Séminaire ICE « Vers une licence libre pour les circuits intégrés sur silicium »

November 18th 2021, 2 pm
Physical + Online event

Abstract

Nous présenterons le processus de conception d’un circuit intégré sur silicium en précisant le rôle des outils logiciels utilisés ainsi que les données dépendant du procédé de fabrication. Nous mettrons en évidence les différents coûts pour un concepteur souhaitant fabriquer une circuit. Nous discuterons de certains freins (licences, NDA) qui s’opposent à la diminution de ces coûts et les conséquences pour les petites entreprises et les universités.
Puis nous présenterons des projets en cours qui offrent des solutions plus libres : les logiciels de conception libres et ouverts (Electronic Design Automation Free Open Source Software, licence GPL) et le matériel libre. Nous discuterons des spécificités des systèmes intégrés sur silicium et indiquerons quelles sont les pistes actuelles conduisant à l' »Open Hardware ».

Bio

Marie-Minerve Louërat received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree from Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France, in 1983 and 1986 respectively. In 1986 she joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France. She started at Fluids, Automation and Thermal Systems Laboratory, Université Paris Sud-CNRS, while teaching electronics. In 1992, she moved to the Computer Science Laboratory (LIP6), University Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université)-CNRS, France, while teaching VLSI. Between 2013 and 2018, she was the head of the System on Chip Department at LIP6. Dr. Louërat’s research interests are mixed signal oriented, they include design automation of analog and mixed-signal circuits and systems with Free and Open Source (FOS) Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, A/D and D/A conversion, as well as mixed signal system security.

She contributes regularly to the FOS EDA tool chain Coriolis developed at LIP6. Most of her research activities have been supported by contracts, through academic and industrial cooperative projects in the framework of the FP7, Eureka/MEDEA, Catrene and Penta, and H2020 Projects. She published papers on static timing analysis, analogue and AMS design automation, analogue-to-digital converters, AMS system modelling, and simulation. Since 2010 she has been a member of the AMS Working Group of Accellera Systems Initiative and contributed to standardize the AMS extension of SystemC. She has served on the Technical Program Committee of Design, Automation, and Test in European Conference (DATE) and several other international conferences. In 2019, she co-founded the Free Silicon Foundation (F-Si) and Co-chaired the FSiC2019 Conference in March 2019, Paris, France.

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