Category: achievements
Best Paper Award at ARC 26
Congratulations to the authors of this fascinating paper:FACETs: Fast and Efficient Compilation for Control-Dataflow Mapping on CGRAsWang, Yuxuan, Rodríguez Álvarez, Rubén; Tirelli, Cristian; Otoni, Rodrigo; Ansaloni, Giovanni; Pozzi, Laura; Atienza, David The paper was presented at ARC 26, the 22 International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing, held in Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy), April 8–10, 2026, and (…)
Distinguished service award for David Atienza
At the opening of the IEEE/ACM DATE Conference, Prof. David Atienza was awarded the IEEE CEDA 2026 Distinguished Service Award.
David Atienza elected to Academia Europaea
Following a competitive recommendation and peer-review process, EPFL professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering David Atienza has been elected to the prestigious Pan-European Academy of Humanities Letters and Sciences. The not-for-profit Academia Europaea, founded in 1988, aims to advance excellence in scholarship in the humanities; law; the economic, social, and political sciences; mathematics; medicine; and all (…)
Darong Huang in the SwissChips spotlight
Dr. Darong Huang is featured in an in-depth article by our SwissChips colleagues at ETHZ. Read on:
Android meets IoT – the winner is a pet project
The Android meets IoT event was a great success, with some fascinating projects being demonstrated. Innovation, ingenuity and quality engineering were the order of the day. The winning entry allows users to interact with a virtual pet, using a smartwatch: instructing, even stroking an imaginary animal! Congratulations to all who took part, and well done (…)
3D-ICE version 4.0 is out
We are excited to share the release of 3D-ICE 4.0, the newest version of our 3D Interlayer Cooling Emulator, which can deliver more accurate and efficient thermal modeling for modern 2.5D/3D heterogeneous chiplet systems. 3D-ICE 4.0 supports modeling detailed material distribution across layers, directly imported from industrial layouts. To handle complex multi-layer stacks, 3D-ICE introduces (…)
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
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 (…)