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  • Fault-Injection with Verilator: Update on the DPI-Hook Extension

     By Jonathan Schröter

    Posted on 2026-07-22

    This post updates our earlier writeup on extending Verilator with native fault-injection support, in which we presented the initial version of a fault injection extension in Verilator. This extension is part of our ongoing efforts to improve tooling for hardware verification and software–hardware co-design. For further background on the initial... [Read More]

  • Verminator: Automating Fault-Injection Campaigns with Verilator

     By Jonathan Schröter

    Posted on 2026-07-22

    In this post we present the first instance of our Verminator fault-injection framework which uses the Verilator DPI-hook extension. The DPI-hook extension was introduced thorugh a previous post Update on Fault-Injection with Verilator. In this post we describe our first instance of the extension of Verilator that adds native DPI-hook-insertion:... [Read More]

  • Mario Qosja's PhD defense

     By Matthias Güdemann

    Posted on 2026-06-12

    Congratulations to Dr. Mario Qosja who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Time Triggered Organic Computing” on June 10th at the University of Siegen. [Read More]

  • OECD Semiconductor Informal Exchange Network in Costa Rica

     By Stefan Wallentowitz

    Posted on 2026-04-23

    I was honored to be invited as an expert for the 10th meeting of the OECD Semiconductor Informal Exchange Network (SIEN). The meeting took place in Costa Rica on April 21 to April 22, followed by the presentation of the OECD report on the Costa Rican semiconductor industry. [Read More]

  • POEMS Spring School 2026

     By Stefan Wallentowitz

    Posted on 2026-04-08

    Stefan Wallentowitz is holding a lecture and tutorial at this years edition of the POEMS spring school in Aveiro, Portugal. The slides will be available here. [Read More]

  • ChipUSM Summer-Camp Chile 2025

     By Daniel Arévalos

    Posted on 2026-01-08

    The ChipUSM Summer Camp 2025 – Digital Track represents one of the educational outcomes of the ongoing efforts of the AEMY research group to promote open-source integrated circuit design education at universities in Germany and worldwide. The course builds on AEMY’s first open-source System-on-Chip (SoC) silicon tape-out, completed in September... [Read More]

  • Opening of TIZIO

     By Simon Mederer

    Posted on 2025-12-08

    On December 1, 2025, the new “Transfer- und Innovationszentrum im Oberland” (TIZIO) opened its doors in Bad Tölz. Our research group is part of this research center, operating in one of the four high-tech labs, the IoT-Prototyping Lab. This means we will work alongside our neighboring labs, which focus on... [Read More]

  • Update on Fault-Injection with Verilator

     By Jonathan Schröter

    Posted on 2025-11-24

    As part of our ongoing efforts to improve tooling for hardware verification and software–hardware co-design, we extended Verilator with support for native fault-injection mechanisms. [Read More]

  • Spade Blog: Quickscope

     By Frans Skarman

    Posted on 2025-11-10

    How long would it take you to write an integrated logic analyzer from scratch? With Spade, it is possible in less than 4 hours and 100 lines of code. Find out how! [View on Spade Blog]