DATE PhD Forum 2017 
The DATE PhD forum is part of the DATE Conference and hosted by the European Design Automation Association (EDAA), the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA), and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA). It offers the opportunity for PhD students to present their thesis work to a broad audience in the design, automation and test community from academia and industry. During the presentation at the DATE Conference, it helps students to establish contacts. Representatives from industry and academia get a glance of state-of-the- art research in design, automation and test. The review process resulted in the selection of the PhD students listed below. We thank EDAA, ACM SIGDA, CEDA and DATE for making this forum possible.
Cecilia Metra, University of Bologna, IT (Chair, DATE PhD Forum 2017)
PhD Forum Committee
Juergen Alt, Intel Corporation, DE
Davide Bertozzi, University of Ferrara, IT
Luigi Carro, Universidade Generale do Rio Grande do Sul, BR
Anupam Chattopadhyay, Nanyang Technological University, SG
Rolf Drechsler, University of Bremen, DE
Helmut Graeb, Technische Universität München, DE
Xin Li, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Martin Omana, University of Bologna, IT
Andreas Steininger, Vienna University of Technology, AU
Viera Stopjakova, Slovak University of Technology, SK
Sander Stuijk, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
Daniele Rossi, Westminster University, UK
Miroslav N. Velev, Aries Design Automation, US
Admitted Presentations
1. Design and Optimization of Resilient Ultra-Low Power Circuits
Mohammad Saber Golanbari and Mehdi Tahoori, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
2. 1024-Channel Single 5W FPGA Towards High-quality Portable 3D Ultrasound Platform
Aya Ibrahim, William Simon, Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler, Federico Angiolini, Marcel Arditi,
Jean-Philippe Thiran and Giovanni De Micheli, EPFL, CH
3. Analog Circuit Design Automation Against Process Variations and Aging Phenomena
Engin Afacan, Bogazici University, TR
4. Design Methodologies and Tools for Vertically Integrated Circuits
Harry Kalargaris, University of Manchester, GB
5. Evolutionary Design of Approximate Components for Deep Learning on a Chip
Vojtech Mrazek, Brno University of Technology, CZ
6. System-level Functional and Extra-functional Characterization of SoCs Through Assertion Mining
Alessandro Danese, University of Verona, IT
7. Reliability Analysis and Dependable Execution Techniques for Processors in Nano-Scale Technologies
Ali Azarpeyvand, University of Zanjan, IR
8. Enabling Caches in Probabilistic Timing Analysis
Leonidas Kosmidis, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES
9. Digital Processors with Alternative Number Systems Selected by Code Generation Mechanism
Saba Amanollahi and Ghassem Jaberipur, Shahid Beheshti University, IR
10. NOMeS: Near-Optimal Metaheuristic Scheduling for MPSoCs
Amin Majd, University of Turku, FI
11. Probabilistically Time-Analyzable Complex Processors in Hard Real-Time Systems
Mladen Slijepcevic, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, ES;
Carles Hernandez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES;
Jaume Abella, Barcelona Supercomputing
Center (BSC-CNS), ES; and
Francisco Cazorla, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and IIIA-CSIC, ES
12. Analyzing the Impact of Radiation-induced Failures in All Programmable System-on-Chip Devices
Lucas Antunes Tambara and Fernanda Kastensmidt, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
(UFRGS), BR
13. Programming Models and Tools for Heterogeneous Many-Core Platforms
Alessandro Capotondi, University of Bologna, IT
14. Logic Synthesis for Majority based In-Memory Computing
Saeideh Shirinzadeh, University of Bremen, DE
15. Analysis, Design, and Optimization of Embedded Control Systems
Amir Aminifar, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), CH
16. Making the Case for Space-Division Multiplexing of Programmable Many-Core Accelerators
Marco Balboni, University of Ferrara, IT
17. Towards Computer-Aided Design of Quantum Logic
Philipp Niemann, University of Bremen, DE
18. Towards HW Platform for Real-Time Systems
Lukas Kohutka and Viera Stopjakova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, SK
19. High-level Modelling of OIN-based Systems with the Provision of a Low Latency Controller
Felipe Magalhaes, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, CA;Fabiano Hessel, PUCRS, BR;
Odile Liboiron Ladouceur, McGill University, CA; Gabriela Nicolescu, Ecole Polytechnique
de Montreal, CA
20. Highly Configurable Place and Route for Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits
Eric Lao, Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC), FR
21. Optimization Techniques for Parallel Programming of Embedded Many-core Computing Platforms
Giuseppe Tagliavini, University of Bologna, IT
22. Analyzing and Supporting the Reliability Decision-making Process in Computing Systems with a
Reliability Evaluation Framework
Maha Kooli, LIRMM-CNRS, FR; Giorgio Di Natale, LIRMM, FR
23. Techniques for Scenario Prediction and Switching in System Scenario Based Designs
Yahya Hussain Yassin and Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU), NO; Francky Catthoor, IMEC, BE
24. Improving Processor Efficiency Through Phase Change Based Cooling
Fulya Kaplan, Boston University, US
25. P2NoC: Power- and Performance-Aware Network-on-Chip Architecture for Multi-core Systems
Hemanta Kumar Mondal, IIIT Delhi, IN
26. Ph.D Thesis Title: Bipolar Resistive Switching of Bi-Layered Pt/Ta2O5/TaOx/Pt RRAM-Physics-
based Modelling, Circuit Design and Testing
Firas Hatem, T. Nandha Kumar and Haider Almurib, The University of Nottingham
Malaysia Campus, MY
27. Edge Computing in Internet of Things (IoT)
Farzad Samie and Lars Bauer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE; Joerg Henkel, KIT, DE
28. A Low Power Heterogeneous SoC for CNN-Based Vision
Francesco Conti, ETH Zurich & University of Bologna, CH
29. Cross-Layer Dependability for Runtime Reconfigurable Architectures
Hongyan Zhang and Lars Bauer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE; Joerg Henkel, KIT, DE
30. Designing the Bateryless IoT
Andres Gomez, ETH Zurich, CH; Luca Benini, ETH Zurich, University of Bologna, IT;
Lothar Thiele, ETH Zurich, CHETH Zurich & University of Bologna, CH