ICE excursion to the University of Sarajevo

August 29, 2022

During August 25/26, 2022 the ICE team visited the Faculty of Electrical Engineering Sarajevo. After a short introduction of both parties, each group gave short presentations on their field of research.

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New Book: 3D Interconnect Architectures for Heterogeneous Technologies

July 25, 2022

A new book with the title “3D Interconnect Architectures for Heterogeneous Technologies: Modeling and Optimization” has been published by Jan Moritz Joseph from ICE. It describes the first comprehensive approach to the optimization of interconnect architectures in 3D systems on chips (SoCs), specially addressing the challenges and opportunities arising from heterogeneous integration.…

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Press release: Aachen-based start-up MachineWare enables ultra-fast RISC-V simulation

June 28, 2022

Startup MachineWare is set to revolutionise semiconductor design with its high-speed RISC-V simulator SIM-V.

SIM-V Compute aims to design and verify high-performance RISC-V systems, including hardware models of GPUs and high-speed PCIe interconnects.
SIM-V Edge, at the other end of the spectrum, is optimised for designing compact 32-bit edge computing systems and offers a wide range…

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ICE organized the 4th version of hardware security workshop at HiPEAC 2022

June 27, 2022

For the fourth time in a row, ICE organized the Workshop on Secure Hardware, Architectures, and Operating Systems (SeHAS) at the HiPEAC (https://www.hipeac.net/2022/budapest/#/) conference - this time in Budapest. 

The agenda was packed with top-notch talks in the domain of security, ranging from the application of formal methods to ensure secure hardware implementations down to…

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Jülich-Aachen Neuromorphic Computing Day

May 25, 2022

at Forschungszentrum Jülich

Highlights of the Projects NEUROTEC and NeuroSys

• Prof. Rainer Waser (Forschungszentrum Jülich, RWTH Aachen University)
  Neuro-inspired Technology of Artificial Intelligence for Future Electronics: NEUROTEC
   
• Prof. Max Christian Lemme (RWTH Aachen University, AMO GmbH)
  Clusters4Future NeuroSys– Neuromorphic Hardware for Autonomous Systems of Artificial…

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New Spin Off MachineWare GmbH founded

May 3, 2022

MachineWare is a provider of high-speed instruction set simulators, including RISC-V full-system simulators. Its technologies enable ultra-fast software bring-up and validation before physical hardware is available. It's headquartered in Aachen, Germany.

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ICE Receives Best Paper Award at ISQED 2022

April 7, 2022

ICE researchers Dr. Melvin Galicia Cota, Dr. Farhad Merchant, and Prof. Rainer Leupers received the best paper award at International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design 2022 (ISQED 2022) for the paper entitled "A Parallel SystemC Virtual Platform for Neuromorphic Architectures." The paper presents a parallel SystemC-based virtual prototype for RISC-V multicore platforms…

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Final TETRAMAX review meeting

February 18, 2022

TETRAMAX has come to an end with the highest grading.

In its final review meeting, the TETRAMAX Innovation Action received the highest ranking from the European Commission, as also achieved for its predecessor TETRACOM. The project officer and the external reviewers have emphasized that “the project is a clear success”. It was launched in 2017 with the mission to promote…

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New TETRAMAX video

January 12, 2022

A short TETRAMAX summary video clip was produced.

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Dominik Šišejković wins best PhD award at VLSI-SoC'21

October 11, 2021

The doctoral work of Dominik Šišejković, titled "Trustworthy Hardware Design with Logic Locking", has won the best PhD award at the VLSI-SoC'21 PhD forum. The work focuses on various aspects of logic locking (a hardware obfuscation technique) to protect the integrity of modern hardware designs against malicious modifications. The work has been supervised by Prof. Rainer Leupers.

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