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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR Blanc - PAVOIS (2012–2016)

Participants : Arnaud Tisserand, Emmanuel Casseau, Jérémie Métairie, Karim Bigou, Pierre Guilloux.

PAVOIS is a project on Arithmetic Protections Against Physical Attacks for Elliptic Curve based Cryptography that will provide novel implementations of curve based cryptographic algorithms on custom hardware platforms. A specific focus is placed on trade-offs between efficiency and robustness against physical attacks. It involves IRISA-Cairn (Lannion) and LIRMM (Perpignan and Montpellier). Theoretical aspects include an investigation of how special number representations can be used to speed-up cryptographic algorithms, and protect cryptographic devices from physical attacks. On the practical side, we design innovative cryptographic hardware architectures of a specific processor based on the theoretical advancements described above to implement curve based protocols. For more details see http://pavois.irisa.fr.

ANR Ingénérie Numérique et Sécurité - ARDyT (2011-2016)

Participants : Arnaud Tisserand, Pierre Guilloux.

ARDyT is a project on a Reliable and Reconfigurable Dynamic Architecture. It involves IRISA-Cairn (Lannion), Lab-STICC (Lorient), LIEN (Nancy) and ATMEL. The purpose of the ARDyT project is to provide a complete environment for the design of a fault tolerant and self-adaptable platform. Then, a platform architecture, its programming environment and management methodologies for diagnosis, testability and reliability have to be defined and implemented. The considered techniques are exempt from the use of hardened components for terrestrial and aeronautics applications for the design of low-cost solutions. For more details see http://ardyt.irisa.fr.

Labex CominLabs - BoWI (2012-2016)

Participants : Olivier Sentieys, Arnaud Carer.

The BoWi project (Body Wold Interactions) project aims at designing an accurate gesture and body movement estimation using very-small and low-power wearable sensor nodes, to propose pioneer interfaces for an emerging interacting world based on smart environments (house, media, information and entertainment systems...). Relying on Wireless Body Areas Sensor Networks, we propose an accurate Gesture and Body Movement estimation with extremely severe constraints in terms of footprint and energy consumption. The BoWI geolocation approach will combine radio communication distance measurement and inertial sensors and will also strongly benefit from cooperative techniques based on multiple observations and distributed computation. Different types of applications, such as health care, activity monitoring and environment control, are considered and prototyped. BoWI involves Cairn , IRISA Granit (Lannion), IETR (Rennes), and Lab-STICC (Brest, Lorient, Vannes). For more details see http://www.bowi.cominlabs.ueb.eu.

Labex CominLabs - 3DCORE (2014-2018)

Participants : Olivier Sentieys, Daniel Chillet, Cédric Killian, Jiating Luo, Van Dung Pham, Ashraf El-Antably.

3DCORE (3D Many-Core Architectures based on Optical Network on Chip) is a project investigating new solutions based on silicon photonics to enhance by 2 to 3 magnitude orders energy efficiency and data rate of on-chip interconnect in the context of a many-core architecture. Moreover, 3DCore will take advantage of 3D technologies to design a specific optical layer suitable for a flexible and energy efficient high-speed optical network on chip (ONoC). 3DCORE involves Cairn , FOTON (Rennes, Lannion) and Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon. For more details see http://www.3d-opt-many-cores.cominlabs.ueb.eu.

Labex CominLabs - RELIASIC (2014-2018)

Participants : Emmanuel Casseau, Arnaud Tisserand.

RELIASIC (Reliable Asic) will address the issue of fault-tolerant computation with a bottom-up approach, starting from an existing application as a use case (a GPS receiver) and adding some redundant mechanisms to allow the GPS receiver to be tolerant to transient errors due to low voltage supply. RELIASIC involves Cairn , Lab-STICC (Lorient) and IETR (Rennes). For more details see http://www.reliasic.cominlabs.ueb.eu In this project, Cairn is in charge of the analysis and design of arithmetic operators for fault tolerance. We focus on the hardware implementations of conventional arithmetic operators such as adders, multipliers and MACs but also higher level operators like butterfly computation operator for FFT algorithm.

Labex CominLabs & Lebesgue - H-A-H (2014-2017)

Participants : Arnaud Tisserand, Karim Bigou, Gabriel Gallin, Audrey Lucas.

H-A-H for Hardware and Arithmetic for Hyperelliptic Curves Cryptography is a project on advanced arithmetic representation and algorithms for hyper-elliptic curve cryptography. It will provide novel implementations of HECC based cryptographic algorithms on custom hardware platforms. H-A-H involves Cairn (Lannion) and IRMAR (Rennes). For more details see http://h-a-h.inria.fr/.