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Former researchers

 

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         Researchers:

 

Pr. Marc RENAUDIN

Position: Professor at INPG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble)

Marc Renaudin received the Engineering and PhD degrees in microelectronics and signal processing from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, respectively in 1987 and 1990. From 1990 till 1998, he served as an assistant professor at Telecom Bretagne, France, a Graduate School of Telecommunications Engineering where he was in charge of the Grenoble entity. In 1995, he spent half a year as a visiting professor in Prof. A. Martin's team at the Computer Science Department of the California Institute of Technology, USA. In 1998, he joined INPG/ENSERG in Grenoble where he became a Professor. He is currently heading the Concurrent Integrated Systems Group at Tima Lab developing research on asynchronous system design. He is lecturing on high performance computer architecture, asynchronous VLSI design and hardware modelling and synthesis.

He led in collaboration with France Telecm R&D and STMicroelectronics the Mica and Micabi projects on the design of a CISC 8 bit asynchronous microprocessor integrated in a contactless smart card IC using an on-chip antenna. He moreover managed the ASPRO project, a standard-cell QDI 16-bit RISC asynchronous microprocessor. He has numerous technical publications and has served as a reviewer for IEEE JSSC, Trans. on VLSI, Trans. on Computers, Micro, ASYNC, ESSCIRC, VLSI. He also took part as member in the program committee of ASYNC, ESSCIRC and DATE.

His current research interests include the design of secure chips, resistant against timing, power and fault attacks (especially crypto processors and coprocessors such as DES and AES). He is concurrently developing the TAST tool suite, a CAD framework devoted to the specification, verification and synthesis of asynchronous circuits.

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Now CTO position, TIEMPO (Monbonnot, France)

 

Dr. Alain GUYOT

Position: Associate professor (Maître de conference) at INPG-ENSIMAG

Alain Guyot received his Master degree in Computer Science in 1971 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1975 from Grenoble University and  Institut National Polytechnique in Grenoble  respectively. From 1989 to 1999 he managed the  VLSI design group  within TIMA laboratory. For more information see: Personal home page

Retired in 2005

 

         Graduated PhD's:

 

 

Fady ABOUZEID

Status: Defense on November 2010

PhD Title: Studies of subthreshold digital achitecture and circuit in advanced CMOS technologies

Keywords: Subthreshold, SRAM, Low power, Full custom

Advisors: Marc RENAUDIN, Gilles SICARD, Sylvain CLERC (STMicroelectronic)

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E-mail: Hassan.Abbas@imag.fr

 

Now Ingineer position, STMicroelectronics (Crolles, France)

 

ACD Systems Digital Imaging 

Eslam YAHYA

Status : Defense on December 2009

PhD Title: Network on Chip Design Using Asynchronous Logic

Keywords: Asynchronous Logic, Network on Chip, NOC, Timing Analysis

Advisors: Marc Renaudin, Laurent Fesquet

Phone: 33 (0) 4-76-57-46-55

E-mail: Eslam.Yahya@imag.fr

 

Now Associate Professor (Cairo, Egypt)

 

Rodrigo POSSAMAI BASTOS

Status: Defense on July 2010 (with UFRGS university, Porto Alegre, Brazil)

PhD Title: Design of Fault-Tolerant Asynchronous Circuits

Keywords: Fault-Tolerant Techniques; IC Design; Soft-Errors; SET; SEU; IC Design

Advisors: Ricardo REIS, Fernanda KASTENSMIDT, Marc RENAUDIN, Gilles SICARD

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Now post doc position, LIRMM Lab. (Montpellier, France)

 

 

Khaled ALSAYEG

Status: Defense on September 2010

PhD Title: Robust clockless microcontrol

Keywords: Low Power Finite State Machine, Asynchronous design

Advisors: Marc RENAUDIN, Gilles SICARD, Laurent FESQUET

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Now ATER position, (Bordeaux, France)

 

 

Cedric KOCH-HOFFER

Status: Defense on March 2009

PhD Title: SystemC modelization, validation and synthesis of asynchronous circuits

Keywords: SystemC, modelization, validation, synthesis, asynchronous circuits

Advisors: Marc RENAUDIN, Dominique BORIONNE (VDS group)

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Now Ingineer position (Grenoble)

 

 

 

 

Livier LIZARRAGA

Status: Defense on November 2008

PhD Title: Study and Development of a BIST Technique for CMOS Imagers

Keywords: CMOS Imagers; Photodiode; Test Metrics; Fault Modeling; BIST;

Advisors: Salvador MIR (RMS group), Gilles SICARD

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Now Ingineer position (Grenoble, France)

 

 

 

Mr. Saeed MIAN QAISAR

Status: Defense on May 2009

PhD Title: Non-Uniform Signal Processing: Algorithms and Architectures

Keywords: Non-Uniform Sampling; Asynchronous Architectures; Computational Complexity; Adaptive Rate Sampling; Adaptive Rate Filtering; Signal to Noise Ratio;

Advisors: Laurent FESQUET, Marc RENAUDIN

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Now Ingineer position

 

 

David RIOS-ARAMBULA

Status : Defense on September 2008

PhD Title: low power microprocessor system

Keywords: low power, asynchronous, microprocessor, power estimation

Advisors: Marc RENAUDIN, Gilles SICARD

 

 

 

Now engineer position, Maya technologies, (Grenoble, France)

 

 

Aurelien BUHRIG

Status : Defense on April 2008

PhD Title: Optimization of the energy consumption in wireless sensor network nodes

Keywords: energy optimization, asynchronous architectures, DVS, Scheduling

Advisors: Marc RENAUDIN, Laurent FESQUET

 

 

 

Now engineer position, TIEMPO (Grenoble, France)

 

Yannick MONNET

Status : Defense on April 2007

PhD Title: Study and modelling of secure circuits against non invasive fault injection attacks

Keywords: asynchronous circuits, circuit modeling, non invasive attack, fault injection

Advisors: Marc RENAUDIN, Regis LEVEUGLE (QLF group)

 

 

 

Now engineer position, TIEMPO (Grenoble, France)

 

Fraidy BOUESSE

Status : Defense on December 2005

PhD Title: Contribution to secure design of integrated circuits: The asynchronous alternative

Keywords: QDI Asynchronous Circuits, Hardware crypanalysis, Side chanels attack, power analysis (SPA, DPA), design methodology

Advisors: Marc RENAUDIN, Gilles SICARD

 

 

 

Now engineer position, TIEMPO (Grenoble, France)

 

 

Bertrand FOLCO

Status : Defense on October 2007

PhD Title: Contribution to Synthesis of Asynchronous Quasi Delay Insensitive Circuits, Application to Secured Systems.

Keywords: Asynchronous Circuits, QDI circuits, circuits synthesis, technology mapping, cells library, hardware attacks, power consumption based attack,

Advisors: Marc RENAUDIN, Gilles SICARD

 

 

 

Now engineer position, TIEMPO (Grenoble, France)

 

Vivian BREGIER

Status : Defense on September 2007

PhD Title: Automatic synthesis of Asynchronous Proven Quasi Delay Insensitive Circuits

Keywords: synthesis, logical optimization, asynchronous, quasi delay insensitivity (QDI), modelization, multi-valued decision diagram (MDD)

Advisor: Laurent FESQUET, Marc RENAUDIN

 

 

 

Now engineer position, Atos Origin (Grenoble, France)

 

Estelle LABONNE

Status : Defense on July 2007

PhD Title: Contribution To High Dynamic Range CMOS Image Sensors Design

Keywords: CMOS Imagers; High dynamic Range; Fixed Pattern Noise Calibration; Logarithmic pixel; Adaptive Integration time; Light adaptive systems

Advisors: Gilles SICARD, Marc RENAUDIN

Now Associate professor, Joseph Fourier University, IMEP-LAHC lab.

 

Fabien AESCHLIMANN

Status : Defense on February 2006

PhD Title: Non uniformly sampled signal processing : algorithm and architecture

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Advisors: Marc Renaudin, Laurent Fesquet

Now engineer position

 

 

Damien CAUCHETEUX

Status : Defense on December 2005

(with CEA-LETI)

PhD Title: Architecture study and design of mixed circuits using asynchronous logic: Application to very low power consumption and contactless systems

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Advisors: Marc Renaudin

Now engineer position

 

 

 

Joao Leonardo FRAGOSO

Status : Defense on November 2005

PhD Title: Data Paths Automatic Generation in QDI Asynchronous Logic

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Advisors: Marc Renaudin, Gilles Sicard

Post doc with TIMA-CIS, now with CEITEC, Porto Allegre, Brasil

 

Jerome QUARTANA

Status : Defense on December 2004

(with STMicroelectronics)

PhD Title: Design of Asynchronous Network on Chip: application to GALS systems

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Advisors: Marc Renaudin, Laurent Fesquet

Now Associate Professor with CMPG, Gardannes, France

 

Amine REZZAG

Status : Defense on December 2004

PhD Title: Logical synthesis of micropipeline asynchronous circuits

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Advisors: Marc Renaudin, Laurent Fesquet

 

 

Kamel SLIMANI

Status : Defense on December 2004

PhD Title: Low power asynchronous microprocessors

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Advisors: Marc Renaudin, Gilles Sicard

Now with Texas Instrument, Sophia Antipolis, France

 

 

Antoine SIRIANNI

Status : Defense on June 2004

PhD Title: Mod elisation, simulation and v erification of asynchronous circuits in SystemC v2.0.1 standard

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Advisors: Marc Renaudin, Laurent Fesquet

 

 

Dhanistha PANYASAK

Status : Defense on June 2004

(with STMicroelectronics)

PhD Title: Electromagnetic Emission Reduction In Integrated Circuits: The Asynchronous Alternative

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Advisors: Marc Renaudin, Gilles Sicard

NXP, Crolles, France, now with EMMicroelectronic, Marin, Switzerland

 

Emmanuel ALLIER

Status : Defense on November 2003

PhD Title: Asynchronous Analog to Digital Interface: a New Class of Converters Based on Time Quantization

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Advisors: Marc Renaudin, Gilles Sicard

Ingineer position, STMicroelectronics,Grenoble,France

 

Anh Vu DINH DUC.

Status : Defense on March 2003

PhD Title: Automatic synthesis of QDI asynchronous circuits

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Advisors: Marc Renaudin, Laurent Fesquet

Now with ITIP University, HoChiMinh Ville, Vietnam

 

Jean-Baptiste RIGAUD

Status : Defense on December 2002

PhD Title: Libraries specification for the synthesis of asynchronous circuits

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Advisors: Marc Renaudin, Gilles Sicard

Now Associate Professor with CMPG, Gardannes, France

 

 

 

Bruno GALILEE

Status : Defense on October 2002

(with France Telecom R&D)

PhD Title: Algorithm-architecture study for multimedia handset: image segmentation thanks to an asynchronous processors array

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Advisors: Marc Renaudin, Pierre-Yves Coulon

Now with STMicroelectronics, Grenoble, France

 

Sebastien ROUX

Status : Defense on January 2002

(with France Telecom R&D)

PhD Title: Algorithm and architecture for embedded multimedia system

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Advisors: Alain Guyot

Now with France Telecom R&D, Grenoble, France

 

Pascal VIVET

Status : Defense on June 2001

(with France Telecom R&D)

PhD Title: A quasi-delay insensitive integrated circuit design methodology : application to the study and design of a 16-bit asynchronous RISC microprocessor

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Advisors: Marc Renaudin

STMicroelectronics – Grenoble, now with CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France