General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRT-24-0520
Direction
DRT
Thesis topic details
Category
Technological challenges
Thesis topics
The technology choice in the eco-design of AI architectures
Contract
Thèse
Job description
Electronic systems have a significant environmental impact in terms of resource consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and electronic waste, all of which are experiencing a massive upward trend. A large part of the impact is due to production, and more particularly the manufacturing of integrated circuits, which is becoming more and more complex, energy-intensive and resource-intensive with new technological nodes. The technology used for the implementation of a circuit has direct effects on the environmental costs for production and use, the lifespan of the circuit and the possibilities of several life cycles in a circular economy perspective. The technological choice therefore becomes an essential step in the ecodesign phase of a circuit.
The thesis aims to integrate the exploration of different technologies into an eco-design flow of integreted circuit. The purpose of the work is to define a methodology for a systematic integration of the technological choice into the flow, with identification of the best configuration of the architecture implemented for maximizing the lifespan and taking into account the strategies of circular economy. The architectures targeted by the thesis fall into the field of embedded AI, which is experiencing an upward deployment trend and involves major societal challenges. The thesis will constitute a first step in research towards sustainable embedded AI.
University / doctoral school
Thesis topic location
Site
Grenoble
Requester
Position start date
01/09/2024
Person to be contacted by the applicant
SANDIONIGI Chiara chiara.sandionigi@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DSCIN/DSCIN/LSTA
17 avenue des Martyrs
38000 Grenoble
0438789577
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
BOL David david.bol@uclouvain.be
Universite Catholique de Louvain
Institut ICTEAM
Batiment Maxwell (a.145)
Place du Levant, 3
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
BELGIUM
+3210472539
En savoir plus
https://list.cea.fr/fr/intelligence-artificielle/
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