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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Conference Papers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Theses

Physical Layer Aspects of LoRa and Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers

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

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

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

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

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

2019

Journal Articles

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Conference Papers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2017

Journal Articles

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Conference Papers

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Theses

Modulation, Coding, and Receiver Design for Gigabit mmWave Communication

N. A. Preyss / A. P. Burg (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. 

Microarchitectural Low-Power Design Techniques for Embedded Microprocessors

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

B. Steinmann 

2015.

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

A. Gianarda 

2015.

2014

Journal Articles

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Conference Papers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Theses

Energy Efficient VLSI Circuits for MIMO-WLAN

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

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

Novel Approaches Toward Area- and Energy-Efficient Embedded Memories

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

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

Posters

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.

Cross-Layer Inexact Design for Low-Power Applications

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

NanoTera Annual Meeting, Lausanne, Switzerland,

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

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.

Low Power Wake-up Receiver

L. F. Schmid 

2014.

2013

Journal Articles

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.

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.

Conference Papers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Conference Papers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Conference Papers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2007

Conference Papers

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.

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.

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.

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.

2006

Conference Papers

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2004

Conference Papers

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.