated Digital Design”

EE5518 “VLSI digital circuit design”

Bonus material for the public will be shared in the near future.

Conference tutorials and short courses (see also our video courses and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer events available at the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society portal)

  • Always-On Systems for Next-Gen IoT – From Less Battery to Battery-Less – tutorial at ASSCC 2021, November 7, 2021, Busan (Korea)
  • Entropy generation for ubiquitous hardware security – tutorial at ESSCIRC 2021, September 6-9, 2021, Grenoble (France)
  • Always-On Integrated Circuits and Systems down to nWs – Enabling a Greener and Smarter World with Nearly No Batteries – tutorial at ISCAS 2020, Oct 18, 2020, Seville (Spain)
  • Highly Energy-Efficient Processing for Sensor Data Sensemaking: from Near-Threshold Circuits to On-Chip Deep Learning – tutorial at VLSI-DAT 2019, April 22, 2019, Hsinchu (Taiwan)
  • Technologies for built-in hardware security – short course at EDTM 2019, March 12, 2019, Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)
  • Hardware security – from Basics to ASICs – tutorial at ISSCC 2019, San Francisco (USA), Feb 17, 2019
  • Hardware Security in Energy-Constrained Silicon Chips: from Principles to State of the Art – tutorial at IEEE ISCAS, May 19, 2019, Sapporo (Japan)
  • Energy-Efficient Processing and Machine Learning at the Edge: from Sensing to Sensemaking – tutorial at ASP-DAC 2019, Jan. 21, 2019, Tokyo (Japan)
  • Highly Energy-Efficient Processing and Machine Learning for Sensor Data Sensemaking: Building the Next-Generation Internet of Things – tutorial at ISCAS 2018, Florence (Italy), May 27, 2018
  • Energy-Efficient and Energy-Scalable Processing – Meeting the Varied Needs of the Internet of Things at Its Edge – Special session plenary talk at IEEE CoolChips 2018, Yokohama (Japan), April 18, 2018
  • Pushing the limits of STT-MRAM memory arrays through circuit design – invited plenary speech at IEEE VLSI-DAT conference 2017, Hsinchu (Taiwan), April 26, 2017
  • Energy-Quality Scalable Adaptive VLSI Circuits and Systems beyond Approximate Computing – invited talk at DATE 2017 special session on “Parallel Ultra-Low-Power Computing for the IoT: Applications, Platforms, Circuits” (Lausanne, Switzerland), March 28, 2017
  • Energy Efficient Computing and Communications – tutorial at S3S conference (IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference), San Francisco (CA), Oct. 13, 2016
  • Chasing nanoWatts and picoJoules in IoT – a novel framework for minimum-energy computation – tutorial at ESSCIRC 2016 conference, Sept 12-15, 2016
  • Approximate VLSI Circuits & Systems – Continuing Energy Scaling in Spite of Moore’s Law – tutorial at ISCAS 2016 conference (Montreal, May 22, 2016)
  • Ultra-Low Power Digital Design Approaches for the Internet of Things – tutorial at ASICON 2015, Chengdu (China), Nov. 3, 2015
  • Rethinking “Things” Design – The Missing (Technology) Link in the Internet of Things – plenary invited talk at SBCCI/PATMOS/VARI 2015, Salvador (Brazil), Sept. 4, 2015
  • Near-Threshold VLSI Circuits and Systems: Aiming at (Nearly) Minimum-Energy Computation – invited talk at ISLPED 2015, Rome (Italy), July 24, 2015
  • Energy Harvesters for IoT: Applications and Key Aspects – short course at VLSI Symposium 2015, Kyoto, June 15, 2015
  • Sub-Threshold VLSI Digital Circuits and Systems: a Design Perspective – tutorial at SBCCI 2014, Aracaju (Brazil), Sept 2, 2014
  • Challenges and techniques for ultra-low voltage logic with nearly-minimum energy – short course at VLSI Symposium 2014, Hawaii, June 10, 2014
  • Near-Threshold VLSI Circuits and Systems: the Route to Ultimate Energy Efficiency – tutorial at ICECS 2014, Marseille (France), Dec. 7, 2014
  • Enabling the IoT through ultra-low voltage operation: down to the threshold and below – invited speech at SemiconEuropa 2014, Grenoble (France), Oct. 7, 2014
  • Ultra-low power design approaches for IoT – tutorial at HotChips 2014, Cuppertino (CA), Aug. 10, 2014 (available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WDQepWIs9A#t=2974)
  • Near-Threshold VLSI Circuits: a Route to Minimum-Energy Computing – tutorial at NEWCAS 2014, Trois Rivieres (Canada), June 22, 2014
  • Near-Threshold VLSI Circuits and Systems for Nearly Minimum-Energy Computing: from Basics to State of the Art – tutorial at ISCAS 2014, Melbourne (Australia), May 31, 2014)
  • (S3S) Solid-State Sub-threshold VLSI digital circuits and Systems: a design perspective – tutorial at IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference (IEEE S3S), Monterey (USA), Oct 9, 2013
  • Challenges and directions for aggressively voltage-scaled VLSI circuits and systems – CMOS and beyond – speech at New Topic Session – VLSI Test Symposium 2013, Berkeley (CA), April 29-May 2nd, 2013
  • Pushing the Limits of Energy Consumption: Opportunities and Challenges in Subthreshold Logic -tutorial at the international conference ISCAS 2010 (May 30th 2010 – Paris, France)
  • Design of nanometer MOS Current Mode Logic: from very high-speed down to ultra-low power -tutorial at the international conference ICM 2009 (Dec. 19th 2009 – Marrakech, Morocco)
  • Pushing the Limits of Energy Consumption: Opportunities and Challenges in Subthreshold Logic– tutorial at the international conference ICECS 2009 (Dec. 13th 2009 – Hammamet, Tunisia)
  • Pushing the limits of energy consumption: opportunities and challenges in subthreshold logic – tutorial at the international conference ICM’08 (Dec. 14th 2008 – Dubai, UAE)