The Aerospace, Safety, and Computing (ASaC) Lab is a research team of the Electronic CAD & Reliability Group in the Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN) of Politecnico di Torino. Its mission is to support designers of electronic circuits and systems with expertise, techniques, methodologies, and tools. The ASaC Lab’s research involves several multidisciplinary topics such as:
- Reconfigurable Computing
- Computer-Aided Design Tools and Algorithms
- Reliability, Fault Tolerance, Validation and Test
- Analysis and Development of Computing Systems and Applications in Space
- AI System for Aerospace
Reconfigurable Computing
Use Reconfigurable Computing on real applications including High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Embedded Systems, Biomedical, Automotive, Avionics, and Aerospace. We work on state-of-the-art devices including GPUs, TPUs, and FPGAs.
Computer-Aided Design Tools and Algorithms
Development of novel CAD Algorithms for implementation of circuits on different technologies including ultra nanometer VLSI, 3D VLSI, Regular Fabric, and FPGAs. Development of software tools compatible with available commercial solutions or as independent software.
Reliability, Fault Tolerance, Validation and Test
Design of hardware and software solutions for the validation of safety-critical systems. Implementation of architectures (at different implementation levels) resilient to faults occurrences induced by defects in manufacturing or radiation phenomena. Analysis and Study of Single Event Effects (SEEs) such as SEU, SET, SEFI, and SEL and Multiple Event Effects (MEEs) like MEU and M-SET. The activity included Static Analysis, Fault Injections by simulation, and emulation.
Analysis and Development of Computing Systems and Applications in Space
Development of Embedded Cluster System for HPC in Space. Development of radiation test setups for various types of technology, devices and effects and experimental execution of radiation test campaigns. The group is in contact with different facilities in Europe and USA: UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), PSI (Villigen, Switzerland), GANIL (Caen, France), ISIS (Didcot, UK), and Los Alamos (USA).