Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

• Computer Science Department, Colorado State University in Fort-Collins (USA), Loop parallelization, development of high-level synthesis tools, Inria Associate Team (2010-2012)

• Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA), CAD tools for arithmetic datapath synthesis and optimization

• LRTS laboratory, Laval University in Québec (Canada), Architectures for MIMO systems, Wireless Sensor Networks, Inria Associate Team (2006-2008)

• LSSI laboratory, Québec University in Trois-Rivières (Canada), Design of architectures for digital filters and mobile communications

• Title: Secure and low-Power sensor Networks Circuits for Healthcare embedded applications

• Principal investigator: Arnaud Tisserand, Olivier Berder, Olivier Sentieys

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher): Code&Crypto group in University College Cork (Ireland)

• Duration: 2012 - 2014

• Biomedical sensor networks may be used more and more in the future. For instance, they allow patient's health-care parameters to be remotely monitored at home. In this project, we plan to address two important challenges in the design of biomedical sensors networks: i) design of low-power sensor devices for embedded autonomous systems (health monitoring, pace-maker...) with long battery life; ii) confidentiality and security aspects and especially with public key cryptography processor that are robust against side channel attacks (measure of the computation time, the power consumption or the electromagnetic radiations of the circuit) and with limited power-energy resources.