Publications by Federico Angiolini

Towards Ultrasound Everywhere: A Portable 3D Digital Back-End Capable of Zone and Compound Imaging

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Marcel Arditi, Shuping Zhang

Ultrasound imaging is a ubiquitous diagnostic technique, but does not fit the requirements of the telemedicine approach, because it relies on the real-time manipulation and image recognition skills of a trained expert, called sonographer. Sonographers are ...

2018

Single-FPGA complete 3D and 2D medical ultrasound imager

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Damien Doy, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Marcel Arditi

3D ultrasound (US) acquisition acquires volumetric images, thus alleviating a classical US imaging bottleneck that requires a highly-trained sonographer to operate the US probe. However, this opportunity has not been explored in practice, since 3D US machi ...

IEEE2017

Safe and Efficient Deployment of Data-Parallelisable Applications on Many-Core Platforms: Theory and Practice

Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Alena Simalatsar, Stefanos Skalistis

The safe and, at the same time, efficient deployment of parallelisable applications on many-core platforms is a challenging task. Theoretical Models of Computation (MoC) require the realistic estimation of task Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET ...

2017

1024-Channel 3D Ultrasound Digital Beamformer in a Single 5W FPGA

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim

3D ultrasound, an emerging medical imaging technique that is presently only used in hospitals, has the potential to enable breakthrough telemedicine applications, provided that its cost and power dissipation can be minimized. In this paper, we present an F ...

IEEE2017

Raspberry Pi Driven Flow-Injection System for Electrochemical Continuous Monitoring Platforms

Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Abuduwaili Tuoheti, Danilo Demarchi, Bruno Donato

Nowadays, there is an immense interest regarding new bio-sensing technologies, highlighting the need for effective validation of their capabilities. This necessity is more crucial when examining the proprieties of a sensor for continuous monitoring of a co ...

IEEE2017

Inexpensive 1024-Channel 3D Telesonography System on FPGA

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Damien Doy, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Marcel Arditi

Volumetric ultrasound (US) is a very promising development of medical US imaging. An under-exploited advantage of volumetric US is the mitigation of the strict probe positioning constrains necessary to acquire 2D scans, potentially allowing the decoupling ...

IEEE2017

Efficient Sample Delay Calculation for 2-D and 3-D Ultrasound Imaging

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Luca Benini, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Marcel Arditi

Ultrasound imaging is a reference medical diagnostic technique, thanks to its blend of versatility, effectiveness, and moderate cost. The core computation of all ultrasound imaging methods is based on simple formulae, except for those required to calculate ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Single-FPGA, Scalable, Low-Power, and High-Quality 3D Ultrasound Beamformer

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Marcel Arditi

We present an efficient FPGA architecture suitable for a medical 3D ultrasound beamformer. We tackle the delay calculation bottleneck, which is the heart and the most critical part of the beam-former, by proposing a computationally efficient design that is ...

Ieee2016

Apodization Scheme for Hardware-Efficient Beamformer

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Marcel Arditi

3D ultrasound is an emerging diagnostic technique that extends standard ultrasound imaging by capturing volumes, instead of planes. This brings completely new diagnostic opportunities, among which the possibility of disjoining image acquisition and analysi ...

Ieee2016

Single-FPGA 3D Ultrasound Beamformer

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Marcel Arditi

In medical diagnosis, ultrasound (US) imaging is one of the most common, safe, and powerful techniques. Volumetric (3D) US imaging, an emerging technique, is even more attractive than standard 2D imaging, as it allows for imaging without the local presence ...

Ieee2016

Demo: Efficient Delay and Apodization for on-FPGA 3D Ultrasound

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Marcel Arditi

In medical diagnosis, ultrasound (US) imaging is one of the most common, safe, and powerful techniques. Volumetric (3D) US is potentially very attractive, compared to 2D US, because it might enable telesonography - decoupling the local image acquisition, b ...

2016

Assessment of Image Quality vs. Computation Cost for Different Parameterizations of Ultrasound Imaging Pipelines

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Alena Simalatsar, Stefanos Skalistis, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Marcel Arditi

Ultrasound imaging is a technique widely used in medicine to visualize organs and other body structures, capturing their position, size, morphology and any pathological lesions. Its use is unfortunately limited to specialized centers with trained personnel ...

2015

Tackling the Bottleneck of Delay Tables in 3D Ultrasound Imaging

Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Luca Benini, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Marcel Arditi

3D ultrasound imaging is quickly becoming a refer- ence technique for high-quality, accurate, expressive diagnostic medical imaging. Unfortunately, its computation requirements are huge and, today, demand expensive, power-hungry, bulky processing resources ...

IEEE2015

Computing Accurate Performance Bounds for Best Effort Networks-on-Chip

Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali, Dara Rahmati, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad

Real-time (RT) communication support is a critical requirement for many complex embedded applications which are currently targeted to Network-on-chip (NoC) platforms. In this paper, we present novel methods to efficiently calculate worst- case bandwidth an ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

An integrated, programming model-driven framework for NoC-QoS support in cluster-based embedded many-cores

Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Luca Benini, Jaime Joven Murillo

Embedded SoC designs are embracing the many-core paradigm to deliver the required performance to run an ever-increasing number of applications in parallel. Networks-on-Chip (NoC) are considered as a convenient technology to implement many-core embedded pla ...

Elsevier2013

QoS-Driven Reconfigurable Parallel Computing for NoC-Based Clustered MPSoCs

Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Jaime Joven Murillo

Reconfigurable parallel computing is required to provide high-performance embedded computing, hide hardware complexity, boost software development, and manage multiple workloads when multiple applications are running simultaneously on the emerging network- ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Characterization and Implementation of Fault-Tolerant Vertical Links for 3-D Networks-on-Chip

Federico Angiolini, Luca Benini, Subhasish Mitra

Through silicon vias (TSVs) provide an efficient way to support vertical communication among different layers of a vertically stacked chip, enabling scalable 3-D networks-on-chip (NoC) architectures. Unfortunately, low TSV yields significantly impact the f ...

2011

Networks on Chips: From Research to Products

Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali, Ciprian Seiculescu

Research on Networks on Chips (NoCs) has spanned over a decade and its results are now visible in some products. Thus the seminal idea of using networking technology to address the chip-level interconnect problem has been shown to be correct. Moreover, as ...

2010

A Method for Calculating Hard QoS Guarantees for Networks-on-Chip

Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Luca Benini, Srinivasan Murali, Dara Rahmati, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad

Many Networks-on-Chip (NoC) applications exhibit one or more critical traffic flows that require hard Quality of Service (QoS). Guaranteeing bandwidth and latency for such real time flows is crucial. In this paper, we present novel methods to efficiently c ...

2009

Method to manage the load of peripheral elements within a multicore system

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Federico Angiolini

The aim of the present invention is to propose a method to provide reliability, power management and load balancing support for multicore systems based on Networks- on-Chip (NoCs) as well as a way to efficiently implement architectural support for this met ...

2008