APPLEPIES 2014
International Conference on Electronic Applications
5-6 May, 2014
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Technical
exhibitors
Program
May, 5th
10.00 - 10.10 Opening of ApplePies 2014 - Prof. A. De Gloria
10.10 - 12.10 Session I Electronic Systems for Signal Processing & Communications
Chair: Prof. C. Pace
Davide De Caro, Michele De Martino, Nicola Petra, Antonio G.M. Strollo. "Analysis of SpreadSpectrum Clocking Modulations Under Synchronization Timing Constraint"
Giorgio Lopez, Ettore Napoli, Antonio G.M. Strollo. "Towards a Frequency Domain Processor for
Real-Time SIFT-based Filtering"
Maurizio Martina, Massimo Ruo Roch, Flavio Ghirardi. "Implementation of a Spread-spectrum-based
Smart Lighting System on an Embedded Platform"
Guoing Xiao, Waqar Ahmad, Syed Azhar Ali Zaidi, Massimo Ruo Roch, Giovanni Causapruno. "High
Speed VLSI Architecture for Finding the First W Maximum/minimum Values"
Sergio Saponara, Bruno Neri, "Fully Integrated 60 GHz Transciever for Wireless HD/WiGig Shortrange Multi-Gbit Connections"
12.10- 13.30 Invited Presentation and Open Discussion
Speaker: Ing. Flavio Scarrà,
Vice President of Technical Marketing, Digital & Imaging & Photonics Groups at
STMicroelectronics, San Francisco U.S.A.
Title "Moore? No Moore! The new Renaissance is here"
13.30-14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 - 16.30 Session II Electronic Systems for Voice, Audio and Imaging
Chair: Prof. S. Saponara
Stefano Marsi, Sergio Carrato, Giovanni Ramponi. "A Robust Tracking Algorithm for Superresolution Reconstruction of Vehicle License Plates"
Francesca Galluzzo, Luca De Marchi, Nicola Testoni,Guido Masetti. "A GPU 3D Segmentation
framework for Medical Imaging"
Diego Agrò, Riccardo Canicattì, Maurizio Pinto, Giuseppe Morsellino, Alessandro Tomasino,
Gabriele Adamo, Luciano Curcio, Antonino Parisi, Salvatore Stivala, Natale Galioto, Alessandro
Busacca, Costantino Giaconia. "Design and Implementation of a Portable fNIRS Embedded System"
Francesco Lo Bue, Natale Galioto, Costantino Giaconia, "Pathological Voice Analysis via Digital
Signal Processing"
Daniele Davalle, Berardino Carnevale, Sergio Saponara, Luca Fanucci, Pierangelo Terreni. "A
Real-time FPGA-based Solution for Binary Image Thinning"
16.30- 16.40 Break
16.40 - 18.40 Session III Ultrasounds- and RF- based Electronic Systems
Chair: Prof. M. Ruo Roch
Luca De Marchi, Alessandro Ceruti, Nicola Testoni, Alessandro Marzani and Alfredo Liverani.
"Augmented Reality tools for Structural Health Monitoring applications"
Stefano Lischi, Riccardo Massini, Luca Musetti, Daniele Staglianò, Fabrizio Berizzi, Bruno Neri,
Sergio Saponara. "Low cost FMCW Radar Design and Implementation for Harbour Surveillance
Applications"
Marco Mercuri, Carmine Garripoli, Peter Karsmakers, Ping Jack Soh, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch,
Calogero Pace, Paul Leroux, Dominique Schreurs. "Healthcare System for Non-invasive Fall
Detection in Indoor Environment"
Enrico Boni, Luca Bassi, Alessandro Dallai, Gabriele Giannini, Francesco Guidi, Valentino Meacci,
Alessandro Ramalli, Stefano Ricci, Piero Tortoli. "Open platforms for the advancement of ultrasound
research"
Antonio Iula, Gabriel Hine, Alessandro Ramalli, Francesco Guidi, Enrico Boni, "2D and 3D Palmprint
extraction by an Automated Ultrasound System"
May, 6th
9.15- 11.15 Session IV Electronic Systems for Sensor Interfacing and Power
Management
Chair: Prof. M. Olivieri
Calogero Pace, Letizia Fragomeni, Walaa Khalaf, "Developments and Applications of Electronic
Nose Systems for Gas Mixtures Classification and Concentration Estimation"
Alessandro Vinco, Rashid Siddique, Davide Brunelli, Wensi Wang. "AA-Battery Sized Energy
Harvesting Power Management Module for Indoor Light Wireless Sensor Applications"
Natale Galioto, Francesco Lo Bue, Leonardo Mistretta, Costantino Giaconia. "Low cost electrical
current sensors with extremely wide measurement range"
Federico Baronti, Roberto Roncella, Roberto Saletti, " Squeeze the lemon: balancing as a mean to
use every drop of energy in a Lithium-battery
Giosue Caliano, Alessandro Stuart Savoia, "Advancements on Silicon Ultrasound Probes (CMUT)
for Medical Imaging Applications"
11.15- 11.30 Technical Exhibitors Session
Speaker: Ing. Luca Gallo,
Academic Field Sales Engineer - National Instruments Italy.
Title "'NI myRIO: an embedded digital device to create Real Systems fast "
11.30-11.40 Break
11.40-12.50
Open Discussion About the Future of Electronic Systems in Italy
(teaching, research, technology transfer, EU and National projects, ASN, VQR, ...)
Chair: Prof. A. De Gloria
12.50-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30-14.00 An internet forum for the Members of the Electronic Application
research field
14.00-16.15 Session V Computing Platforms and Cyber-Physical-Systems
Chair: Prof. C. Pace
Maurizio Rossi, Luca Rizzon, Matteo Fait, Roberto Passerone, Davide Brunelli. "Self-powered Active
Cooling System for High Performance Processors"
Luca Rizzon, Federico Moro, Roberto Passerone, David Macii, Daniele Fontanelli, Payam
Nazemzadeh, Michele Corrà, Luigi Palopoli, Domenico Prattichizzo. " c-Walker: a Cyber-Physical
System for Ambient Assisted Living"
Giovanni
Causapruno,
Alessandro
Audero,
Sergio
Tota,
Mariagrazia
Graziano,
Massimo Ruo Roch. "A Framework for Network-On-Chip Comparison Based on OpenSPARC
T2 Processor"
Francesco Menichelli, Mauro Olivieri. "A Platform-based Emulator for Mass-storage Flash Cards
Evaluation in Embedded Systems"
Federica Bisio, Claudia Meda, Paolo Gastaldo, Rodolfo Zunino, Stefano Nasta. "Machine Learningbased System for Detecting Unseen Malicious Software"
Marco Marazza, Francesco Menichelli, Mauro Olivieri, Orlando Ferrante, Alberto Ferrari, “A ModelBased Methodology to Generate Code for Timer Units”