Professor
Institute of Electrical Engineering, Director
Integrated Systems Laboratory, Director
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Nanosystems: technologies, devices, architectures and applications

Much of our economy and way of living will be affected by nanotechnologies in the decade to come and beyond. Mastering materials at the molecular level and their interaction with living matter opens up unforeseeable horizons. This talk deals with how we will conceive, design and use nanosystems, i.e., integrated systems exploiting nanodevices.  Whereas switching circuits and microelectronics have been the enablers of computer and communication systems, nanosystems have the potentials to realize innovative computational fabrics whose applications require broader hardware abstractions, extended software layers and with a much higher complexity level overall.  The abstraction of computation, the nanosystem architecture, the technological feasibility envelope and the multivariate design optimization problems pose challenging and disruptive research questions that this talk will address.

 

About the speaker:

Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland.   His research interests include several aspects of design technologies for integrated circuits and systems, such as synthesis, hw/sw codesign and low-power design, as well as systems on heterogeneous platforms including electrical, micromechanical and biological components. He is author of: Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1994, co-author and/or co-editor of eight other books and of over 400 technical articles . Prof. De Micheli is the recipient of the 2003 IEEE Emanuel Piore Award for contributions to computer-aided synthesis of digital systems. He is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE. He received the Golden Jubilee Medal for outstanding contributions to the IEEE CAS Society in 2000. He received the 1987 D. Pederson Award for the best paper on the IEEE Transactions on CAD/ICAS, two Best Paper Awards at the Design Automation Conference, in 1983 and in 1993, and a Best Paper Award at the DATE Conference in 2005.