The ADAC group conducts research on 3 main scientific directions, as follows:

Topic 1 : Innovative hardware and software architectures

Energy efficiency has emerged as a prominent concern, driven by a broad range of societal and scientific challenges such as sustainability. The ADAC group focuses on the exploration of hardware, software and high-level resource management solutions for enabling significant advances towards the definition of next-generation compute systems. A specific emphasis on Adaptation  is often put on various substrates such as highly constrained devices such as sensor nodes, and heterogeneous or homogeneous multicore / multiprocessor systems across various considerations (monitoring, migration of software objects). Online decision making is often key to achieving significant improvements and is also at the core of the motivations (s.a. modeling, forecasting, decision making). Targeted systems comprise a large set of applications from the Internet of Things to compute clusters, notably with several projects tackling adaptation at a wider than usual scope, encompassing energy transfer and storage across compute nodes, or optimization of resource management in a network of connected devices.

Topic 2 : Technology integration

The ADAC group conducts research in the area of technology hybridization, notably on the exploitation of non-volatile emerging memory technologies. Projects include the use of MRAM memories in various flavours of compute systems ranging from ultra-low energy microcontrollers for IoT to high-performance compute nodes. Contributions include CMOS/MRAM hybrid-cells, compilation/scheduling techniques alongside novel approaches at microarchitecture-level (caches, Normally-off Computing), communication-level (technology-aware NoCs) or technology-level (FPGA, PVT sensing, data-mining and design of compact models for run-time power / energy / temperature estimation).

Topic 3 : Security

Research works are also carried out in the area of security at various levels, with a notable emphasis on embedded systems (secure on-chip communications),  IoT (blockchains for IoT devices) and industrial networks. A strong expertise of side-channel attacks (SCA) is also at the core of an open platform devoted to research and education (SECNUM) within the scope of the CNFM education network.

DREAM CLOUD :

Dynamic Resource Allocation In Embedded and High Performance Computing

Travaux sur l’assignation dynamique de ressources dans les systèmes multicoeurs (axe1)

IOTEROP :

Architecture distribuée de passerelles réseaux interopérables et collaborative

Accompagnement de la maturation de la startup IOTEROP (axe1)

MONT-BLANC3 : 

European scalable and power efficient HPC platform based on low power embedded technology

Travaux sur la simulation orienté traces, l’exploration de systèmes multicoeurs hétérogènes et les mémoires émergentes pour le calcul intensif (axes1et 2)

www.montblanc-projet.eu

SECNUM :

Plateforme SECNUM Cryptographie et sécurité Numérique (FEDER)

Projet d'investissement pour la plateforme sécurité numérique SECNUM (support de l'axe 3)

MULTISMART :

Plateforme sécurisée à mémoire magnétique Multi bits innovante pour Smart Cards

Conception à l'aide de mémoire MRAM Multi[bits (Axe2)

MASTA :

MRAM BASED DESIGN, TEST AND RELIABILITY FOR ULTRA LOW POWER SoC

Projet sur la conception d'architectures logicielles/matérielles ultra basse consommation à base de MRAM (Axe2)

GREAT :

Hetero Geneous integrated Magnetic technology using multifunctional standardized sTack (MSS)

Conception de systèmes très faible consommation à base de mémoires MRAM, application à l'IOT (Axe1et 2)

CONTINUUM :

Design Continuum for Next Generation Energy Efficient Compute Nodes

Travaux sur des architectures matérielles hétérogènes intégrant des mémoires non volatiles, et des techniques de compilation adaptées (axe1)

Le rayonnement des membres de l’équipe se caractérise à partir des indicateurs suivants sur la période 2013-2016 :

• Evaluation / Expertise

- Comité d’Evaluation ANR Défis Micro et Nanotechnologies,

- Membre du comité Scientifique de l'ANR Nanosciences & STIC,

- Participations à plusieurs groupes de travail prospectifs,

- Croucher Fundation – Fondation privée pour la recherche - Hong-Kong

• Communication et évènements scientifiques

- Organisation du Colloque BRAFITEC 2016 (Franco-Brésilien)

- Création du workshop RECOSOC, organisation des éditions 2011 et 2014

- Membre de Comités de pilotage : IEEE FPL, RECOSOC, IEEE ISVLSI, CRYPTARCHI, IEEE NVMSA,

- Working group IFIP 10.5 : « Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems »,

- Associate Editor : ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems,

  Membre de comité des programmes des principales conférences du domaine.

Staff

• Pascal Benoit, Assistant Professor UM
• Florent Bruguier, Assistant Professor UM
• Abdoulaye Gamatié, Research Director CNRS
• David Novo, Research Fellow CNRS
• Michel Robert, Professor UM
• Gilles Sassatelli, Research Director CNRS
• Lionel Torres, Professor UM

Associates & Students

• Odilia Coi, PhD student
• Marcos De Melo Da Silva, Research associate CNRS
• Paul Delestrac, PhD student UM
• Guillaume Devic, PhD student CNRS
• Francesco Di Gregorio, PhD student CNRS
• Loic France, PhD student UM
• Maxime France Pillois, Research associate CNRS
• Quentin Huppert, PhD student UM
• Maxime Mirka, PhD student UM
• Maria Mushtaq, Research associate CNRS
• Lucas Sardois, Research associate CNRS
• Theo Soriano, PhD student UM