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EE380: Computer Systems Colloquium Seminar
New horizons for electronic systems: Devices, design methods and application areas
Speaker: Giovanni De Micheli, EPFL (Laussane)

Uploaded 04-05-17

Three new game changers enable the design of emerging electronic systems: the use of new devices and materials, the combined integration of circuits and sensors and the application of new design methods and tools that support the correct composition of complex systems from regular components. These ingredients are crucial to design electronic systems in various key areas, such as precision medicine, the Internet of Things, and environmental monitoring/protection.

I will first present the landscape of emerging areas, such as cyber medical systems. Then I will describe enhanced-functionality devices exploiting new materials and geometries, their application into circuits that provide direct data acquisition from the environment by fusing sensors and circuits, as well as new design methods and tools for the creation of complex systems.

I will conclude by presenting some examples from the Swiss Nano-Tera.ch program for engineering complex systems for health care and the environment.

About the Speaker:
Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland. He is program leader of the Nano-Tera.ch program. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. 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).

More detail is available here: http://si2.epfl.ch/~demichel/.

For more information about this seminar and its speaker, you can visit http://ee380.stanford.edu/Abstracts/170503.html

Support for the Stanford Colloquium on Computer Systems Seminar Series provided by the Stanford Computer Forum.

Colloquium on Computer Systems Seminar Series (EE380) presents the current research in design, implementation, analysis, and use of computer systems. Topics range from integrated circuits to operating systems and programming languages. It is free and open to the public, with new lectures each week.

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0:00 Introduction
0:40 Outline
1:50 A connected world
3:52 Nano-Tera.ch: Key figures
6:31 Example: Tele-medicine
7:48 Implanted computing example
9:30 Example: Monitoring the Alps
13:05 Semiconductor technologies
14:01 Emerging nano-technologies
15:55 FinFET to Nanowire FET
16:43 Vertical silicon nanowire transistors
17:17 Carbon Nanotube Transistors
18:07 2D electronic technologies
19:02 Double gate SiNW FET
20:37 Fabricated device view
22:13 Controllable polarity in 2D
23:22 Modeling various emerging nanogates
24:37 Logic cell design for controllable polarity gates
25:36 Physical design
25:41 Dumbbell-stick diagrams
26:14 Layout abstraction and regularity
26:46 Biconditional Binary Decision Diagrams
28:49 BBDDs are Compact (Majority Function)
31:42 Why majority logic?
36:03 Synthesis Motivation for Majority
36:59 How to Exploit Majority Logic?
37:46 Majority-Inverter Graph
42:46 MIG Size Optimization
43:32 MIG Depth Optimization: Adders
44:44 Majority-based synthesis: MIGthy
45:10 Experimental Results: MCNC circuits
45:59 CMOS Design Results
49:00 Nanoarchitecture Design
49:52 Key points
53:12 Conclusions

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