“Chip Design”

September 3-5, 2025, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

TAICHIP Summer Workshops are organized annually in the summer at TAICHIP project partners’ premises. The events primarily target TalTech’s MSc/PhD students and researchers, as well as researchers and engineers from Estonia. The programme covers topics related to technical and transferable skills for R&D&I of reliable and efficient AI-chip design. One day of each event is research and networking progress self-evaluation that also provides inputs for the project milestones and achievements. The first edition is organized by TalTech. 

General Chair:

• Maksim Jenihhin, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Programme Co-Chairs: 

• Jaan Raik, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Artur Jutman, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Programme

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 “School Day”

(room is to be confirmed on Sept 1)

10:30 – 10:45 Welcome and Coffee

10:45 – 11:00 Twinning Project TAICHIP: Updates
Maksim Jenihhin, TalTech - Tallinn, Estonia

11:00 – 12:00 Lecture “Asynchronous networks-on-chip for neuromorphic communications”
Davide Bertozzi, University of Manchester - Manchester, United Kingdom

12:00 – 12:30 Lecture “A Synthesis Toolflow for the Predictable Implementation of Asynchronous Neuromorphic NoCs on FPGA”
Giuseppe Chessa, University of Manchester - Manchester, United Kingdom

12:30 – 13:00 Live Demo “Building Energy-Efficient Asynchronous NoCs on FPGA: A Live Demo.”
Giuseppe Chessa, University of Manchester - Manchester, United Kingdom

13:00 – 15:00 Lunch and Networking

15:00 – 18:00 Lecture and hands-on exercise “Introduction to Hardware-oriented attacks for embedded and emerging technologies”
Cédric Marchand, EC-Lyon - Lyon, France

Thursday, September 4, 2025 “Industry Day”

(room is to be confirmed on Sept 1)

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and Coffee

10:15 – 10:30 Twinning Project TAICHIP: Towards Reliable and Efficient AI Chips
Maksim Jenihhin, TalTech - Tallinn, Estonia

10:30 – 12:00 End-to-end open source design in practice: applications from classroom to research
Philippe Sauter, ETHZ – Zürich, Switzerland

12:00 – 12:30 PULP in space, the Trikarenos adventure
Michael Rogenmoser, ETHZ – Zürich, Switzerland

12:30 – 13:00 First ASIC experience: a fault-tolerant systolic array FORTALESA for CNN inference acceleration
Natalia Cherezova, TalTech - Tallinn, Estonia

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch and Networking

14:00 – 15:00 An Overview of Fault-Tolerant Design Solutions at IHP
Marko Andjelkovic, IHP - Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics – Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee-Break

15:30 – 16:30 Frontgrade Gaisler RISC-V and AI developments for Space: radiation-hardened fault-tolerant GR765 SoC and GR801 accelerator
Lucas Antunes Tambara (Radiation Effects Section Head), Frontgrade Gaisler - Göteborg, Sweden

16:30 – 17:30 Discussion “Chip design in Estonia”
Moderated by Jaan Raik and Artur Jutman, TalTech - Tallinn, Estonia

19:00 – 21:00 Social Event and Dinner at a restaurant for registered participants

Friday, September 5, 2025 “Reflection Day”

(Room: ICT-507C, Akadeemia tee 15A; Restricted to invited participants)

9:30 – 13:00 Meeting with the AB, including discussions of the TalTech study programmes
TAICHIP Industrial Advisory Board members + TAICHIP PIs + TalTech administration

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 21:00 Networking

Venue

The 1st TAICHIP Summer Workshop will take place at the Department of Computer Systems, Tallinn University of Technology.

The rooms are to be confirmed by September 1. 

Department of Computer Systems (5th floor)
Akadeemia tee 15A, 
Tallinn 12618
Estonia

Main contact

• Maksim Jenihhin, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

Organizing Committee

• Maksim Jenihhin, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Jaan Raik, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Artur Jutman, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Secretary

• Kadri Mäger, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
• Katrin Tõemets, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.