NorCAS 2025
IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference
October 28 - 29, 2025 | Riga, Latvia
Conference Agenda
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| Date: Tuesday, 28/Oct/2025 | |||||||||||
| 9:00am - 9:20am | Opening Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University Session Chair: Dmitrijs Pikulins, Riga Technical University | ||||||||||
| 9:20am - 10:20am | Keynote 1: Sayani Mojumdar Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University | ||||||||||
| 10:20am - 11:00am | Plenary 1: Award Candidates 1 Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University | ||||||||||
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10:20am - 10:40am
Fault-Tolerant Character Recognition in Neuromorphic Systems Using RRAM Crossbar Arrays 1German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany; 2Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Germany; 3Fraunhofer 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 1Department of Electronic Eng., Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile; 2Advanced Center of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universidad T´ecnica Federico Santa Mar´ıa; 3Hochschule M¨unchen University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany; 4IHP – Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany; 5CEITEC Semiconductores, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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| 11:00am - 11:40am | Coffee and Posters 1 | ||||||||||
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Memristor Differential Pair Ternary Weight Neural (TWN) Network Architecture University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Simopt-Power: Leveraging Simulation Metadata For Low-Power Design Synthesis Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Thermal-EXAMINER: IP Extraction from MAGIC Logic-in-Memory using thermal side-channel attacks RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Evaluating Rapid Makespan Predictions for Heterogeneous Systems with Programmable Logic 1Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg; 2University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal
KRS Unleashed: Towards a Robotics FPGA Development Environment for Rapid Prototyping 1TU Dresden, Chair of Adaptive Dynamic Systems, Germany; 2TU Dresden, Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), Dresden, Germany
A Hierarchical Approach to Health Management in Heterogeneous Embedded Systems 1Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia; 2Testonica Lab
Towards Achieving Vertical Reuse in SoC-level Verification 1Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic; 2Politecnico di Torino
A Robust, Fully Integrated 30.5-33.2GHz and 34.3-36.8GHz Frequency Synthesizer in SiGe-BiCMOS for Space Applications IHP Frankfurt (Oder)
A Foreground Calibration Scheme for Comparator Offsets in Loop-Unrolled SAR ADCs lund university, Sweden
A 0.9 V StrongARM Latch Comparator with 16 ps Delay and 7.5 fJ/op in 16 nm FinFET CMOS Technology 1NOVA School of Science and Engineering, Portugal; 2Synopys; 3Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal; 4Center of Technology and Systems (CTS-UNINOVA); 5Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering - Research and Development (INESC-ID); 6Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC)
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| 11:40am - 12:40pm | Analog: Mixed-Mode Design Location: Room 109 Session Chair: Jussi Ryynänen, Aalto University | ||||||||||
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11:40am - 12:00pm
Time-resolved single-photon counting IC for Raman Imaging Circuits and Systems (CAS) research unit, University of Oulu, Finland
12:00pm - 12:20pm
300mV-VDD, nW-Power, ST-DIGOTA using I/O Devices in FinFET Technology 1Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal; 2Synopsys; 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC), NOVA School of Science and Technology, Center of Technology and Systems (CTS-UNINOVA), Associated Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LASI), 2829-516 Lisbon, Portugal; 4nstitute of Systems and Computer Engineering - Research and Development (INESC-ID)
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| 11:40am - 12:40pm | SoC: Design and Verification Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Peeter Ellervee, Tallinn University of Technology | ||||||||||
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11:40am - 12:00pm
GenIE: Reuse-Oriented Generation of Domain-Specific Instruction Extensions 1Technical University of Munich, Germany; 2Hochschule München, Germany; 3TU Wien, Austria
12:00pm - 12:20pm
Performance Evaluation of MAGIC-ReRAM Arithmetic Circuits for Low-Latency In-Memory Computing 1Cyber-Physical Systems, DFKI GmbH, Germany; 2University of Bremen, Germany; 3Fraunhofer 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) 1Nokia Networks and Solutions, Finland; 2Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University
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| 12:40pm - 1:40pm | Lunch | ||||||||||
| 1:40pm - 2:40pm | Keynote 2: Wladek Grabinski Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Dmitrijs Pikulins, Riga Technical University | ||||||||||
| 2:40pm - 3:20pm | Plenary 2: Award Candidates 2 Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Dmitrijs Pikulins, Riga Technical University | ||||||||||
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2:40pm - 3:00pm
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 1Luleå University of Technology, Sweden; 2Scania AB, Sweden; 3Grepit AB, Sweden
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| 3:20pm - 4:00pm | Coffee and Posters 1 | ||||||||||
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Digital: Tools and Methodologies Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Goerschwin Fey, TU Hamburg | ||||||||||
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4:00pm - 4:20pm
Model-Driven Generation of Executable Models for Hardware Specification Validation 1Infineon Technologies AG, Germany; 2Technical University of Munich, Germany; 3Technical University of Dresden, Germany; 4Chipglobe GmbH, Germany
4:20pm - 4:40pm
HyPPA: PPA-Aware Hierarchical RTL Generation and Evaluation of RISC-V Cores Using Hyperparameter Tuning 1Infineon Technologies AG; 2Technical University of Munich
4:40pm - 5:00pm
ChiselTrace: Typed Behavioral Debugging in Chisel Through Signal Dependency Tracing 1Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; 2IBM Infrastructure, Austin, TX, US
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| 4:00pm - 5:20pm | Analog: Data Converters Location: Room 109 Session Chair: Jussi Ryynänen, Aalto University | ||||||||||
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4:00pm - 4:20pm
A 8.9 μW 12.3-ENOB SAR ADC with <1 LSB DNL/INL for Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy in 12 nm CMOS 1TU Braunschweig, Germany; 2Guest Professor, TU Braunschweig, Germany
4:20pm - 4:40pm
Design and Experimental Verification of A 0.14-0.55V 1.9-24.2pW 22nm 3-bit Binary Search Supply-to-Digital Converter Using One-Hot Hard-Wired Topology and Supply-Dependent-Activation Buffers for Supply Sensing IoT Systems 1Kyoto University, Japan; 2Meitec Corp, Japan; 3Shuharisystem Corp, Japan
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Automatic Reference Clock Duty Cycle Calibration System for Dual Edge Sampling RF Circuits 1Aalto University; 2Saab Finland Oy
5:00pm - 5:20pm
A 50Gbps Reference-less NRZ Full-rate Bang-Bang CDR with Automatic Frequency Acquisition in 130nm SiGe:C BiCMOS Technology 1Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Paderborn University, Germany; 2Ranovus GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany
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| 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Digital: Co-Design and Mixed-Mode Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Mohsin Abbas, Tampere Unviersity | ||||||||||
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5:00pm - 5:20pm
FPGA Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Networks at the Edge: A Comparative Study on High-Level Synthesis Frameworks 1Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal; 2Instituto 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
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| 5:20pm - 6:00pm | SoC: Task and Resource Management Location: Room 109 Session Chair: Shreejith Shanker, Trinity College Dublin | ||||||||||
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5:20pm - 5:40pm
ATAS-HM: Adaptive Task Allocation for Real-Time Tasks on Heterogeneous Multicore Systems 1TU Dresden, Chair of Adaptive Dynamic Systems, Germany; 2TU Dresden, Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), Germany
5:40pm - 6:00pm
An Adaptive and Secure Resource Management Architecture for Virtualized FPGAs 1TU Dresden, Chair of Adaptive Dynamic Systems, Germany; 2Deutsche Zentrum für Astrophysik, Postplatz 1, 02826 Görlitz, Germany; 3TU Dresden, Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), Germany
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| 7:00pm - 10:00pm | Conference Dinner at Riga Islande Hotel | ||||||||||
| Date: Wednesday, 29/Oct/2025 | |||||||||||
| 9:00am - 10:00am | Keynote 3: Frode Pedersen Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Dag T. Wisland, UiO | ||||||||||
| 10:00am - 11:00am | Analog: High Frequency and Low-Power Circuits Location: Room 109 Session Chair: Dag T. Wisland, UiO | ||||||||||
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10:00am - 10:20am
A Robust 90-nW Power-On Reset Circuit with Brown-Out Detection for RF Energy-Harvesting 1Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria; 2Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
10:20am - 10:40am
Delay-Switching Oscillator and Switching-Mode Power Amplifier in 65 nm CMOS for Isolation Crossing SWIPT HFE RWTH Aachen, Germany
10:40am - 11:00am
A Low-Power and High-Precision Winner-Take-All Circuit for Low-Voltage Applications 1Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; 2Ferdwosi University of Mashhad, Iran
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| 10:00am - 11:00am | Digital: FPGA Applications Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Peeter Ellervee, Tallinn University of Technology | ||||||||||
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10:00am - 10:20am
A 28-GHz Monostatic OFDM-based ISAC System on RFSoC with Real-time Processing 1Tampere University, Finland; 2Lund University, Sweden; 3Ericsson AB, Sweden
10:20am - 10:40am
Hardware Accelerated Synthetic X-ray Medical Image Generation Using HBM-based FPGAs 1Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands; 2Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands
10:40am - 11:00am
System Level Acceleration of Banded Smith Waterman on FPGA RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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| 11:00am - 11:40am | Coffee and Posters 2 | ||||||||||
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Grading Defects: Evaluating Approximate Circuits for Error-Tolerant Systems 1Hamburg University of Technology, Germany; 2University of Bremen
Near-Threshold Voltage Massive MIMO Computing 1University of Oulu, Finland; 2Oklahoma State University, USA
Exploration of Short Floating-Point Numbers for Hardware-Friendly Digital Predistortion Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
The PAE Cell: A Novel Multiple Outputs Logic Cell and Technology Mapping for eFPGA Kumamoto University, Japan
Towards Predictable Ultra-Low Latency End-Nodes with Hardware-Accelerated Abstract Timers 1Tampere University, Finland; 2Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Lightweight Multicast Interconnect for Time-Predictable Data Streams in MPSoCs 1FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany; 2Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
An Ultra-low Power Bandpass Filter Bank with Input and Output Common-Mode Feedback in FD-SOI 1Department of Circuits and Systems, Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT, Munich, Germany; 2Chair of Micro- and Nanosystems, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Integrated Electroforming of Memristor Cells in Crossbar Arrays RWTH Aachen University, Germany
A 1.4V 260pW 1mm2 65nm CMOS Temperature/pH Sensing IC Featuring Voltage-Stacking Timer and Wireless Transmitter for Stomach-Acid-Charged Tablet-Type Digital Pills with Long-Term In-Body Monitoring 1Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 2Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; 3Meitec Corp., Kyoto, Japan; 4Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; 5Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; 6Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan; 7The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Implementation of Drive Signal in DC-DC Converters for Chaos Synchronization Riga Technical University, Latvia
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| 11:40am - 12:40pm | Analog Circuits Location: Room 109 Session Chair: Ilkka Nissinen, University of Oulu | ||||||||||
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11:40am - 12:00pm
Accurate Analysis of Switching Transients in the High-Frequency, Integrated Dual-Path Step-Down DC-DC Converter 1University of Padova, Italy; 2Infineon Technologies Italia S.r.l.; 3Infineon Technologies Austria AG
12:00pm - 12:20pm
A Power-Efficient Analog Integrated Neural Network for Multiple Sclerosis Disease Detection 1Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece; 2National Technical University of Athens, Greece
12:20pm - 12:40pm
Exploiting multi-VT FDSOI technology for improved area and energy trade-offs for ultra-low voltage Schmitt Triggers 1Bielefeld University, Germany; 2Norwegian Universityof Science and Technology, Norway
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| 11:40am - 12:40pm | Special: AI in Circuits and Systems Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Roshan Weerasekera, University of Bristol | ||||||||||
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11:40am - 12:00pm
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 1Fraunhofer Institut for Integrated Circuits IIS, Germany; 2Technical University of Munich, Germany
12:20pm - 12:40pm
Efficient Prompt Design for Resource-Constraint Deployment of Local LLMs university of Turku, Finland
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| 12:40pm - 1:40pm | Lunch | ||||||||||
| 1:40pm - 2:40pm | Digital: Reliability and Resilience Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Mustafa Yelten, Istanbul Technical University | ||||||||||
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1:40pm - 2:00pm
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
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| 1:40pm - 2:40pm | Special: Efficient Ways to Develop Rust Firmware Location: Room 109 Session Chair: Per Lindgren, LTU | ||||||||||
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1:40pm - 2:00pm
Optimizing Embedded Software Platform Development: A Multi-Stage MDA-Driven Approach to Firmware Generation for Multiple Programming Languages 1Infineon Technologies AG; 2Technical University of Munich, Germany; 3ChipGlobe GmbH
2:00pm - 2:20pm
Thoth: Rust-Driven Firmware and HDL Co-Design for Trusted IoT/UAV Systems 1California Polytechnic University, United States of America; 2UIUC, USA
2:20pm - 2:40pm
All About Nothing: Towards Zero-Cost Hardware Accelerated RISC-V Interrupt Handling in Rust Luleå Tekniska Universitet, Sweden
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| 2:40pm - 3:00pm | Coffee and Posters 2 | ||||||||||
| 3:00pm - 3:40pm | Special: Wireless Communications Circuits Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Dmitrijs Pikulins, Riga Technical University | ||||||||||
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3:00pm - 3:20pm
A 22nm Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array with Novel Features for Machine Learning and Digital Signal Processing 1Nordic Semiconductor ASA, Norway; 2Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; 3Wireless 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
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| 3:40pm - 4:40pm | Panel Discussion: "Chips from Europe" Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University | ||||||||||
| 4:40pm - 5:00pm | Awards and Closing Location: Room 108 Session Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University | ||||||||||
