NorCAS 2025
IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference
October 28 - 29, 2025 | Riga, Latvia
Conference Agenda
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Location: Room 108 Zunda krastmala 8 |
| Date: Tuesday, 28/Oct/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 9:20am |
Opening Location: Room 108 Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University Chair: Dmitrijs Pikulins, Riga Technical University |
| 9:20am - 10:20am |
Keynote 1: Sayani Mojumdar Location: Room 108 Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University |
| 10:20am - 11:00am |
Plenary 1: Award Candidates 1 Location: Room 108 Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University Fault-Tolerant Character Recognition in Neuromorphic Systems Using RRAM Crossbar Arrays 1: German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany; 2: Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Germany; 3: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe, Germany 10:40am - 11:00am Systematic Design of a PVT-Robust CMOS Time-Based-Controlled DC-DC Converter Using Open-Source Tools 1: Department of Electronic Eng., Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile; 2: Advanced Center of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universidad T´ecnica Federico Santa Mar´ıa; 3: Hochschule M¨unchen University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany; 4: IHP – Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany; 5: CEITEC Semiconductores, Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| 11:40am - 12:40pm |
SoC: Design and Verification Location: Room 108 Chair: Peeter Ellervee, Tallinn University of Technology GenIE: Reuse-Oriented Generation of Domain-Specific Instruction Extensions 1: Technical University of Munich, Germany; 2: Hochschule München, Germany; 3: TU Wien, Austria 12:00pm - 12:20pm Performance Evaluation of MAGIC-ReRAM Arithmetic Circuits for Low-Latency In-Memory Computing 1: Cyber-Physical Systems, DFKI GmbH, Germany; 2: University of Bremen, Germany; 3: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe, Germany 12:20pm - 12:40pm Novel Verification IP (VIP) for AXI4 interconnects employing Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) 1: Nokia Networks and Solutions, Finland; 2: Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University |
| 1:40pm - 2:40pm |
Keynote 2: Wladek Grabinski Location: Room 108 Chair: Dmitrijs Pikulins, Riga Technical University |
| 2:40pm - 3:20pm |
Plenary 2: Award Candidates 2 Location: Room 108 Chair: Dmitrijs Pikulins, Riga Technical University 4T Bitcell for Digital Compute-in-Memory Chair of Integrated Digital Systems and Circuit Design, RWTH Aachen, Germany 3:00pm - 3:20pm Rust for Safety and Security Critical Systems 1: Luleå University of Technology, Sweden; 2: Scania AB, Sweden; 3: Grepit AB, Sweden |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Digital: Tools and Methodologies Location: Room 108 Chair: Goerschwin Fey, TU Hamburg Model-Driven Generation of Executable Models for Hardware Specification Validation 1: Infineon Technologies AG, Germany; 2: Technical University of Munich, Germany; 3: Technical University of Dresden, Germany; 4: Chipglobe GmbH, Germany 4:20pm - 4:40pm HyPPA: PPA-Aware Hierarchical RTL Generation and Evaluation of RISC-V Cores Using Hyperparameter Tuning 1: Infineon Technologies AG; 2: Technical University of Munich 4:40pm - 5:00pm ChiselTrace: Typed Behavioral Debugging in Chisel Through Signal Dependency Tracing 1: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; 2: IBM Infrastructure, Austin, TX, US |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
Digital: Co-Design and Mixed-Mode Location: Room 108 Chair: Mohsin Abbas, Tampere Unviersity FPGA Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Networks at the Edge: A Comparative Study on High-Level Synthesis Frameworks 1: Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal; 2: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro 5:20pm - 5:40pm Improving AI Accelerator Performance Through Co-Designing Neural Networks and Systolic Hardware Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 5:40pm - 6:00pm Implementation Study of a Noise Cancellation Filter for a 0–3 MASH Delta-Sigma-ADC Institute of Microelectronics, University of Ulm, Germany |
| Date: Wednesday, 29/Oct/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Keynote 3: Frode Pedersen Location: Room 108 Chair: Dag T. Wisland, UiO |
| 10:00am - 11:00am |
Digital: FPGA Applications Location: Room 108 Chair: Peeter Ellervee, Tallinn University of Technology A 28-GHz Monostatic OFDM-based ISAC System on RFSoC with Real-time Processing 1: Tampere University, Finland; 2: Lund University, Sweden; 3: Ericsson AB, Sweden 10:20am - 10:40am Hardware Accelerated Synthetic X-ray Medical Image Generation Using HBM-based FPGAs 1: Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands; 2: Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands 10:40am - 11:00am System Level Acceleration of Banded Smith Waterman on FPGA RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
| 11:40am - 12:40pm |
Special: AI in Circuits and Systems Location: Room 108 Chair: Roshan Weerasekera, University of Bristol Matrix-Vectorized Canonical Signed Digit Quantized Neural Networks for Efficient Forward Pass Simulation Tampere University, Finland 12:00pm - 12:20pm Automatic Verification of Analog and Mixed-Signal Neural Network Accelerators and Matrix Multipliers 1: Fraunhofer Institut for Integrated Circuits IIS, Germany; 2: Technical University of Munich, Germany 12:20pm - 12:40pm Efficient Prompt Design for Resource-Constraint Deployment of Local LLMs university of Turku, Finland |
| 1:40pm - 2:40pm |
Digital: Reliability and Resilience Location: Room 108 Chair: Mustafa Yelten, Istanbul Technical University Small Packets, Big Challenges: Enhancing Reliability in High-Speed, Low-Latency Inter-FPGA Communication RWTH Aachen, Germany 2:00pm - 2:20pm A Novel Layout–Circuit Co-Design Framework for Radiation Hardening in Nanoscale Technology Politecnico di Torino, Italy 2:20pm - 2:40pm A (145,128) DEC-TED BCH Decoder with Composite Field and Redundant Arithmetic Chair of Integrated Digital Systems and Circuit Design, RWTH Aachen University |
| 3:00pm - 3:40pm |
Special: Wireless Communications Circuits Location: Room 108 Chair: Dmitrijs Pikulins, Riga Technical University A 22nm Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array with Novel Features for Machine Learning and Digital Signal Processing 1: Nordic Semiconductor ASA, Norway; 2: Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; 3: Wireless Research Centre, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland 3:20pm - 3:40pm A 4-W Ka-Band High Efficiency 0.15 μm GaAs Stacked Power Amplifier Design Istanbul Technical University, Turkiye |
| 3:40pm - 4:40pm |
Panel Discussion: "Chips from Europe" Location: Room 108 Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University |
| 4:40pm - 5:00pm |
Awards and Closing Location: Room 108 Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University |
