last update November 2010

Education-Awards
Research Group
Visitors
Research Projects
Research Colaborations
Experience Abroad 
Publications (Journals)
Publications (Conferences)
Fast Abstracts
International Patents

 

Education-Awards

  • 1996: Diploma of Computer Engineering and Informatics, Dept. of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras, Greece, with grade "Excellent 8.57/10".

  • 2000: PhD Thesis "Design of Self Checking Checkers in VLSI Technology", at the Dept. of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras, Greece.

  • 1996: Special Distinction from the Technical Chamber of Greece "Excellent Progress in Education". This distinction was awarded to approximately 1% of the students with the highest grades at each Engineering Department in Greece .

  •  1999: PhD Scholarship (after evaluation) from Computer Technology Institute of Patras.

  • 2002: Post-Doc Scholarship for the State Scholarship Foundation.

 

 

Post-Doc Researchers

Emanouil Kalligeros

(Lecturer, Aegean University)

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PhD Candidate Researchers 

Vassilis Tenentes 

(Scholarship by Heracletus ΙΙ)

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Fotis Vartziotis

(Application Instructor ΤΕΙ of Epirus)

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Master Students 

S. Balatsouka

Graduated...

V. Tenentes

Graduated...

E. Kalligeros Graduated...
M. Bellos Graduated...

 

Undergraduate Students 

Apostolos Koutras  
Ilias Iliopoulos Graduated...
Nektarios Galanis Graduated...
Melpomeni Masoura Graduated...

 

 

 

Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Professor at Duke University (USA)

   

 

Research Projects

Heracletus ΙΙ 

"Embedded Testing Architecture"

(Coordinator) 

 

Pyhtagoras ΙΙ

"Techniques for Designing Embedded Testing Circuits with focus on Test Vector Compression and Development of Computer Aided Design Tools"

(Coordinator)

Operational Program for Education and Initial Vocational Training of the 3rd Community Support Framework of the Hellenic Ministry of Education

Pyhtagoras Ι

"Placement & Routing of VLSI Circuits using Geometrical Constraints"

(Researcher)

Operational Program for Education and Initial Vocational Training of the 3rd Community Support Framework of the Hellenic Ministry of Education

Pyhtagoras Ι

"DataPath Design & Testing techniques for Very Large Scale Integration"

(Researcher)

Operational Program for Education and Initial Vocational Training of the 3rd Community Support Framework of the Hellenic Ministry of Education

NSF-SRC (USA)

"Optimization of Test and Diagnosis Infrastructure for Multicore Chips"  

(Post-doc Researcher)

National State Foundation (NSF) - Semiconductor Research Corporation

 

Research Collaborations

Duke University - Research Group of Professor Krishnendu Chakrabarty 

University of Patras - Research Group of Professor Dimitris Nikolos

Metsovio Engineering Dept. - Research Group of Ass. Professor Dimitris Soudris

 

Experience Abroad

Sabbatical at Duke University funded by NSF-SRC (2009) 

 

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Π1.        X.  Kavousianos, D. Nikolos, G. Foukarakis & T. Gnardellis, "New Efficient Totally Self Checking Berger Code Checkers", Integration the VLSI Journal, 28 (1999) pp. 101-118.

Π2.        X. Kavousianos, D. Nikolos, G. Sidiropoulos, "Novel Single and Double Output TSC CMOS Checkers for m-out-of-n Codes", VLSI Design, vol. 11, No. 1, 2000, pp. 35-45.

Π3.        D. Bakalis, X. Kavousianos, H. T. Vergos, D. Nikolos & G. Ph. Alexiou, "Low Power Built-In Self-Test Schemes for Array and Booth Multipliers", VLSI Design, vol. 12, No. 3, 2001, pp. 431-448.

Π4.        E. Kalligeros , X. Kavousianos, D. Bakalis, D. Nikolos, "On-the-fly Reseeding: A New Reseeding Technique for test-per-clock BIST" Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, Special Issue (On-Line Test), vol. 18, No. 3, June 2002, pp. 315-332.

Π5.        X. Kavousianos, D. Bakalis, D. Nikolos and S. Tragoudas, "A new Built-In TPG for Random Pattern Resistant Faults" IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 21, No 7, July 2002, pp. 859-866.

Π6.        E. Kalligeros, X. Kavousianos, D. Nikolos, “Multiphase BIST: A New Reseeding Technique for High Test Data Compression”, IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 23, No 10, Oct. 2004, pp. 1429-1446.

This paper is among the 20 most frequetly downloaded in year 2004 (http://tcad.polito.it/)

Π7.        X. Kavousianos, E. Kalligeros, D. Nikolos, “Multilevel Huffman Coding: An Efficient Test-Data Compression Method for IP Cores”, IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 26, No. 6, June 2007, pp. 1070-1083.

Π8.        X. Kavousianos, E. Kalligeros , D. Nikolos, “Optimal Selective Huffman Coding for Test-Data Compression”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 56, No 8, Aug. 2007, pp. 1146-1152.

Π9.        X. Kavousianos, E. Kalligeros , D. Nikolos, "Multilevel-Huffman Test-Data Compression for IP Cores with Multiple Scan Chains”, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, vol. 16, no. 7, July 2008, pp. 926-931.

Π10.    X. Kavousianos, E. Kalligeros , D. Nikolos, Test Data Compression Based on Variable-to-Variable Huffman Encoding with Codeword ReusabilityIEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 27, No 7, pp. 1333 - 1338, 2008

Π11.    I. Fudos, X. Kavousianos, D. Markouzis and Y. Tsiatouhas, “Placement and Routing in Computer Aided Design of Standard Cell Arrays by Exploiting the Structure of the Interconnection Graph”, Computer Aided Design & Applications, 5(1-4), 325-337, 2008.

Π12.    X. Kavousianos, D. Bakalis and D. Nikolos, "Efficient Partial Scan Cell Gating for Low Power Scan-based Testing", ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, vol 14, No 2, March 2009.

Π13.    V. Tenentes, X. Kavousianos, E. Kalligeros, "Single and Variable-State-Skip LFSRs: Bridging the Gap between Test Data Compression and Test Set Embedding for IP cores", IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems ,(to appear).

Π14.  X. Kavousianos, V. Tenentes, K. Chakrabarty, E. Kalligeros, "Defect- Oriented LFSR Reseeding to Target Unmodeled Defects Using Stuck-at Test Sets", IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems,(to appear)

Π15. X. Kavousianos, K. Chakrabarty, "Generation of Compact Stuck-At Test Sets Targeting Unmodeled Defects", IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems , vol 30, No 5, pp. 787 - 791, May 2011

 

Publications (Conferences)

Σ1.    X. Kavousianos, D. Nikolos "Self-Exercising Self-Testing k-order Comparators", IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, April 27-May 1, 1997 Monterey, California, pp. 216-221

Σ2.    D. Nikolos, X. Kavousianos "A Totally Self-Checking Error Correcting/ Detecting Circuit for a Class of SEC/DED/AUED Codes" IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, July 7-9, 1997, Crete, Greece, pp. 218-222.

Σ3.    H. T. Vergos, D. Niκolos, P. Mitsiadis, C. Kavousianos "Reconfigurable CPU Cache Memory Design: Fault Tolerance and Performance Evaluation", VLSI: Integrated Systems on Silicon, August 26-29, 1997 , Charman & Hall, pp. 103-114.

Σ4.    X. Kavousianos, D. Nikolos "Self-Exercising k-order Comparators Based on Built-In Current Sensing" Brazilian Symposium on Integrated Circuit Design, August 25-27, 1997, Gramado, Brazil, pp. 205-214.

Σ5.    X. Kavousianos, D. Nikolos, G. Sidiropoulos, "Design of Compact and High Speed Totally Self-Checking CMOS checkers for m-out-of-n Codes", IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, October 20-22, 1997, Paris, France, pp. 128-136.

Σ6.    X. Kavousianos, D. Nikolos "Novel Single and Double Output TSC Berger Code Checkers" IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, 1998, Monterey , California , pp. 348-353.

Σ7.    D. Nikolos & X. Kavousianos, "Efficient Highly Testable Borden Code Checkers", IEEE European Test Workshop, May 1998, Sitges, Spain, pp. 246-250.

Σ8.  X. Kavousianos & D. Nikolos, "Novel TSC Checkers for Bose-Lin and Bose Codes", IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, July 6-8, 1998, Capri , pp. 172-176.

Σ9.    X. Kavousianos, D. Nikolos & S. Tragoydas, "On-Chip Deterministic Counter-Based TPG with Low Heat Dissipation", Southwest Symposium on Mixed-Signal Design, April 11-13, 1999, Tuscon, Arizona, U.S.A, pp. 87-92.

Σ10. X. Kavousianos, D. Nikolos "Modular TSC Checkers for Bose-Lin and Bose Codes", IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, April 25-29, 1999, Dana Point , pp. 354-360.

Σ11. D. Bakalis, H.T. Vergos, D. Nikolos, X. Kavousianos & G. Ph. Alexiou, "Low power Dissipation in BIST Schemes for Modified Booth Multipliers", IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, November 1-3, 1999, New Mexico, USA, pp. 121-129.

Σ12. D. Bakalis, D. Nikolos & X. Kavousianos, "Test Response Compaction by an Accumulator Behaving as a Multiple Input Non-Linear Feedback Shift Register", International Test Conference, Atlantic City, USA, October 1 – 6, 2000, pp. 804-811.

Σ13. X. Kavousianos, D. Bakalis & D. Nikolos, "A Novel Reseeding Technique for Accumulator-based Test Pattern Generation", ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, West Lafayette, USA, March 22-23, 2001, pp. 7-12.

Σ14. D. Bakalis, D. Nikolos, H. T. Vergos & X. Kavousianos, "On Accumulator- based Bit-Serial Test Response Compaction Schemes", IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, San Jose, CA, USA, March 26-28, 2001, pp. 350-355.

Σ15. E. Kalligeros, X. Kavousianos, D, Bakalis and D. Nikolos, "A New Reseeding Technique for LFSR-based Test Pattern Generation", IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Taormina, Italy, July 9-11,2001, pp. 80-86.

Σ16. S. J. Piestrak, D. Bakalis and X. Kavousianos, "On the Design of Self-Testing Checkers for Modified Berger codes", IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Taormina , Italy , July 9-11, 2001, pp. 153-157.

Σ17. E. Kalligeros, X. Kavousianos, D, Bakalis and D. Nikolos, "An Efficient Seeds Selection Method for LFSR based test-per-clock BIST", IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, San Jose, March 18-21, 2002, pp.261-266.

Σ18. E. Kalligeros, X. Kavousianos & D. Nikolos "A ROMless LFSR Reseeding Scheme for Scan-based BIST ", IEEE Asian Test Symposium, Guam , Nov. 18-20 2002, pp. 206-211.

Σ19. G. Dimitrakopoulos, X. Kavousianos & D. Nikolos "Virtual-Scan: A Novel Approach for Software-Based Self-Testing of Microprocessors", International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol.: 5, May 25-28, 2003 pp. 237 -240

Σ20. E. Kalligeros, X. Kavousianos & D. Nikolos "A Highly Regular Multiphase Reseeding Technique for Scan-based BIST", ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI,  Washington DC, April 28-29, 2003, pp 295-298.

Σ21. M. Bellos, X. Kavousianos, D. Kagaris & D. Nikolos, "DV-TSE: Difference
Vector Based Test Set Embedding
",
IFIP WG 10.5 Conference on Very Large Scale Integration of System-on-Chip, Dec. 1-3 2003, Darmstadt, Germany, pp. 343-348.

Σ22. M. Bellos, D. Bakalis, D. Nikolos and X. Kavousianos, “Low Power Testing by Test Vector Ordering With Vector Repetition”, IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, San Jose, CA, USA, March 22-24, 2004, pp. 205-210,.

Σ23. X. Kavousianos, D. Bakalis, M. Bellos and D. Nikolos, “An Efficient Test Vector Ordering Method for Low Power Testing”, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, Louisiana , USA , Febr. 19-20, 2004, pp. 285-288.

Σ24. E. Kalligeros, D. Kaseridis, X. Kavousianos and D. Nikolos Reseeding-based Test Set Embedding with Reduced Test Sequences”, IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, San Jose, 21-23 March 2005, pp. 226-231.

Σ25. D. Kaseridis, E. Kalligeros, X. Kavousianos and D. Nikolos “An Efficient Test Set Embedding Scheme with Reduced Test Data Storage and Test Sequence Length Requirements for Scan-based Testing”, IEEE European Test Symposium, Tallinn, Estonia, May 22-25, 2005, pp. 147-150.

Σ26. M. Bellos, D. Bakalis, D. Nikolos and X. Kavousianos, “Vector Repetition and Modification for Peak Power Reduction in VLSI Testing”, IEEE Workshop on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, Sopron, Hungary, April 13 - 16, 2005, pp. 160-165.

Σ27. G. Gekas, D. Nikolos, E. Kalligeros and X. Kavousianos, “Power Aware Test-Data Compression for Scan-Based Testing”, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Gammarth, Tunisia, December 11-14, 2005.

Σ28. X. Kavousianos, E. Kalligeros and D. Nikolos, “Efficient Test-Data Compression for IP Cores Using Multilevel Huffman Coding”, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, March 6-10, 2006, pp. 1033-1038.

Σ29. E. Kalligeros, X. Kavousianos and D. Nikolos, “Efficient Multiphase Test Set Embedding for Scan-based Testing”, IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, San Jose, March 2006, pp. 433-438.

Σ30. X. Kavousianos, E. Kalligeros and D. Nikolos, “A Parallel Multilevel-Huffman Decompression Scheme for IP Cores with Multiple Scan Chains”, Inf. Digest IEEE European Test Symposium, 2006, pp. 164-169.

Σ31. X. Kavousianos, E. Kalligeros and D. Nikolos, “Test-Data Compression Based on Variable-to-Variable Reusable Huffman Coding”, in Inf. Dig. of IEEE European Test Symposium, 2007, pp. 253-258.

Σ32. V. Tenentes, X. Kavousianos and E. Kalligeros, “State Skip LFSRs: Bridging the Gap between Test Data Compression and Test Set Embedding for IP cores”, in Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, March 10-14, pp. 474-479, 2008.

Σ33. V. Tenentes, X. Kavousianos and E. Kalligeros , “Shrinking the Application Time of Test Set Embedding by Using Variable-State Skip LFSRs”, in Inf. Dig. of ΙΕΕΕ European Test Symposium, 2008

Σ34. A. Floros, Y. Tsiatouhas and X. Kavousianos, “The Time Dilation Scan Architecture for Timing Error Detection and Correction”, Proc. of IFIP/ IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, (VLSI-SoC08), pp. 569-574, Oct. 2008.

Σ35. X. Kavousianos, K. Chakrabarty, " Generation of Compact Test Sets with High Defect Coverage" Proc. of Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, pp. 1130-1135, Apr. 2009

Σ36. M. Koutsoupia, E. Kalligeros, X. Kavousianos, D. Nikolos, " LFSR-based Test-Data Compression with Self-Stoppable Seeds", Proc. of Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, pp. 1482-1487, Apr. 2009

Σ37. S. Balatsouka, V. Tenentes, X. Kavousianos, K. Chakrabarty, "Defect Aware X-Filling for Low-Power Scan Testing", in Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, 2010, pp. pp. 873-878

Σ38. V. Tenentes, X. Kavousianos, “Self-Freeze Linear Decompressors for Low Power Testing”, in IEEE Annual Symposium on VLSI, 2010, pp. 63-68.

Σ39. X. Kavousianos, K. Chakrabarty, E. Kalligeros and V. Tenentes, " Defect Coverage-Driven Window-Based Test Compression", IEEE Asian Test Symposium, 2010, pp. 141-146, 2010

Σ40. Z. Wang, X. Kavousianos, Y. Tsiatouhas and K. Chakrabarty, "A Robust and Reconfigurable Multi-Mode Power Gating Architecture", 24th International Conference in VLSI Design pp. 280-285, 2011.

Σ41.Z. Zhang, X. Kavousianos, Y. Luo, Y. Tsiatouhas and K. Chakrabarty, "Signature Analysis for Testing, Diagnosis, and Repair of Multi-Mode Power Switches”, IEEE European Test Symposium, pp. 13-18, 2011.

Σ42.    Z. Zhang, X. Kavousianos, Y. Tsiatouhas and K. Chakrabarty, “A BIST Scheme for Testing and Repair of Multi-Mode Power Switches”, IEEE On-Line Test Symposium, pp. 115-120, 2011.

Σ43. V. Tenentes, X. Kavousianos, “Test-Data Volume and Scan-Power Reduction with Low ATE Interface for Multi-Core SoCs” to be presented in 2011 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)

Σ44. X. Kavousianos, K. Chakrabarty, A. Jain, R. Parekhji, "Test Scheduling for Multicore SoCs with Dynamic Voltage Scaling and Multiple Voltage Islands", accepted for presentation in IEEE Asian Test Symposium 2011.

Σ45.V. Tenentes, X. Kavousianos, "Power Test-Compression for High Test-Quality and Low Test-Data Volume", accepted for presentation in IEEE Asian Test Symposium 2011.

 Fast Abstracts

G. Dimitrakopoulos, X. Kavousianos & D. Nikolos "Software-Based Self-Testing of Microprocessors by Exploiting a Virtual Scan Path", European Dependable Computing Conference, Oct 23-25, 2002, Toulouse, France, pp.23-24.

 

K. Chakrabarty, Χ. Kavousianos and Z. Zhang, ``Power Switch Design and Method For Reducing Leakage Power In Low-Power Integrated Circuits'', US Patent Application no. 12/882,776, filed September 15, 2010.

This patent was submitted by the Semiconductor Research Corporation after a very competitive screening process.  

 

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