TITLE

Design of Complex Heterogeneous Systems with Emerging Technologies

PRESENTER

Prof. Giovanni De Micheli, EPFL, Switzerland

DESCRIPTION

Current trends in technology
We will start with an outline of CMOS downscaling and emerging technologies, such as carbon nano-tubes, two-dimensional electronics and superconducting electronics. We will consider next the technological support for computing in memory and memory in computing, as well as 3-dimensional electronics. We will point out challenges and solutions for circuit and architectural design.

High-level synthesis and optimization
We will review techniques for synthesis from behavioral languages in the context of evolving technologies. We wil focus on the computational part first, such as data flow optimization in time and space. We will consider next synthesis of communication structures, such as networks on chips, their modeling, synthesis and applications on design.

Logic level synthesis and physical design
We will address the state of the art in logic synthesis and physical design, with specific reference to models, optimization and verification procedures. We will focus on the models, algorithms and their evolution for conventional and quantum systems.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Giovanni De Micheli is a research scientist in electronics and computer science. He is credited for the invention of the Network on Chip design automation paradigm and for the creation of algorithms and design tools for Electronic Design Automation (EDA). He is Professor and Director of the Integrated Systems Laboratory and Scientific Director of the EcoCloud center at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was Director of the Electrical Engineering Institute at EPFL from 2008 to 2019 and program leader of the Swiss Federal Nano-Tera.ch program. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1979), a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of California at Berkeley, 1980 and 1983). Prof. De Micheli is a Fellow of ACM, AAAS and IEEE, a member of the Academia Europaea, of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) and International Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current research interests include several aspects of design technologies for integrated circuits and systems, such as synthesis for emerging technologies. He is also interested in heterogeneous platform design including electrical components and biosensors, as well as in data processing of biomedical information. He is author of: Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1994, co-author and/or co-editor of ten other books and of over 900 technical publications. His citation h-index is above 100 according to Google Scholar. He is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of IMEC (Leuven, B) and STMicroelectronics. Prof. De Micheli is the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Gustav Kirchhoff Award, the 2022 ESDA-IEEE/CEDA Phil Kaufman Award, the 2019 ACM/SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award, and several other awards.