Microcontrollers (MCUs) are used in a wide range of applications, from wearable devices and sensor monitoring, to robotics and automotive. In particular, the design of low-power microcontrollers for wearables in the biomedical domain has received a lot of attention in recent decades. Recent proposals such as BiomedBench [1] have created a collection of biomedical applications (…)

EPFL Joins Sony’s Sensing Solution University Collaboration Program

Article by Jéssica Paiva Santos of Sony   Sony’s Sensing Solution University Collaboration Program is excited to announce its partnership with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL). This collaboration is all about fueling student-driven innovation in IoT and sensing technology, and it brings together Sony’s Spresense platform and EPFL’s tech-savvy (…)

Giovanni Ansaloni: how do you squeeze AI into power-constrained edge devices?

Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni presented a deep dive into methodologies for algorithms optimization at ACACES24 – Signal compression with inputs sparsity and self similarity– Lightweight feature extraction and classification– EdgeML model optimization: few-shot learning personalization distillation federated learning

ClearSpace will use Minority Report technology from ESL

Satellites are open to attack. All communications systems are vulnerable to hackers by definition, and are protected accordingly, with hardware and software. However, because they reside outside the protection of the Earth’s atmosphere, satellites are perhaps exposed to the mightiest and most unpredictable hacker of all: the Sun. “The Sun’s radiation can affect the data (…)

AISTS Digital Technology in Sport Programme

The Digital Technology in Sport program will take place in Lausanne from the 28th Nov to the 18th December, 2024 Register

ESL-led project given award by the SDSC

A team led by Dr Jonathan Dan of the EPFL Embedded Systems Lab won the prize for Best Research Data Infrastructure at the Open Research Data for the Sciences hackathon, organised by the Swiss Data Science Center. The team developed a research data infrastructure to benchmark epileptic seizure detection algorithms on private datasets. The platform (…)

BiomedBench to be published in TinyML special edition

We are delighted to announce that our latest paper on BiomedBench has been accepted for a special edition on TinyML in : IEEE Design & Test The paper is available in pre-print here: BiomedBench: A benchmark suite of TinyML biomedical applications for low-power wearables Samakovlis, Dimitrios; Albini, Stefano; Rodríguez Álvarez, Rubén; Constantinescu, Denisa-Andreea; Schiavone, Pasquale (…)

Prof. David Atienza takes on new role as Associate Vice President

lire en français The EPFL leadership team have made the official announcement that David Atienza is now Associate Vice President for Centers and Platforms (AVP-CP), having taken over from EPFL President Elect Anna Fontcuberta. David Atienza has led the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) since joining EPFL in 2008. In 2017, he was named a Fellow (…)

Landmark award for EcoCloud’s directors, old and new

Prof. Giovanni De Micheli, head of the Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI), has taken over the scientific direction of the EPFL EcoCloud Center from Prof. David Atienza, head of the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL). Prof. De Micheli previously founded and directed the EPFL Integrated Systems Center (SI), and was co-founder and Program Leader of the Nano-Tera.ch (…)

Cooling down hotspots – 3D-ICE

3D chips are a great idea – processors placed one on top of the other, for a superfast transmission of data. The trouble is that chips heat up, and if you pile them up they heat up even faster. 3D-ICE is a powerful thermal emulator for three-dimensional computing. Version 3.1 is presented in a new (…)