The 7th Prague Embedded Systems Workshop (PESW 2019)
The Prague Embedded Systems Workshop is a research meeting intended for the presentation and discussion of students’ results and progress in all aspects of embedded systems design, testing and applications. It is organized by members of the Department of Digital Design at Faculty of Information Technology (which is the youngest faculty) of the Czech Technical University in Prague (which is the oldest technical university in Central Europe). The workshop aims to enhance collaboration between different universities not only inside EU. It will be based on oral presentations, mutual communication and discussions.
A part of the PESW workshop is a contest of bachelor and master theses organized as a poster session and awarded by sponsors gifts. The main aim is a motivation for future Ph.D. studies.
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- Start time: 27 Jun 2019 04:29 PM
- End time: 29 Jun 2019 04:29 PM
- All times are (UTC+01:00) Prague
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- Starts 06 June 2019 04:29 PM
- Ends 28 June 2019 04:29 PM
- All times are (UTC+01:00) Prague
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Speakers
Elena-Ioana Vatajelu of TIMA - CNRS / Université Grenoble Alpes
Randomness in emerging technologies: Functional robustness vs. security
The rapid development of low power, high density, high performance SoCs has pushed the CMOS devices to their limits and opened the field to the development of emerging technologies. The STT-MRAM and RRAM have emerged as promising choices for embedded memories due to their reduced read/write latency and high CMOS integration capability. Their inner properties make them ideal for implementation of memory blocks (mach and main memory) and, in addition, they are suitable for the implementation of basic security primitives such Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and True Random Number Generators (TRNGs). PUFs are emerging primitives used to implement low-cost device authentication and secure secret key generation. On the other hand, TRNGs generate random numbers from a physical process. This talk will present a survey of today’s and tomorrow’s technologies and explain how it is possible to exploit (i) the high variability affecting the electrical device characteristics to build a robust, unclonable and unpredictable PUF, and (ii) the stochastic characteristics to generate randomly distributed numbers. In addition, it will underline the conflict between functional robustness and security quality of ICs designed with such devices.
Biography:
Dr. Elena-Ioana Vatajelu is a researcher with CNRS in TIMA Laboratory, Grenoble, France. She has 10 years of research experience in design, test and reliability of Integrated Circuits. She received a PhD in Electronic Engineering with distinction from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) in 2011. She has been involved in several European Projects (FP5 and FP7) and Spanish and Italian National projects. Dr. Vatajelu has served on the Technical Program Committees and Organizing Committees of conferences and symposia in design automation and test domains, such as DATE, IEEE VTS, IEEE ETS, IEEE DCIS, IEEE DDECS. Her main research interests are on reliability and robustness assessment, design-for-reliability, test strategies and security primitives for CMOS and beyond CMOS RAMs in traditional and non-Von Neumann computing (neuromorphic and CIM) paradigms. She has published 50 journal and conference papers in the area of dependable memories.
Address:Grenoble , France
Paolo Bernardi of Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Automotive testing challenges
Manufacturing Automotive System-on-Chip is becoming always more challenging. That's because of the current complexity of the functionality to design, and also due to the very stringent quality requirements this kind of devices must meet. It is estimated that the quality aspects are weighting up to the 50% of the entire productive flow costs, since they "pollute" the conception of the chip with bulky test oriented circuitry and demand for several expensive test equipment to be used to ensure a perfect product being sold. The talk will depict a general scenario about all efforts to put in the manufacturing flow of a today's automotive chip, including technology qualification, design for testability, wafer sort/final test/burn-in/system level test, in-field self-test, certification tools and field return failure analysis.
Biography:
Paolo Bernardi (MS'02 and PhD'06 in Computer Science) is an Associate Professor of the Politecnico di Torino University, where he works in the Electronic CAD and Reliability research group. His current interests includes System-on-Chip test and reliability, especially in the direction of high quality automotive devices. Prof. Bernardi is the General Chair of the Test Technology Educational Program (TTEP) and the Program Chair of the Automotive Reliability and Test (ART) Workshop held in conjunction with the International Test Conference. He was recently acting as Topic Chair for the European Test Symposium (ETS), the Design and Diagnosis of Electronic Circuits Symposium (DDECS) and the International On-Line Test Symposium (IOLTS). In 2018, he has been the General Chair of the Design and Technology of Integrated Circuits (DTIS) conference.
Address:Torino, Italy