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March 19, 2020. Ethan Melvick has been interested in security since he was 12 years old. Now a sophomore in computer engineering at the U, Melvick is part of a lab developing programs that will protect engineer’s systems against cyber-attacks.

Melvick and professor Armin Tajalli’s work targets a specific type of side-channel attacks called “power analysis.” These attacks track the current consumption of a circuit and eventually discover the secret key used in encryption. This is a very common technique that hackers use to easily and quickly decrypt data [Link].

April 4, 2019. Eiger Peak is a team of electrical engineering undergraduate seniors working to create a phase-lock loop for their senior project. The team is composed of seven members – Nicholas Bybee, Stuart Anderson, Jacob Atkinson, Reuben Morrell, Anthony Bailey, Mitch Crane and Anton Arriaga, all working under the supervision of professor Armin Tajalli [Link][Link].

March 25, 2020. Prof. Tajalli will present a short-course in Santa Cruz on: “Wireline SerDes Design,” as part of the Mead Courses (www.mead.ch).

June 18, 2019. Our IEEE SSCS (Switzerland Chapter at ETHZ) has been highlighted in the latest IEEE Solid-State Magazine (LINK). This talk was about the latest advancements in the field of wireline communications.

January 16, 2020. Our paper entitled: “Short-Reach and Pin-Efficient Interfaces Using Correlated NRZ” has been accepted for publication in IEEE ISCAS’2020. Congratulations to the team !

January 5, 2020. Our paper entitled: “Power System Emulator Based on PLL Architecture” has been accepted for publication in IEEE ISCAS’2020. Congratulations to Asif Wahid and Sayed Abdullah Sadat !

January 4, 2020. Our paper entitled: “A 1.02-pJ/b 20.83-Gb/s/wire USR transceiver using CNRZ-5 in 16-nm FinFET” has been accepted for publication in IEEE JSSC. This article reports one of the lowest power high-speed links, that can be employed in applications such as High-Performance Computing and Machine Learning [Link].