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Optimizing Lattice-based Post-Quantum Cryptography Codes for High-Level Synthesis

Francesco Regazzoni, Andrea Guerrieri, Andres Upegui

High-level synthesis is a mature Electronics Design Automation (EDA) technology for building hardware design in a short time. It produces automatically HDL code for FPGAs out of C/C++, bridging the gap from algorithm to hardware. Nevertheless, sometimes th ...

IEEE2022

Analytic modelling of passive microfluidic mixers

Jean-Michel Sallese, Christophe Lallement

This paper deals with a new analytical model for microfluidic passive mixers. Two common approaches already exist for such a purpose. On the one hand, the resolution of the advection-diffusion-reaction equation (ADRE) is the first one and the closest to ph ...

AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS2022

System Level simulation framework for the ASICs development of a novel particle physics detector

Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Caratelli, Davide Ceresa, Simone Scarfì

The simulation of the passage of particles through matter using Monte Carlo methods is broadly used in the development of particle detectors for high energy physics experiments. To develop the readout electronics for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experim ...

IEEE2018

Virtual Prototyping Methodology for Power Automation Cyber-Physical-Systems

Juan Sebastian Rodriguez Estupinan

In this thesis, the author proposes a circular system development model which considers all the stages in a typical development process for industrial systems. In particular, the present work shows that the use of virtual prototyping at early stages of the ...

EPFL2017

Electro-thermal virtual prototyping of a Rogowski Coil sensor system

Alain Vachoux, Juan Sebastian Rodriguez Estupinan

An electro-thermal model of a Rogowski Coil sensor system is here described. A co-design methodology between VHDL-AMS and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) has been used for modeling the entire system. The proposed modeling strategy uses geometrical FEA to com ...

IEEE2015

VHDL-AMS Virtual Prototyping of a Generator Circuit Breaker Ablation Monitoring System

Alain Vachoux, Juan Sebastian Rodriguez Estupinan, Yannick Maret, Qianqian Ha

Generator Circuit Breakers (GCBs) are commonly used in electrical power generation systems to protect key equipment such as transformers and generators from damage due to overload or short-circuit. However the interruption and feeding of high currents lead ...

IEEE Conference Press2015

Electro-thermal modeling of a Rogowski coil sensor system

Alain Vachoux, Juan Sebastian Rodriguez Estupinan

This paper focuses on the electro-thermal modeling of an electrical current sensor, based on the Rogowski Coil transducer. We exploit the multi-domain capabilities of VHDL-AMS together with geometrical Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to create a time-depende ...

2015

Formal Analysis of SystemC Designs in Process Algebra

Hossein Hojjat

SystemC is an IEEE standard system-level language used in hardware/software co-design and has been widely adopted in the industry. This paper describes a formal approach to verifying SystemC designs by providing a mapping to the process algebra mCRL2. Our ...

2011

Efficient Modelling and Simulation Methodology for the Design of Heterogeneous Mixed-Signal Systems on Chip

Torsten Mähne

Systems on Chip (SoCs) and Systems in Package (SiPs) are key parts of a continuously broadening range of products, from chip cards and mobile phones to cars. Besides an increasing amount of digital hardware and software for data processing and storage, the ...

EPFL2011

VHDL-AMS Model of an Electrochemical Cell to Design VLSI Bio-Chips

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Yusuf Leblebici, Alain Vachoux, Marialaura Beltrandi

This paper presents a new VHDL-AMS behavioral model of an electrochemical cell suitable for the design of VLSI bio-chips. Existing models are mainly equivalent circuit macromodels using electrical primitives, which hardly fit the actual behavior of biosens ...

2011

Dataflow Programming for Systems Design Space Exploration for Multicore Platforms

Christophe Lucarz

Nowadays processing systems are asked to support increasing complex and demanding high-performance applications, especially in the signal processing and video processing domains. The design of these systems are becoming extremely challenging because of sev ...

EPFL2011

An ultra high-speed, mixed-signal emulator for solving power system dynamic equations

Maher Kayal, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Laurent Fabre, Ira Nagel, Fabrizio Lo Conte, Guillaume Olivier Lanz

This paper focuses on a new pipelined processing unit architecture dedicated to mixed-signal power system emulation. Prior research in this field has proven that analog emulation overcomes the speed limits of numerical simulators with reliable accuracy. Th ...

IEEE2011

Supporting Dimensional Analysis in SystemC-AMS

Alain Vachoux, Torsten Mähne

This paper will introduce new modeling capabilities for SystemC-AMS to describe energy conserving multi-domain systems in a formal and consistent way at a high level of abstraction. To this end, all variables and parameters of the system model need to be a ...

IEEE2009

A VHDL-AMS Modeling Methodology for Top-Down/Bottom-Up Design of RF Systems

Alain Vachoux, Torsten Mähne, Matteo Contaldo

This paper presents a modelling methodology for the top-down/bottom-up design of RF systems based on systematic use of VHDL-AMS models. The model interfaces are parameterizable and pin-accurate. The designer can choose to parameterize the models using perf ...

ECSI2009

Development of a Bond Graph Based Model of Computation for SystemC-AMS

Yusuf Leblebici, Alain Vachoux, Torsten Mähne

The modelling and simulation capabilities of SystemC-AMS concerning conservative continuous time systems involving the interaction of several physical domains and with digital control components are currently limited. Bond graphs unify the description of m ...

2008

SystemC-Based Modeling of Embedded Heterogeneous Systems

Alain Vachoux, Torsten Mähne

SystemC is emerging as a de-facto standard for digital system design. Since embedded systems include more and more heterogeneous components (e.g., analog/RF front-ends, processor cores, embedded software, digital hardware, sensors, actuators), the need for ...

2008

Dataflow/Actor-Oriented language for the design of complex signal processing systems

Marco Mattavelli, Christophe Lucarz, Ghislain Roquier

Signal processing algorithms become more and more complex and the algorithm architecture adaptation and design processes cannot any longer rely only on the intuition of the designers to build efficient systems. Specific tools and methods are needed to cope ...

2008

Proposal for a Bond Graph Based Model of Computation in SystemC-AMS

Alain Vachoux, Torsten Mähne

SystemC-AMS currently offers modelling formalisms with specialised solvers mainly focussing on the electrical domain. There is a need to improve its modelling capabilities concerning conservative continuous time systems involving the interaction of several ...

ECSI2007

Last-touch correlated data streaming

Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman

Recent research advocates address-correlating predictors to identify cache block addresses for prefetch. Unfortunately, address-correlating predictors require correlation data storage proportional in size to a program's active memory footprint. As a result ...

2007

Toward a power system emulation using analog microelectronics solid state circuits

Maher Kayal, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Laurent Fabre, Ira Nagel

An analog electronics emulation solution is investigated in order to assess the state of a power system facing dynamic phenomena such as the transient stability. Two approaches are studied: DC emulation and AC emulation. Both are intended to be integrated ...

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