Category: research
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 Atienza’s 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. “I (…)
Cough-E – using edge technology to track coughs, discreetly
If a doctor wants to know how well a cough treatment is working, it can be useful to know exactly how frequently the patient has been coughing. However, a patient’s state of mind might influence the impression they have about this: whether they are happy or sad, tired or not, the patient’s estimate can never (…)
School of Engineering award for Rubén Rodríguez
Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez 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! Rubén Rodríguez is a final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) at École (…)
Collaboration with University of Bordeaux for structured pruning co-design
Our team collaborated with scientists from the University of Bordeaux to analyze how configuration choices across the stack affect performance metrics. Results demonstrate that structured pruning on systems featuring systolic array acceleration can effectively increase performance, while maintaining high QoS levels. Up to 44% system-wide speedups due to structured pruning and quantization were measured, with (…)
Accelerating the validation process of full systems without sacrificing accuracy
Introducing the first open-source RISC-V-based FS-validated simulation models with a complete and replicable methodology Full-System simulation is essential for performance evaluation of complete systems that execute complex applications on a complete software stack consisting of an operating system and user applications. Nevertheless, they require careful fine-tuning against real hardware to obtain reliable performance statistics, which (…)
Taking EMBA on a visit to the sources of digital transformation
Participants of the EMBA program at the College of Management of Technology had the opportunity to discover a selection of the latest technologies developed in EPFL’s research laboratories. This enabled these professionals from different backgrounds to gain a better understanding of the long process between developing a cutting-edge product and bringing it to market. There’s (…)
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 (…)
ESL and SwissChips
Prof. David Atienza presents the SwissChips national initiative, and explains the role of ESL within this massive collaboration: Dr. Alex Levisse, ESL Alumnus, goes into detail about SwissChips for an in-depth interview: SwissChips – a national initiative ESL is participating in three SwissChips projects: Design Infrastructure Chips for Edge AI Computing Systems-on-Chip Find (…)