Las Vegas, NV (hybrid)
September 14-16, 2021

Please see also our program on EDAS with session chair information and links to presentations (for registered attendees). 


Sept. 14 - Note that all times are US Eastern Time (EDT) 

08:55am - 12:15pm Tutorials

09:50 - 12:50 Industry Forum: High Speed Interconnects POSTPONED TO FRIDAY


Sept. 15 - Note that all times are US Pacific Time (PDT) 

9:00 - 9:15am Opening Ceremony  
     
9:15 - 10:15am K1: Opening Keynote Address 
  Jan Rabaey, CTO, STCO Division, IMEC, Belgium, and Professor, EECS Dept., Univ. of California at Berkeley 
  "Human-Centric Computing"   
     
10:15 - 10:30am Break  
     
10:30 - 11:30am TS1: Deep Neural Network Acceleration via FPGAs 
  Implementation and Evaluation of a Neural Network-Based LiDAR Histogram Processing Method on FPGA Gongbo Chen (Fraunhofer IMS, Germany); Giray Atabey Kirtiz (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Christian Wiede (Fraunhofer IMS, Germany); Rainer Kokozinski (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
     
  FPGA Implementation of a Reconfigurable Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) Unit Michael Wasef and Nader Rafla (Boise State University, USA)
     
  Bandwidth-Efficient Sparse Matrix Multiplier Architecture for Deep Neural Networks on FPGA Mahesh M (Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam, India); Nalesh S (CUSAT, India); Kala S (Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam, India)
     
  Tufan: Low-Power Throughput Architecture for Acceleration of EfficientNet on Cloud FPGAs Mohammadreza Baharani, Ushma Bharucha, Kaustubh Mhatre and Hamed Tabkhi (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
     
11:30am - 12:30pm TS2: Future Technologies and Circuits and Energy Harvesting 
  Optimizing Quantum Circuits for Arbitrary State Synthesis and Initialization Naveed Mahmud, Andrew GJ MacGillivray, Manu Chaudhary and Esam El-Araby (University of Kansas, USA)
     
  Optimization of 3D Stacked Nanosheets in 5nm Gate-All-Around Transistor Technology Anil Gundu Kumar (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Volkan Kursun (UST HongKong, Hong Kong)
     
  Dual-Band GSM Energy Harvester for Duty-Cycle Approach in 180nm CMOS Technology Hugo Daniel Hernandez, Diego Augusto Pontes and Bruno Soares (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil); Dionísio Carvalho (University of São Paulo & USP, Brazil); Wilhelmus Van Noije (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
     
  Stereolithography-Based Rectenna for Wireless Energy Harvesting Xuan Viet Linh Nguyen (INSA Lyon, France); Tony Gerges (Ampere, France); Jean-Marc Duchamp (University Grenoble Alpes & G2Elab, France); Philippe Benech (Université de Grenoble-Alpes, G2ELab, France); Jacques Verdier (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, France); Philippe Lombard (University of Lyon, France); Michel Cabrera (Université de Lyon, France); Bruno Allard (INSA Lyon, France)
     
12:30 - 1:30pm LUNCH BREAK 
     
1:30 - 2:30pm TS3: Novel Circuits and Analysis for Applications 
  Software-Defined Temporal Decoupling in Virtual Platforms Lukas Juenger, Alexander Belke and Rainer Leupers (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
     
  Embedded ICG-Based Stroke Volume Measurement System: Comparison of Discrete-Time and Continuous-Time Architectures Antoine Gautier (University of Lille, Junia, France)
     
  Analysis of the Sub-μA Fully Integrated NMOS LDO for Backscattering System Puyang Zheng (Stony Brook University, USA); Xiao Sha (Stonybrook University, USA); Milutin Stanacevic (SUNY Stony Brook, USA)
     
  A SiPM Based Sensor for Nuclear Detection Applications Shahram Hatefi Hesari (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA); Nicole McFarlane (University of Tennessee, USA)
     
2:30 - 3:30pm DT: Design Track Session 
  A Design Approach to Reduce Test Time on SOC Memories  Dieu Van Dinh (NXP Semiconductor, Inc., USA); Prokash Ghosh (NXP Semiconductor Inc & Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Misal Varma (NXP Semiconductor, Inc., India)
     
  LC-Physical Unclonable Function in 3D Wireless IC for Securing the Internet of Things Devices  Jaya Dofe (California State University Fullerton, USA); Wafi Danesh (University of Missouri Kansas City, USA)
     
  Reinforcement Learning-Based Power Management Architecture  David Akselrod (Advanced Micro Devices, Canada)
     
  An Efficient Capsule Network Reconfigurable Hardware Accelerator for Deciphering Ancient Scripts with Scarce Annotations  Rodrigue Rizk (The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Dominick Rizk (The Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Frederic Rizk (The Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Ashok Kumar (The Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Magdy Bayoumi (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
     
  A Cost-Efficient Reversible-Based Configurable Ring Oscillator Physical Unclonable Function  Dominick Rizk (The Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Rodrigue Rizk (The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Frederic Rizk (The Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Ashok Kumar (The Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Magdy Bayoumi (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
     
3:30 - 4:30pm PS1: Poster Session I: Circuits and Systems
  FLECSim-SoC: A Flexible End-To-End Co-Design Simulation Framework for System on Chips Tim Hotfilter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Julian Hoefer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Fabian Kreß (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Fabian Kempf (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Juergen Becker (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
     
  Generating Hardware and Software for RISC-V Cores Generated with Rocket Chip Generator Suleyman Savas (Huawei Technologies, Switzerland); Jorn Janneck (Lund University, Sweden); Endri Bezati (EPFL SCI STI MM, Switzerland)
     
  Implementation of an SoC Architecture with Built-In Safety Features Tibor Gergely Markovits (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); György Rácz (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Péter Arató (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
     
  Power Swapper: Approximate Functional Block Assisted Cryptosystem Security Abhijitt Dhavlle (George Mason University, USA); Setareh Rafatirad (University of California Davis, USA); Houman Homayoun (University of California Davis, USA); Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao (George Mason University, USA)
     
  TestQuBE: A Testbench Enhancement Methodology for Universal Serial Interfaces in Complex SoCs Aditya Kulkarni (Samsung Semiconductor India Research, India); Ayush Singh (Samsung Semiconductor India Research, India); Sachin Waje (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India); Sunil Kashide (Samsung Semiconductor India Research, India); Seonil Choi (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Korea (South))
     
  Performance Optimization of p-Channel SnO Cylindrical Thin Film Transistors (CTFT) Using 3D Modelling Viswanath G Akkili (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa); Viranjay M. Srivastava (University of KwaZuluNatal, South Africa)
     
  1.81 kHz Relaxation Oscillator with Forward Bias Comparator and Leakage Current Compensation Based Techniques Xiao Sha (Stonybrook University, USA); Puyang Zheng (Stony Brook University, USA); Milutin Stanacevic (SUNY Stony Brook, USA)
     
  Real-Time Framework Optimized for Low Latency Quantum Computing Experiments Richard Gebauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Nick Karcher (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Jonas Hurst (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Marc Weber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Oliver Sander (KIT, Germany)
     
4:30 - 5:30pm SS2: Special Session: Challenges and Opportunities in AI and Big Data Applications 
  Neural Network Based Branch Predictor Design for Energy Harvesting Powered Systems Weifan Sun and Xiaojun Cai (Shandong University, China); Mengying Zhao (School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, China); Zhiping Jia (Shandong University, China)
  Total Variation Reduction for Lossless Compression of HPC Applications Huizhang Luo (Hunan University, China); Junqi Wang (Rutgers University at Newark, USA); Yida Li and Kenli Li (Hunan University, China)
  Can We Trust Machine Learning for Electronic Design Automation? Kang Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Jun Zhang (NYU, USA); Benjamin Tan (New York University, USA); Dan Feng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
  Efficient Localization of Origins of PVC Based on Random Signal Segmentation Dawei Li and C. Liu (South-Central University for Nationalities, China); Xiaowei Xu (Guangdong General Hospital, China)

Sept. 16 - Note that all times are US Pacific Time (PDT) 

9:00-10:00am K2: Keynote II 
  Kaushik Roy, Distinguished Professor and Director, C-BRIC, Purdue University 
  Re-Engineering Computing with Neuro-Inspired Learning: Devices, Circuits, and Systems 
     
10:00-10:30am BREAK  
     
10:30 - 11:30am TS4: Novel Workload Acceleration Techniques 
  Design and Optimization of a Pruning-Efficient DCNN Inference Accelerator Che-Hao Chang and Chih-Tsun Huang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
     
  Real-Time FPGA-Based Binocular Stereo Vision System with Semi-Global Matching Algorithm Zhuoyu Chen, Pingcheng Dong, Zhuoao Li, Ruoheng Yao, Yunhao Ma, Xiwei Fang, Huanshihong Deng and Wenyue Zhang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Lei Chen (Pengcheng Laboratory, China); Fengwei An (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
     
  On Reduction of Computations for Threshold Function Identification Wen-Chih Hsu, Chia-Chun Lin and Yi-Ting Li (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Yung-Chih Chen (Yuan Ze University, Taiwan); Chun-Yao Wang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
     
     
11:30am - 12:30pm TS5: Novel Techniques for Secruity and Resilency 
  Key-Based Obfuscation Using HT-Like Trigger Circuit for 128-Bit AES Hardware IP Core Surbhi Chhabra and Kusum Lata (The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India)
     
  Identifying Specious LUTs for Satisfiability Don't Care Trojan Detection Lingjuan Wu (Huazhong Agricultural University, China); Xuefei Li, Jiacheng Zhu, Jian Zheng and Wei Hu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
     
  ReCPE: A PE for Reconfigurable Lightweight Cryptography Jeff Anderson (The George Washington University, USA); Yousra Alkabani (Halmstad University, Sweden); Tarek El-Ghazawi (The George Washington University, USA)
     
  RARES: Runtime Attack Resilient Embedded System Design Using Verified Proof-Of-Execution Avani Dave (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA & UMBC, USA)
     
     
12:30 - 1:30pm  LUNCH BREAK 
     
1:30 - 2:30pm TS6: Advanced Power, Noise and Reliability Analysis 
  Dynamic Power Analysis of Standard-Cell FPGA Fabrics Bo Bao and Jason Anderson (University of Toronto, Canada)
     
  Crosstalk Noise Based Configurable Computing: A New Paradigm for Digital Electronics Md Arif Iqbal (University of Missouri Kansas City, USA); Naveen Macha (NVIDIA Corporation, USA); Bhavana Repalle (Intel Corporation, USA); Sehtab Hossain (University of Missouri Kansas City, USA); Mostafizur Rahman (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
     
  A Framework for Evaluation of Debug Path Performance in SoC Prokash Ghosh (NXP Semiconductor Inc & Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Khwahish Sinha (NXP Semiconductor Inc, India)
     
  On the Stability, Transient and Quiescent Current Control of One Low-Voltage Class-AB Op-Amp Architecture Aniruddha Roy, Khyati Bansal and Nitin Agarwal (Texas Instruments, India)
     
     
2:30 - 3:30pm SS1: Special Session: Hardware Security 
  Analog-Inspired Hardware Security: A Low-Energy Solution for IoT Trusted Communications Samuel D Ellicott (The Ohio State University, USA); Yu Qi (Case Western Reserve University, USA); Michael Kines (The Ohio State University, USA); Abdullah Kurtoglu (Case Western Reserve University, USA); Waleed Khalil (The Ohio State University, USA); Hossein Lavasani (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
     
  LDO-Based Odometer to Combat IC Recycling   Rabin Y Acharya and Domenic Forte (University of Florida, USA); Michael Levin (Honeywell Aerospace, USA)
     
  Saidoyoki: Evaluating Side-Channel Leakage in Pre- and Post-Silicon Setting Pantea Kiaei, Zhenyuan Liu and Ramazan Kaan Eren (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Yuan Yao (Virginia Tech, USA); Patrick Schaumont (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
     
  Distributed On-Chip Power Supply for Security Enhancement in Multicore NoC Xingye Liu and Paul Ampadu (Virginia Tech, USA)
     
3:30 - 4:30pm PS2: Poster Session II  
  A Two-Stage Path Planning Engine for Robot Navigation System Yu-En Hsu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
     
  An IMU-Aided Fitness System Yi-Ting Lin, Chun-Jui Chen and Pei-Yi Kuo (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Si-Huei Lee (Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan); Chia-Chun Lin, Yun-Ju Lee and Yi-Ting Li (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Yung-Chih Chen (Yuan Ze University, Taiwan); Chun-Yao Wang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
     
  Cluster Tool Performance Analysis Using Graph Database  Shiuan-Hau Huang and Hsin-Ping Yen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Yan-Hsiu Liu, Kuang-Hsien Tseng and Ji-Fu Kung (United Microelectronics Corporation, Taiwan); Chia-Chun Lin and Yi-Ting Li (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Yung-Chih Chen (Yuan Ze University, Taiwan); Chun-Yao Wang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
     
  NeuroVP: A System-Level Virtual Platform for Integration of Neuromorphic Accelerators Melvin E. Galicia (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Ali BanaGozar (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Karl J. X. Sturm and Felix Staudigl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Sander Stuijk (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Henk Corporaal (Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Rainer Leupers (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
     
  FPNA: A Reconfigurable Accelerator for AI Inference at the Edge  Peter Gadfort and Oluseyi Ayorinde (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA)
     
  Ant Colony Optimization Based NoCs for Flexible Spatial Isolation in Mixed Criticality Systems  Nidhi Anantharajaiah (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Felix Knopf (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany); Juergen Becker (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
     
  Design Study on Impact of Memory Access Parallelism for Cloud FPGAs  Arnab Ardhendu Purkayastha and Hamed Tabkhi (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
     
  Combined Side-Channel Attacks on a Lightweight Prince Cipher Implementation Soner Seckiner and Selcuk Köse (University of Rochester, USA)
     
  GPU-Based Acceleration of Fully Parallel Annealing Algorithm for Combinatorial Optimization Kazushi Kawamura, Kaisei Okawa, Gregory Gutmann, Thiem Chu, Jaehoon Yu and Masato Motomura (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
     
4:30 - 5:15pm SS3: Special Session: Hardware Design for Deep Neural Networks 
  A Convolutional Neural Network on Chip Design Methodology for CNN Hardware Implementation Kun-Chih Chen, Yi-Sheng Liao and Cheng-Kang Tsai (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
     
  Evaluating the Impact of Fault-Tolerance Capability of Deep Neural Networks Caused by Faults Jin-Fu Li and Yung-Yu Tsai (National Central University, Taiwan)
     
  A Hierarchical and Reconfigurable Process Element Design for Quantized Neural Networks Yu-Guang Chen, Chi-Wei Hsu, Hung-Yi Chiang, Tsung-Han Hsieh and Jing-Yang Jou (National Central University, Taiwan)
     
5:15 - 5:30pm Closing Remarks 

Sept. 17 - Note that the times below are US Eastern Time (EDT) 

09:50am - 12:50pm Industry Forum: High Speed Interconnects (virtual only)

 

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