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Computer Architecture Lab
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The lab connects chips for AI and AI for chips all the way to robots.
AboutAbout the lab
From silicon to robotics
The Awano Lab pursues research that opens up the future of integrated circuits, which underpin the spread of intelligence throughout society.
It tackles the topic from two sides: chips that run AI quickly with low power consumption, and EDA that uses AI to automate the design of complex chips.
The lab aims to build these into real robot systems, going beyond the boundary between software and hardware to unite the two.
Its research is end-to-end, from algorithms to implementation on FPGAs and real chips, and on to control of physical robots.
Key terms
- Integrated circuit
- An electronic circuit in which many transistors and wires are built together on a small piece of silicon
- EDA
- Electronic design automation: software and techniques that use computers to support and automate the design of integrated circuits
- FPGA
- An integrated circuit whose internal circuitry can be rewritten any number of times after purchase
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The lab aims to realize "embodied computational intelligence" by combining three fields: LSI design, robotics, and computing. It does end-to-end research, from circuits to learning algorithms to robots that operate in the real world.
*Illustrative imageAutomating integrated circuit design with LLMs
The lab brings large language models (LLMs) into circuit design to create a new EDA flow that automates everything from generating circuit code (Verilog) from specifications written in natural language through to layout design.
*Illustrative imageDedicated chips for running AI efficiently
As AI models grow ever larger, the lab studies dedicated computer architectures that efficiently execute specific AI algorithms, so that they run faster and with lower power consumption than on general-purpose CPUs and GPUs. These are implemented on FPGAs and real chips (ASICs).
*Illustrative imageBuilding self-designed chips into robots
The lab implements the AI chips and circuit design methods it develops in real intelligent robots. Algorithms such as imitation learning are run in real time on its own hardware, creating robot systems in which software and hardware are tightly integrated.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Awano Lab are faculty and a secretary.As of 2026
- ProfessorHiromitsu Awano
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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: “V11-wafer-dc328” Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Automating integrated circuit design with LLMs: “CW-01 National Semiconductor Scientific Calculator Watch CMOS-LSI circuit dies” Mister rf / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Dedicated chips for running AI efficiently: “Mojo v3 FPGA Development Board ( )” SparkFun Electronics from Boulder, USA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Building self-designed chips into robots: “Humanoid robot at Science Square Tsukuba” Syced / CC0 (cropped)
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