Publications related to Emulator

A RISC-V Extension to Minimize Privileges of Enclave Runtimes

Edouard Bugnion, Neelu Shivprakash Kalani

In confidential computing, the view of the system software is Manichean: the host operating system is untrusted and the TEE runtime system is fully trusted. However, the runtime system is often as complex as a full operating system, and thus is not free fr ...

ACM2023

A Deep-Learning Approach to Side-Channel Based CPU Disassembly at Design Time

Mirjana Stojilovic

Side-channel CPU disassembly is a side-channel attack that allows an adversary to recover instructions executed by a processor. Not only does such an attack compromise code confidentiality, it can also reveal critical information on the system’s internals. ...

IEEE2022

Statistical Emulation of Neural Simulators: Application to Neocortical L2/3 Large Basket Cells

Idan Segev, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Oren Amsalem

Many scientific systems are studied using computer codes that simulate the phenomena of interest. Computer simulation enables scientists to study a broad range of possible conditions, generating large quantities of data at a faster rate than the laboratory ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Hardware and Software Interfaces Design for Multi-Panel Electrochemical Sensors

Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra

The exponential growth of wearable healthcare devices market is fostered by the internetof- things (IoT) era. Connected smart biosensors enable a decentralized healthcare that does not constrain the user to be in a medical facility to get a real-time insig ...

EPFL2021

Exploring policy change through agent-based simulation

Raphaël Klein

Policymaking is a complex process that has been studied using policy process theories almost exclusively. These theories have been built using a large number of qualitative cases. Such methods are useful for theory building but remain limited for theory ex ...

EPFL2021

Emulator Design and Generation of Synthetic Dataset in Multi-Ion Sensing

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra, Danilo Demarchi

Multi-ion potentiometric sensing becomes challenging for mixed-ion samples in which interfering electrolytes significantly alter the response of each single sensor. Therefore, an emulator based on the phase-boundary potential model is proposed to simulate ...

IEEE2020

HALucinator: Firmware Re-hosting Through Abstraction Layer Emulation

Mathias Josef Payer

Given the increasing ubiquity of online embedded devices, analyzing their firmware is important to security, privacy, and safety. The tight coupling between hardware and firmware and the diversity found in embedded systems makes it hard to perform dynamic ...

USENIX ASSOC2020

Accurate Emulation of Memristive Crossbar Arrays for In-Memory Computing

Irem Boybat Kara, Evangelos Eleftheriou

In-memory computing is an emerging non-von Neumann computing paradigm where certain computational tasks are performed in memory by exploiting the physical attributes of the memory devices. Memristive devices such as phase-change memory (PCM), where informa ...

IEEE2020

Template-assisted electrodeposition of nickel and nickel copper 3D microcomponents

Patrik Schürch

New types of metamaterials and architectured material require metallic materials with precise structural design in the microscale. However, additivemanufacturing of metallic structures in themicroscale has proven difficult, as the demand for the material q ...

EPFL2020

Design of an Always-On Deep Neural Network-Based 1-mu W Voice Activity Detector Aided With a Customized Software Model for Analog Feature Extraction

Minhao Yang

This paper presents an ultra-low-power voice activity detector (VAD). It uses analog signal processing for acoustic feature extraction (AFE) directly on the microphone output, approximate event-driven analog-to-digital conversion (ED-ADC), and digital deep ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Filectromagnetic Time Reversal Applied to Fault Location: On the Properties of Back-Injected Signals

Mario Paolone, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Zhaoyang Wang, Reza Razzaghi

By using the electromagnetic time reversal (EMTR) theory, the paper studies its properties in order to derive a new fault location method to be used in power networks. It is shown that, in the reversed-time stage, the current signal observed at the true fa ...

IEEE2018

Electromagnetic Time Reversal Applied to Fault Location: On the Properties of Back-Injected Signals

Mario Paolone, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Zhaoyang Wang, Reza Razzaghi

By using the electromagnetic time reversal (EMTR) theory, the paper studies its properties in order to derive a new fault location method to be used in power networks. It is shown that, in the reversed-time stage, the current signal observed at the true fa ...

Power Systems Computation Conference2018

T-RECS: A Virtual Commissioning Tool for Software-Based Control of Electric Grids – Design, Validation, and Operation

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro, Wajeb Saab, Roman Rudnik, Jagdish Prasad Achara, Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin

In real-time control of electric grids using multiple software agents, the control performance depends on (1) the proper functioning of the software agents, i.e., absence of software faults, and (2) the behavior of software agents in the presence of non-id ...

ACM2018

Code Generation in Computational Neuroscience: A Review of Tools and Techniques

Michael Lee Hines, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Romain Brette

Advances in experimental techniques and computational power allowing researchers to gather anatomical and electrophysiological data at unprecedented levels of detail have fostered the development of increasingly complex models in computational neuroscience ...

2018

A Scalable and Secure System Architecture for Smart Buildings

Georgios Lilis

Recent years has seen profound changes in building technologies both in Europe and worldwide. With the emergence of Smart Grid and Smart City concepts, the Smart Building has attracted considerable attention and rapid development. The introduction of novel ...

EPFL2017

Gaussian-Process-Based Emulators for Building Performance Simulation

Marilyne Andersen, Parag Rastogi, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

In this paper we present a novel emulator of a building simulator for the simulation-assisted design of high performance buildings. Our emulator is based on Gaussian-Process (GP) regression models. Such non-linear models are better suited than linear model ...

International Building Performance Simulation Association2017

Electronic solutions for power system emulation

Guillaume Olivier Lanz

Nowadays electric power systems are subject to continuous changes and the needs in the power generation and delivery service are constantly increasing, with a higher complexity of a progressively more distributed network. Because the impact of a failure ca ...

EPFL2017

A novel approach to ion-ion Langevin self-collisions in particle-in-cell modules applied to hybrid MHD codes

Jonathan Graves

In order to have a better closure for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, a common approach is to obtain the ion fluid pressure tensor by directly computing the moments of an ion distribution function, obtained by a Particle-in-cell (PIC) solver of the V ...

IOP Publishing2017

Influence of Saliency and Social Impairments on the Development of Intention Recognition

Aude Billard, Laura Bénédicte Marine Cohen

Among the symptoms of schizophrenia, deficits in the recognition of intention is one of the most studied. However, there is no cognitive model of intention recognition that takes into account both innate and environmental/developmental factors. This work p ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016

A mixed-signal computer architecture and its application to power system problems

Theodoros Kyriakidis

Radical changes are taking place in the landscape of modern power systems. This massive shift in the way the system is designed and operated has been termed the advent of the ``smart grid''. One of its implications is a strong market pull for faster power ...

EPFL2015