Giovanni de Micheli

EPFL, Switzerland

Logic design in post-silicon technologies

Abstract

The design of low-power high-performance computing systems will exploit emerging technologies where computation is achieved by combining optical waves and/or current pulses. In either setting, an abstraction of the technology leads us to fundamental logic gates based upon majority, threshold and comparison functions. Large-scale digital design requires then new algorithms for logic synthesis and optimization that leverage these models and exploit their properties. The talk will illustrate some high-risk, high-reward technologies and the correspondingg new electronic design automation methods and tools.

Biography

Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Integrated Systems Laboratory at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE, member of the Academia Europaea and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prof. De Micheli is the recipient of the 2016 IEEE/CS Harry Goode award for seminal contributions to design and design tools of Networks on Chips, and the 2016 EDAA Lifetime Achievement Award, among other honors.