IEEE JETCAS Special Issue on Energy-Quality Scalable Systems – Guest Editors: M. Alioto (NUS), V. De (Intel), A. Marongiu (ETHZ) – Paper submission now open

The call for papers on “Energy-Quality Scalable Circuits and Systems for Sensing and Computing: from Approximate, to Communication-Inspired and Learning-Based” has just been released for the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. Researchers are warmly invited to submit their paper contributions to be part of this highly impactful special issue in the area of […]

New Springer book edited by Prof. Alioto: first book on chip design for IoT, from circuits to systems

The book “Enabling the Internet of Things – from Integrated Circuits to Integrated Systems” is being published by Springer and is now available athttp://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319514802 This book offers the first comprehensive view on integrated circuit and system design for the Internet of Things (IoT), and in particular for the tiny nodes at its edge. The authors provide a fresh […]

IEEE TCAS-I Special Issue on IoT (Guest Editors: M. Alioto, E. Sanchez-Sinencio, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli): paper submission now open

The call for papers on “Circuits and Systems for the Internet of Things – From Sensing to Sensemaking” has just been released for the IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – part I. Researchers working in the space of the Internet of Things (IoT) are warmly invited to submit their paper contributions to be part of this highly […]

Seminar on sub-10nm CMOS device-circuit interaction by Prof. Kaushik Roy (Purdue) – March 29, 2016

DATE: 12-1:30PM on March 29, 2016        LOCATION: E1-06-09 (Engineering Blk E1, Faculty of Engineering, NUS) @ NUS campus (map)TITLE: Device-Circuit Co-design of Multi-Gate FETs in Scaled Technologies ABSTRACTSub-10nm FinFET scaling presents new challenges for technology and system designers. Leakage mechanisms such as direct source to drain tunneling (DSDT) through the channel barrier, which was uncommon in longer channel bulk MOSFETs, […]

Seminar on many-core energy-efficient architectures by Prof. Bevan Baas (UCDavis) – March 24, 2016

DATE: 12-1:30PM on March 24, 2016         LOCATION: E1-06-05 (Engineering Blk E1, Faculty of Engineering, NUS) @ NUS campus (map) TITLE: A case for fine-grain processor arrays for efficient and high-performance computation ABSTRACTThe continually-growing number of devices available per chip assures the presence of many processing blocks per die communicating by some type of inter-processor interconnect. It is interesting to […]

Seminar on Carbon Nanotubes by Prof. Subhasish Mitra (Stanford) – June 26, 2015

DATE: 12-1:30PM June 26, 2015         LOCATION: E5-03-23 (Engineering Blk E5, Faculty of Engineering, NUS) @ NUS campus (map) TITLE: From Nanodevices to Nanosystems: Carbon Nanotube N3XT Information Technology ABSTRACTCarbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors (CNFETs) can revolutionize the design of highly energy-efficient future electronic systems. Unfortunately, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) face major obstacles such as substantial imperfections and variations inherent […]

Seminar on Approximate Computing by Prof. Kaushik Roy (Purdue) – June 23, 2015

DATE: 2-3:30PM June 23, 2015        LOCATION: E5-03-23 (Engineering Blk E5, Faculty of Engineering, NUS) @ NUS campus (map)TITLE: Approximate Computing for Energy-efficient Error-resilient Multimedia Systems ABSTRACTIn today’s world there is an explosive growth in digital information content. Moreover, there is also a rapid increase in the number of users of multimedia applications related to image and video processing, recognition, […]

Seminar on 3D systems by Prof. Yusuf Leblebici (EPFL) – Dec. 11, 2014

DATE: 1-2PM Dec. 11, 2014         LOCATION: E5-03-20 (Engineering Blk E5, Faculty of Engineering, NUS) @ NUS campus (map) TITLE: Design and Testing Strategies for Modular 3D-Multiprocessor / Memory Systems Integration Using Die-level TSV Technology ABSTRACT This talk offers a broad overview on 3D integration technologies, and also provides some outline / insight concerning architectural design implications. […]

New Springer book

The book “Flip-Flop Design in Nanometer CMOS” has been published by Springer and is now available at http://www.springer.com/engineering/circuits+%26+systems/book/978-3-319-01996-3