Activities of the SysMIC team are organized in 4 main topics:

• Integrated circuit and system testing

The objectives are the development of methods allowing to reveal the dysfunctionning of hardware parts involved in high complexity systems. Models, techniques, and a wide range of software, hardware and architectural solutions are developed for the detection, diagnosis, and possibly repair of various and/or new types of failures.

  • Participants: F. Azaïs, S. Bernard, Y. Bertrand, A. Bosio, M. Comte, L. Dilillo, G. Di Natale, M.L. Flottes, P. Girard, J. Galy, C. Landrault, L. Latorre, S. Pravossoudovitch, M. Renovell, B. Rouzeyre, A. Virazel.
  • PhD: 9 doctoral thesis in progress (October 2009) & 10 defended doctoral dissertations (2005-08).
  • Projects: MEDEA+ "NanoTest" project , Catrene "TOETS" project, FCE "CALISSON" project.
  • Industrial collaborations: NXP Semiconductors (ISyTest Institute), SynTest Technologies, Verigy, Infineon, STMicroelectronics, Atmel.
  • Academic collaborations: Albert-Ludwigs Universität (Germany), Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), IMS – Université de Bordeaux (France), Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan), Duke University (USA), University of Southampton (UK), University of Stuttgart (Germany).
  • Dissemination (2005-08) : 205 scientific communications, including 34 papers in international journals, 8 invited conferences, 90 papers in international conferences, 1 patent.


• Design and test of microsystems

The objectives are the design and the test of monolithic MEMS. The specificity of researches conducted in this topic concern the development of design and test flows, and the integration of the conditioning electronics as close as possible to the sensor or actuator. 

  • Participants: P. Nouet, L. Latorre, F. Mailly, F. Azaïs.
  • PhD: 5 doctoral thesis in progress (October 2009) & 4 defended doctoral dissertations (2005-08).
  • Projects: European project "NoE-PATENT", ANR "R3MEMS", ANR "MIDDISPI", Catrene "TOETS" project.
  • Industrial collaborations: NXP Semiconductors.
  • Academic collaborations: Univ. Autonome de Barcelone (Spain), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Université de Sfax (Tunisia).
  • Dissemination (2005-08) : 53 scientific communications, including 10 papers in international journals, 3 invited conferences, 25 papers in international conferences.


• Adaptive architectures

The objectives are the exploration and the design of innovative flexible and reconfigurable architectures for future applications (signal and image processing, security, ...), and the development of models and design tolls for these architectures, including the consideration of emerging technologies and emerging concepts (bio-inspired phenomena for instance).  

  • Participants: Pascal Benoit, Gilles Sassatelli, Lionel Torres, Michel Robert.
  • PhD: 9 doctoral thesis in progress (October 2009) & 7 defended doctoral dissertations (2005-08).
  • Projects : ANR "ICTER", ACI "CALOMAG", ANR "CILOMAG", ANR "ADAM", European project "MODERN" (ENIAC).
  • Industrial collaborations: ATMEL, STMicroelectronics, CEA/LETI, MENTA, NETHEOS, CROCUS.
  • Academic collaborations: TU Darmstadt (Germany), Univ. Karlsruhe (Germany), Univ. Porto
  • Alegre (Brazil), Univ. Waterloo (USA).
  • Dissemination (2005-08) : 96 scientific communications, including 12 papers in international journals, 4 invited conferences, 56 papers in international conferences, 2 patents.


• Models and methods for circuit design

The objectives concern the modeling of perfomances or electrical phenomena in intégrated circuits: interconnects, delay, power consumption, influence of technological dispersions. Results obtained from these researches then permit to develop new methods and new tools for circuit design.

  • Participants: Florence Azais, Pascal Nouet, Nadine Azemard-Crestani, Denis Deschacht, Philippe Maurine, Lionel Torres, Michel Robert, G. Cathebras.
  • PhD: 6 doctoral thesis in progress (October2009) & 10 defended doctoral dissertations (2005-08).
  • Projects: ANR "ICTER", European project ENIAC "MODERN", FCE "CALISSON" project.
  • Industrial collaborations: ATMEL, STMicroelectronics, ATMEL, CEA/LETI, Infinéon.
  • Dissemination (2005-08) : 129 scientific communications, including 12 papers in international journals, 82 papers in international conferences, 2 patents.