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Fan Lab
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The lab designs integrated circuits to implement information processing in hardware.
AboutAbout the lab
Building information-processing circuits in hardware
Fan Lab provides education in the design, implementation, and evaluation of hardware systems and VLSI.
The lab integrates various kinds of information processing hardware, aiming to realize a system on chip.
Developing high-performance arithmetic circuits that can be realized with few elements is also one of its research topics.
Students build and run dedicated hardware that processes multimedia data such as images and audio, and verify it in practice.
Key terms
- VLSI
- An integrated circuit that places a very large number of elements on a single chip. Also called a large-scale integrated circuit
- system on chip
- A system that integrates various kinds of information processing hardware on a single chip
- FPGA
- A type of integrated circuit whose circuit configuration can be rewritten after manufacturing
- RISC-V
- An instruction set architecture (ISA), a specification of the instructions that a processor executes
ResearchResearch themes
This lab conducts research on the integration of information processing hardware systems and on system on chip. Developing high-performance arithmetic circuits that can be realized with few elements is also one of its research topics.
*Illustrative imageDedicated hardware for images and audio
The lab builds dedicated information processing systems in hardware for multimedia data such as images and audio. Examples include systems for speech processing, character recognition, object recognition, and multi-level (color) image processing.
*Illustrative imageFrom design to verification on real hardware
Students learn the properties of digital (logic) circuits with CAD tools, design hardware for audio and image processing, and verify its operation in a simulator. They then build it with discrete electronic components, FPGAs, or integrated circuits, and observe its operation with instruments such as oscilloscopes.
*Illustrative imageCryptographic processors based on RISC-V
The lab researches and develops custom secure cryptographic processors using the RISC-V ISA.
MembersFaculty
The members of Fan Lab are faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and researchers.
- ProfessorGongke Fan
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “BIOS chip MXIC 25L6406E on a ThinkPad X220 motherboard (FRU 04W3286)” Siarhei Besarab / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Dedicated hardware for images and audio: “AI Accelerators Component hardware-Pic for use” BobbyJSmith1972 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- From design to verification on real hardware: “Snap Circuit U20 - XOR Gate Internal” MrNoble.xyz / CC0 (cropped)
- Cryptographic processors based on RISC-V: “ESP32-C3 RISC-V NodeMCU board” Popolon / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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