Dia 24 de Agosto, quarta-feira, as 17:00
Local: Anfiteatro do Centro de Eventos do Instituto de Informática, prédio 67.
Titulo: From Adaptable MP-SoCs to autonomous systems

by Dr. Michel Robert , Professor at the University of Montpellier France.
Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics (LIRMM)

Abstract
Throughout the past four decades, silicon semiconductor technology has advanced at exponential rates in performance and particularly density. These progresses have paved the way for application areas that go well beyond personal computers. As scaling and therefore complexity remains the main driver, scalability in the broad sense of the term appears as the main limiting factor that challenges the methodologies to the design of complex systems. Design methods that have been used for decades mostly relied into blindly instructing machines to perform tasks therefore assuming reliable and predictable operation. With the increasing failures rates at technology level, but also the increase in architecture and application complexity, this approach proves inadequate. There is a growing interest in the community for adaptive systems capable of taking online decisions for better adapting to runtime conditions. Some technology-level approaches aim at building self-adaptive autonomous tiles capable of monitoring circuit operation (delays, leakage current, etc.) and taking preventive decisions with respects to parameters such as voltage and frequency. At architecture and system-levels, a number of opportunities exist for adaptation as well. This talk focuses on the use of adaptive techniques at different levels: adaptive multiprocessor systems for optimal hardware usage and adaptation in pervasive platforms.

Biography
Michel ROBERT obtained respectively his Master-Engineer (Polytech’Montpellier) and PhD degree in 1980 and 1987 from the University of Montpellier. From 1980 to 1984 he was in the semiconductor division of Texas Instruments as R&D engineer. From 1985 to 1990, he was assistant professor at the University of Montpellier 2, and LIRMM laboratory. Since 1991he is full Professor at the University of Sciences of Montpellier (France), where he’s teaching microelectronics in the engineering program. He was Director of the PhD program in computer sciences and electrical engineering form 2000 to 2005, and Director of the Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics (LIRMM : www.lirmm.fr) from 2005 to 2010. LIRMM research activities revolve around modeling and designing various hardware and software systems (such as robots and integrated circuits), as well as research on algorithmics, bioinformatics, databases and artificial intelligence. Michel ROBERT is author or co-author of more than 250 publications in the field of VLSI design, His present research interests are design and modelisation of CMOS SOC architectures. He is involved in the IFIP Technical Committee WG 10.5 (Computer Systems Technology, Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems).