Category: achievements
David Atienza presents SwissChips
Prof. David Atienza presents the national initiative SwissChips and the role of ESL in this massive collaboration. Video by Dr. Alex Levisse and Alex Widerski More on SwissChips: Alex Levisse explains SwissChips in detail ESL participates in three SwissChips projects X-HEEP and SwissChips Yuxuan Wang presents SwissChips project at maiden conference SwissChips official website Â
Optimising VEGA data with FPGA technology
There are thousands of courses on offer at EPFL, covering topics as far apart as socio-environmental learning, epilepsy monitoring and urban digital twins. We decided to have a closer look at a very special course, one which brings together the three fundamental principles of EPFL Institutes: education, research and industry. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) (…)
SwissChips: A national project in full swing
In conversation with Dr. Alexandre Levisse of EPFL What is the goal of SwissChips? The SwissChips initiative offers support to Universities and Universities of Applied Science in Switzerland, to carry out research in the field of integrated circuit design, commonly called chips. In Switzerland, we do not have large foundries to manufacture high performance GPU (…)
US Patent granted for wearable epileptic detection device
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent for the epileptic detection device developed at ESL by the alumni Dr. Dionisije Sopic, Dr. Amir Aminifar and Dr. Renato Zanetti, under the leadership of Prof. David Atienza. The Wearable System for Real-Time Detection of Epileptic Seizures constitutes a pair of glasses and a (…)
X-HEEP spreads its wings
What started out as a doctoral challenge has grown, and blossomed into a technology shared across universities around Europe. As a doctoral student in Prof. David Atienzaâs Embedded Systems Lab, Simone Machetti was tasked to build a modular, customizable, energy-efficient platform that could be shared with, and used by, different teams designing low-power devices. âI (…)
School of Engineering award for RubĂ©n RodrĂguez
RubĂ©n RodrĂguez Ălvarez of the Embedded Systems Lab has been awarded the School of Engineering’s Teaching Assistant Award. This is the second year in a row that a teaching award has gone to a member of the Embedded Systems Lab! RubĂ©n RodrĂguez is a final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Ăcole (…)
Optimizing interconnects with amazing results
One of our teams has rolled out Gem5-AcceSys: an innovative framework for a system-level exploration of standard interconnects and configurable memory hierarchies. A series of tests using this new technology will be presented at the Design Automation Conference in San Francisco. In this study it has been shown that optimized interconnects can achieve up to (…)
Yuxuan Wang is Best Paper Finalist at her maiden conference
 Congratulations to doctoral researcher Yuxuan Wang, who was the main author of a paper that made the Best Paper Final at ARC25, the 21st International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing. This was a great achievement at what was her first conference as a PhD researcher!  Congratulations to all the authors of this fascinating (…)
Android event was a great success!
“Android meets Internet of Things” took place at ESL on the 22nd February, 2025. The room was packed, and a lot of fantastic projects were presented! Prizes were awarded to the following projects: First place: âSeizureGuardâ by Francesco Poluzzi and François Dumoncel This app performs real-time seizure detection from EEG signals using an AI model developed (…)
Scientastic 2024 was a great success!
Scientastic is: The discovery of science and technology at the heart of EPFL Campus, for both adults and children. Two days to explore, practice, meet scientists and researchers who invent tomorrowâs world. The opportunity to understand how science and technology impact our everyday life.