Publications

2026

Journal Articles

A C-RAN-Based Mitigation of Reactive Jamming Attacks in LoRa Networks with Jamming Cancellation

A. Dossa; J. Tapparel; A. Burg; E. M. Amhoud 

IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 2026. DOI : 10.1109/OJCOMS.2026.3715389.

Conference Papers

HDPC Codes with LDPC Matrices: Construction Based on Social Golfer Problem

Y. Shen; H. S. Ünal; A. Burg 

2026. 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Guangzhou, China, 2026-06-28 – 2026-07-03. DOI : 10.1109/isit62367.2026.11653623.

Dynamic Dual-Window Decoding for SC-LDPC Codes with Wave Enhancement

L. Zhang; Y. Ren; A. Burg 

2026. 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Guangzhou, China, 2026-06-28 – 2026-07-03. DOI : 10.1109/isit62367.2026.11654081.

CIM-FLEX: An Integer-Only Flexible Periphery for Distributed Compute-In-Memory Architectures

İ. Şanlı; M. Rossi; E. Ferro; A. Jha; A. P. Burg et al. 

2026. ISLPED ’26: ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, Evanston, IL, USA, 2026-08-05 – 2026-08-07. p. 1 – 7. DOI : 10.1145/3816440.3818582.

A 2.35mm2 118.3Gbps 5.14pJ/Bit Dual-Mode LDPC Decoder for 5G/6G

Y. Ren; Y. Wang; L. Zhang; W. Song; L. Blanc et al. 

2026. 2026 IEEE/JSAP Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2026-06-14 – 2026-06-18. p. 1 – 3. DOI : 10.1109/vlsitechnologyandcir65830.2026.11577322.

Top-Metal-Only RFIC Retargeting for Fast Specs-To-Silicon Iteration Enabled by AI-Assisted Inverse Design

C. Chu; Y. Liu; Y. Xu; S. Fu; T. Torii et al. 

2026. 2026 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, 2026-06-07 – 2026-06-09. p. 115 – 118. DOI : 10.1109/rfic70222.2026.11602335.

Proof of Concept of QCSP Frames in Earth-to-LEO Satellite Transmission

L. M. Obeso; S. Tannir; C. Roland; E. Boutillon; H. Boeglen et al. 

2026. 2026 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2026-05-24 – 2026-05-28. p. 1 – 6. DOI : 10.1109/iccworkshops63917.2026.11586359.

A Full-Custom Time-Domain Unary Sorter for Soft-Information Decoding in 65 nm CMOS

M. Cancalon; L. D. Blanc; C. Muller; Y. Wang; A. Burg 

2026. 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Shanghai, China, 2026-05-24 – 2026-05-27. p. 1417 – 1421. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS66217.2026.11562817.

Theses

Enabling Reliable and Scalable LoRa with Collision Resolution and Centralized Radio Access

J. T. Tapparel / A. P. Burg (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2026. 

2025

Journal Articles

Turbo Product Code-aided Spatiotemporal 2-d Coded Mimo for Urllc

Y. Tian; J. Zheng; Z. Li; T. Xia; Y. Shen et al. 

IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE. 2025. DOI : 10.1109/MCOM.001.2400618.

GenPolar: Generative AI-Aided Complexity Reduction for Polar SCL Decoding

Y. Sun; J. Chen; Y. Ren; H. Ji; Y. Huang et al. 

IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. 2025. DOI : 10.1109/jetcas.2025.3561330.

Toward Universal Belief Propagation Decoding for Short Binary Block Codes

Y. Shen; Z. Li; Y. Ren; E. Boutillon; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming et al. 

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 2025. Vol. 43, num. 4, p. 1135 – 1152. DOI : 10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536505.

Edge-Spreading Raptor-Like LDPC Codes for 6G Wireless Systems

Y. Ren; L. Zhang; Y. Shen; W. Song; E. Boutillon et al. 

IEEE Transactions on Communications. 2025.  p. 1 – 1. DOI : 10.1109/tcomm.2025.3576907.

Device-Free Floor-Scale Human Detection With Indoor LTE Antennas

S. Li; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3560153.

HDD-RAM: A 40-nm 0.35V 25MHz Half-Select Disturb-Free Memory with Data-Aware 10T SRAM

Y. Li; J. Chen; Y. Wang; W. Zhao; Y. Shu et al. 

Integrated Circuits and Systems. 2025.  p. 1 – 12. DOI : 10.23919/ics.2025.3565481.

TRIP: Tree Search-Based Iterative Detection and Decoding for Polar-Coded MIMO Systems

J. Chen; Y. Sun; Y. Shen; Y. Huang; X. You et al. 

IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 2025. DOI : 10.1109/LWC.2024.3506655.

Conference Papers

A Universal LDPC Matrix for Short-Length Codes and Long-Length Codes

Y. Ren; L. Zhang; E. Boutillon; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

2025. 2025 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), Taipei, Taiwan, 2025-12-08 – 2025-12-12. p. 653 – 658. DOI : 10.1109/gcwkshps68340.2025.11590957.

Decoding Product Codes with Belief Propagation

Y. Shen; Z. Li; Y. Ren; E. Boutillon; C. Zhang et al. 

2025. 2025 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), Hong Kong, 2025-11-01 – 2025-11-04. p. 1 – 5. DOI : 10.1109/sips66314.2025.11261227.

A 5.9 μJ/Inference Reconfigurable Accelerator for Hybrid SNN-ANN Architectures in Event-based Image Recognition

C. Sun; B. Jia; Q. Chen; W. Song; J. Qian et al. 

2025. 2025 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2025-10-16 – 2025-10-18. p. 150 – 154. DOI : 10.1109/biocas67066.2025.00042.

Impact of Reactive Jamming Attacks on LoRaWAN: a Theoretical and Experimental Study

A. Dossa; A. Burg; E. M. Amhoud 

2025. 2025 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Istanbul, Turkey, 2025-09-01 – 2025-09-04. p. 1 – 6. DOI : 10.1109/pimrc62392.2025.11275285.

Efficient Ordered Statistics Decoder with Unfolded Gaussian Elimination

L. Zhang; Y. Ren; C. Zhang; A. Burg; Y. Shen 

2025. 2025 13th International Symposium on Topics in Coding, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2025-08-18 – 2025-08-22. DOI : 10.1109/istc65386.2025.11154634.

Benchmark of EEG-based seizure detection algorithms with SzCORE

C. W. Samanos; J. Dan; D. Atienza Alonso 

2025. 2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2025-07-14 – 2025-07-18. p. 1 – 7. DOI : 10.1109/embc58623.2025.11254038.

An Ultra Low Power Analog/Mixed-Signal Processor for a Smart RF Signal Classification System in the ISM Band

N. Pekcokguler; C. Dehollain; A. Burg; P. Courouve; D. Morche 

2025. 2025 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2025-06-15 – 2025-06-17. p. 259 – 262. DOI : 10.1109/rfic61188.2025.11082785.

An SDR-Based Monostatic Wi-Fi System with Analog Self-Interference Cancellation for Sensing

A. T. Kristensen; A. Balatsoukas‐Stimming; A. P. Burg 

2025. 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), London, United Kingdom, 2025-05-25 – 2025-05-28. p. 1 – 5. DOI : 10.1109/iscas56072.2025.11043800.

Belief Propagation Decoding for Short Codes on Structured Sparse Parity-Check Matrices

Y. Shen; Z. Li; E. Boutillon; W. Song; Y. Ren et al. 

2025. 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2025-06-22 – 2025-06-27. DOI : 10.1109/ISIT63088.2025.11195685.

Enhancing Channel Decoding Through Full-Custom Hardware Design

L. D. Blanc; A. Cardinale; W. Song; Y. Shen; C. T. Müller et al. 

2025. 59 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, United States, 2025-10-26 – 2025-10-29. p. 1750 – 1754. DOI : 10.1109/IEEECONF67917.2025.11443674.

Iterative Logistic Weight Based Chase Decoder for Open Forward Error Correction

Y. Shen; W. Song; L. D. Blanc; Y. Ren; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming et al. 

2025. Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2025, San Francisco, United States, 2025-03-30 – 2025-04-03. DOI : 10.1364/OFC.2025.Tu2F.6.

Dataset and UAV Propagation Channel Modeling for LoRa in the 860 MHz ISM Band

J. T. Tapparel; A. P. Burg 

2025. 59th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, United States, 2025-10-26 – 2025-10-29. p. 841 – 845. DOI : 10.1109/IEEECONF67917.2025.11443521.

Theses

Vital Signs and Human Activity Sensing with Wireless Systems

S. Li / A. P. Burg; A. K. Balatsoukas Stimming (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025. 

Design, Optimization and Verification of Embedded Gain Cell RAMs

H. A. Yigit / A. P. Burg; E. Charbon (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025. 

Efficient Algorithms and VLSI Implementations of FEC Decoders for B5G/6G

Y. Ren / A. P. Burg (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025. 

Monostatic Wi-Fi Sensing: Self-Interference Cancellation and Channel Splicing for Robust Vital-Sign Monitoring

A. T. Kristensen / A. P. Burg; A. K. Balatsoukas Stimming (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025. 

Patents

Dynamic gain cell with reduced leakage

R. Giterman; A. P. Burg; H. A. Yigit 

US2025285672.

2025.

2024

Journal Articles

Optimizing Polar Codes for Reduced Latency Successive Cancellation List Decoder

H. Zhou; Y. Ren; J. Li; W. J. Gross 

IEEE Communications Letters. 2024. DOI : 10.1109/LCOMM.2024.3521080.

Belief Propagation Decoding for Short-Length Codes Based on Sparse Tanner Graph

Z. Li; Y. Shen; y. ren; Y. Huang; X. You et al. 

IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS. 2024. Vol. 28, num. 5, p. 969 – 973. DOI : 10.1109/LCOMM.2024.3366293.

A High Dynamic Range Envelop Detector for Heterodyne Receiver Architecture

N. Pekcokguler; D. Morche; A. Burg; C. Dehollain 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. 2024. Vol. 71, num. 4, p. 1929 – 1933. DOI : 10.1109/TCSII.2023.3329038.

A Generalized Adjusted Min-Sum Decoder for 5G LDPC Codes: Algorithm and Implementation

Y. Ren; H. Harb; Y. Shen; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems I-Regular Papers. 2024. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2024.3368056.

Multi-Ported GC-eDRAM Bitcell with Dynamic Port Configuration and Refresh Mechanism

R. Golman; R. Giterman; A. Teman 

Journal Of Low Power Electronics And Applications. 2024. Vol. 14, num. 1, p. 2. DOI : 10.3390/jlpea14010002.

A Node-Based Polar List Decoder With Frame Interleaving and Ensemble Decoding Support

Y. Ren; L. Zhang; L. D. Blanc; Y. Shen; X. Li et al. 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. 2024. Vol. 71, num. 12, p. 5457 – 5470. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2024.3443598.

High-Throughput and Flexible Belief Propagation List Decoder for Polar Codes

Y. Ren; Y. Shen; L. Zhang; A. T. Kristensen; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming et al. 

Ieee Transactions On Signal Processing. 2024. Vol. 72, p. 1158 – 1174. DOI : 10.1109/TSP.2024.3361073.

A 16-kB 65-nm GC-eDRAM Macro With Internal Bias Voltage Generation Providing Over 100-μs Retention Time

O. Harel; A. Yigit; E. Feifel; R. Giterman; A. Burg et al. 

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 2024. DOI : 10.1109/JSSC.2024.3489793.

Conference Papers

Centralized RAN for LPWAN: Architecture and Proof-of-Concept Prototype Implementation

J. Tapparel; A. Burg 

2024. 2024 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks, Natal, Brazil, 2024-11-05 – 2024-11-07. DOI : 10.1109/NFV-SDN61811.2024.10807469.

Towards 6G: Configurable High-Throughput Decoder Implementation for SC-LDPC Codes

Y. Ren; Y. Shen; W. Song; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; E. Boutillon et al. 

2024. 2024 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2024-10-27 – 2024-10-30. p. 980 – 984. DOI : 10.1109/ieeeconf60004.2024.10942947.

LoRa Fine Synchronization with Two-Pass Time and Frequency Offset Estimation

J. T. Tapparel; A. P. Burg 

2024. 2024 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2024-10-27 – 2024-10-30. p. 1802 – 1806. DOI : 10.1109/ieeeconf60004.2024.10942846.

Learning-based Hand Gesture Classification using Channel Impulse Response with UWB

C. Samanos; H. Miao; S. Li; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

2024. 35 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Valencia, Spain, 2024-09-02 – 2024-09-05. DOI : 10.1109/PIMRC59610.2024.10817379.

A GRANDAB Decoder with 8.48 Gbps Worst-Case Throughput in 65nm CMOS

L. D. Blanc; V. Herrmann; Y. Ren; C. Muller; A. T. Kristensen et al. 

2024. 50th IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference, Bruges, Belgium, 2024-09-09 – 2024-09-12. p. 685 – 688. DOI : 10.1109/ESSERC62670.2024.10719587.

Monostatic Multi-Target Wi-Fi-Based Breathing Rate Sensing Using Openwifi

A. T. Kristensen; S. Li; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

2024. 25 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2024-04-21 – 2024-04-24. DOI : 10.1109/WCNC57260.2024.10570912.

A Low-Latency and High-Performance SCL Decoder with Frame-Interleaving

L. Zhang; Y. Ren; Y. Shen; W. Zhou; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming et al. 

2024. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Singapore, Singapore, 2024-05-19 – 2024-05-22. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS58744.2024.10558152.

Theses

Intelligent RF System for Ultra Low Power Spectrum Sensing with Machine Learning

N. Pekcokguler / A. P. Burg; C. Dehollain (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

2023

Journal Articles

Belief-Selective Propagation Detection for MIMO Systems

W. Zhou; Y. Shen; L. Li; Y. Huang; C. Zhang et al. 

Ieee Transactions On Communications. 2023. Vol. 71, num. 12, p. 7244 – 7257. DOI : 10.1109/TCOMM.2023.3305534.

Pipelined Architecture for Soft-Decision Iterative Projection Aggregation Decoding for RM Codes

M. Hashemipour-Nazari; Y. Ren; K. Goossens; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming 

Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems I-Regular Papers. 2023. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2023.3306463.

An Ultra-Low-Power Widely-Tunable Complex Band-Pass Filter for RF Spectrum Sensing

N. Pekcokguler; D. Morche; A. Burg; C. Dehollain 

Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems I-Regular Papers. 2023. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2023.3300965.

A 128-kbit GC-eDRAM With Negative Boosted Bootstrap Driver for 11.3x Lower-Refresh Frequency at a 2.5% Area Overhead in 28-nm FD-SOI

A. Yigit; E. N. Casarrubias; R. Giterman; A. Burg 

Ieee Solid-State Circuits Letters. 2023. Vol. 6, p. 13 – 16. DOI : 10.1109/LSSC.2022.3232775.

Conference Papers

Spreading Factor assisted LoRa Localization with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Y. Etiabi; M. Jouhari; A. Burg; E. M. Amhoud 

2023. 97th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Florence, ITALY, JUN 20-23, 2023. DOI : 10.1109/VTC2023-Spring57618.2023.10200189.

Increasing LoRa Sensitivity and Reliability with an IoT Cloud RAN

J. Tapparel; A. Burg 

2023. 57 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, United States, 2023-10-29 – 2023-11-01. p. 197 – 201. DOI : 10.1109/IEEECONF59524.2023.10476850.

Single-anchor Uwb Localization Using Channel Impulse Response Distributions

S. Li; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

2023. ICASSP 2023 – 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island (Greece), 2023-06-04 – 2023-06-10. DOI : 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10094570.

Band-of-Interest-based Channel Impulse Response Fusion for Breathing Rate Estimation with UWB

S. Li; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

2023. IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), Rome, ITALY, MAY 28-JUN 01, 2023. p. 1695 – 1700. DOI : 10.1109/ICCWORKSHOPS57953.2023.10283555.

Improved Belief Propagation Decoding of Turbo Codes

Y. Shen; Y. Ren; A. T. Kristensen; X. You; C. Zhang et al. 

2023. ICASSP 2023 – 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island (Greece), 2023-06-04 – 2023-06-10. DOI : 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10097058.

Low Power LDPC Decoding by Reliable Voltage Down-Scaling

J. Valkama; M. Safarpour; H. Dicander; Z. Deng; A. Burg et al. 

2023. 9th IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS), Aalborg, DENMARK, OCT 31-NOV 01, 2023. DOI : 10.1109/NorCAS58970.2023.10305442.

2022

Journal Articles

A Maximum-Likelihood-Based Two-User Receiver for LoRa Chirp Spread-Spectrum Modulation

M. Xhonneux; J. Tapparel; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg; O. Afisiadis 

Ieee Internet Of Things Journal. 2022. Vol. 9, num. 22, p. 22993 – 23007. DOI : 10.1109/JIOT.2022.3186732.

Ultra-High-Throughput EMS NB-LDPC Decoder with Full-Parallel Node Processing

H. Harb; A. C. Al Ghouwayel; L. Conde-Canencia; C. Marchand; E. Boutillon 

Journal Of Signal Processing Systems For Signal Image And Video Technology. 2022. DOI : 10.1007/s11265-022-01795-y.

Design for Test With Unreliable Memories by Restoring the Beauty of Randomness

R. Ghanaatian; M. Widmer; A. Burg 

Ieee Design & Test. 2022. Vol. 39, num. 2, p. 112 – 120. DOI : 10.1109/MDAT.2021.3081687.

A Low-Complexity LoRa Synchronization Algorithm Robust to Sampling Time Offsets

M. Xhonneux; O. Afisiadis; D. Bol; J. Louveaux 

Ieee Internet Of Things Journal. 2022. Vol. 9, num. 5, p. 3756 – 3769. DOI : 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3101002.

Dynamic SCL Decoder With Path-Flipping for 5G Polar Codes

Y. Shen; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; X. You; C. Zhang; A. P. Burg 

Ieee Wireless Communications Letters. 2022. Vol. 11, num. 2, p. 391 – 395. DOI : 10.1109/LWC.2021.3129470.

64-kB 65-nm GC-eDRAM With Half-Select Support and Parallel Refresh Technique

O. Harel; E. N. Casarrubias; M. Eggimann; F. Gurkaynak; L. Benini et al. 

Ieee Solid-State Circuits Letters. 2022. Vol. 5, p. 170 – 173. DOI : 10.1109/LSSC.2022.3182531.

A Sequence Repetition Node-Based Successive Cancellation List Decoder for 5G Polar Codes: Algorithm and Implementation

Y. Ren; A. T. Kristensen; Y. Shen; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; C. Zhang et al. 

Ieee Transactions On Signal Processing. 2022. Vol. 70, p. 5592 – 5607. DOI : 10.1109/TSP.2022.3216921.

Conference Papers

Increasing Cellular Network Energy Efficiency for Railway Corridors

A. Schumacher; R. Merz; A. Burg 

2022. 25th Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE), ELECTR NETWORK, Mar 14-23, 2022. p. 1103 – 1106. DOI : 10.23919/DATE54114.2022.9774757.

Beam Selection and Tracking for Amplify-and-Forward Repeaters

A. Schumacher; R. Merz; A. Burg 

2022. IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference: (VTC-Spring), Helsinki, FINLAND, Jun 19-22, 2022. DOI : 10.1109/VTC2022-Spring54318.2022.9860548.

List Ordered Statistics Decoders for Polar Codes

Z. Li; L. Zhang; Y. Shen; A. Burg; X. You et al. 

2022. 56th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, ELECTR NETWORK, Oct 31-Nov 02, 2022. p. 628 – 633. DOI : 10.1109/IEEECONF56349.2022.10051951.

Fast Sequence Repetition Node-Based Successive Cancellation List Decoding for Polar Codes

Y. Shen; Y. Ren; A. T. Kristensen; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; X. You et al. 

2022. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Seoul, SOUTH KOREA, May 16-20, 2022. p. 116 – 122. DOI : 10.1109/ICC45855.2022.9839072.

Theses

Cellular Fronthauling for Data Capacity Increase in Underserved Spaces

A. Schumacher / A. P. Burg; R. Merz (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

Working Papers

ErgoDEC: A Fault Tolerant 28 nm LDPC Decoder Providing Stable FER Quality with Unreliable Memories

R. Ghanaatian Jahromi; R. Giterman; A. Bonetti; A. P. Burg 

2022

Student Projects

Space Localisation

A. Zimmermann 

2022.

2021

Journal Articles

On the Advantage of Coherent LoRa Detection in the Presence of Interference

O. Afisiadis; S. Li; J. Tapparel; A. Burg; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming 

Ieee Internet Of Things Journal. 2021. Vol. 8, num. 14, p. 11581 – 11593. DOI : 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3058792.

An Energy-Autonomous Wireless Sensor With Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Ambient Light Sensing

R. La Rosa; C. Dehollain; A. Burg; M. Costanza; P. Livreri 

Ieee Sensors Journal. 2021. Vol. 21, num. 12, p. 13744 – 13752. DOI : 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3068134.

Adding Indoor Capacity without Fiber Backhaul: An mmWave Bridge Prototype

A. Schumacher; R. Merz; A. Burg 

Ieee Communications Magazine. 2021. Vol. 59, num. 4, p. 110 – 115. DOI : 10.1109/MCOM.001.2000722.

Polarization-Adjusted Convolutional (PAC) Codes: Sequential Decoding vs List Decoding

M. Rowshan; A. Burg; E. Viterbo 

Ieee Transactions On Vehicular Technology. 2021. Vol. 70, num. 2, p. 1434 – 1447. DOI : 10.1109/TVT.2021.3052550.

Enhancing the Reliability of Dense LoRaWAN Networks With Multi-User Receivers

J. Tapparel; M. Xhonneux; D. Bol; J. Louveaux; A. Burg 

Ieee Open Journal Of The Communications Society. 2021. Vol. 2, p. 2725 – 2738. DOI : 10.1109/OJCOMS.2021.3134091.

Low-Cost Side-Channel Secure Standard 6T-SRAM-Based Memory With a 1% Area and Less Than 5% Latency and Power Overheads

Y. Weizman; R. Giterman; O. Chertkow; M. Wicentowski; I. Levi et al. 

Ieee Access. 2021. Vol. 9, p. 91764 – 91776. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3088991.

Conference Papers

Intrinsically Self-powered, Battery-free, and Sensor-free Ambient Light Control System

R. La Rosa; M. Costanza; A. Burg; C. Dehollain; P. Livreri 

2021. 20th IEEE Sensors Conference, ELECTR NETWORK, Oct 31-Nov 04, 2021. DOI : 10.1109/SENSORS47087.2021.9639712.

ComplexBeat: Breathing Rate Estimation from Complex CSI

S. Li; A. T. Kristensen; A. Burg; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming 

2021. 35th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (IEEE SiPS), Coimbra, PORTUGAL, Oct 19-21, 2021. p. 217 – 222. DOI : 10.1109/SiPS52927.2021.00046.

A Novel RF Spectrum Monitoring Architecture for an Ultra-Low-Power Wi-Fi Geopositioning System

N. Pekcokguler; M. Maman; A. Burg; C. Dehollain; D. Morche 

2021. 19th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), ELECTR NETWORK, Jun 13-16, 2021. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS50681.2021.9462768.

Improving Railway Track Coverage with mmWave Bridges: A Measurement Campaign

A. Schumacher; N. Jamaly; R. Merz; A. Burg 

2021. 1st Workshop on 5G Measurements, Modeling, and Use Cases (5G-MeMU), ELECTR NETWORK, Aug 23, 2021. p. 8 – 13. DOI : 10.1145/3472771.3472774.

Dynamic Range and Complexity Optimization of Mixed-Signal Machine Learning Systems

N. Pekcokguler; D. Morche; A. Frischknecht; C. Gerum; A. Burg et al. 

2021. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS), Daegu, SOUTH KOREA, May 22-28, 2021. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS51556.2021.9401331.

Theses

Adaptive Body Biasing in Strong Body Factor Technologies

T. C. Müller / A. P. Burg; M. Pons Solé (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Student Projects

Le fil d’Ariane, redécouverte du Musée des Thermes et de Cluny à Paris

C. Boyer 

2021.

2020

Journal Articles

Replica Bit-Line Technique for Internal Refresh in Logic-Compatible Gain-Cell Embedded DRAM

O. Harel; Y. Nachum; R. Giterman 

Microelectronics Journal. 2020. Vol. 101, p. 104781. DOI : 10.1016/j.mejo.2020.104781.

Hardware Implementation of Neural Self-Interference Cancellation

Y. Kurzo; A. T. Kristensen; A. Burg; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming 

IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. 2020. Vol. 10, num. 2, p. 204 – 216. DOI : 10.1109/JETCAS.2020.2992370.

Artificial Intelligence for 5G and Beyond 5G: Implementations, Algorithms, and Optimizations

C. Zhang; Y-L. Ueng; C. Studer; A. Burg 

IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. 2020. Vol. 10, num. 2, p. 145 – 148. DOI : 10.1109/JETCAS.2020.2999944.

A Standalone FPGA-Based Miner for Lyra2REv2 Cryptocurrencies

J-F. Tetu; L-C. Trudeau; M. Van Beirendonck; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; P. Giard 

Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems I-Regular Papers. 2020. Vol. 67, num. 4, p. 1194 – 1206. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2020.2970923.

Current-Based Data-Retention-Time Characterization of Gain-Cell Embedded DRAMs Across the Design and Variations Space

R. Giterman; A. Bonetti; E. V. Bravo; T. Noy; A. Teman et al. 

Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems I-Regular Papers. 2020. Vol. 67, num. 4, p. 1207 – 1217. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2020.2971695.

Gain-Cell Embedded DRAMs: Modeling and Design Space

A. Bonetti; R. Golman; R. Giterman; A. Teman; A. Burg 

Ieee Transactions On Very Large Scale Integration (Vlsi) Systems. 2020. Vol. 28, num. 3, p. 646 – 659. DOI : 10.1109/TVLSI.2019.2955933.

Design and Decoding of Irregular LDPC Codes Based on Discrete Message Passing

M. Meidlinger; G. Matz; A. Burg 

Ieee Transactions On Communications. 2020. Vol. 68, num. 3, p. 1329 – 1343. DOI : 10.1109/TCOMM.2019.2944159.

On the Error Rate of the LoRa Modulation With Interference

O. Afisiadis; M. Cotting; A. Burg; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming 

Ieee Transactions On Wireless Communications. 2020. Vol. 19, num. 2, p. 1292 – 1304. DOI : 10.1109/TWC.2019.2952584.

A 161-mW 56-Gb/s ADC-Based Discrete Multitone Wireline Receiver Data-Path in 14-nm FinFET

G. Kim; L. Kull; D. Luu; M. Braendli; C. Menolfi et al. 

Ieee Journal Of Solid-State Circuits. 2020. Vol. 55, num. 1, p. 38 – 48. DOI : 10.1109/JSSC.2019.2938414.

A 1-Mbit Fully Logic-Compatible 3T Gain-Cell Embedded DRAM in 16-nm FinFET

R. Giterman; A. Shalom; A. Burg; A. Fish; A. Teman 

Ieee Solid-State Circuits Letters. 2020. Vol. 3, p. 110 – 113. DOI : 10.1109/LSSC.2020.3006496.

Conference Papers

Coded LoRa Frame Error Rate Analysis

O. Afisiadis; A. Burg; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming 

2020. IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC) / Workshop on NOMA for 5G and Beyond, ELECTR NETWORK, Jun 07-11, 2020. DOI : 10.1109/ICC40277.2020.9148806.

A Maximum-Likelihood-based Multi-User LoRa Receiver Implemented in GNU Radio

M. Xhonneux; J. Tapparel; O. Afisiadis; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

2020. 54th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, ELECTR NETWORK, Nov 01-05, 2020. p. 1106 – 1111. DOI : 10.1109/IEEECONF51394.2020.9443502.

Identification of Non-Linear RF Systems Using Backpropagation

A. T. Kristensen; A. Burg; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming 

2020. IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC) / Workshop on NOMA for 5G and Beyond, ELECTR NETWORK, Jun 07-11, 2020. DOI : 10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145367.

Complexity-efficient Fano Decoding of Polarization-adjusted Convolutional (PAC) Codes

M. Rowshan; A. Burg; E. Viterbo 

2020. International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA), ELECTR NETWORK, Oct 24-27, 2020. p. 200 – 204.

On the Implementation Complexity of Digital Full-Duplex Self-Interference Cancellation

A. T. Kristensen; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

2020. 54th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, ELECTR NETWORK, Nov 01-05, 2020. p. 969 – 973. DOI : 10.1109/IEEECONF51394.2020.9443274.

GC-eDRAM with Body-Bias Compensated Readout and Error Detection in 28nm FD-SOI

R. Giterman; A. Bonetti; A. Burg; A. Teman 

2020. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), ELECTR NETWORK, Oct 10-21, 2020. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9180997.

Gain-Cell Embedded DRAMs: Modeling and Design Space

A. Bonetti; R. Golman; R. Giterman; A. Teman; A. Burg 

2020. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), ELECTR NETWORK, Oct 10-21, 2020. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9180999.

Lupulus: A Flexible Hardware Accelerator For Neural Networks

A. T. Kristensen; R. Giterman; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

2020. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Barcelona, SPAIN, May 04-08, 2020. p. 1608 – 1612. DOI : 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9054764.

Training Channel Selection for Learning-based 1-bit Precoding in Massive MU-MIMO

S. Li; A. Burg; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming 

2020. IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC) / Workshop on NOMA for 5G and Beyond, ELECTR NETWORK, Jun 07-11, 2020. DOI : 10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145443.

An Open-Source LoRa Physical Layer Prototype on GNU Radio

J. Tapparel; O. Afisiadis; P. Mayoraz; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

2020. 21st IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (IEEE SPAWC), ELECTR NETWORK, May 26-29, 2020. DOI : 10.1109/SPAWC48557.2020.9154273.

Theses

Energy- and Cost-Efficient VLSI DSP Systems Design with Approximate Computing

R. Ghanaatian Jahromi / A. P. Burg (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Physical Layer Aspects of LoRa and Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers

O. Afisiadis / A. P. Burg; A. K. Balatsoukas Stimming (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

2019

Journal Articles

GC-eDRAM With Body-Bias Compensated Readout and Error Detection in 28-nm FD-SOI

R. Giterman; A. Bonetti; A. Burg; A. Teman 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. 2019. Vol. 66, num. 12, p. 2042 – 2046. DOI : 10.1109/TCSII.2019.2896164.

2019 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design

A. Burg; S. Mukhopdhyay; M. Ziegler 

Ieee Design & Test. 2019. Vol. 36, num. 6, p. 82 – 83. DOI : 10.1109/MDAT.2019.2941713.

Improving Energy-Efficiency in Dynamic Memories Through Retention Failure Detection

R. Giterman; R. Golman; A. Teman 

Ieee Access. 2019. Vol. 7, p. 27641 – 27649. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2901738.

Conference Papers

Scalable Boolean Methods in a Modern Synthesis Flow

E. Testa; L. G. Amarù; M. Soeken; A. Mishchenko; P. Vuillod et al. 

2019. Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Florence, ITALY, Mar 25-29, 2019. p. 1643 – 1648. DOI : 10.23919/DATE.2019.8714776.

Minimum Energy Point in Constant Frequency Designs under Adaptive Supply Voltage and Body Bias Adjustment in 55 nm DDC

C. T. Mueller; M. Pons; D. Ruffieux; J-L. Nagel; S. Emery et al. 

2019. 15th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Jul 15-18, 2019. p. 285 – 288. DOI : 10.1109/PRIME.2019.8787736.

Neural-Network Optimized 1-bit Precoding for Massive MU-MIMO

A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; O. Castaneda; S. Jacobsson; G. Durisi; C. Studer 

2019. 20th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Cannes, FRANCE, Jul 02-05, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/SPAWC.2019.8815519.

LDPC Coded Multiuser Shaping for the Gaussian Multiple Access Channel

A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; S. Rini; J. Kliewer 

2019. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Paris, FRANCE, Jul 07-12, 2019. p. 2609 – 2613. DOI : 10.1109/ISIT.2019.8849785.

Feedback-Aware Precoding for Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Systems

R. Ghanaatian; V. Jamali; A. Burg; R. Schober 

2019. 30th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Istanbul, TURKEY, Sep 08-11, 2019. p. 1021 – 1027. DOI : 10.1109/PIMRC.2019.8904332.

A 4.8pJ/b 6Gb/s ADC-Based PAM-4 Wireline Receiver Data -Path with Cyclic Prefix in 14nm FinFET

G. Kim; L. Kull; D. Luu; M. Braendli; C. Menolfi et al. 

2019. 15th IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Macao, PEOPLES R CHINA, Nov 04-06, 2019. p. 239 – 240. DOI : 10.1109/A-SSCC47793.2019.9056940.

A 24 kb Single-Well Mixed 3T Gain-Cell eDRAM with Body-Bias in 28 nm FD-SOI for Refresh-Free DSP Applications

J. Narinx; R. Giterman; A. Bonetti; N. Frigerio; C. Aprile et al. 

2019. 15th IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Macao, PEOPLES R CHINA, Nov 04-06, 2019. p. 219 – 222. DOI : 10.1109/A-SSCC47793.2019.9056985.

LoRa Symbol Error Rate Under Non-Aligned Interference

O. Afisiadis; M. Cotting; A. Burg; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming 

2019. 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov 03-06, 2019. p. 1957 – 1961. DOI : 10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048665.

Data-Retention-Time Characterization of Gain-Cell eDRAMs across the Design and Variations Space

E. V. Bravo; A. Bonetti; A. Burg 

2019. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS), Sapporo, JAPAN, May 26-29, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2019.8702393.

Power Analysis Resilient SRAM Design Implemented with a 1% Area Overhead Impedance Randomization Unit for Security Applications

R. Giterman; M. Wicentowski; O. Chertkow; I. Sever; I. Kehati et al. 

2019. IEEE 45th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Cracow, POLAND, Sep 23-26, 2019. p. 69 – 72. DOI : 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2019.8902622.

Advanced Machine Learning Techniques for Self-Interference Cancellation in Full-Duplex Radios

A. T. Kristensen; A. Burg; A. Balatsoukas-Stinuning 

2019. 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov 03-06, 2019. p. 1149 – 1153. DOI : 10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048900.

A 0.5 V 2.5 mu W/MHz Microcontroller with Analog-Assisted Adaptive Body Bias PVT Compensation with 3.13 nW/kB SRAM Retention in 55 nm Deeply-Depleted Channel CMOS

M. Pons; C. T. Mueller; D. Ruffieux; J-L. Nagel; S. Emery et al. 

2019. 40th Annual IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Austin, TX, Apr 14-17, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/CICC.2019.8780199.

3.5 GHz Coverage Assessment with a 5G Testbed

A. Schumacher; R. Merz; A. Burg 

2019. 89th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA, Apr 28-May 01, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/VTCSpring.2019.8746551.

JESD204B Compliant 12.5 Gb/s LVDS and SST Transmitters in 28 nm FD-SOI CMOS

F. Celik; A. Akkaya; A. Tajalli; A. Burg; Y. Leblebici 

2019. 15th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Jul 15-18, 2019. p. 101 – 104. DOI : 10.1109/PRIME.2019.8787786.

A 161mW 56Gb/s ADC-Based Discrete Multitone Wireline Receiver Data-Path in 14nm FinFET

G. Kim; L. Kull; D. Luu; M. Braendli; C. Menolfi et al. 

2019. IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, Feb 17-21, 2019. p. 476 – 478. DOI : 10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662505.

FPGA-Based Emulation of Embedded DRAMs for Statistical Error Resilience Evaluation of Approximate Computing Systems

M. Widmer; A. Bonetti; A. Burg 

2019. 56th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), Las Vegas, NV, Jun 02-06, 2019. DOI : 10.1145/3316781.3317830.

A Lyra2 FPGA Core for Lyra2REv2-Based Cryptocurrencies

M. van Beirendonck; L-C. Trudeau; P. Giard; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming 

2019. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS), Sapporo, JAPAN, May 26-29, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2019.8702498.

Lora Digital Receiver Analysis And Implementation

R. Ghanaatian; O. Afisiadis; M. Cotting; A. Burg 

2019. 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, ENGLAND, May 12-17, 2019. p. 1498 – 1502. DOI : 10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8683504.

Theses

Low-Power Design of Digital VLSI Circuits around the Point of First Failure

A. Bonetti / A. P. Burg; A. S. Teman (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

2018

Journal Articles

Design of LDPC Codes for the Unequal Power Two-User Gaussian Multiple Access Channel

A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. P. Liavas 

Ieee Wireless Communications Letters. 2018. Vol. 7, num. 5, p. 868 – 871. DOI : 10.1109/LWC.2018.2833855.

Design Techniques for High-Speed Multi-Level Viterbi Detectors and Trellis-Coded-Modulation Decoders

H. Yueksel; M. Braendli; A. Burg; G. Cherubini; R. D. Cideciyan et al. 

Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems I-Regular Papers. 2018. Vol. 65, num. 10, p. 3529 – 3542. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2018.2803735.

A 588-Gb/s LDPC Decoder Based on Finite-Alphabet Message Passing

R. Ghanaatian; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; T. Muller; M. Meidlinger; G. Matz et al. 

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS. 2018. Vol. 26, num. 2, p. 329 – 340. DOI : 10.1109/TVLSI.2017.2766925.

A 9.52 dB NCG FEC Scheme and 162 b/Cycle Low-Complexity Product Decoder Architecture

C. Condo; P. Giard; F. Leduc-Primeau; G. Sarkis; W. Gross 

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I-REGULAR PAPERS. 2018. Vol. 65, num. 4, p. 1420 – 1431. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2017.2745902.

Fast Low-Complexity Decoders for Low-Rate Polar Codes

P. Giard; A. K. Balatsoukas Stimming; G. Sarkis; C. Thibeault; W. J. Gross 

Journal of Signal Processing Systems. 2018. Vol. 90, num. 5, p. 675 – 685. DOI : 10.1007/s11265-016-1173-y.

A 4-Transistor nMOS-Only Logic-Compatible Gain-Cell Embedded DRAM With Over 1.6-ms Retention Time at 700 mV in 28-nm FD-SOI

R. Giterman; A. Fish; A. Burg; A. Teman 

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I-REGULAR PAPERS. 2018. Vol. 65, num. 4, p. 1245 – 1256. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2017.2747087.

Faulty Successive Cancellation Decoding of Polar Codes for the Binary Erasure Channel

A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS. 2018. Vol. 66, num. 6, p. 2322 – 2332. DOI : 10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2771243.

An 800-MHz Mixed-V-T 4T IFGC Embedded DRAM in 28-nm CMOS Bulk Process for Approximate Storage Applications

R. Giterman; A. Fish; N. Geuli; E. Mentovich; A. Burg et al. 

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 2018. Vol. 53, num. 7, p. 2136 – 2148. DOI : 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2820145.

Wireless Communication and Security Issues for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet-of-Things

A. Burg; A. Chattopadhyay; K-Y. Lam 

Proceedings Of The IEEE. 2018. Vol. 106, num. 1, p. 38 – 60. DOI : 10.1109/Jproc.2017.2780172.

Conference Papers

Fast-SSC-Flip Decoding of Polar Codes

P. Giard; A. Burg 

2018. DOI : 10.1109/WCNCW.2018.8369026.

Design and Implementation of a Neural Network Aided Self Interference Cancellation Scheme for Full-Duplex Radios

Y. Kurzo; A. Burg; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming 

2018. 52nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct 28-Nov 01, 2018. p. 589 – 593. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2018.8645295.

Non-Linear Digital Self-Interference Cancellation for In-Band Full-Duplex Radios Using Neural Networks

A. Balatsoukas-Stimming 

2018. IEEE 19th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Kalamata, GREECE, Jun 25-28, 2018. p. 1 – 5. DOI : 10.1109/SPAWC.2018.8445987.

Majority Logic Synthesis

L. Amaru; E. Testa; M. Couceiro; O. Zografos; G. De Micheli et al. 

2018. 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Diego, CA, Nov 05-08, 2018. DOI : 10.1145/3240765.3267501.

A Timing-Monitoring Sequential for Forward and Backward Error-Detection in 28 nm FD-SOI

A. Bonetti; J. Constantin; A. S. Teman; A. P. Burg 

2018. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Florence, ITALY, May 27-30, 2018. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351043.

On the Tradeoff Between Accuracy and Complexity in Blind Detection of Polar Codes

P. Giard; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

2018. 10th IEEE International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing (ISTC), HONG KONG, PEOPLES R CHINA, Dec 03-07, 2018. DOI : 10.1109/ISTC.2018.8625366.

2017

Journal Articles

Energy-Efficient Near-Threshold Parallel Computing: The PULPv2 Cluster

D. Rossi; A. Pullini; I. Loi; M. Gautschi; F. K. Gurkaynak et al. 

Ieee Micro. 2017. Vol. 37, num. 5, p. 20 – 31. DOI : 10.1109/MM.2017.3711645.

Automated Integration of Dual-Edge Clocking for Low-Power Operation in Nanometer Nodes

A. Bonetti; N. A. Preyss; A. S. Teman; A. P. Burg 

ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. 2017. Vol. 22, num. 4, p. 62. DOI : 10.1145/3054744.

PolarBear: A 28-nm FD-SOI ASIC for Decoding of Polar Codes

P. Giard; A. K. Balatsoukas Stimming; T. C. Müller; A. Bonetti; C. Thibeault et al. 

IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. 2017. Vol. 7, num. 4, p. 616 – 629. DOI : 10.1109/JETCAS.2017.2745704.

An FPGA-Based 4 Mbps Secret Key Distillation Engine for Quantum Key Distribution Systems

J. Constantin; R. Houlmann; N. Preyss; N. Walenta; H. Zbinden et al. 

Journal Of Signal Processing Systems For Signal Image And Video Technology. 2017. Vol. 86, num. 1, p. 1 – 15. DOI : 10.1007/s11265-015-1086-1.

Multipliers-Driven Perturbation of Coefficients for Low-Power Operation in Reconfigurable FIR Filters

A. Bonetti; A. S. Teman; P. Flatresse; A. P. Burg 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. 2017. Vol. 64, num. 9, p. 2388 – 2400. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2017.2698138.

Conference Papers

Blind detection of polar codes

P. Giard; A. K. Balatsoukas Stimming; A. P. Burg 

2017. IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), Lorient, France, October 3-5, 2017. DOI : 10.1109/SiPS.2017.8109977.

Comparison of Polar Decoders with Existing Low-Density Parity-Check and Turbo Decoders

A. K. Balatsoukas Stimming; P. Giard; A. P. Burg 

2017. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), San Francisco, CA, USA, Mar. 2017. p. 1 – 6. DOI : 10.1109/WCNCW.2017.7919106.

Theses

High-Speed Wireline Link Design

H. Yüksel / A. P. Burg; T. Toifl (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

Talks

Polar codes and APSK modulation – Just good friends

N. A. Preyss; P. Giard; A. K. Balatsoukas Stimming; A. P. Burg 

Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, CA, USA, Feb. 12-17, 2017.

2016

Journal Articles

Cross-Layer Energy-Efficiency Optimization of Packet Based Wireless MIMO Communication Systems

C. Senning; G. Karakonstantis; A. Burg 

Journal Of Signal Processing Systems For Signal Image And Video Technology. 2016. Vol. 85, num. 1, p. 129 – 142. DOI : 10.1007/s11265-015-1003-7.

Wireless Channel Characterization in Burning Buildings Over 100-1000 MHz

A. C. M. Austin 

Ieee Transactions On Antennas And Propagation. 2016. Vol. 64, num. 7, p. 3265 – 3269. DOI : 10.1109/Tap.2016.2562671.

Power, Area, and Performance Optimization of Standard Cell Memory Arrays Through Controlled Placement

A. Teman; D. Rossi; P. Meinerzhagen; L. Benini; A. Burg 

Acm Transactions On Design Automation Of Electronic Systems. 2016. Vol. 21, num. 4, p. 59. DOI : 10.1145/2890498.

Spatial Multiplexing of QPSK Signals With a Single Radio: Antenna Design and Over-the-Air Experiments

M. Yousefbeiki; A. C. M. Austin; J. R. Mosig; A. Burg; J. Perruisseau-Carrier 

Ieee Transactions On Antennas And Propagation. 2016. Vol. 64, num. 12, p. 5131 – 5145. DOI : 10.1109/Tap.2016.2624138.

Silicon-Proven, Per-Cell Retention Time Distribution Model for Gain-Cell Based eDRAMs

N. Edri; P. Meinerzhagen; A. Teman; A. Burg; A. Fish 

Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems I-Regular Papers. 2016. Vol. 63, num. 2, p. 222 – 232. DOI : 10.1109/Tcsi.2015.2512706.

A Low-Voltage Radiation-Hardened 13T SRAM Bitcell for Ultralow Power Space Applications

L. Atias; A. Teman; R. Giterman; P. Meinerzhagen; A. Fish 

Ieee Transactions On Very Large Scale Integration (Vlsi) Systems. 2016. Vol. 24, num. 8, p. 2622 – 2633. DOI : 10.1109/Tvlsi.2016.2518220.

Synthesis of Dual Mode Logic

L. Moyal; I. Levi; A. Teman; A. Fish 

Integration-The Vlsi Journal. 2016. Vol. 55, p. 246 – 253. DOI : 10.1016/j.vlsi.2016.07.004.

An Efficient Tool for the Assisted Design of SAR ADCs Capacitive DACs

S. Brenna; A. Bonetti; A. Bonfanti; A. Lacaita 

Integration, the VLSI Journal (Elsevier). 2016. Vol. 53, num. March 2016, p. 88 – 99. DOI : 10.1016/j.vlsi.2015.12.005.

Ultra Low Voltage Synthesizable Memories: A Trade-Off Discussion in 65 nm CMOS

O. Andersson; B. Mohammadi; P. Meinerzhagen; A. Burg; J. N. Rodrigues 

Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems I-Regular Papers. 2016. Vol. 63, num. 6, p. 806 – 817. DOI : 10.1109/Tcsi.2016.2537931.

Single-Supply 3T Gain-Cell for Low-Voltage Low-Power Applications

R. Giterman; A. Teman; P. Meinerzhagen; L. Atias; A. Burg et al. 

Ieee Transactions On Very Large Scale Integration (Vlsi) Systems. 2016. Vol. 24, num. 1, p. 358 – 362. DOI : 10.1109/TVLSI.2015.2394459.

Conference Papers

193 MOPS/mW @ 162 MOPS, 0.32V to 1.15V voltage range multi-core accelerator for energy efficient parallel and sequential digital processing

D. Rossi; A. Pullini; I. Loi; M. Gautschi; F. K. Gürkaynak et al. 

2016. 2016 IEEE Symposium in Low-Power and High-Speed Chips (COOL CHIPS XIX), Yokohama, Japan, April 20-22, 2016. DOI : 10.1109/CoolChips.2016.7503670.

Digital Predistortion of Power Amplifier Non-Linearities for Full-Duplex Transceivers

A. Austin; A. K. Balatsoukas Stimming; A. Burg 

2016. 17th IEEE International workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 3-6, 2016. DOI : 10.1109/SPAWC.2016.7536811.

DynOR: A 32-bit Microprocessor in 28 nm FD-SOI with Cycle-By-Cycle Dynamic Clock Adjustment

J. H-F. Constantin; A. Bonetti; A. S. Teman; T. C. Müller; L. F. Schmid et al. 

2016. 42nd European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Lausanne, Switzerland, September 12-15, 2016. p. 261 – 264. DOI : 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2016.7598292.

Energy vs. Reliability Trade-offs Exploration in Biomedical Ultra-Low Power Devices

L. G. Duch; P. Garcia del Valle; S. Ganapathy; A. P. Burg; D. Atienza Alonso 

2016. Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE ’16), Dresden, Germany, March 14-18, 2016. p. 838 – 841.

Statistical Fault Injection for Impact-Evaluation of Timing Errors on Application Performance

J. Constantin; A. Burg; Z. Wang; A. Chattopadhyay; G. Karakonstantis 

2016. 53rd ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), Austin, TX, JUN 05-09, 2016. DOI : 10.1145/2897937.2696095.

Hardware Decoders for Polar Codes: An Overview

P. Giard; G. Sarkis; A. Balatsoukas-Stinning; Y. Fan; C-Y. Tsui et al. 

2016. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Montreal, CANADA, MAY 22-25, 2016. p. 149 – 152. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2016.7527192.

A 4.1 pJ/b 25.6 Gb/s 4-PAM Reduced-State Sliding-Block Viterbi Detector in 14 nm CMOS

H. Yueksel; M. Braendli; A. Burg; G. Cherubini; R. D. Cideciyan et al. 

2016. 46th European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC) / 42nd European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, SEP 12-15, 2016. p. 309 – 312. DOI : 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2016.7598304.

Partitioned Successive-Cancellation List Decoding Of Polar Codes

S. A. Hashemi; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; P. Giard; C. Thibeault; W. J. Gross 

2016. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Shanghai, PEOPLES R CHINA, MAR 20-25, 2016. p. 957 – 960. DOI : 10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471817.

Approximate Computing for Unreliable Silicon

A. P. Burg 

2016. 11th IEEE International Conference on Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS). DOI : 10.1109/DTIS.2016.7483878.

Statistical Fault Injection for Impact-Evaluation of Timing Errors on Application Performance

J. H-F. Constantin; Z. Wang; G. Karakonstantis; A. Chattopadhyay; A. P. Burg 

2016. 53rd ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), Austin, Texas, USA, June 5-9, 2016. p. 13:1 – 13:6. DOI : 10.1145/2897937.2898095.

Sliding Window Spectrum Sensing for Full-Duplex Cognitive Radios with Low Access-Latency

O. Afisiadis; A. C. M. Austin; A. K. Balatsoukas Stimming; A. Burg 

2016. IEEE 83rd Vehicular Technology Conference, Nanjing, China, 15-18 May. DOI : 10.1109/VTCSpring.2016.7504477.

A Multi-Gbps Unrolled Hardware List Decoder Systematic Polar Code

P. Giard; A. K. Balatsoukas Stimming; T. C. Müller; A. P. Burg; C. Thibeault et al. 

2016. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov. 2016. p. 1194 – 1198. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2016.7869561.

A Low-Power Correlator for Wakeup Receivers with Algorithm Pruning through Early Termination

R. Ghanaatian Jahromi; P. Whatmough; J. H-F. Constantin; A. S. Teman; A. P. Burg 

2016. 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Montreal, Canada, May 22-25, 2016. p. 2667 – 2670. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2016.7539142.

High-Speed Link With Trellis-Coded Modulation and Reed Solomon Coding

H. Yueksel; G. Cherubini; R. D. Cideciyan; S. Furrer; A. Burg et al. 

2016. IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), Berlin, GERMANY, OCT 31-NOV 02, 2016. DOI : 10.1109/CSCN.2016.7785181.

A Process Compensated Gain Cell Embedded-DRAM for Ultra-Low-Power Variation-Aware Design

R. Giterman; A. Teman; P. Meinerzhagen; A. Fish; A. Burg 

2016. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Montreal, CANADA, MAY 22-25, 2016. p. 1006 – 1009. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2016.7527413.

Theses

Microarchitectural Low-Power Design Techniques for Embedded Microprocessors

J. H-F. Constantin / A. P. Burg; D. Atienza Alonso (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. 

Modulation, Coding, and Receiver Design for Gigabit mmWave Communication

N. A. Preyss / A. P. Burg (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. 

Hardware implementation aspects of polar decoders and ultra high-speed LDPC decoders

A. K. Balatsoukas Stimming / A. P. Burg (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. 

2015

Journal Articles

An Evolved GSM/EDGE Baseband ASIC Supporting Rx Diversity

H. Kroell; S. Zwicky; B. Weber; C. Roth; D. Tschopp et al. 

Ieee Journal Of Solid-State Circuits. 2015. Vol. 50, num. 7, p. 1690 – 1701. DOI : 10.1109/Jssc.2015.2417802.

Performance estimation for indoor wireless systems using FDTD method

A. Austin 

Electronics Letters. 2015. Vol. 51, num. 17, p. 1376 – 1378. DOI : 10.1049/el.2015.1093.

A Fast Modular Method for True Variation-Aware Separatrix Tracing in Nanoscaled SRAMs

A. Teman; R. Visotsky 

Ieee Transactions On Very Large Scale Integration (Vlsi) Systems. 2015. Vol. 23, num. 10, p. 2034 – 2042. DOI : 10.1109/TVLSI.2014.2358699.

Enhancing Design Space Exploration by Extending CPU/GPU Specifications onto FPGAs

M. Owaida; G. Falcao; J. Andrade; C. Antonopoulos; N. Bellas et al. 

Acm Transactions On Embedded Computing Systems. 2015. Vol. 14, num. 2, p. 33. DOI : 10.1145/2656207.

Baseband and RF hardware impairments in full-duplex wireless systems: experimental characterisation and suppression

A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Austin; P. Belanovic; A. Burg 

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. 2015. Vol. 2015, p. 142. DOI : 10.1186/s13638-015-0350-1.

LLR-Based Successive Cancellation List Decoding of Polar Codes

A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; M. B. Parizi; A. Burg 

Ieee Transactions On Signal Processing. 2015. Vol. 63, num. 19, p. 5165 – 5179. DOI : 10.1109/Tsp.2015.2439211.

Conference Papers

A 3.52 Gb/s mmWave Baseband with Delayed Decision Feedback Sequence Estimation in 40 nm

N. A. Preyss; C. C. S. D. Senning; A. P. Burg; W-C. Liu; C-Y. Liu et al. 

2015. 2015 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Xiamen, Fujian, China, November 9-11, 2015. p. 193 – 196. DOI : 10.1109/ASSCC.2015.7387455.

Fractionally Spaced Complex Sub-Nyquist Sampling for Multi-Gigabit 60 GHz Wireless Communication

N. A. Preyss; L. Koester; A. P. Burg 

2015. Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, August 2-5, 2015. DOI : 10.1109/MWSCAS.2015.7282089.

Energy-Proportional Single-Carrier Frequency Domain Equalization for mmWave Wireless Communication

N. Preyss; S. Rodriguez Egea; A. Burg 

2015. 49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, USA, November 8-11, 2015. p. 1133 – 1137. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2015.7421317.

Fundamental Power Limits of SAR and ΔΣ Analog-to-Digital Converters

S. Brenna; L. Bettini; A. Bonetti; A. Bonfanti; A. Lacaita 

2015. IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS), Oslo, October 2015. DOI : 10.1109/NORCHIP.2015.7364387.

Approximate Computing With Unreliable Dynamic Memories

S. Ganapathy; A. S. Teman; R. Giterman; A. P. Burg; G. Karakonstantis 

2015. International New Circuits And Systems Conference (NEWCAS), Grenoble, France, June 7-10, 2015. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS.2015.7182027.

Energy versus Data Integrity Trade-Offs in Embedded High-Density Logic Compatible Dynamic Memories

A. S. Teman; G. Karakonstantis; A. P. Burg; R. Giterman; P. A. Meinerzhagen 

2015. DATE 2015, Grenoble, France, March 9-13, 2015. p. 489 – 494. DOI : 10.7873/DATE.2015.0783.

Exploiting Dynamic Timing Margins in Microprocessors for Frequency-Over-Scaling with Instruction-Based Clock Adjustment

J. H-F. Constantin; L. Wang; G. Karakonstantis; A. Chattopadhyay; A. P. Burg 

2015. The Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Grenoble, France, March 9-13, 2015. p. 381 – 386. DOI : 10.7873/DATE.2015.0303.

An Overlap-Contention Free True-Single-Phase Clock Dual-Edge-Triggered Flip-Flop

A. Bonetti; A. S. Teman; A. P. Burg 

2015. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Lisbon, Portugal, May, 2015. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2015.7169017.

Refresh-Free Dynamic Standard-Cell Based Memories: Application to a QC-LDPC Decoder

P. A. Meinerzhagen; A. Bonetti; G. Karakonstantis; C. Roth; F. K. Gürkaynak et al. 

2015. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Lisbon, Portugal, May, 2015. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2015.7168911.

Digital Synchronization for Symbol-spaced IEEE802.11ad Gigabit mmWave Systems

N. A. Preyss; A. Burg 

2015. 2015 22nd IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), Cairo, Egypt, December 06-09, 2015. p. 637 – 640. DOI : 10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440397.

Mitigating the Impact of Faults in Unreliable Memories For Error-Resilient Applications

S. Ganapathy; G. Karakonstantis; A. S. Teman; A. P. Burg 

2015. Design Automation Conference (DAC’15), San Francisco, California, USA, June 7-11, 2015. p. 1 – 6. DOI : 10.1145/2744769.2744871.

Concurrent Spectrum Sensing and Transmission for Cognitive Radio using Self-Interference Cancellation

A. Austin; O. Afisiadis; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

2015. 16th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, Hangzhou, China, 22-25 06 2015. p. 407 – 408. DOI : 10.1145/2746285.2764932.

An FPGA-based Accelerator for Rapid Simulation of SC Decoding of Polar Codes

J. M. Wüthrich; A. K. Balatsoukas Stimming; A. P. Burg 

2015. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, Cairo, Egypt, December 6-9, 2015. p. 633 – 636. DOI : 10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440396.

Posters

Circuits and Techniques for Dynamic Timing Monitoring in Microprocessors

A. Bonetti; J. H-F. Constantin; A. S. Teman; A. P. Burg 

Nanotera Annual Meeting 2015, Bern, Switzerland, May 5, 2015.

Patents

Method and apparatus for low complexity spectral analysis of bio-signals

G. Karakonstantis; A. Sankaranarayanan; A. Burg; S. Murali; D. Atienza Alonso 

US9760536; US2015220486; EP2884884; WO2014027329.

2015.

Student Projects

Power analysis and optimization of on-board processing for the EFM32 microprocessor

A. Gianarda 

2015.

Automated Performance Characterization of Dynamic Clock Adjustment Techniques on an OpenRISC ISS

B. Steinmann 

2015.

2014

Journal Articles

Multi-level wordline driver for robust SRAM design in nano-scale CMOS technology

F. Moradi; G. Panagopoulos; G. Karakonstantis; H. Farkhani; D. T. Wisland et al. 

Microelectronics Journal. 2014. Vol. 45, num. 1, p. 23 – 34. DOI : 10.1016/j.mejo.2013.09.009.

Density Evolution for Min-Sum Decoding of LDPC Codes Under Unreliable Message Storage

A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. P. Burg 

IEEE Communications Letters. 2014. Vol. 18, num. 5, p. 849 – 852. DOI : 10.1109/Lcomm.2014.030714.132830.

A Low-Power Low-Cost 24 GHz RFID Tag With a C-Flash Based Embedded Memory

H. Dagan; A. Shapira; A. Teman; A. Mordakhay; S. Jameson et al. 

Ieee Journal Of Solid-State Circuits. 2014. Vol. 49, num. 9, p. 1942 – 1957. DOI : 10.1109/Jssc.2014.2323352.

A Lattice Reduction-Aided MIMO Channel Equalizer in 90 nm CMOS Achieving 720 Mb/s

C. Senning; L. Bruderer; J. Hunziker; A. Burg 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. 2014. Vol. 61, num. 6, p. 1860 – 1871. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2013.2295027.

A Fast and Versatile Quantum Key Distribution System with Hardware Key Distillation and Wavelength Multiplexing

N. Walenta; A. P. Burg; D. Caselunghe; J. H-F. Constantin; N. Gisin et al. 

New Journal of Physics. 2014. Vol. 16, p. 013047. DOI : 10.1088/1367-2630/16/1/013047.

Energy/Reliability Trade-Offs in Low-Voltage ReRAM-Based Non-Volatile Flip-Flop Design

I. Kazi; P. Meinerzhagen; P-E. Gaillardon; D. Sacchetto; Y. Leblebici et al. 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1 Regular Papers. 2014. Vol. 61, num. 11, p. 3155 – 3164. DOI : 10.1109/TCSI.2014.2334891.

Replica Technique for Adaptive Refresh Timing of Gain-Cell-Embedded DRAM

A. Teman; P. Meinerzhagen; R. Giterman; A. Fish; A. Burg 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. 2014. Vol. 61, num. 4, p. 259 – 263. DOI : 10.1109/Tcsii.2014.2305016.

Hardware Architecture for List Successive Cancellation Decoding of Polar Codes

A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. J. Raymond; W. J. Gross; A. Burg 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. 2014. Vol. 61, num. 8, p. 609 – 613. DOI : 10.1109/Tcsii.2014.2327336.

Energy Efficiency through Significance-Based Computing

D. S. Nikolopoulos; H. Vandierendonck; N. Bellas; C. D. Antonopoulos; S. Lalis et al. 

Computer. 2014. Vol. 47, num. 7, p. 82 – 85. DOI : 10.1109/MC.2014.182.

Conference Papers

A Wireless Body Sensor Network For Activity Monitoring With Low Transmission Overhead

R. Braojos Lopez; I. Beretta; J. H-F. Constantin; A. P. Burg; D. Atienza Alonso 

2014. The 12th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, Milan, 25-29.08.2014. p. 265 – 272. DOI : 10.1109/EUC.2014.46.

Cross Layer Energy-Efficiency Optimization For Cognitive Radio Transceivers

C. Senning; M. Mendicute; A. Burg 

2014. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). p. 3928 – 3932. DOI : 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854338.

Correlation Based Phase Noise Compensation in 60 GHz Wireless Systems

N. A. Preyss; R. Pantic; A. P. Burg 

2014. 2014 IEEE 28-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Eilat, Israel, December, 3-5, 2014. DOI : 10.1109/EEEI.2014.7005755.

Variability-Aware Design Space Exploration of Embedded Memories

S. Ganapathy; G. Karakonstantis; R. Canal; A. P. Burg 

2014. 28th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Eilat, Israel, December 3-5, 2014. DOI : 10.1109/EEEI.2014.7005798.

True MIMO transmission using a single RF-chain and antenna: recent developments

M. Yousefbeiki; P. Belanovic; A. P. Burg; J. Perruisseau-Carrier 

2014. Eucap 2014, 8th European Conf. on Antennas and Prop., The Hague, Netherlands, 2014.

Robust Asynchronous Indoor Localization Using Led Lighting

G. Kail; P. Maechler; N. Preyss; A. Burg 

2014. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, ITALY, MAY 04-09, 2014. p. 1866 – 1870. DOI : 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6853922.

A Quality-Scalable and Energy-Efficient Approach for Spectral Analysis of Heart Rate Variability

G. Karakonstantis; A. Sankaranarayanan; M. M. S. Aly; D. Atienza Alonso; A. P. Burg 

2014. Design Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), Dresden, Germany, DOI : 10.7873/DATE.2014.184.

Dynamic stability and noise margins of SRAM arrays in nanoscaled technologies

A. Teman 

2014. 2014 IEEE Faible Tension Faible Consommation (FTFC), Monaco, Monaco, 4-6 May 2014. p. 1 – 5. DOI : 10.1109/FTFC.2014.6828617.

Enabling Complexity-Performance Trade-Offs for Successive Cancellation Decoding of Polar Codes

A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; G. Karakonstantis; A. P. Burg 

2014. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, June 29 – July 4, 2014. p. 2977 – 2981. DOI : 10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875380.

Single event upset mitigation in low power SRAM design

L. Atias; A. Teman; A. Fish 

2014. 2014 IEEE 28th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI), Eilat, Israel, 3-5 December 2014. p. 1 – 5. DOI : 10.1109/EEEI.2014.7005796.

4T Gain-Cell with internal-feedback for ultra-low retention power at scaled CMOS nodes

R. Giterman; A. Teman; P. Meinerzhagen; A. Burg; A. Fish 

2014. 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Melbourne VIC, Australia, 1-5 June 2014. p. 2177 – 2180. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2014.6865600.

LLR-based Successive Cancellation List Decoding of Polar Codes

A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; M. Bastani Parizi; A. P. Burg 

2014. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, May 4-9, 2014. p. 3903 – 3907. DOI : 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854333.

Data Compression via Logic Synthesis

L. Amarù; P-E. Gaillardon; A. Burg; G. De Micheli 

2014. 19th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2014), Singapore, January 20-23, 2014. p. 628 – 633. DOI : 10.1109/ASPDAC.2014.6742961.

Theses

Novel Approaches Toward Area- and Energy-Efficient Embedded Memories

P. A. Meinerzhagen / A. P. Burg; Y. Leblebici (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

Energy Efficient VLSI Circuits for MIMO-WLAN

C. C. S. D. Senning / A. P. Burg (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

Posters

Cross-Layer Inexact Design for Low-Power Applications

V. Camus; G. Karakonstantis; J. Schlachter; A. P. Burg; C. Enz 

NanoTera Annual Meeting, Lausanne, Switzerland,

Restructuring of Arithmetic Circuits with Biconditional Binary Decision Diagrams

L. Amarù; A. Balatsoukas Stimming; P-E. Gaillardon; A. Burg; G. De Micheli 

University Booth at DATE 2014, Dresden, Germany, March 24-28, 2014.

Patents

Ultra-Low Power Multicore Architecture For Parallel Biomedical Signal Processing

A. Y. Dogan; J. Constantin; A. Burg; D. Atienza Alonso 

WO2013136259; WO2013136259.

2014.

Student Projects

Low Power Wake-up Receiver

L. F. Schmid 

2014.

Retention Time Characterization of Commercial DRAM Modules Using an FPGA-based Test Platform

E. A. Pignat 

2014.

RSS Range Estimation for Indoor Localization Using LED Lighting

J. Liu 

2014.

2013

Journal Articles

Impact of body biasing on the retention time of gain-cell memories

A. Burg; A. Teman; A. Fish; P. Meinerzhagen 

The Journal of Engineering. 2013. num. 8, p. 19 – 22. DOI : 10.1049/joe.2013.0057.

Exploration of Sub-VT and Near-VT 2T Gain-Cell Memories for Ultra-Low Power Applications under Technology Scaling

P. A. Meinerzhagen; A. Teman; R. Giterman; A. P. Burg; A. Fish 

Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications. 2013. Vol. 3, num. 2, p. 54 – 72. DOI : 10.3390/jlpea3020054.

Conference Papers

Efficient VLSI Implementation of Reduced-State Sequence Estimation for Wireless Communications

S. Zwicky; C. Benkeser; A. P. Burg; Q. Huang 

2013. 38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, May 26-31, 2013. p. 2528 – 2532. DOI : 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6638111.

On Self-interference Suppression Methods for Low-complexity Full-duplex MIMO

A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; P. Belanovic; K. Alexandris; A. Burg 

2013. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 3-6, 2013. p. 992 – 997. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2013.6810439.

A ReRAM-Based Non-Volatile Flip-Flop with Sub-VT Read and CMOS Voltage-Compatible Write

I. Kazi; P. A. Meinerzhagen; P-E. J. M. Gaillardon; D. Sacchetto; A. P. Burg et al. 

2013. 11th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference, Paris, France, June 16-19, 2013. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS.2013.6573586.

Fast and Accurate BER Estimation Methodology for I/O Links based on Extreme Value Theory

A. Cevrero; N. Evmorfopoulos; C. Antoniadis; P. Ienne; Y. Leblebici et al. 

2013. Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2013), Grenoble, France, March 18-22, 2013. p. 503 – 508. DOI : 10.7873/DATE.2013.114.

Synchronizing Code Execution on Ultra-Low-Power Embedded Multi-Channel Signal Analysis Platforms

A. Y. Dogan; R. Braojos Lopez; J. H-F. Constantin; G. Ansaloni; A. P. Burg et al. 

2013. The Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2013, Grenoble, France, p. 396 – 399. DOI : 10.7873/DATE.2013.090.

Block-Floating-Point Enhanced MMSE Filter Matrix Computation for MIMO-OFDM Communication Systems

C. C. S. D. Senning; A. P. Burg 

2013. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 8-11, 2013. p. 787 – 790. DOI : 10.1109/ICECS.2013.6815532.

FireBird: PowerPC e200 Based SoC for High Temperature Operation

R. Cojbasic; Ö. Cogal; P. A. Meinerzhagen; C. C. S. D. Senning; C. J. Slater et al. 

2013. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), San Jose, California, USA, September 23-25, 2013. DOI : 10.1109/CICC.2013.6658519.

A Parallelized Layered QC-LDPC Decoder for IEEE 802.11ad

A. Balatsoukas Stimming; N. Preyss; A. Cevrero; A. Burg; C. Roth 

2013. 11th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference, Paris, France, June 16-19, 2013. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS.2013.6573590.

Theses

Energy-Aware Processing Platform Exploration for Embedded Biosignal Analysis

A. Y. Dogan / D. Atienza Alonso; A. P. Burg (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. 

Book Chapters

An Ultra-Low-Power Application-Specific Processor with Sub-VT Memories for Compressed Sensing

J. H-F. Constantin; A. Dogan; O. Andersson; P. A. Meinerzhagen; J. Rodrigues et al. 

VLSI-SoC: From Algorithms to Circuits and System-on-Chip Design; Springer, 2013. p. 88 – 106.

Posters

Application-Specific Processor Design for Low-Complexity & Low-Power Embedded Systems

J. H-F. Constantin 

Winter School on Design Technologies for Heterogeneous Embedded Systems (FETCH), Leysin, Vaud, Switzerland, January 7-9, 2013.

A Multipurpose Testbed for Full-Duplex Wireless Communications

P. Belanovic; A. Balatsoukas-Stimming; A. Burg 

International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 8-11 2013.

Talks

Near- and Sub-Threshold Design for Ultra-Low-Power Embedded Systems

A. P. Burg 

Winter School on Design Technologies for Heterogeneous Embedded Systems (FETCH), Leysin, Vaud, Switzerland, January 7-9, 2013.

2012

Journal Articles

VLSI Design of Approximate Message Passing for Signal Restoration and Compressive Sensing

P. Maechler; C. Studer; D. Bellasi; A. Maleki; A. P. Burg et al. 

IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. 2012. Vol. 2, num. 3, p. 579 – 590. DOI : 10.1109/JETCAS.2012.2214636.

Analysis and VLSI Implementation of EWA Rendering for Real-Time HD Video Applications

P. Greisen; M. Schaffner; S. Heinzle; M. Runo; A. Smolic et al. 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 2012. Vol. 22, num. 11, p. 1577 – 1589. DOI : 10.1109/Tcsvt.2012.2201671.

Logic and Memory Design Based on Unequal Error Protection for Voltage-scalable, Robust and Adaptive DSP Systems

G. Karakonstantis; D. Mohapatra; K. Roy 

Journal Of Signal Processing Systems For Signal Image And Video Technology. 2012. Vol. 68, p. 415 – 431. DOI : 10.1007/s11265-011-0631-9.

Distributed static linear Gaussian models using consensus

P. Belanovic; S. Valcarcel Macua; S. Zazo 

Neural Networks. 2012. Vol. 34, p. 96 – 105. DOI : 10.1016/j.neunet.2012.07.004.

Low-power processor architecture exploration for online biomedical signal analysis

A. Y. Dogan; J. H-F. Constantin; D. Atienza Alonso; A. P. Burg; L. Benini 

Circuits, Devices & Systems, IET. 2012. Vol. 6, num. 5, p. 279 – 286. DOI : 10.1049/iet-cds.2012.0011.

Conference Papers

Replica Bit-Line Technique for Embedded Multilevel Gain-Cell DRAM

M. U. Khalid; P. A. Meinerzhagen; A. P. Burg 

2012. IEEE International NEWCAS Conference, Montréal, Canada, June 17-20, 2012. p. 77 – 80. DOI : 10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6328960.

Successive Interference Cancellation for 3G Downlink: Algorithm and VLSI Architecture

S. Belfanti; C. Benkeser; K. Badawi; Q. Huang; A. P. Burg 

2012. IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), Santa Cruz, CA, USA, October 7-10, 2012. p. 279 – 282. DOI : 10.1109/VLSI-SoC.2012.7332117.

Review and Classification of Gain Cell eDRAM Implementations

A. Teman; P. A. Meinerzhagen; A. P. Burg; A. Fish 

2012. DOI : 10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377022.

Design of Energy Efficient and Dependable Health Monitoring Systems under Unreliable Nanometer Technologies

M. M. S. Aly; G. Karakonstantis; D. Atienza Alonso; A. P. Burg 

2012. 7th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets ’12), Oslo, Norway, September 24-26 2012. p. 52 – 58. DOI : 10.4108/icst.bodynets.2012.249935.

Layered Detection and Decoding in MIMO Wireless Systems

N. A. Preyss; C. Studer; A. P. Burg 

2012. Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP) 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 23-25, 2012.

Multi-Core Architecture Design for Ultra-Low-Power Wearable Health Monitoring Systems

A. Y. Dogan; J. H-F. Constantin; M. Ruggiero; A. P. Burg; D. Atienza Alonso 

2012. IEEE/ACM 2012 Design Automation and Test in Europe conference (DATE), Dresden, Germany, March 12-16, 2012. p. 988 – 994. DOI : 10.1109/DATE.2012.6176640.

A 2.78 mm2 65 nm CMOS Gigabit MIMO Iterative Detection and Decoding Receiver

F. Borlenghi; E. M. Witte; G. Ascheid; H. Meyr; A. P. Burg 

2012. 38th European Solid-State Circuits Conference, Bordeaux, France, September 17-21, 2012.

Low-complexity Frequency Synchronization for GSM Systems: Algorithms and Implementation

H. Kröll; S. Zwicky; C. Benkeser; Q. Huang; A. P. Burg 

2012. International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications (ICUMT), St. Petersburg, Russia, October 3-5, 2012.

TamaRISC-CS: An Ultra-Low-Power Application-Specific Processor for Compressed Sensing

J. H-F. Constantin; A. Y. Dogan; O. Andersson; P. A. Meinerzhagen; J. N. Rodrigues et al. 

2012. IFIP/IEEE 20th International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), Santa Cruz, USA, October 7-10, 2012. p. 159 – 164. DOI : 10.1109/VLSI-SoC.2012.7332094.

Data Mapping for Unreliable Memories

C. Roth; C. Benkeser; C. Studer; G. Karakonstantis; A. P. Burg 

2012. 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, October, 1-5, 2012. p. 679 – 685. DOI : 10.1109/Allerton.2012.6483283.

On the Exploitation of the Inherent Error Resilience of Wireless Systems under Unreliable Silicon

G. Karakonstantis; C. Roth; C. Benkeser; A. Burg 

2012. IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, June 3-7, 2012. p. 510 – 515. DOI : 10.1145/2228360.2228451.

Instruction Set Extensions for Cryptographic Hash Functions on a Microcontroller Architecture

J. H-F. Constantin; A. P. Burg; F. K. Gurkaynak 

2012. 23rd IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), Delft, The Netherlands, July 9-11, 2012. p. 117 – 124. DOI : 10.1109/ASAP.2012.13.

A 500 fW/bit 14 fJ/bit-access 4kb Standard-Cell Based Sub-VT Memory in 65nm CMOS

P. A. Meinerzhagen; O. Andersson; B. Mohammadi; Y. Sherazi; A. P. Burg et al. 

2012. IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Bordeaux, September 17-21, 2012. p. 321 – 324. DOI : 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2012.6341319.

Shortening design time through multiplatform simulations with a portable OpenCL golden-model: the LDPC decoder case

G. Falcao Fernandes; D. Novo Bruna; M. Purnaprajna; N. Bellas; C. Antonopoulos et al. 

2012. IEEE 20th International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2012. p. 224 – 231. DOI : 10.1109/FCCM.2012.46.

Low Complexity Spectral Analysis of Heart-Rate-Variability through a Wavelet Based FFT

G. Karakonstantis; A. Sankaranarayanan; A. P. Burg 

2012. IEEE Computing in Cardiology (CinC), September, 2012. p. 285 – 288.

A Sub-VT 2T Gain-Cell Memory for Biomedical Applications

P. A. Meinerzhagen; A. Teman; A. Mordakhay; A. P. Burg; A. Fish 

2012. IEEE Subthreshold Microelectronics Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, October 9-10, 2012. DOI : 10.1109/SubVT.2012.6404318.

Two-Port Low-Power Gain-Cell Storage Array: Voltage Scaling and Retention Time

R. Iqbal; P. A. Meinerzhagen; A. P. Burg 

2012. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Seoul, Korea, May 20-23, 2012. p. 2469 – 2472. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2012.6271800.

Book Chapters

VLSI Implementation of Hard- and Soft-Output Sphere Decoding for Wide-Band MIMO Systems

C. Studer; M. Wenk; A. Burg 

VLSI-SoC: Forward-Looking Trends in IC and Systems Design; Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. p. 128 – 154.

Working Papers

Investigating the Potential of Custom Instruction Set Extensions for SHA-3 Candidates on a 16-bit Microcontroller Architecture

J. H-F. Constantin; A. P. Burg; F. K. Gurkaynak 

2012

Posters

Standard-Cell Based Memories (SCMs): from Sub-VT to Error-Resilient Systems

P. A. Meinerzhagen; J. N. Rodrigues; A. P. Burg 

IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Student Research Preview (SRP) session, San Francisco, California, USA, February 17-21, 2012.

Talks

1 Mbps coherent one-way QKD with dense wavelength division multiplexing and hardware key distillation

N. Walenta; A. P. Burg; J. H-F. Constantin; N. Gisin; O. Guinnard et al. 

2nd Annual Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCRYPT 2012), Singapore, September 10th-14th, 2012.

Student Projects

Building a visible light communication system

C. Iliopoulos 

2012.

2011

Journal Articles

Benchmarking of standard-cell based memories in the sub-VT domain in 65-nm CMOS technology

P. A. Meinerzhagen; S. M. Y. Sherazi; A. P. Burg; J. N. Rodrigues 

IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. 2011. Vol. 1, num. 2, p. 173 – 182. DOI : 10.1109/JETCAS.2011.2162159.

An FPGA-based processing pipeline for high definition stereo video

P. Greisen; S. Heinzle; M. Gross; A. P. Burg 

EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. 2011. Vol. 2011, p. 18. DOI : 10.1186/1687-5281-2011-18.

Conference Papers

Significance Driven Computation on Next-Generation Unreliable Platforms

G. Karakonstantis; N. Bellas; C. Antonopoulos; G. Tziantzioulis; V. Gupta et al. 

2011. 48th ACM/IEEE/EDAC Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Diego, CA, Jun 05-09, 2011. p. 290 – 291. DOI : 10.1145/2024724.2024794.

Synthesis strategies for sub-VT systems

P. A. Meinerzhagen; O. Andersson; Y. Sherazi; A. P. Burg; J. Rodrigues 

2011. IEEE European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD), Linköping, Sweden, August 29-31, 2011. p. 552 – 555. DOI : 10.1109/ECCTD.2011.6043593.

Area, throughput, and energy-efficiency trade-offs in the VLSI implementation of LDPC decoders

C. Roth; A. Cevrero; C. Studer; Y. Leblebici; A. Burg 

2011. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 15-18, 2011. p. 1772 – 1775. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2011.5937927.

Power/Performance Exploration of Single-core and Multi-core Processor Approaches for Biomedical Signal Processing

A. Y. Dogan; D. Atienza Alonso; A. P. Burg; I. Loi; L. Benini 

2011. Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS ‘11), Madrid, Spain, September 26-29, 2011. p. 102 – 111. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-24154-3_11.

A 772 Mbit/s 8.81 bit/nJ 90 nm CMOS Soft-Input Soft-Output Sphere Decoder

F. Borlenghi; E. M. Witte; G. Ascheid; H. Meyr; A. P. Burg 

2011. IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, Jeju, Korea, November 14-16, 2011. p. 297 – 300. DOI : 10.1109/ASSCC.2011.6123571.

System-level implications of residual transmit-RF impairments in MIMO systems

C. Studer; M. Wenk; A. P. Burg 

2011. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Rome, Italy, April 11-15, 2011. p. 2686 – 2689.

Computational stereo camera system with programmable control loop

S. Heinzle; P. Greisen; D. Gallup; C. Chen; D. Saner et al. 

2011. ACM SIGGRAPH, Vancouver, Canada, August 7-11, 2011. DOI : 10.1145/2010324.1964989.

Design and failure analysis of logic-compatible multilevel gain-cell-based DRAM for fault-tolerant VLSI systems

P. A. Meinerzhagen; O. Andiç; J. Treichler; A. P. Burg 

2011. IEEE 21st Edition of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2-4, 2011. p. 343 – 346. DOI : 10.1145/1973009.1973078.

Random Sampling ADC for Sparse Spectrum Sensing

P. Maechler; N. Felber; A. P. Burg 

2011. European Signal Processing Conference, Barcelona, Spain, August 29 – September 2, 2011.

2010

Journal Articles

Simulation and Emulation of MIMO Wireless Baseband Transceivers

P. Greisen; S. Haene; A. Burg 

Eurasip Journal On Wireless Communications And Networking. 2010.  p. 196796. DOI : 10.1155/2010/196796.

Conference Papers

MIMO transmission with residual transmit-RF impairments

C. Studer; M. Wenk; A. Burg 

2010. 2010 International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), Bremen, Germany, 23-24 02 2010. p. 189 – 196. DOI : 10.1109/WSA.2010.5456453.

The effect of unreliable LLR storage on the performance of MIMO-BICM

C. Novak; C. Studer; A. Burg; G. Matz 

2010. 2010 44th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 7-10 November 2010. p. 736 – 740. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2010.5757661.

Area- and throughput-optimized VLSI architecture of sphere decoding

M. Wenk; L. Bruderer; A. Burg; C. Studer 

2010. 2010 18th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip (VLSI-SoC), Madrid, Spain, 27-29 09 2010. p. 189 – 194. DOI : 10.1109/VLSISOC.2010.5642593.

Towards generic low-power area-efficient standard cell based memory architectures

P. A. Meinerzhagen; C. Roth; A. P. Burg 

2010. 2010 53rd IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Seattle, WA, USA, August 1-4, 2010. p. 129 – 132. DOI : 10.1109/MWSCAS.2010.5548579.

A 15.8 pJ/bit/iter quasi-cyclic LDPC decoder for IEEE 802.11n in 90 nm CMOS

C. Roth; P. A. Meinerzhagen; C. Studer; A. P. Burg 

2010. 2010 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Beijing, China, November 8-10, 2010. p. 1 – 4. DOI : 10.1109/ASSCC.2010.5716618.

Systolic-array based regularized QR-decomposition for IEEE 802.11n compliant soft-MMSE detection

C. Senning; A. Staudacher; A. Burg 

2010. 2010 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM), Cairo, Egypt, 19-22 December 2010. p. 391 – 394. DOI : 10.1109/ICM.2010.5696169.

VLSI Implementation of a Low-Complexity LLL Lattice Reduction Algorithm for MIMO Detection

L. Bruderer; C. Studer; M. Wenk; D. Seethaler; A. Burg 

2010. International Symposium on Circuits and Systems Nano-Bio Circuit Fabrics and Systems (ISCAS 2010), Paris, FRANCE, May 30-Jun 02, 2010. p. 3745 – 3748. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537742.

Low-complexity Seysen’s algorithm based lattice reduction-aided MIMO detection for hardware implementations

L. Bruderer; C. Senning; A. Burg 

2010. 2010 44th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 7-10 November 2010. p. 1468 – 1472. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2010.5757780.

Matching pursuit: Evaluation and implementatio for LTE channel estimation

P. Maechler; P. Greisen; N. Felber; A. Burg 

2010. 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems – ISCAS 2010, Paris, France, 30 05 – 2 06 2010. p. 589 – 592. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537528.

2009

Journal Articles

Design and Optimization of an HSDPA Turbo Decoder ASIC

C. Benkeser; A. Burg; T. Cupaiuolo; Q. Huang 

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 2009. Vol. 44, num. 1, p. 98 – 106. DOI : 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2007166.

Conference Papers

Implementation of a 2×2 MIMO-OFDM receiver on an application specific processor

S. Eberli; A. P. Burg; W. Fichtner 

2009. International Conference on Microelectronics, Cairo, EGYPT, Dec 29-31, 2007. p. 1642 – 1649. DOI : 10.1016/j.mejo.2009.02.005.

A 4-Stream 802.11n Baseband Transceiver in 0.13 mu m CMOS

A. Burg; S. Haene; M. Borgmann; D. Baum; T. Thaler et al. 

2009. Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Kyoto, JAPAN, Jun 16-18, 2009. p. 282 – 283.

2008

Journal Articles

A real-time 4-stream MIMO-OFDM transceiver: System design, FPGA implementation, and characterization

S. Haene; D. Perels; A. Burg 

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 2008. Vol. 26, p. 877 – 889. DOI : 10.1109/JSAC.2008.080805.

Conference Papers

Soft-output sphere decoding: Algorithms and VLSI implementation

C. Studer; A. Burg; H. Boelcskei 

2008. 40th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct 29-Nov 02, 2006. p. 290 – 300. DOI : 10.1109/JSAC.2008.080206.

Hardware-efficient steering matrix computation architecture for MIMO communication systems

C. Senning; C. Studer; P. Luethi; W. Fichtner 

2008. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2008. ISCAS 2008., Seattle, WA, USA, May 18-21 2008. p. 304 – 307. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2008.4541415.

Configurable High-Throughput Decoder Architecture for Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes

C. Studer; N. A. Preyss; C. Roth; A. Burg 

2008. 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct 26-29, 2008. p. 1137 – 1142. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2008.5074592.

A 58mW 1.2 mm 2 HSDPA Turbo Decoder ASIC in 0.13 μm CMOS

C. Benkeser; A. Burg; T. Cupaiuolo; Q. Huang 

2008. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, Feb 03-07, 2008. p. 264 – 265+612. DOI : 10.1109/ISSCC.2008.4523158.

2007

Conference Papers

FFT processor for OFDM channel estimation

S. Haene; A. Burg; R. Luethi; N. Felber; W. Fichtner 

2007. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, LA, May 27-30, 2007. p. 1417 – 1420. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2007.378494.

VLSI implementation of a high-speed iterative sorted MMSE QR decomposition

P. Luethi; A. Burg; S. Haene; D. Perels; N. Felber et al. 

2007. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, LA, May 27-30, 2007. p. 1421 – 1424. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2007.378495.

An IEEE 802.11a baseband receiver implementation on an application specific processor

S. Eberli; A. Burg; T. Boesch; W. Fichtner 

2007. 50th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Montreal, CANADA, Sep 05, 2007-Aug 08, 2008. p. 1066 – 1069.

Regularized frequency domain equalization algorithm and its VLSI implementation

A. Burg; S. Haene; W. Fichtner; M. Rupp 

2007. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, LA, May 27-30, 2007. p. 3530 – 3533. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2007.378444.

VLSI implementation of a lattice-reduction algorithm for multi-antenna broadcast precoding

A. Burg; D. Seethaler; G. Matz 

2007. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, LA, May 27-30, 2007. p. 673 – 676. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2007.377898.

2006

Conference Papers

VLSI implementation of the list sphere algorithm

M. Wenk; A. Burg; M. Zellweger; C. Studer; W. Fichtner 

2006. 24th Norchip Conference, Linkoping, SWEDEN, Nov 20-21, 2006. p. 107 – 110. DOI : 10.1109/NORCHP.2006.329255.

A frame-start detector for a 4×4 MIMO-OFDM system

D. Perels; S. Haene; A. Burg; P. Luethi; N. Felber et al. 

2006. 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toulouse, FRANCE, May 14-19, 2006. p. 4095 – 4098. DOI : 10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1660996.

K-Best MIMO detection VLSI architectures achieving up to 424 mbps

M. Wenk; M. Zellweger; A. Burg; N. Felber; W. Fichtner 

2006. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kos Isl, GREECE, May 21-24, 2006. p. 1151 – 1154. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1692794.

Silicon implementation of an MMSE-based soft demapper for MIMO-BICM

S. Haene; A. Burg; D. Perels; P. Luethi; N. Felber et al. 

2006. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kos Isl, GREECE, May 21-24, 2006. p. 2597 – 2600. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693155.

Advanced receiver algorithms for MIMO wireless communications

A. Burg; M. Borgmann; M. Wenk; C. Studer; H. Boelcskei 

2006. Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE 06), Munich, GERMANY, Mar 06-10, 2006. p. 591 – 596. DOI : 10.1109/DATE.2006.243974.

A unification of ML-optimal tree-search decoders

C. Studer; A. Burg; W. Fichtner 

2006. 40th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct 29-Nov 01, 2006. p. 2185 – 2189. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2006.355156.

Algorithm and VLSI architecture for linear MMSE detection in MIMO-OFDM systems

A. Burg; S. Haene; D. Perels; P. Luethi; N. Felber et al. 

2006. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kos Isl, GREECE, May 21-24, 2006. p. 4102 – 4105. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693531.

Soft-output sphere decoding: Performanceand implementation aspects

C. Studer; M. Wenk; A. Burg; H. Bolsckei 

2006. 40th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct 29-Nov 01, 2006. p. 2071 – 2076. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2006.355132.

2005

Conference Papers

VLSI implementation of MIMO detection using the sphere decoding algorithm

M. Borgmann; M. Wenk; M. Zellweger; W. Fichtner; H. Bolcskei et al. 

2005. 30th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC 2004), Leuven, BELGIUM, Sep 21-23, 2004. p. 1566 – 1577. DOI : 10.1109/JSSC.2005.847505.

Interpolation-based QR decomposition in MIMO-OFDM systems

M. Borgmann; H. Bolcskei; J. Hansen; A. Burg; D. Cescato 

2005. 6th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, New York, NY, Jun 05-08, 2005. p. 945 – 949. DOI : 10.1109/SPAWC.2005.1506279.

ASIC implementation of a MIMO-OFDM transceiver for 192 Mbps WLANs

S. Haene; P. Luethi; A. Burg; N. Felber; W. Fichtner et al. 

2005. 31st European Solid-State Circuits Conference, Grenoble, FRANCE, Sep 12-16, 2005. p. 215 – 218. DOI : 10.1109/ESSCIR.2005.1541598.

FPGA implementation of Viterbi decoders for MIMO-BICM

S. Haene; A. Burg; D. Perels; P. Luethi; N. Felber et al. 

2005. 39th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct 30-Nov 02, 2005. p. 734 – 738. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2005.1599849.

Receiver design for multi-antenna wireless communications

S. Haene; D. Perels; P. Luethi; N. Felber; W. Fichtner et al. 

2005. International Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME 2005), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, 2005. p. 231 – 234. DOI : 10.1109/RME.2005.1542930.

2004

Conference Papers

Low complexity frequency domain equalization of MIMO channels with applications to MIMO-CDMA systems

M. Rupp; S. Haene; D. Perels; N. Felber; W. Fichtner et al. 

2004. 58th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2003), Orlando, FL, Oct 06-09, 2003. p. 468 – 472. DOI : 10.1109/VETECF.2003.1285061.

Performance of MIMO-extended UMTS-FDD downlink comparing space-time RAKE and linear equalizer

M. Rupp; D. Perels; S. Haene; N. Felber; W. Fichtner et al. 

2004. 58th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2003), Orlando, FL, Oct 06-09, 2003. p. 473 – 477. DOI : 10.1109/VETECF.2003.1285062.

VLSI implementation of the sphere decoding algorithm

M. Wenk; M. Zellweger; M. Wegmueller; N. Felber; W. Fichtner et al. 

2004. 30th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC 2004), Leuven, BELGIUM, Sep 21-23, 2004. p. 303 – 306. DOI : 10.1109/ESSCIR.2004.1356678.

2003

Journal Articles

Rapid prototyping for wireless designs: the five-ones approach

A. Burg; E. Beck; M. Rupp 

Signal Processing. 2003. Vol. 83, p. 1427 – 1444. DOI : 10.1016/S0165-1684(03)00090-2.

Conference Papers

Practical low complexity linear equalization for MIMO-CDMA systems

M. Rupp; N. Felber; W. Fichtner; A. Burg 

2003. 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov 09-12, 2003. p. 1266 – 1272. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2003.1292192.

Variable delay ripple carry adder with carry chain interrupt detection

F. Gurkaynak; H. Kaeslin; W. Fichtner; A. Burg 

2003. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, BANGKOK, THAILAND, May 25-28, 2003. p. 113 – 116. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2003.1206202.

Efficient ASIC implementation of a real-time depth mapping stereo vision system

S. Moser; O. Isler; F. Gurkaynak; A. Burg; N. Felber et al. 

2003. 46th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Cairo, EGYPT, Dec 27-30, 2003. p. 1478 – 1481. DOI : 10.1109/MWSCAS.2003.1562575.

A 50 MBPS 4×4 maximum likelihood decoder for multiple-input multiple-output systems with QPSK modulation

N. Felber; W. Fichtner; A. Burg 

2003. 10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Sharjah, U ARAB EMIRATES, Dec 14-17, 2003. p. 332 – 335. DOI : 10.1109/ICECS.2003.1302044.

Programmable code processor for software defined radio

R. Bischoff; J. Biveroni; M. Bruehwiler; A. Burg; N. Felber et al. 

2003. 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov 09-12, 2003. p. 2156 – 2160. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2003.1292362.

2002

Conference Papers

An ASIC implementation of adaptive arithmetic coding

M. Sans; A. Burg; W. Fichtner; G. Acunto 

2002. 36th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, PACIFIC GROVE, CA, Nov 03-06, 2002. p. 1078 – 1083. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2002.1196950.

2001

Conference Papers

Rapid prototyping design of a 4×4 BLAST-over-UMTS system

A. Burg; M. Rupp; E. Beck; S. Das; M. Guillaud 

2001. 35th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, PACIFIC GROVE, CA, Nov 04-07, 2001. p. 1256 – 1260. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2001.987692.

2000

Conference Papers

From basic concept to real-time implementation: Prototyping WCDMA downlink receiver algorithms – A case study

A. Burg; L. Mailaender; B. Haller; M. Rupp; E. Beck et al. 

2000. 34th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, PACIFIC GROVE, CA, Oct 29-Nov 01, 2000. p. 84 – 88. DOI : 10.1109/ACSSC.2000.910922.

A 3D-DCT real-time video compression system for low complexity single-chip VLSI implementation

A. P. Burg; R. Keller; J. Wassner; N. Felber; W. Fichtner 

2000. Mobile Multimedia Conference, MoMuC 2000, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2000.