NICS

Research Projects

Briefs

Our group currently focuses on High Performance Low Power circuit device, chip architecture and system design methodology on next generation computing applications, specifically including the following fields:

¡¤         Ultra Low Power Circuit, Architecture and Protocol for Wireless Sensor Node

¡¤         Nonvolatile Computing

¡¤         Novel Design Techniques for Embedded Systems

¡¤         Power Efficient Architecture (Heterogeneous MPSoC) for Software Defined Radio

¡¤         Thermal Aware MPSoC Design and Test

Projects

Ongoing projects are briefly illustrated and listed as below:

  • 2010.01-2011.12     ATOM-based Vehicle Computing SoC for Wireless Communication,   Intel,                                                 PI   
  • 2010.01-2011.12     Core SoC for Wireless Sensor Network,                                               Government,                                  Co- PI    
  • 2010.01-2011.12     Non-volatile  Processor Design for Wireless Sensor Network,             Rohm,                                             Co- PI    
  • 2010.01-2012.12     Non-volatile Logic Research for Wireless Sensor Network,                  NFSC,                                              PI    
  • 2009.09-2011.09     Wireless Sensor Network Based Real-time Tunnel Monitoring,            Cross Discipline TNLIST Fund,   PI
  • 2009.01-2011.12     Heterogeneous MPSoC Architecture for Power-efficient Computing,   863 Project,                                     PI
  • 2009.01-2010.01     Platform-on-a-chip Architecture for Road Safety Application,              Intel Cooperation Fund,                 PI
  • 2008.12-2011.12     Thermal-aware MPSoC Design and Test,                                             Chuanxin Fund,                              PI

Several previous projects are also listed as below:

  • 04.10-06.12      Low-power circuit and system design methods for SoC£¬                           NFSC£¬                                         Key Member
  • 02.10-05.12      Physical design optimization for DSM SoC£¬                                             863 Key Project£¬                         Key Member
  • 05.10-08.12      Thermal/Power Aware Analysis and Optimization for Emerging VLSI,        NSFC,                                          Key Member
  • 06.12-08.12      Low-power Techniques for Wireless Sensor Network,                                863 Project,                                   Co-PI
  • 06.10-07.12      Encryption based IP Protection,                                                                    Beijing Government                   Co-PI

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 Research Outcome (pdf)

Selected Projects

SOC for Next-generation Wireless Sensor Network

 

Zero Standy-Power Nonvolatile Processor (THU-1010N) for Wireless Sensor Network

 

Hierarchical C2RTL Framework for Configurable Embedded Systems