Special sessions

Special session n° 1: DSP System Design for Wireless Communications

Organizers:

• Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, USA and Tampere University of Technology, Finland
• Marilyn Wolf, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Theme:

The theme encompasses architectures and implementations for emerging challenges in wireless communications.

Speakers:

The following highly-qualified speakers have confirmed their participation in the special session. Their names are listed in alphabetical order along with tentative titles for their talks.

1. Prof. Yuan-Hao Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
A Multi-User MIMO Precoding Processor Based on Forward-Backward Substitution

2. Prof. Ta-Sung Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Energy Efficient Antenna Selection in Spatially Correlated Multi-User Massive MIMO Systems

3. Muhammad Zeeshan Waheed, Dani Korpi, Adnan Kiayani, Lauri Anttila, and Mikko Valkama, Tampere University of Technology, Finland.
Digital Self-interference Cancellation in Inter-band Carrier Aggregation Transceivers: Algorithm and Digital Implementation Perspectives

4. Prof. Norbert Wehn, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Implementation Challenges for Wireless Baseband Processing towards 100 Gbit/s and beyond

Special session n° 2: Approximate Computing and Arithmetic for Low Power DSP Systems

Organizers:

• Daniel Menard, INSA Rennes – IETR UMR CNRS Laboratory, FR

Theme:

DSP applications involve the execution of numerous mathematical operations. The inherent error resiliency of many DSP applications allows the use of approximate computing techniques or low precision arithmetic.  The aim of this session is to present recent advances in approximate computing and arithmetic to reduce the energy consumption of DSP systems.

Presentations:

1. Issa Qiqieh, Rishad Shafik, Ghaith Tarawneh, Danil Sokolov, Shidhartha Das and Alex Yakovlev.
   Energy-Efficient Approximate Wallace Tree Multiplier using Significance-Driven Logic Compression information on submission
   
   
2. Benjamin Barrois and Olivier Sentieys.
   Customizing Fixed-Point and Floating-Point Arithmetic - A Case Study in K-Means Clustering
   
   
3. Thibault Hilaire and Anastasia Volkova.
   Error analysis methods for the fixed-point implementation of linear systems