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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: New Compilation Techniques for Reconfigurable Analo
 g Devices
DTSTART:20200316T130000
DTEND:20200316T140000
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DESCRIPTION:The talk will take place via zoom. Please click on the followi
 ng link: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/228915065\n\nBy: Sara Achour - Massachuset
 ts Institute of Technology\nIC Faculty candidate\n\nAbstract:\nReconfigura
 ble analog devices are a powerful new computing substrate especially appro
 priate for executing dynamical systems in an energy efficient manner. Thes
 e devices leverage the physical behavior of transistors to directly implem
 ent computation. Under this paradigm\, voltages and currents within the de
 vice implement continuously evolving variables in the computation. \n\nIn
  this talk\, I discuss compilation techniques for automatically configurin
 g such devices to execute dynamical systems. I present Legno\, the first c
 ompilation system that automatically targets a real reconfigurable analog 
 device of this class. Legno synthesizes analog circuits from parametric an
 d specialized analog blocks and accounts for analog noise\, quantization e
 rror\, operating range limitations\, and manufacturing variations within t
 he device. I evaluate Legno on applications from the biology\, physics\, a
 nd controls domains. The results demonstrate that these applications execu
 te with acceptable error while consuming microjoules of energy. \n\nBio:\
 nSara Achour is a PhD candidate at the Computer Science and Artificial Int
 elligence Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (CSAIL MIT) 
 and a NSF Fellowship recipient. Her research focuses on new techniques and
  tools\, specifically new programming languages\, compilers\, and runtime 
 systems\, that enable end users to easily develop computations that exploi
 t the potential of emerging nontraditional computing platforms.\n\nMore in
 formation
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