Conference Program
MOCAST 2024 Program at a glance
Wednesday |
6/26/2024 |
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08:30-09:00 |
Registration |
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09:00-09:30 |
Opening |
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09:30-11:00 |
Session A1: VLSI electronics and devices |
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Session B1: Systems and simulations |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30-12:30 |
Plenary Speech 1 : Prof. Frede Blaabjerg, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:00-15:00 |
Plenary Speech 2 : Hristo Hristov, Melexis Bulgaria |
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15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break & Poster Session |
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15:30-16:30 |
Poster Session 1 : Practical electronics and computing devices |
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16:30-18:00 |
Special Session A2 : Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks |
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Thursday |
6/27/2024 |
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09:00-09:30 |
Registration |
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09:30-11:00 |
Session A3 : Nonlinear circuits and systems |
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Session B3 : Applications and power management |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30-12:30 |
Plenary Speech 3 : Prof. Ilia Valov, Peter Grünberg Institute,Jülich, Germany |
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12:40-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:00-15:00 |
Plenary Speech 4 : Lukáš Hatala, Neuromorphics Europe |
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15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break & Poster Session |
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15:30-17:00 |
Session A4: ML Applications in Communications & Electronics |
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Session B4: Machine learning and Neural Networks |
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17:00-18:00 |
Poster Session 2 : Artificial Intelligence applications |
20:00 |
Conference Dinner |
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(Vitosha Park Hotel Restaurant) |
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Friday |
6/28/2024 |
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8:30-09:00 |
Registration |
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9:00-10:30 |
Session A5: Accelerators and optimized circuits |
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Session B5: Electronics with specific non-standard use case requirements |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-12:00 |
Plenary Speech 5 : Prof. Ronald Tetzlaff, Institute of Circuits and Systems,TU Dresden, Germany |
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11:00-13:00 |
Plenary Speech 6 : Vasil Kostadinov, Visteon Bulgaria |
13:00-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:00-15:30 |
Special Session A6: Latest Theoretico-Experimental Achievements in Memristor Device Circuit and System Research |
15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break & Poster Session |
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16:00-17:00 |
Poster Session 3 : Energy efficiency and power electronics |
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17:00-17:30 |
Awards – Closing Ceremony |
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Session A1 (WED 09:30-11:00) VLSI electronics and devices
Chairs: Xun Chen, Muh-Dey Wei
Xun Chen, Muh-Dey Wei and Renato Negra |
A 205-GHz Low-Power-Consumption Amplifier Biased in Soft-Saturation Region with Embedded MOM Capacitors in SiGe BiCMOS |
Lukas Hüssen, Xun Chen, Muh-Dey Wei, Renato Negra, Arka Dipta Das, Andrea Zazzi and Jeremy Witzens |
A DC to 5.8 GHz CMOS Variable-Gain Transimpedance Amplifier for Photonic Neuromorphic Hardware |
Ali Meimandi, Gian Luca Barbruni and Sandro Carrara |
A 69 μm2 Sub-nW/kHz Capacitor-less Ring Oscillator for Ultra-Miniaturized Implants |
Ioannis Dimitrios Psycharis, Vasileios Tsourtis and Grigorios Kalivas |
A 30 GHz Class-C switchless dual-band two core VCO in 40-nm CMOS |
Nikolaos P. Eleftheriou, Vassilis Alimisis and Paul P. Sotiriadis |
Low-Power Single-Stage Programmable CMOS LNA for Ku-Band Applications |
Session B1 (WED 09:30-11:00) Systems and simulations
Chairs: Thilo Pionteck, Nikolay Hinov
Mohamed Hosam, Sherif Abdelhaleem, Salwa Abd-El-Hafiz and Ahmed Radwan |
Novel Fast Prediction Algorithm for Advanced and High Efficiency Video Coding |
Stoyan Kirilov and Valeri Mladenov |
A Simple LTSPICE Memristor Neuron with a Modified Transfer Function |
Dimitris Asimopoulos, Ilias Siniosoglou, Vasileios Argyriou, Thomai Karamitsou, Eleftherios Fountoukidis, Sotirios Goudos, Ioannis Moscholios, Konstantinos Psannis and Panagiotis Sarigiannidis |
Benchmarking Advanced Text Anonymisation Methods: A Comparative Study on Novel and Traditional Approaches |
Max Tzschoppe, Daniele Passaretti, Amir Najafi, Sebastian Fischer, Martin Wilhelm, Alberto Garcia-Ortiz and Thilo Pionteck |
Impact of wave pipelining on NoCs for heterogeneous monolithic 3D SoCs |
Dimitar Ginchev and Stefan Stavrev |
Simulation of an Optical Instrument in M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank Using Unreal Engine |
Poster Session 1 (WED 15:30-16:30) Practical electronics and computing devices
Technical Chair: Georgi Tsenov
Charalampos Marantos, Sotirios Kokosis, Michail Vakis, Konstantinos Gounaridis, Mattheos Papavasiliou and Dimitrios Soudris |
Empowering Accessibility: A Hybrid Bluetooth-based Approach for Indoor Navigation |
Konstantinos Tatas, Christos Markides, Victoras Kassianides and Nicos Hadjisofokli |
Artemis: IoT-based Shooting Range Management System |
Nikolaos Chatzilabrou, Kyriakos Koritsoglou, Aikaterini Griva, Vassilios D. Vassios, Kyriakos Tsiakmakis, Achilles Boursianis, Argyrios T. Hatzopoulos, Sotirios Goudos and Maria S. Papadopoulou |
Web-based Monitoring of Refrigerator Units using Microcontroller |
Georgios-Panagiotis Kousiopoulos and Spyridon Nikolaidis |
Performance Evaluation of Different Finite State Machines Implementations |
Konstantinos Tsampiras, Anastasios Liontos and Vasileios Tenentes |
Evaluating Trusted Firmware Remote Attestation on ARM and RISC-V Edge Computing Prototypes |
Stylianos Katsoulis, Ioannis Christakis and Grigorios Koulouras |
Energy-Efficient Data Acquisition and Control System using both LoRaWAN and Wi-Fi Communication for Smart Classrooms |
Lydia Bush-Espinosa, Carol de Benito, Stavros Stavrinides, Rodrigo Picos and Leon O. Chua |
Modelling Thermal Crosstalk on Temperature Driven Memristors |
George Antoniou and Constantine Coutras |
On the conventional 5D lattice FIR digital filter |
Ioannis Bougas, Maria S. Papadopoulou, Achilles Boursianis, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, Spyridon Nikolaidis and Sotirios Goudos |
Energy Harvesting & Autonomous Energy Systems: A proposal for RF Energy Harvesting |
Ioannis Rizos, Georgios Papatheodorou and Aristides Efthymiou |
Exploring the design space of 32x32 Approximate Reduced Complexity Wallace Multipliers |
Yanlu Wang, Muh-Dey Wei and Renato Negra |
16.8Gbps Fully-Differential Pseudorandom Bit Sequence Generator Exploiting Asynchronous XOR Gate with an FOM of 1.1pJ/bit on 65-nm CMOS |
Aikaterini Griva, Achilles Boursianis, Stavros Koulouridis, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, George Karagiannidis and Sotirios Goudos |
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A Brief Review on Design Specifications |
Georgios Korompilis, Achilles D. Boursianis, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, Zaharias D. Zaharis, Sotirios K. Goudos and Katherine Siakavara |
Ultra-Wideband Antenna Design for RF Energy Harvesting Applications Using the Bald Eagle Algorithm |
Special Session A2 (WED 16:30-18:00)
Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks
Chairs: Sandro Carrara, Ali Meimandi
Dimitris Uzunidis, Panagiotis Kasnesis, Fotios Papadopoulos, Efstratios Paliodimos, Charalampos Patrikakis and Stelios Mitilineos |
Breathing Rate Estimation Behind Walls Exploiting a UWB Radar Sensor |
M Sabrigiraj, K Manoharan and Nikos Mastorakis |
Wide Sense Nonblocking Multicast in WDM Optical Binary Tree |
Efstratios N. Paliodimos, Fotios G. Papadopoulos, Dimitris Uzunidis, Charalampos Z. Patrikakis and Stelios A. Mitilineos |
A UWB radar and Machine Learning-based tool for detecting victims through foliage in search and rescue operations |
Athanasios Liatifis, Charis Eleftheriadis, Zisis Batzos, Ioannis Nanos, Thomas Lagkas, Sotirios Goudos, Vasileios Argyriou, Konstantinos E. Psannis, Ioannis D. Moscholios and Panagiotis Sarigiannidis |
SiHoneypot: a Digital Twin-based honeypot for Autonomous Vehicles |
Georgi Tsenov, Stylian Georgiev, Stanimir Andonov and Valeri Mladenov |
Wearable device for pulse, oximetry and galvanic skin response recordings for neuromarketing |
Session A3 (THU 9:30-11:00) Nonlinear circuits and systems
Chairs: Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos, Christos Volos
Stoyan Kirilov |
A Simple Memristor Model for Memory Devices |
Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos, Aleena Elsa George, Nico Mexis, Tolga Arul, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Rodrigo Picos and Stavros Stavrinides |
The Synchronisation Is the Message: Real-World Encrypted Communication Based on Synchronised Chaotic Circuits Without Using a Dedicated Synchronisation Line |
Lazaros Laskaridis, Christos Volos and Ioannis Stouboulos |
Analysis of a 4th-order Autonomous Chaotic Circuit with an Active Memristive Diode Bridge |
Mirjana Kocaleva Vitanova, Zoran Zlatev and Nikolay Hinov |
Boost and Buck DC-DC Converters - Prediction of The Output |
Dimitrios Soumis and Nikolaos Tselikas |
Serious Game for Hand Therapy Assessment |
Session B3 (THU 9:30-11:00) Applications and power management
Chairs: Mohamad Moner Al Chawa, Lenian He
Linxin Jiang, Zhongbo Han, Lenian He and Jianxiong Xi |
A Low Cross Regulation Single-Inductor Multi-Output DCDC Converter |
Stefano Sanvito, Marco Passoni and Gianluca Traversi |
Impact of resonance frequency spread on beam pattern of a Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer array |
Angeliki Zibidi, Eleftherios Mylonas, Nikolaos Tzanis, Michael Birbas and Alexios Birbas |
Efficient FPGA Architecture for Transient State Estimation in Smart Grid Applications |
Mohamad Moner Al Chawa, Daniel Bedau, James W Reiner, Derek Stewart, Michael Grobis and Ronald Tetzlaff |
A Compact Delay Model for OTS Devices |
Session A4 (THU 15:30-17:00) ML Applications in Communications & Electronics
Chairs: George Tsoulos, Theodoros Kaifas
Vasiliki Koutsioumpa, Nikos Mitsiou, Sotiris Tegos, Panagiotis Diamantoulakis, Thomas Lagkas, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis and George Karagiannidis |
Network Slicing for eMBB and mMTC with Finite Blocklength Codes |
Theodoros Kaifas, Dimitrios Babas and John Sahalos |
Direct Radiating Arrays assembled by Optimum Placement of Overlapped Radiators |
Georgia Athanasiadou, George Tsoulos, Dimitra Zarbouti, George Nikitopoulos, Vassilios Tsoulos and Nikos Christopoulos |
Field Trials of Modern Cellular Networks in Diverse Operational Environments |
Anestis Apostolidis, Stamatios Amanatiadis and Nikolaos Kantartzis |
Genetic Algorithm-Oriented Optimization of Metasurface Designs for Polarization Control in 5G Applications |
Theodoros Kaifas and John Sahalos |
Antennas near an Elliptic Cone |
Session B4 (THU 15:30-17:00) Machine learning and Neural Networks
Chairs: Giuseppe Grassi, Alberto Garcia-Ortiz
Viet-Thanh Pham, Fernando E. Serrano, Giuseppe Grassi, Shaher Momani and Christos Volos |
Dynamics and Synchronization of a Neuron Model with Spiking Patterns |
Vassilis Alimisis, Andreas Papathanasiou, Konstantinos Cheliotis, Nikolaos P. Eleftheriou and Paul Sotiriadis |
An Analog Classifier for Liver Disorders based on Centroid Machine Learning Model |
Sergio Alejandro Rosales Vargas and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz |
Effect of Single Event Transient Errors on Convolutional Neural Networks for Space Applications |
Stavros Piperakis, Maria Papatsimouli, Vasilis Argyriou, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis and George Fragulis |
SignTrack: Advancements in Real-Time Sign Language Processing for Inclusive Computing with optimized AI |
Fabian Stuckmann and Guillermo Payá Vayá |
A Graph Neural Network Approach to Improve List Scheduling Heuristics under Register Pressure |
Poster Session 2 (THU 17:00-18:00) Artificial Intelligence applications
Technical Chair: Georgi Tsenov
Constantinos Mylonakis, Pantelis Velanas, Pavlos Lazaridis, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, Sotirios Goudos and Zaharias Zaharis |
3D Direction of Arrival Estimation: An Innovative Deep Neural Network Approach |
Rodrigue Bogne Tchema, Marios Nestoros and Anastasis C. Polycarpou |
Computer-Aided Classification of Skin Cancer based on the YOLO Algorithm |
Konstantinos-Iraklis Kokkinidis and Aristeidis Chatzipoulidis |
AI-Driven Risk Management: Exploring Machine Learning Techniques and Privacy Challenges in Smart Cities |
Stylianos Eleftheriadis, Georgios Margaritis, Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos, Dimosthenis Ioannidis and Dimitrios Tzovaras |
An Embedded System for the Predictive Maintenance of Aerobic Digesters with Liquid Outputs |
Vassilis Alimisis, Andreas Papathanasiou, Konstantinos Cheliotis, Nikolaos P. Eleftheriou and Paul P. Sotiriadis |
A Memristor-Equivalent Analog Integrated Neural Network for Air Quality Classification |
Rahul Priyadarshi, Raj Vikram, Dr Zekun Huang, Dr Tiansheng Yang and Dr Rajkumar Singh Rathore |
Multi-Objective Optimization for Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks |
Lazaros Alexios Iliadis, Sotirios Sotiroudis, George Vergos, Paraskevi Kritopoulou, Achilleas Papatheodorou, Achilles Boursianis, Kostas Kokkinidis, Maria S. Papadopoulou, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis and Sotirios Goudos |
Fetal Images Trophectoderm Score Prediction using Deep Learning Methodologies |
Shreyan Banerjee, Aasifa Rounak and Vikram Pakrashi |
Control of an Under-actuated Cartpole with an Evolving Neural Topology using Synaptic Bellman Equation |
Takahiro Natori, Kentaro Fujii, Yuka Kawatsu, Hisashi Nabenishi and Naoyuki Aikawa |
Study on non-invasive blood glucose monitoring methods for Japanese Black cattle |
David Chatzichristodoulou, Photos Vryonides, Symeon Nikolaou, Dimitra-Danai Varsou, Maria Antoniou, Dimitris Mintis and Antreas Afantitis |
Polarization Converter Metasurface using Machine Learning Methods for Bandwidth Enhancement |
Dimitrios Kampelopoulos, Lazaros Moysis, Konstantinos Karasavvidis, Achilles D. Boursianis, Sotirios K. Goudos and Spyridon Nikolaidis |
Byzantine Hymn Recognition with Audio Fingerprints Resistant to Noise, Tempo and Scale Changes |
Vicente Ramirez, Jose Cayo and Ioannis Vourkas |
An Advanced Memory WRITE Algorithm to Mitigate the Effects of ReRAM Cell Variability |
Session A5 (FRI 9:00-10:30) Accelerators and optimized circuits
Chairs: Ahmed Radwan, Daniele Rossi
Bishoy Sharobim, Salwa Abd-El-Hafiz, Ahmed Radwan and Heba Aslan |
A (k,n)-Secret Image Sharing With Steganography Using Generalized Tent Map |
Raphael Fortulan, Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Alexei Antipov, Carsten Jost, Alessandro Chiolerio and Andrew Adamatzky |
Implementing Logic Operations in Gold Nanoparticles Colloidal Suspensions |
Fatiha Beladam, Abdelaziz Lazzaz, Khaled Bousbahi and Mustapha Ghamnia |
Impact of the interior dielectric constant on the performance of CNTFET 10 nm |
Aleena Elsa George, Emiliia Geloczi, Nico Mexis, Tolga Arul, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Stavros Stavrinides, Rodrigo Picos and Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos |
Real-World Secure Communication Based on Synchronised Lorenz Chaotic Circuits |
Vasileios Tenentes, Stefano Di Matteo, Christos Zonios, Daniele Rossi and Sergio Saponara |
RTL Flow for the Power Side-Channel Resilience Assessment of a Post-quantum SHA-3 Accelerator |
Session B5 (FRI 9:00-10:30) Electronics with specific non-standard
use case requirements
Chairs: Nicolas Sklavos, Spyridon Nikolaidis
Vasiliki Gogolou, Thomas Noulis and Vasilis Pavlidis |
CMOS Charge Pump Design for Minimal Silicon Footprint |
Kyriaki Tsantikidou and Nicolas Sklavos |
A Compact Pipelined Architecture of Chaotic Logistic Map for e-Health Applications |
Giovanni Mazza, Lorenzo Piccolo, Luca Antognini, Saba Aziz, Aishah Bashiri, Lucio Calcagnile, Daniela Calvo, Domenico Caputo, Anna Paola Caricato, Roberto Catalano, Roberto Cirio, Giuseppe Antonio Pablo Cirrone, Tommaso Croci, Giacomo Cuttone, Gianpiero De Cesare, Paolo De Remigis, Sylvain Dunand, Michele Fabi, Luca Frontini, Catia Grimani, Mariacristina Guarrera, Maria Ionica, Keida Kanxheri, Matthew Large, Francesca Lenta, Valentino Liberali, Nicola Lovecchio, Maurizio Martino, Giuseppe Maruccio, Mauro Menichelli, Anna Grazia Monteduro, Arianna Morozzi, Francesco Moscatelli, Augusto Nascetti, Stefania Pallotta, Daniele Passeri, Maddalena Pedio, Marco Petasecca, Giada Petringa, Francesca Peverini, Pisana Placidi, Gianluca Quarta, Silvia Rizzato, Federico Sabbatini, Leonello Servoli, Alberto Stabile, Cinzia Talamonti, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Luca Tosti, Mattia Villani, Richard James Wheadon, Nicolas Wyrsch and Nicola Zema |
A Front-End Circuit in 28 nm CMOS for Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Detectors in Clinical Dosimetry |
Kalliniki Vasilikou, Vasiliki Gogolou and Thomas Noulis |
Radiation-Hardened Cells for Analog Design: Comprehensive Review and Design Flow |
Ioannis Sofianidis, Vasileios Konstantakos and Spyridon Nikolaidis |
Energy Consumption Aspects on Embedded System for IoT Applications |
Special Session A6 (FRI 14:00-15:30)
Latest Theoretico-Experimental Achievements in
Memristor Device Circuit and System Research
Chairs: Alon Ascoli, Valeri Mladenov
Ioannis Messaris, Alon Ascoli, Ahmet Samil Demirkol, Vasileios Ntinas, Dimitrios Prousalis, Nicolas Schmitt and Ronald Tetzlaff |
Frequency Dependent Bistability in a Volatile Threshold Switch |
Angela Slavova and Ventsislav Ignatov |
Memristive cellular nonlinear network model with hysteresis switch in the feedback system |
Richard Schroedter, Adnan Haidar and Ronald Tetzlaff |
Fault Impact Map for Memristive Crossbar Neural Networks |
Alon Ascoli, Fernando Corinto, Nicolas Schmitt, Ahmet Samil Demirkol, Ioannis Messaris, Ronald Tetzlaff, John Paul Strachan and Marco Gilli |
An Analytical Method to Induce a Multistable Periodic Response to Pulse Trains in a ReRAM Cell |
Lijie Xie, Peilong Feng, Andrea Mifsud, Amir Nassibi and Christos Papavassiliou |
A Variation-Aware CMOS Platform for Multi-Level Memristor Characterisation |
Poster Session 3 (FRI 16:00-17:00) Energy efficiency and power electronics
Technical Chair: Georgi Tsenov
Heung-Gyoon Ryu |
OCDM System Design by iDFT Transform and 2 Phase Controllers for 6G Wireless Waveform |
Alireza Mafi, Gian Luca Barbruni, Ata Golparvar and Sandro Carrara |
Enhancing Prostate Cancer Diagnosis with In-Memory Sensing and Edge Computing of Percent-free PSA Index |
Nicos Ioannou, Constantinos Tatas, Andreas Constantinides and Costas Kyriacou |
WIDE: Worksheet Integrated Development Environment for Arduino-based Embedded System Design |
Adriano Lopes Pata, Amir Najafi, Sebastian Fischer and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz |
Analysis and optimization of delay-power for links in heterogeneous monolithic 3D NoCs |
Eugene Snopok, Alla Levina and Nicolas Sklavos |
On the Efficiency of Adding Redundancy in Disk Arrays, Using Nonlinear Codes |
Nikolaos Nikisanlis, Argyrios T. Hatzopoulos, Vassilios D. Vassios, Vasileios Delimaras, Kyriakos Tsiakmakis and Maria S. Papadopoulou |
Liquid filling measuring system with variable flow |
Vassilis Vassios, Argyrios T. Hatzopoulos, Ioannis Intzes and Dimitrios Papakostas |
Parametric Fault Detection of Analog Circuits by utilizing the Fundamental RMS of the Supply Current Fluctuation |