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SAMOS 2020 conference: Best Paper Award

The SAMOS 2020 conference organizing committee has selected the paper

    "AMAIX: A Generic Analytical Model for Deep Learning Accelerators"

for the Stamatis Vassiliadis Best Paper Award. Main authors are Niko Zurstraßen and Lukas Jünger from ICE. The work results from a collaboration with Synopsys, Aachen.

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MiG-V: First RISC-V Made in Germany with HW security features

In the context of an industry project, ICE contributed to the HENSOLDT Cyber MiG-V. This is a general purpose, logic-encrypted processor, Made in Germany and targeting high-security applications. Logic encryption hinders the insertion of hardware Trojans, ensuring full control of the design and production chain. The CPU is based on a 64-Bit RISC-V core and can be used together with…

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New Collaborative Project BOWI

ICE is a partner in the new H2020 Innovation Action BOWI (Boosting and Widening Digital Innovation Hubs). BOWI is part of the European Commission’s Smart Anything Everywhere initiative that aims to boost innovation uptake across Europe through widening and knowledge transfer between different regions and innovation hubs.

More details on the project can be found here: BOWI

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New collaborative project "BioNanoLock"

ICE, along with IWE1, receives project funding from DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - German Research Foundation) to develop bio-inspired logic locking for secure hardware platforms. The project entitled "BioNanoLock" will last for the initial period of 3 years with principal investigators Dr. Farhad Merchant (ICE), Dr. Vivek Pachauri (IWE1), and Prof. Rainer Leupers.…

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Final event of the BMBF PARIS project

On 30.4.2020 10:00-13:00 the final event of the BMBF PARIS project (Parallele Implementieruns-Strategien für das Hochautomatisierte Fahren) under the direction of Prof. Holger Blume from Hannover will take place (due to given occasion of course only online). The program will consist of short lectures and demos / videos of the project partners.

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ICE organizes the second version of the hardware security workshop at HiPEAC 2020

Based on the success of SeHAS 2019, along with Prof. Avi Mendelson from Technion, ICE's Prof. Rainer Leupers, Dr. Farhad Merchant and Dominik Šišejković will organize the second version fo the workshop SeHAS: Secure Hardware, Architectures, and Operating Systems at HiPEAC 2020 in Bologna, Italy. This workshop will focus on several keynote and industry talks on different topics…

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New collaborative project "NEUROTEC"

With the project "NEUROTEC - Neuro-inspired technologies of artificial intelligence for the electronics of the future", the scientific expertise of Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University in this field is now being bundled and significantly strengthened. The research project is intended to create new added value in the Rhineland region. It is being funded by the Federal…

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Farhad Merchant wins HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award 2019

In the fifth edition of the HiPEAC Tech Transfer Awards, the HiPEAC network has powered innovations from computational drug discovery to data visualization for industry 4.0. From start-ups commercializing deep learning in embedded systems or materials simulations to certification for the safety-critical systems behind transportation and space exploration, once again the awards…

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TETRAMAX meets industrial advisors

TETRAMAX invited the industrial partners of the project to keep the finger on the pulse of the industrial community.


On 26 September 2019, TETRAMAX had its yearly Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) meeting. We are happy to have welcomed three new members in the IAB this year, Mrs. Celia Pelaz, Member of the Executive Committee, Head of Spectrum Dominance & Airborne Solutions…

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Prof. Rainer Leupers organized a special session titled "Co-designing Hardware and Software for Secure Next Generation Platforms"

on June 05, 2019 at Design Automation Conference (DAC56) in Las Vegas, USA


The session contained 3 speakers: Prof. Gernot Heiser from UNSW and Data61, Dr. Pim Tuyls from Intrinsic ID and Dr. Jason Oberg from Tortuga Logic. The session was chaired by Prof. Sri Parmeswaran from UNSW.  

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