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Functional-Basis Analysis of Non-Stationary Signals in Modern Power Grids: Theory and Implementation in Embedded Systems

Situational awareness strategies are essential for the reliable and secure operation of the electric power grid which represents critical infrastructure in modern society. With the rise of converter-interfaced renewable generation and the consequent shift ...

EPFL2024

Resource-Efficient Continual Learning for Personalized Online Seizure Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Flavio Ponzina, Amirhossein Shahbazinia, José Angel Miranda Calero, Jonathan Dan

Epilepsy, a major neurological disease, requires careful diagnosis and treatment. However, the detection of epileptic seizures remains a significant challenge. Current clinical practice relies on expert analysis of EEG signals, a process that is time-consu ...

IEEE2024

Acceleration of Control Intensive Applications on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays for Embedded Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Benoît Walter Denkinger, Miguel Peon Quiros

Embedded systems confront two opposite goals: low-power operation and high performance. The current trend to reach these goals is toward heterogeneous platforms, including multi-core architectures with heterogeneous cores and hardware accelerators. The lat ...

2023

Tumescense monitoring system for diagnosing erectile dysfunction and methods of use

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Rodrigo Araujo Fraga Da Silva

Systems and methods for monitoring penile tumescence are provided that overcome the drawbacks of previously known systems by providing a wearable formed of a flexible and elastic tube having a plurality of sensors disposed on or embedded within it, the wea ...

2023

Exploring brain-inspired multi-core heterogeneous hardware templates for low-power biomedical embedded systems

Benoît Walter Denkinger

The miniaturization of integrated circuits (ICs) and their higher performance and energy efficiency, combined with new machine learning algorithms and applications, have paved the way to intelligent, interconnected edge devices. In the medical domain, they ...

EPFL2023

PePTM: An Efficient and Accurate Personalized P2P Learning Algorithm for Home Thermal Modeling

Rachid Guerraoui, Omid Ardakanian, Alexandre David Olivier Maurer

Nowadays, the integration of home automation systems with smart thermostats is a common trend, designed to enhance resident comfort and conserve energy. The introduction of smart thermostats that can run machine learning algorithms has opened the door for ...

MDPI2023

Design for Test With Unreliable Memories by Restoring the Beauty of Randomness

Andreas Peter Burg, Marco Widmer, Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi

This article presents a design-for-test methodology for embedded memories. The methodology relies on a fully random fault model of post-fabrication errors, which results in a low-overhead test strategy. The methodology's effectiveness is demonstrated on an ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

VWR2A: A Very-Wide-Register Reconfigurable-Array Architecture for Low-Power Embedded Devices

David Atienza Alonso, Benoît Walter Denkinger, Miguel Peon Quiros

Edge-computing requires high-performance energy-efficient embedded systems. Fixed-function or custom accelerators, such as FFT or FIR filter engines, are very efficient at implementing a particular functionality for a given set of constraints. However, the ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

The Rebound Effects from Industrial Energy Efficiency Improvements

Michel Zimmermann

In energy policy, energy efficiency constitutes a central element in reducing domestic and, specifically, industrial en-ergy use. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of energy efficiency improvements in achieving its targets is known to be limited by rebound ...

EPFL2022

PlaceNet: A multi-scale semantic-aware model for visual loop closure detection

Hussein Fadl Hassan Hassan Osman

Loop closure detection helps simultaneous localization and mapping systems reduce map and state uncertainty via recognizing previously visited places along the path of a mobile robot. However, visual loop closure detection is susceptible to scenes with dyn ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Decentralized in-order execution of a sequential task-based code for shared-memory architectures

Charly Nicolas Lucien Castes

The hardware complexity of modern machines makes the design of adequate programming models crucial for jointly ensuring performance, portability, and productivity in high-performance computing (HPC). Sequential task-based programming models paired with adv ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

Embedded figures in schizophrenia: A main deficit but no specificity

Michael Herzog, Michel Akselrod, Maya Roinishvili, Ophélie Gladys Favrod

Visual deficits are core deficits of schizophrenia. Classically, deficits are determined with demanding psychophysical tasks requiring fine-grained spatial or temporal resolution. Less is known about holistic processing. Here, we employed the Leuven Embedd ...

2022

Virtual ADTs for Portable Metaprogramming

Martin Odersky, Nicolas Alexander Stucki

Scala 3 provides a metaprogramming interface that represents the abstract syntax tree definitions using algebraic data types. To allow the compiler to freely evolve without breaking the metaprogramming interface, we present virtual algebraic data types (or ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Optimal Thrust Vector Control of an Electric Small-Scale Rocket Prototype

Colin Neil Jones, Petr Listov, Roland Schwan

Recent advances in Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithms and methodologies, combined with the surge of computational power of available embedded platforms, allows the use of real-time optimization-based control of fast mechatronic systems. This paper p ...

IEEE2022

Embedded PWM Predictive Control of DC-DC Power Converters Via Piecewise-Affine Neural Networks

Colin Neil Jones, Emilio Maddalena

Predictive control is a flexible control methodology that can optimize performance while satisfying current and voltage constraints. Its application in the power electronics domain is however hampered by the high computational demands associated with it. I ...

2021

Synthesis of Flexible Accelerators for Early Adoption of Ring-LWE Post-quantum Cryptography

Francesco Regazzoni, Hamid Nejatollahi, Subhadeep Banik

The advent of the quantum computer makes current public-key infrastructure insecure. Cryptography community is addressing this problem by designing, efficiently implementing, and evaluating novel public-key algorithms capable of withstanding quantum comput ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

mu RAI: Securing Embedded Systems with Return Address Integrity

Mathias Josef Payer

Embedded systems are deployed in security critical environments and have become a prominent target for remote attacks. Microcontroller-based systems (MCUS) are particularly vulnerable due to a combination of limited resources and low level programming whic ...

INTERNET SOC2020

JIT works: decide when all data is known (VLDB Women in Database Research Award talk)

Anastasia Ailamaki

When the time comes to make a critical decision, it is of paramount importance to prepare enough so that all the information necessary is available at decision time. Under-preparation leads to uninformed decisions; over-preparation, however, may lead to co ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Containergy-A Container-Based Energy and Performance Profiling Tool for Next Generation Workloads

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Wellington Silva De Souza

Run-time profiling of software applications is key to energy efficiency. Even the most optimized hardware combined to an optimally designed software may become inefficient if operated poorly. Moreover, the diversification of modern computing platforms and ...

2020

Multispectral image sensor and method for fabrication of an image sensor

Assim Boukhayma

The present invention relates to a multispectral image sensor having a pixel array for detecting images with light components in different wavelength ranges, comprising a plurality of imaging layers each embedded in a semiconductor substrate, wherein in ea ...

2020