MUSICS News
This page lists MUSICS related events communicated by our scientific board.( current | all | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006)
Advanced Digital Physical Implementation flow
14 - 18 Dec. 2009(more information)
Power Aware physical design techniques, timing and power closure. The 5-day Advanced Digital Physical Implementation flow will start by introducing the challenges for 90 nm SoC design and the design environment and tool chain. The course will proceed with digital synthesis, leakage-aware design, design planning and floorplanning, library analysis and management. The course will focus upon low power design flow covering techniques to minimise dynamic and static power consumption, multiple clock tree synthesis, test and multimode and multicorner optimisation. IR-drop analysis, dynamic power analysis sign-off and design finishing and layout verification will be covered. Extensive hands-on labs are part of the course.
Math, Engineering and Music: An Introduction To Tuning Systems, Automatic Tuning Analysis and Music Information Retrieval with Applications in Turkish Music
21 Nov. 2009(more information)
Math, Engineering and Music: An Introduction To Tuning Systems, Automatic Tuning Analysis and Music Information Retrieval with Applications in Turkish Music Prof. B. Bozkurt, University of IZMIR In this afternoon talk, two research domains will shortly be reviewed in a tutorial way: tuning analysis and music information retrieval. Starting from basics of pitch perception, we will first discuss the theory of musical scales. Then automatic tuning analysis for ethnic music will be introduced as a signal processing application in musicology. Here, Turkish music will be used as a case study. In the second part, the music information retrieval (MIR) domain will be introduced. Again a signal processing application for music/audio processing will be presented: automatic makam recognition for Turkish music.
16th Annual Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux
19 Nov. 2009(more information)
Established in 1993, the Symposium is an annual event organized by the IEEE chapter on Communications and Vehicular Technology. The Symposium is aimed at presenting and discussing the latest scientific and technical advances in communication systems and vehicular communication technology. The symposium is organized by the Digital communication group of the Université catholique de Louvain.
Testing 802.11p WAVE on the Road: An Error-Prone Traffic Telematics Standard
30 Oct. 2009(more information)
Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) systems can make the road safer and its use more efficient, given that the data transmission from and to the road users over the wireless link is timely, accurate, and well presented. Under these conditions, a reduction in the number and severity of accidents can be expected. Furthermore, traffic can be more efficiently managed and congestions can be avoided. The IEEE 802.11p standard for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) was derived from the 802.11a WiFi standard to support high-speed communications on the road for both road-to-car and car-to-car environments. Already in simulation tests, the standard turned out to fail in common scenarios like driving with high speeds, shadowing by other cars, or simply access by too many vehicles in dense traffic situations. Using the proprietary CVIS testbed, developed in a European research project, we tested the performance limits of 802.11p. This presentation will show that the WAVE standard (in its current version) fails to ensure reliable data transmission in almost all environments. The results also provide some guidance for installing WAVE equipment and suggest countermeasures to increase the reliability of the WAVE standard.
IDESA - Implementation of widespread IC DEsign Skills in advanced deep submicron technologies at European Academia
29 Jun. - 3 Jul. 2009(more information)
The 5-day Advanced Analog Implementation Flow course will start with a short overview of the 90nm IC process flow, it will cover modelling issues, hand calculation versus simulation accuracy, transistor level and behavioral level design, analog cell trimming using digital functions, mixed mode simulation, mismatch and yield modelling and analysis, and analog modelling and circuit optimisation.
Prometheus (un)chained ? Micro Energy Technologies for Energy-Autonomous Micro-Embedded Systems
26 Mar. 2009(more information)
The Microsystems Chair of the Louvain School of Engineering invites you cordially to the following seminar: “Prometheus (un)chained – Micro Energy Technologies for Energy-Autonomous Micro-Embedded Systems” By Prof. Peter Woias From Albert-Ludwig-University Freiburg, Depf. of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), Laboratory for Design of Microsystems, Freiburg, Germany Where and when Thursday March the 26th at 9.00 AM, Auditorium SUD 13, Place Croix du Sud, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Double-seminar about block ciphers
5 Feb. 2009(more information)
The Crypto Group and the Information Security Group of the UCL are pleased to announce a double-seminar about block ciphers. First Part :Quantitative security of block ciphers : designs and cryptanalysis tools. Speaker : Thomas Baignères, EPFL, Switzerland. Abstract: Block ciphers probably figure in the list of the most important cryptographic primitives. Although they are used for many different purposes, their essential goal is to ensure confidentiality. In this talk, we are concerned by their quantitative security, that is, by measurable attributes that reflect their ability to guarantee this confidentiality. Second part : A Statistical Saturation Attack against the Block Cipher PRESENT. Speaker: Baudoin Collard, UCL, Belgium. Abstract: In this talk, we present a statistical saturation attack that combines previously introduced cryptanalysis techniques against block ciphers. As the name suggests, the attack is statistical and can be seen as a particular example of partitioning cryptanalysis. It can also be seen as a dual to saturation attacks in the sense that it exploits the diffusion properties in block ciphers and a combination of active and passive multisets of bits in the plaintexts.
FETCH 2009 Ecole d'hiver Francophone sur les Technologies de Conception des Systèmes embarqués Hétérogènes
12 - 14 Jan. 2009(more information)
La maitrise de l'hétérogénéité des systèmes embarqués par des technologies de conception efficaces est un défi incontournable pour les années à venir. Pour suivre et anticiper l'émergence de nouvelles techniques de modélisation, de validation et de synthèse de ces systèmes, FETCH'09 vise à réunir et à croiser les expertises portant sur ces diverses facettes. C'est un évènement annuel unique en son genre pour scientifiques et professionnels souhaitant partager et échanger les connaissances les plus récentes dans ces domaines.