Approximate Hierarchical Sensing and Computing Towards Always-On Context-Awareness

Solid State Circuits Society

Please join the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Boston Chapter for a lecture on:

Approximate Hierarchical Sensing and Computing Towards Always-On Context-Awareness

Hosts:
Bruce Hecht, ADI
Rabia Tugce Yazicigil, MIT
Professor Anantha P. Chandrakasan, MIT

Future mobile electronic devices will be equipped with more and more sensors that require always-on operation, to bring continuous context-awareness to the mobile device. Enabling this at near-zero-power budgets requires the device to exploit this context-information to at run-time tune its own performance and hardware configuration. Energy can dynamically be saved by continuously adapting sensing and processing circuitry to the observed operating context. This hardware context-awareness will be crucial in achieving the necessary 10x energy improvement for further miniaturization of wearables and mobiles.

Enabling such context-scalability at the hardware level requires combining research on always-on context sensing, embedded machine learning, and reconfigurable computing. This talk will zoom in on two important building blocks of the context-scalable system: 1.) Context-aware sensing through self-adaptive sensor interfaces. 2.) Context-aware computing through dynamically-scalable approximate computing.

Marian Verhelst (S’01-M’09-SM’14) is an assistant professor at the MICAS laboratories (MICroelectronics And Sensors) of the Electrical Engineering Department of KU Leuven as of 2012. Her research focuses on self-adaptive circuits and systems, embedded machine learning, and low-power sensing and processing for the internet-of-things. Before that, she received a PhD from KU Leuven cum ultima laude in 2008, was a visiting scholar at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) of UC Berkeley in the summer of 2005, and worked in the Radio Integration Research Lab of Intel Labs, Hillsboro OR from 2008 to 2011. Marian is a member of the Young Academy of Belgium, and has published over 100 papers in conferences and journals. She is a member of both the ISSCC and DATE TPCs and of the ISSCC and DATE executive committees. Marian was associate editor for TCAS-II and currently is for JSSC.

Meeting Location: 34-401 Grier Room, MIT, Cambridge

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