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The Laboratory for NanoIntegrated Systems (LNIS) research aims at developing low-power high-performance versatile computing systems by exploring the opportunities coming from novel EDA techniques and their links to emerging device technologies. Projects are carried out in an interdisciplinary team with a wide range of competences and in close collaboration with other labs and partners.
Prospective PhD and MSc/BSc students are encouraged to apply to the research group at the University of Utah. Interested applicants shoud send a CV and a research statement by e-mail to Dr. Gaillardon at the following address:
8/25/2025: Jay is joining LNIS as a Masters student, welcome Jay!
8/20/2025: Allen will be presenting his work on "Lightweight Congruence Profiling for Early Design Exploration of Heterogeneous FPGAs" at the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), to be held October 6–9, 2025, in Puerto Varas, Chile.
8/18/2025: Paul is joining LNIS for a PhD - Welcome Paul!
8/3/2025: Emily will be presenting a poster on "Real-Time FSA-Based Spike Training Algorithm" at the 2025 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BIOCAS), to be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE from October 16–18, 2025.
7/31/2025: Ashton will be presenting a poster on "Computer aided design of fluidic devices using PCB design methodologies" at the MicroTAS 2025 Conference (29th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences) that will be held 2 - 6 November, in Adelaide, Australia.
7/31/2025: Cam presented her UROP achievements at the University of Utah Undergraduate Research Symposium at the Alumni House. Congratulations Cam!
6/2/2025: Liyuan Guo joins LNIS as a Senior Hardware Engineer, welcome!
5/26/2025: Dylan Ladds joins LNIS for a summer internship as an undergraduate student, welcome!
4/25/2025: Owen's presents his work "A Low SWaP, Low-Cost, Multi-Chemical Monitoring System" at LatinIoT in Fortaleza, Brazil.
4/24/2025: Patsy Cadareanu Defended : Establishing the three-independent-gate field-effect transistor as a strong contender against standard technology. Congratulations Dr. Cadareanu!
3/30/2025: Ashton presents his work on OpenMFDA: Microfluidic Design Automation in Three Dimensions, at the Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) conference in Lyon, France
1/20/2025: Owen's paper "A Low SWaP, Low-Cost, Multi-Chemical Monitoring System" was accepted to LatinIoT 2025 in April in Fortaleza, Brazil.
11/19/2024: Ashton's paper "OpenMFDA: Microfluidic Design Automation in Three Dimensions" was accepted to DATE 2025 in March in Lyon, France.
11/5/2024: Dustin Reitstetter joins LNIS as a Computer Scientist, welcome Dustin!
10/22/2024: Tharnath Bagirathan joins LNIS, welcome!
10/10/2024: Ashton presented "Benchmarking Microfluidic Design Automation Flows" at VLSI-SoC in Tangier, Morocco
8/16/2024: Ashton is awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the College of Engineering, congratulations Ashton!
8/12/2024: Owen Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Award is renewed for the Fall semester, congratulations Owen!
8/8/2024: Cam is awarded the Fall 2024 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Award, congratulations Cam!
7/9/2024: Our paper "Benchmarking Microfluidic Design Automation Flows" has been accepted at VLSI-SoC 2024, congratulations Ashton and Skylar!
6/29/2024: Allen presented his work "Edge ML acceleration with RISCV-enhanced eFPGA-SoCs" at OSCAR (co-located with ISCA24), in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
5/31/2024: LNIS has three interns joining the lab this summer, welcome to Blayze, Cam, and Jasper!
4/11/2024: Owen is awarded the Outstanding Researcher Award for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department - congratulations Owen!
3/31/2024: Allen presented his work at ARC 2024 in Aveiro, Portugal.
2/5/2024: Paul Capgras joined LNIS for an internship, welcome!
1/18/2024: Our paper "Secure eFPGA Configuration: A System-Level Approach" has been accepted to ARC 2024, congratulations Allen!
9/21/2023: Mathieu Couriol defended his research on "Novel Low-Power, Low-Cost, High Performance Chemiresistive Sensor Interface Technologies for ppb-level Chemical Detection in Smart-City Applications", congratulations Dr. Couriol!
6/6/2023: Pierre-Emmanuel is awarded the DAC under-40 Innovators award, congratulations!
4/24/2023: Ali joins the group working on developing smart neural implant electronics, welcome!
3/15/2023: Louis-Marie Laurent is starting his internship with LNIS, welcome!
3/8/2023: Michael Keyser was awarded the 2023 Outstanding Graduating Undergraduate Award for the College of Engineering! Congratulations Michael.
1/30/2022: Ganesh Gore defended his work on "OpenFPGA-Physical: a scalable framework for Physical Design of the Tileable FPGA Architectures", Congratulations!
12/1/2022: Skylar is joining the team, welcome!
11/28/2022: Aurélien defended his work on "Smart-FPGA: Fabric Customization Improving Reliability in Harsh Environments", congratulations!
8/18/2022: Pierre-Emmanuel receives the ECE Department Research and Chair Awards, congratulations!
8/11/2022: Tom defended his Ph.D. "Statistical Inference Techniques at the Edge of Environmental Sensor Networks". Congratulations!
8/3/2022: Owen is granted the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Award the Fall semester, congratulations Owen!
6/8/2022: Walter successfully defended his Thesis "Advancing Logic Synthesis: From Machine Learning to Traditional Methods". Congratulations! Check out Walter PhD Story.
6/14/22: Check out Ganesh PhD Story!
5/17/22: "Approximate Logic Synthesis by Combining Two and Multi-Level Digital Circuits" won the 2022 Best Paper - Graduate Work at the South Symposium on Microelectronics. Congratulations Walter and team!
3/24/2022: Welcome Alexandre!
3/1/2022: We welcome to Olivia and Raven to the team! and the paper "Improving LUT-Based Optimization for ASIC" was accepted to DAC 2022, congratulations Walter!
1/19/2022: "An Open-Source Three-Independent-Gate FET Standard Cell Library for Mixed Logic Synthesis" was accepted to ISCAS 2022, congratulations Roman and Ashton!
1/11/2022: Check out LNIS first PhD Story!
12/29/2021: Walter's PhD Logic Synthesis in the Machine Learning Era: Improving Correlation and Heuristics has been accepted to the DATE 2022 PhD Forum, congratulations!
12/26/2021: The paper A Two-Level Approximate Logic Synthesis Combining Cube Insertion and Removal in collaboration with UFRGS was accepted to Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, congratulations Walter!
11/29/2021: The paper A Multiply-And-Accumulate Array for Machine Learning Applications Based on a 3D Nanofabric Flow was accepted to TNANO, congratulations Edouard.
10/17/2021: Our project on Microfluidics was funded, and we welcome Daniel to the team !
09/20/2021: The paper LSOracle 2.0: Capabilities, Integration, and Performance was accepted to WOSET 2021, congratulations Scott.
08/15/2021: Welcome to Allen!
07/14/2021: The paper Exploring eFPGA-based Redaction for IP Protection was accepted to ICCAD 2021, congratulation to the team effort!
07/04/2021: Two papers: A Novel High-Gain Amplifier Circuit Using Super-Steep-Subthreshold-Slope Field-Effect Transistors and A 12 pA Sigma Delta ADC Topology for Chemiresistive Sensor-Based Application were accepted to VLSI SOC 2021, congratulations Matthieu!
06/23/2021: The following papers were accepted to IWLS 2021: A Supervised Learning Approach for Technology Mapping, congratulations Walter; and Structure Aware Partitioning for Mixed LogicSynthesis, congratulations Ashton and Scott!
06/09/2021: Check out our FROG Testchip Bringup video.
05/17/2021: LNIS welcomes 3 team members: Andrew, Dan and Dillon. Welcome!
04/07/2021: Edouard successfully defended his PhD. Congrats!
03/29/2021: The paper Parasitic Capacitance Analysis of Three-Independent-Gate Field-Effect Transistors was accepted to JEDS. Congratulations Patsy!
03/25/2021: The LNIS welcomes two team members: Lea as a short-term scholar and Roman, a Post-doctoral Researcher.
03/15/2021: The paper "SLAP: A Supervised Learning Approach for Priority Cuts Technology Mapping" was accepted to the 58th Design Automation Conference (DAC). Congrats to Walter!
03/10/2021: The LNIS welcomes three undergraduate students to our research activities : Faris, Ben and Nichols.
01/29/2020: Two papers have been accepted at the ISCAS 2021 conference. Congrats to Aurelien and Edouard!
01/25/2020: The LNIS welcomes 3 members: Clara, Will, and Andrew!
12/21/2020: Corinne joined the lab as a Research Staff. Welcome aboard!
12/11/2020: The poster "A Two-level Approximated Synthesis Method," won the 2nd best poster award at the 1st IEEE CASS/CEDA Seasonal School on Electronic Design Automation.
12/07/2020: Paper "Extending Boolean Methods for Scalable Logic Synthesis" has been accepted by IEEE Access.
11/25/2020: The poster "Smart-Redundancy: a new SEU & SET Mitigation Method for FPGAs" has been accepted by the SERESSA workshop. Congrats to Aurelien!
11/23/2020: The LNIS welcomes a new senior software developer: welcome to Ashton!
11/17/2020: Patsy presents her research on TIGFETs as part of the University of Utah IEEE chapter. Information and Zoom link here.
11/15/2020: Paper "A Deep Learning Approach of Sensor Fusion Inference at the Edge" has been accepted by the DATE 2021 conference. Congrats to Tom!
11/14/2020: Paper "A Scalable and Robust Hierarchical Floorplanning to Enable 24-hour Prototyping for 100k-LUT FPGAs" has been accepted by the ISPD 2021 conference. Congrats to Ganesh!
11/5/2020: Paper "OpenFPGA: Towards Automated Prototyping for Versatile FPGAs" was selected as the Best contribution award at the WOSET 2020 workshop. Congrats to everyone!
10/15/2020: 2 papers have been accepted by the WOSET2020 workshop.
09/12/2020: Paper "Read your Circuit: Leveraging Word Embedding to Guide Logic Optimization" has been accepted by the ASP-DAC 2021 conference. Congrats to Walter!
09/10/2020: The LNIS welcomes three new members: Grant, Clément and Nate. Welcome!
09/01/2020: An article about curb air pollution monitoring has been released by the COE from the University of Utah.