Giovanni De Micheli

EPFL, Switzerland

Digital Design: Challenges and Solutions

Abstract

The unprecedented performance levels and energy needs of AI and ML applications require new approaches to both technology choices and to the related design methods.

Diversity and heterogeneous integration will play a major role in the realization of future systems. Nevertheless, emerging technologies can be leveraged only if supported by the corresponding design tools and flows, that may depart significantly from those used for CMOS.

While various technologies and computing paradigms have different goals and constraints, some design solutions may leverage the same fundamental properties of digital design. This brings logic synthesis and optimization again at the forefront of research as a main enabler of innovative  and disruptive digital system design.

Biography

Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the EcoCloud Centre at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. 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.  He 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.

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