CS: Autonomous Group Testing for FPGAs, Workshop on Random Matrices, Information Theory and Applications

This is probably a little old but here it is: Self-Healing Reconfigurable Logic using Autonomous Group Testing by Carthik Sharma, Ronald Demara and Alizera Sarvi. The abstract reads:

A self-healing, self-organizing evolvable hardware system is developed using SRAM-based reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and group testing principles. It employs adaptive group testing techniques to autonomously maintain resource viability information as an organic means of transient and permanent fault resolution. Reconfigurability of the SRAM-based FPGA is leveraged to identify logic resource faults which are successively excluded by group testing using alternate device configurations. This simplifies the system architect’s role to definition of functionality using a high-level Hardware Description Language (HDL) and system-level performance versus availability operating point. System availability, throughput, and mean time to isolate faults are monitored and maintained using an Observer-Controller model. Dedicated test vectors are unnecessary as the algorithm operates on the output response produced for real-time operational inputs. Results are demonstrated using a Data Encryption Standard (DES) core that occupies approximately 305 FPGA slices on a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA. With a single simulated stuck-at-fault, the system identifies a completely validated replacement configuration within three to five positive tests. Results also include approaches for optimizing population size, resource redundancy, and availability. The approach demonstrates a readily-implemented yet robust organic hardware application framework featuring a high degree of autonomous self-control.

On December 13th, there was the Fourth EPFL-UPEMLV Workshop on Random Matrices, Information Theory and Applications in Paris. The program and some slides are listed below:

Monday, December 13

• 8:45 - 10:15 : Tutorial Justin Salez (ENS Paris - INRIA Rocquencourt)
  Spectra of diluted random graphs - Part I (abstract)
  
• 10:15 - 10:45 : Coffee / discussion
• 10:45 - 11:30 : Talk Djalil Chafai (UPEMLV, Marne-la-Vallee)
  Random Markov matrices and related topics (abstract, slides)
  
• 11:30 - 12:15 : Talk Olivier Schwander (Polytechnique, Paris)
  The Burbea-Rao and Bhattacharyya centroids (abstract, slides)
  
• 12:15 - 2:15 : Lunch
• 2:15 - 3:00 : Talk Ioannis Kontoyiannis (Athens U of Economics and Business)
  Differential entropy sumset bounds (abstract, slides)
  
• 3:00 - 3:45 : Talk Oliver Johnson (U Bristol)
  Efficient entropy-based detection of change-points in streaming data (abstract, slides)
  
• 3:45 - 4:15 : Coffee / discussion
• 4:15 - 5:00 : Talk Christian Leonard (Polytechnique, Paris)
  A large deviation approach to optimal transport (abstract)
  
• 5:00 - 5:45 : Talk Emmanuel Abbe (EPF Lausanne)
  Randomness extraction and sparse recovery (abstract, slides)
  
• Evening: Dinner together au "Petit Marguery"

Tuesday, December 14

• 8:45 - 10:15 : Tutorial Marc Lelarge (ENS Paris - INRIA Rocquencourt)
  Spectra of diluted random graphs - Part II (abstract)
  
• 10:15 - 10:45 : Coffee / discussion
• 10:45 - 11:30 : Talk Merouane Debbah (Supelec, Paris)
  Random matrix polynomial expansion receivers for wireless communications (abstract, slides)
  
• 11:30 - 12:15 : Talk Aris Moustakas (U Athens)
  Coulomb gas approach in multi-antenna communications (abstract, slides)
  
• 12:15 - 2:15 : Lunch
• 2:15 - 3:00 : Talk Jamal Najim (ENST, Paris)
  On the fluctuations of Mestre's estimator for the population eigenvalues (abstract, slides)
  
• 3:00 - 3:45 : Talk Abdellatif Zaidi (UPEMLV, Marne-la-Vallee)
  Capacity results for side-informed relay networks (abstract)
  
• 3:45 - 4:15 : Coffee / discussion
• 4:15 - 5:00 : Talk Walid Hachem (ENST, Paris)
  Random matrices with finite rank additive perturbations: application to antenna array estimation (abstract, slides)
  
• Evening: Self-organized dinner

Wednesday, December 15

• 8:45 - 10:15 : Tutorial Romain Couillet (Supelec, Paris)
  Random matrices and cognitive radios (abstract, slides)

• 10:15 - 10:45 : Coffee / discussion

• 10:45 - 11:30 : Talk Alain Rouault (U Versailles)
  Random moment problem and random matrix theory (abstract, slides)

• 11:30 - 12:15 : Talk Olivier Leveque (EPF Lausanne)
  Maintaining diversity in MIMO relay networks (abstract)

Image above: This image shows the last bit of light creeping away as the Moon slips completely into the heart of the Earth's shadow during the Lunar Eclipse on August 28, 2007. The blue color in this image is caused by the Earth's ozone layer, which gives our planet's shadow a turquise-colored fringe. This image of the Moon was taken by Brian Karczewski of Hemet, California. Credit: Brian Karczewski/SpaceWeather.com