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Alain Vachoux
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Microelectronic Systems Laboratory
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Research Associate
birth date: 25.12.1955
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office(s):
ELD338
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 36953
fax: +41 21 693 6959
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BIOGRAPHY
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Since 2007: Secretary of the IEEE 1076.1 Working Group.
Since 2006:
2005-2007: Chair of the IEEE 1076.1 Working Group.
Since May 2002: Research Associate, EPFL, Microelectronic Systems Laboratory (LSM), Prof. Yusuf Leblebici, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Support for language-based design methodology of heterogeneous hardware systems.
Management and support of EDA tools and design kits.
Lecturer on hardware systems modelling with VHDL and VHDL-AMS.
2001-2002: IP Library and Methodology Manager, Antrim Design Systems, Le Vaud, Switzerland.
Development of design workspaces for pipelined AD converters.
Support of VHDL-AMS in Antrim tools.
Management of the development of a layout migration tool for mixed-signal circuits.
EPFL lecturer on integrated circuit modelling with VHDL and VHDL-AMS.
1998-2001: Group Manager, IP and Methodology, XEMICS S.A., Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Deployment and support of proprietary low-power standard cell library, RAM/ROM memories and 8-bit CoolRISC core (incl. software development environment).
EPFL lecturer on integrated circuit modelling with VHDL and VHDL-AMS.
1990-1998: First Assistant, then Adjoint Scientifique, EPFL, Center for Integrated Systems (C3i), Prof. Daniel Mlynek, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Project leader for industrial projects (YvyTeam, Mentor Graphics, Motorola).
Lecturer on tools and methods for integrated circuit design, and modelling, simulation, and synthesis with VHDL.
Contribution to the design of the IEEE Std 1076.1 (VHDL-AMS), secretary and chair (1997-1999) of the IEEE 1076.1 Working Group.
1980–1990: Assistant, Ph.D. student, EPFL, Circuits and Systems Chair, Prof. Jacques Neirynck, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Ph.D. thesis on the implementation of the Waveform Relaxation Method for the analysis of large-scale digital MOS circuits.
Porting of filter design softwares from Algol to Pascal.
Design and development of a harmonic simulator for filters with general structures.
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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A. Vachoux, C. Grimm, and K. Einwich.
SystemC-AMS Requirements, Design Objectives and
Rationale.
In Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and
Exhibition (DATE), 2003.
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A. Vachoux, C. Grimm, and K. Einwich.
Towards Analog and Mixed-Signal SOC Design with
SystemC-AMS.
In Second IEEE International Workshop on Electronic
Design, Test and Applications (DELTA), 2004.
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F. Pêcheux, C. Lallement, and A. Vachoux.
VHDL-AMS and Verilog-AMS as alternative hardware description
languages for efficient modeling of multidiscipline systems.
IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated
Circuits and Systems, 24(2):204-225, 2005.
http://lsmwww.epfl.ch/tcad_paper.
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A. Vachoux, C. Grimm, and K. Einwich.
Extending SystemC to Support Mixed Discrete-Continuous
System Modeling and Simulation.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on
Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2005.
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C. Lallement, F. Pêcheux, A. Vachoux, and F. Prégaldiny.
Compact Modeling of MOSFET in VHDL-AMS.
In Transistor Level Modeling for Analog/RF IC
Design, pages 243-269. Springer, 2006.
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A. Vachoux.
Applications of Specification and Design Languages for
SoCs Selected papers from FDL'05.
The ChDL series. Springer, 2006.
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T. Mähne and A. Vachoux.
ModelLib: A Web-Based Platform for Collecting
Behavioural Models and Supporting the Design of AMS Systems.
In Advances in Design and Specification Languages for
Embedded Systems, The ChDL series, pages 53-72. Springer, Dordrecht,
2007.
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D. Borrione, T. Maehne, A. Vachoux, F. Giroud, and M. Contaldo.
A VHDL-AMS Modeling Methodology for
Top-Down/Bottom-Up Design of RF Systems.
In Advances in Design Methods from Modeling Languages
for Embedded Systems and SoC's - Selected Contributions on
Specification, Design, and Verification from FDL 2009, Lecture Notes
in Electrical Engineering (LNEE). Springer, 2010.
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M. Beltrandi, A. Vachoux, S. Carrara, Y. Leblebici, and G. De Micheli.
VHDL-AMS Model of an Electrochemical Cell to Design
VLSI Bio-Chips.
In IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference
(BioCAS), 2011.
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Modelling of analog, mixed-signal, and multi-discipline systems
Language-based hardware design
Front-end EDA tools (simulation, synthesis, verification)
Computer-aided design of VLSI circuits |
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Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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Engineer/Head of Group