Research
CDSI
Design of Integrated devices, Circuits and Systems
Research topics
- CDSI/CIS team
- Asynchronous circuits and systems (NoC, GALS, Reconfigurable asynchronous logic, etc.),
- Asynchronous Technology for hardware security,
- Non uniform sampling and processing (sensors, imagers, circuits, algorithms),
- CDSI/MNS team
- Microsystems for medical applications,
- Micro power generators for autonomous microsystems,
- Design and technologies for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems.
The Design of Integrated Devices, Circuits and Systems (CDSI) axis is involved in the design, fabrication and test of integrated devices, circuits and systems. The main driver of the activity is focused on the research in energy consumption and in miniaturized devices and systems. Results of this research are applicable for portable and autonomous systems, which usually require low-power consumption, miniaturization, robustness and security. Indeed, our digital society, which offers large communication facilities to people, tends to enlarge the communication to machines and small communicating objects such as wireless sensor nodes (Internet of Things). This will multiply by several orders of magnitude the amount of energy consumed by the digital objects and will push the industry to foster new approach for mitigating the power consumption. In this context, the CIS (Concurrent Integrated Systems) and MNS (Micro and Nano Systems) teams developed new techniques based on asynchronous circuitry, non-uniform sampling schemes, energy harvesting and low-power sensors and actuators.
Last publications
Hadj Said M., Tounsi F., Rufer L., Mezghani B., Masmoudi M., Dynamic Performance and Sensitivity Investigation of a Narrow-band Frequency Detecting Microsensor, Advances in Systems, Signals & Devices, Ed. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Vol. 6, No. Sensors, Circuits & Instrumentation Systems, pp. 1-18, 2017
Rufer L., Basrour S., Trioux E., Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Bending Structure and the Method of Manufacturing Thereof, No. U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/532,195, 2017
Pedio V., Rufer L., De Pasquale G., Somà A., Basrour S., Modeling of structural-fluidic interactions for the design of digital MEMS speakers in hearing aids, Symposium on Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS (DTIP'17), pp. 1-6, Bordeaux, FRANCE, DOI: 10.1109/DTIP.2017.7984506, 2017
Simatic J., Cherkaoui A., Bertrand Fra., Possamai Bastos R., Fesquet L., A practical framework for specification, verification and design of self-timed pipelines, 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (Async'17), San Diego, Ca, UNITED STATES, 2017
Fischer V., Cherkaoui A., Haddad P., Ring oscillators as sources of randomness, Oscillator circuits: frontier in design, analysis and applications, Yoshifumi Nishio (Eds.) , Ed. IET - The Institution of Engineering and Technology, pp. chapitre 14, 2016
