Giovanni De Micheli
Professor and Director of the Institute of Electrical
Engineering and of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPFL, Lausanne, CH.
Title:
"System-level design technologies for heterogeneous distributed systems"
Abstract:
The ongoing scaling and hybridization of manufacturing technologies enables us to attain unprecedented levels performance as
well as to integrate electronic and fluidic circuits with sensors and actuators. Smart micro/nano
systems will be the building blocks of wearable and ambient systems, that gather and integrate heterogeneous
data in real time and operate and communicate in a wireless and ultra low power mode.
These systems will foster a revolution in health and environmental management, with the final objective of improving
security and quality
of life. At the same time, they will create a large market of components and systems, and a renewed perspective for
electronic design and manufacturing companies.
To accomplish such an ambitious goal, new technologies and architectures
must be matched and tailored to the operational environment by solving novel an
challenging design and optimization problems, through the creation of novel design methodologies and tools.
Biography:
Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and of
the Integrated Systems Centre at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland. He also chairs the Scientific
Committee of CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering
at Stanford University. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1979), a M.S.
and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of California at
Berkeley, 1980 and 1983). His scientific 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, optical, micromechanical and biological components. 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 has been serving IEEE in several capacities, most
recently as Division 1 Director (2008-9), cofounder and President Elect of the IEEE Council on EDA (2005-7)
and President of the IEEE CAS Society (2003).
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